Strategy & Performance Manager (Remote, US)

Allstate; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Strategy & Performance Manager in the Law & Regulation department to translate business priorities into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and disciplined execution.

You will bridge big-picture strategy and practical delivery, partnering across legal, operations, HR, communications, technology, and other teams to align priorities, simplify processes, and drive progress toward enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategy, business operations, legal operations, performance management, consulting, program management, organizational effectiveness, analytics, or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn data, stakeholder input, and business context into practical recommendations.
• Excellent executive communication skills, including storytelling, presentation development, briefing materials, and leadership updates.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, especially in complex or cross-functional environments.
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous work, define ownership, sequence priorities, and drive follow-through.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on simplifying processes, creating repeatable tools, and measuring impact.

Responsibilities

• Support planning processes that connect department priorities to business outcomes, OKRs, KPIs, milestones, and decision points.
• Manage work intake, prioritization, and portfolio visibility to ensure initiatives are clearly defined, appropriately sequenced, and aligned to capacity and impact.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop executive-ready insights, recommendations, dashboards, narratives, presentations, and recurring updates.
• Partner across teams to improve governance, handoffs, operating routines, and continuous improvement practices.
• Use AI and emerging tools responsibly to simplify work, accelerate analysis, generate insights, and improve execution.
• Partner with communications, change management, learning, engagement, and adoption teams to ensure strategic work is activated effectively.

Skills

Strategy

Performance mgmt

Analytics

Executive comms

Stakeholder mgmt

Cross-functional work

Job description

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Strategy & Performance Manager in our Law & Regulation department to help translate business priorities into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and disciplined execution.

In this role, you’ll bring structure to complex work, connect strategy to performance insights, and help leaders make informed decisions through strong planning, data analysis, and executive-ready communication.

This role is ideal for someone who can move comfortably between big-picture strategy and practical execution. You’ll partner across legal, operations, HR, communications, technology, and other business teams to align priorities, improve operating rhythms, simplify processes, and support measurable progress against department and enterprise goals.

This role may require occasional travel to an Allstate office in Chicago, Dallas, Charlotte, Scottsdale, or New York.

What You’ll Do

• Support planning processes that connect department priorities to business outcomes, OKRs, KPIs, milestones, and decision points.
• Manage work intake, prioritization, and portfolio visibility to ensure initiatives are clearly defined, appropriately sequenced, and aligned to capacity and impact.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop executive-ready insights, recommendations, dashboards, narratives, presentations, and recurring updates.
• Partner across teams to improve governance, handoffs, operating routines, and continuous improvement practices.
• Use AI and emerging tools responsibly to simplify work, accelerate analysis, generate insights, and improve execution.
• Partner with communications, change management, learning, engagement, and adoption teams to ensure strategic work is activated effectively.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in strategy, business operations, legal operations, performance management, consulting, program management, organizational effectiveness, analytics, or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn data, stakeholder input, and business context into practical recommendations.
• Excellent executive communication skills, including storytelling, presentation development, briefing materials, and leadership updates.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, especially in complex or cross-functional environments.
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous work, define ownership, sequence priorities, and drive follow-through.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on simplifying processes, creating repeatable tools, and measuring impact.

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of related experience
• Experience developing planning frameworks, OKRs, KPIs, executive reporting, portfolio views, or governance routines.
• Experience working with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in a large or matrixed organization.

Why This Role Matters

This role helps turn strategy into action. The Strategy & Performance Manager will strengthen how priorities are planned, measured, communicated, and improved—helping leaders and teams focus on the work that matters most and understand the impact they are making.

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Analytics, Change Management, Continuous Improvement, Employee Supervision, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Process Improvements, Program Management, Strategic Collaborations, Strategic Objectives

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.

It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.

Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.