Strategic Cross-LOB Underwriting Product Owner

Zurich; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 135.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Pension scheme

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Additional holiday purchase/sell

Descripción de la vacante

Zurich in London or Whiteley seeks an experienced Cross‑LoB Underwriting Product Owner to shape the future of underwriting platforms, including Neo Pre-Bind and Z-Horizon+. You will align stakeholders, drive prioritisation and ensure reusable capabilities across geographies, enabling value realisation.

You will manage roadmaps, prioritise backlogs and lead change across multiple teams, with a focus on reducing fragmentation and delivering enterprise outcomes.

Formación

• Strong experience of underwriting processes across multiple Lines of Business, segments or business units.
• Experience in strategic thinking and vision setting, ideally in the context of solutions to support the UW community.
• Ability to consider the needs and opportunities for UW tooling today, and how those will evolve as technologies like AI rapidly expand.
• Proven ability to operate as a Product Owner, business lead or transformation owner in a complex change environment.
• Experience shaping product roadmaps, prioritising backlogs and working closely with business, technology and delivery teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence, challenge and align senior leaders.
• Strong judgement and decision‑making capability, including the ability to make balanced decisions in ambiguous or time‑sensitive situations.
• A practical understanding of standardisation, reusability and process optimisation across large‑scale platforms or operating models.
• Clear and structured communication skills, with the ability to translate complex business and platform topics into actionable priorities.
• Experience working across levels (including C-suite) in large, international or matrixed organisations would be an advantage.
• Professional underwriting qualifications or relevant product, agile or change delivery certifications would be beneficial.

Responsabilidades

• Own and maintain the cross-LOB underwriting vision and drive business strategy to bring a clear underwriting view to future priorities, including for the Neo Pre-Bind and Z-Horizon+ roadmaps – considering the needs and opportunities for UW tooling today, and how those will evolve as technologies like AI rapidly expand
• Provide clear business direction and prioritisation to Business Analysts, delivery teams, platform teams and change stakeholders.
• Apply CAPDAN consistently to ensure common underwriting capabilities are standardised and reused wherever possible.
• Engage and align senior stakeholders across Group, Business Units, Lines of Business and underwriting communities.
• Manage competing priorities and resolve conflicts between local requirements and enterprise-wide outcomes.
• Shape and prioritise the cross-LOB underwriting backlog, ensuring requirements are clear aligned to business priorities.
• Work closely with post-bind, operations, technology and change teams to ensure an aligned end-to-end underwriting journey.
• Own execution of business case preparation, investment prioritisation and tracking of expected benefits and value realisation.
• Champion adoption by ensuring delivered capabilities are embedded into day-to-day underwriting practice.

Conocimientos

Underwriting knowledge

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Product ownership

Backlog prioritisation

Cross-LOB collaboration

AI tooling awareness

Change delivery

Descripción del empleo

Zurich in London or Whiteley seeks an experienced Cross‑LoB Underwriting Product Owner to shape the future of underwriting platforms, including Neo Pre-Bind and Z-Horizon+. You will align stakeholders, drive prioritisation and ensure reusable capabilities across geographies, enabling value realisation.

You will manage roadmaps, prioritise backlogs and lead change across multiple teams, with a focus on reducing fragmentation and delivering enterprise outcomes.