Senior Manager, Strategy and Execution

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

Leading a team of Business Architects and Project Consultants, the Senior Manager, Strategy and Execution plays a critical role in enabling strong governance and disciplined execution of the Claims strategic roadmap. This role translates strategy into executable plans, ensuring strategic priorities are realistic, properly sequenced, and aligned to execution capacity. It ensures that the appropriate governance frameworks, forums, and monitoring mechanisms are in place to support effective prioritization, coordinated delivery, benefits realization, and proactive identification and management of risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across the Claims portfolio. The role also serves as a strategic advisor to Claims leadership, supporting decision making on sequencing and trade-offs and ensuring strategic initiatives deliver measurable outcomes and sustained value.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and present strategic summaries of analysis, roadmaps, and recommendations  to enable informed decision‑making, tailored to specific audiences including senior enterprise leadership.
• Guides and advise on the development and evolution of
•  strategic roadmaps, including identification of interdependencies, prioritization of initiatives, and alignment to annual and multi‑year planning cycles.
• Advises and counsels leadership on complex, ambiguous problems by integrating insights across business, technology, and operations and translating them into actionable, executable plans
• Enable and guide strategic initiatives that enhance Claims’ ability to modernize processes and deliver value through automation, AI, and technology‑enabled solutions, ensuring alignment to roadmap priorities and execution capacity.
• Guides functional planning activities, including development of business cases, financial analysis, and prioritization frameworks to support investment decisions and execution planning.
• Lead the development and adoption of tools, templates, and frameworks that strengthen governance, support prioritization, and improve execution discipline across Claims.
• Enable and coordinate the execution of enterprise Claims strategic initiatives by driving alignment across key stakeholders, including Finance, Product, Sales, Technology, and U.S. partners.
• Serve as a senior resource to leadership in evaluating initiative effectiveness, monitoring delivery against intended outcomes and benefits, and identifying opportunities to improve strategic execution.
• Ensures teams are equipped to execute against strategic priorities by coaching and developing Business Architects and Project Consultants, setting clear expectations, and promoting best practices in strategy execution and delivery.
• Influences and participate in strategy sessions, roadmap planning, and cross-functional discussions, supporting leadership in setting ambitious yet achievable objectives aligned to strategic priorities and execution capacity.

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Skills

Business Acumen, Business Communications, Continual Improvement Process, Planning, Prioritization, Problem Solving, Project Implementations, Roadmapping, Roadmap Planning, Strategic Execution, Strategic Initiative, Waterfall Model

 

Compensation

Expected compensation for this role ranges from $ 121,800.00 - 171,800.00 annually.  Actual salary offered to successful candidates will vary based on their skills and experience.

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 Canada Group uses AI technology tools to assist in screening, selecting, assessing, and scheduling interviews with candidates as part of the recruitment process.

This job posting is for a current open role within the organization.