Chubb

NA Tech & Ops Strategy and Planning Lead

Chubb$160K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in technology portfolio management, PMO, or governance with leadership experience.
  • 8+ years in capital and operating budget management, including forecasting.
  • Expertise in Clarity or similar PPM tools with strong data management capabilities.
  • Proven track record of designing and implementing governance frameworks.
  • Experience managing an annual planning process involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Excellent analytical skills to identify and resolve process inefficiencies.
  • Strong communication skills for cross-functional coordination.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field.

Responsibilities

  • Co-lead strategic and annual planning processes, ensuring adherence to timelines and standards.
  • Align leaders to convert strategic priorities into actionable plans and program sequencing.
  • Develop multiyear technology roadmaps that align with business lines and capital plans.
  • Monitor execution of roadmaps, identifying risks and misalignments early.
  • Act as the go-to resource for governance inquiries and escalations.
  • Design and maintain governance frameworks and control processes for portfolio management.
  • Oversee tracking of actual spending against capital targets and assist in reforecasting.
  • Serve as a Clarity subject matter expert, enhancing data quality and tool utilization.
  • Create dashboards and reports for leadership on portfolio health and planning reviews.
  • Manage vendor and contractor governance across the technology portfolio.
  • Lead and develop the team involved in portfolio management and governance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, wellness, and more.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As our Technology and Operations Strategy and Planning Lead, you are the driving force behind technology portfolio management and governance across North America, shaping how work is planned, tracked, and governed to bring clarity, consistency, and control to the portfolio. Partnering with Finance and functional leaders, you lead strategic and annual planning end to end, translating strategic priorities into multiyear technology roadmaps aligned to capital plans and enterprise architecture direction. We will look to you to serve as one of our subject matter experts on Clarity, driving adoption, strengthening reporting, and identifying areas for enhancement in tool utilization. You also play a key role in designing and implementing governance frameworks, including clear escalation paths, that bring greater rigor, discipline, and consistency to portfolio management across North America. In partnership with our reporting and analytics team, you deliver leadership level reporting and dashboards that give stakeholders an accurate, current view of portfolio health, while overseeing vendor and contractor governance and budget tracking against capital targets. By leading the team that supports these functions, you turn strategy into disciplined execution, bringing greater transparency, control, and accountability to the portfolio while delivering meaningful business results.

In this role, you will:
  • Co-lead the strategic planning and annual planning processes end to end, including timeline, stakeholder coordination, process design, consolidation into a single North America plan, and adherence to deadlines and standards in partnership with Finance
  • Align functional and technology leaders across North America to translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, plans, and prioritized program sequencing for annual planning and multiyear roadmaps
  • Develop and maintain multiyear technology roadmaps across major North America business lines, aligning initiatives with strategic priorities, capital plans, and enterprise architecture
  • Monitor roadmap execution against milestones, capital targets, and governance checkpoints, flagging risks, resourcing gaps, and misalignment early
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for portfolio management and governance questions, escalations, and requests across North America
  • Design, implement, and maintain governance frameworks, change control processes, escalation paths, and recurring governance reviews to ensure documentation is accurate, complete, current, and aligned to investment size and risk
  • Track actual spend against approved capital targets across the portfolio and support capital target setting and reforecasting cycles in partnership with Finance
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for Clarity for NA technology, owning data quality reviews, reporting, adoption, and identification of process enhancements to streamline strategic planning, annual planning, and governance
  • Develop leadership level dashboards, portfolio reporting, analysis, and briefing materials for planning cycles, reviews, and QBRs in partnership with functional leads, PMO functions, and technology leadership
  • Oversee vendor and contractor governance across the portfolio
  • Lead, mentor, and develop the team supporting portfolio management, planning, and governance activities


Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in technology portfolio management, PMO, or portfolio governance, with at least 2 to 3 years in a leadership or team management capacity.
  • 8+ year of experience in in capital and operating budget management, including experience tracking spend against targets, supporting forecasting and reforecasting cycles, and partnering with Finance on planning processes
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Clarity or other PPM tools, including data standards, hygiene, and reporting
  • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing portfolio frameworks; not just operating within them
  • Experience leading or coordinating an annual planning process across multiple stakeholder groups
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify process inefficiencies and drive them to resolution
  • Sound judgment on when to escalate versus resolve independently
  • Effective written and verbal communication for cross-functional coordination
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or related discipline


The pay range for the role is$160,000 to $180,000. The specific offer will depend on an applicant's skills and other factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. Chubb offers a comprehensive benefits package, more details on which can be found on our careers website. The disclosed pay range estimate may be adjusted for the applicable geographic differential for the location in which the position is filled.

About Chubb

Chubb Limited is a Swiss-based global insurance company that provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance (A&H), reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. Chubb operates in 54 countries and territories and is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. The company has a long history, dating back to 1882, and has grown through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Chubb is known for its high-quality insurance products and services, as well as its strong financial performance and commitment to corporate social responsibility.
Learn more about Chubb
Size
31,000 employees
Market Cap
$90.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.5 billion
Founded
1882
5 Year Trend
+5.3%
Revenue
$35.9 billion
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