Aegon Life Insurance - AVP - Program Management

Title: AVP - Program Management

Location : open to any city in India (we offer work from anywhere)

Must haves: 

Education : B.E / B.E +MBA

- 10 -12 years of relevant experience in a large complex organization or major consulting firm acting in a project/program management capacity.

- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or SAFe certifications

- Hands-on experience of working with Agile framework & Kanban methodologies

- Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency

- Excellent Team leading, Stakeholder management

AVP - Program Management

About Us:

AEGON Life Insurance Company Limited (ALIC) is focused on fulfilling its vision of creating tension-free lives. In pursuance of this goal, we provide a complete product suite, customized advice, and enhanced experience for all our customers.

AEGON Life was formed with the coming together of AEGON N.V., an international provider of life insurance, pensions and asset management, and Bennett Coleman and Company (BCCL), India's largest media conglomerate popularly known as the Times Group. This union brings together a local approach, with global expertise of launching products that cater to different sets of customers to meet their long-term financial goals.

Culture We Drive:

- We recognize that our people are our strengths and the diverse Talents they bring to our workforce is directly linked to our Success. Everything we do as a firm, hinges on our ability to hire, empower and retain the Best People.

- We embrace new ways of doing things. Our approach remains to be smart, quick on feet, stay nimble, innovate & focus on Customers.

- AEGON is guided by four principles: Wow the Customer, Spread Awareness, and Think Ahead & Passion to Perform.

Role Details :

Department : Program Management (PMO)

Employment Type : Full Time

Leve l: M2

Role Summary :

- We are seeking an experienced AVP - Program Management having a rich background of working with Agile frameworks to support multiple Digital First projects and initiatives under AEGON Life Journey of being India's first fully digital insurance company.

- The ideal candidate should exhibit values like teamwork, willingness to learn, integrity, creativity and leads with excellence & innovation. Should be a good servant leader in achieving high levels of cohesion between several teams/squads to deliver new and enhanced product capabilities. Must be able to manage individuals and teams to discover and implement improved ways of collaborating and developing into high-performing, self-organizing, agile teams

Key Focus areas :

- Act as a central point of contact to drive cross squad coordination across multiple business and technology functions

- Work closely with Product Owners, business analyst and QA to progress along squads agenda

- Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to senior stakeholders

- Takes ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony

- Provide regular updates to executives, major stakeholders on program planning and execution, keeping a pulse on the Business Roadmap

- Design and implement agile processes around Product Development Life Cycle and Engineering practices

- Track roadblocks, bottlenecks and issues and guide all squads to reduce inefficiencies

- Assess team and organization maturity and coach same to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and appropriate for the team and organization.

- Excel in conflict resolution as it arises and proactively guide the team to handle such occurrences

- Lay an emphasis on continuous learning through scheduled lunch and learns, workshops

- Keep a pulse on industry trends and best practices concerning agile methodologies and plan to leverage these practices (if appropriate) within the enterprise

Reporting Relationship & connections: This role would be report to Head - PMO