IT Customer Engagement Leader

Summit Consulting; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Great American Insurance Group is seeking an IT Customer Engagement Lead to partner with business units, shaping technology strategy and a multi-year roadmap to enable growth and efficiency. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on relationship management to align IT services with business objectives.

You will collaborate across divisions, influence technology choices, and help drive adoption of digital and analytics initiatives while maintaining strong stakeholder partnerships.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related experience required.
• P&C industry experience and deep knowledge.
• Insurance domain expertise across the value chain.
• Strong technology expertise in digital, automation, data, and analytics.
• Proven ability to build relationships and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer relationships and align IT services to business needs.
• Define the IT operating model and strategic roadmap for divisions.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business strategies into technology plans.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of IT applications and assets.
• Serve as escalation point to manage risks across the portfolio.

Skills

Stakeholder management

IT strategy

Relationship building

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or advanced degree preferred

Job description

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow. At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship. Our enterprise P&C IT organization is on a mission is to accelerate the Great American strategy and empower the many Business Units and Shared Services with the appropriate technology, data, and applications to enable their business objectives and plans. We are looking to hire an IT Customer Engagement Lead who is a leader in our enterprise IT Organization and a strategic partner to one or more of our Divisions. As the strategic partner, you will be responsible for building (trust) relationships and partnering with our business customers to understand their business needs and challenges as well as define the capabilities, technology strategy, and target IT operating models to accelerate their business strategies and go to market plans. P&C IT Services is looking for a Customer Engagement Leader to join their team. If you have a passion for building relationships, helping companies win with technology, and staying current with industry trends, then read further – this is the role for you!

Great American’s culture is built on connection, shared learning, and strong relationships. This is a hybrid role that combines in-office and remote work. Employees are expected to maintain a meaningful on-site presence to support collaboration, relationship building, and business success.

Responsibilities

• Customer Relationship Management – Helps blur the lines between business and technology
• Establishes the appropriate IT / Business engagement model and corresponding set of IT services aligned to a Divisions business model. This position will act as a mini CIO for these groups.
• Develops relationships with key business stakeholders to understand their business strategies, needs, and challenges
• Gathers information on the business and technology objectives for business units, identifies customer needs and creates a shared technology plan to support business outcomes
• Ensures the customer is positioned best on technology AND data to support current and future needs
• Technology Strategy – Influences, provide options for the BU to win with technology and data
• Gathers and communicates market research on insurance and technology trends that is relevant to our business customers
• Participates in business strategy conversations helping define opportunities/ options to leverage technology and data to run, transform, or grow their businesses
• Drives conversations with customers to define and influence the business capabilities, digital experiences, and new ways of working to enable business objectives
• Develops a multi-year BU technology strategy and investment roadmap to address strategic outcomes and drive customer success for the short and long term
• Helps define the target IT operating model and specific business unit technology strategies and transformation for digital, automation, data, analytics, application modernization as needed
• Drives the business case for change and portfolio of initiatives and technology investment(s) aligned to business priorities
• Delivery Execution & Support - Advocates for the BU and ensures no surprises
• Make sure customer needs are being met and understood by each department in the company from strategy to execution; knows which IT teams/resources to bring to the table and when
• Collaborates with internal IT teams to identify options to leverage technology and data to enable business drivers for a Division around ease of doing business, new revenue, operational efficiencies, and improved decision making through the use of data and analytics
• Partners with IT Delivery Managers, Enterprise Architects, and business stakeholders on developing the "OneTeam" delivery model playbook for success including the CSAT outcomes, team structure, roles, etc. across all initiatives for a particular business unit
• Serves as a point of escalation to manage risks and concerns back to the customer across all portfolio’s of work for the business unit
• Partners with business and technical teams to gather feedback on the health of the relationship and quality of delivery of IT services
• Drives strategies and recommendations on strategies to drive adoption and continuous improvement opportunities for IT applications and assets

Qualifications

• A minimum of 15 years of related experience required
• Prior experience within the P&C industry with deep knowledge
• Insurance domain expertise, a deep knowledge of various insurance functions across the value chain.
• Strong level of technology expertise/breath (digital, automation, application modernization, data, analytics, etc.)
• Strong experience building relationships (trust) and managing stakeholder expectations from strategy to planning and execution; including abilities to create win-win partnerships, with a strong understanding of give and take
• Prior experience consulting skills or experience facilitating business and technology strategies; Ability to see the big picture and plan out steps to achieve it.
• Ability to influence change, energize business and technical teams and foster buy in at all levels
• Experience with navigating organizations and driving alignment and urgency across cross functional teams
• Prior experience driving business transformation and organizational change
• Prior experience leading complex and large-scale technology initiatives and engagements
• Genuine curiosity and passion for all things technology to apply the industry trends into the business
• Strong communication skills: verbal, written, listening to various levels across the organization
• Strong Problem Solving and results orientation/ execution skills - Takes ownership in tasks and projects seeing them through to completion. Ability to handle complex and ambiguous situations.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree preferred

Benefits

• We offer competitive benefits packages for full-time and part-time employees*
• Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness plans, parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement.
• Full-time and eligible part-time employees also enjoy Paid Time Off and paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, and commuter benefits.
• Compensation varies by role, level, and location and is influenced by skills, experience, and business needs.
• Your recruiter will provide details about benefits and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process.

*Excludes seasonal employees and interns.

Business Unit: Property & Casualty IT Services

Why can you trust Great American Insurance Group?

For nearly 150 years, Americans have trusted us to protect them. Our innovative insurance solutions and specialization serves niche marketplaces that we know well. This expertise gives us a successful foundation that spans generations. You never know where a career in insurance will take you. Whether you are starting your career or are looking for a company to grow your experience, at Great American Insurance Group, you can join our more than 8,500 employees to "Be Here. Be GREAT!" To learn more, visit our Career Page