*This position is in office full time, 5 days a week and does not have an option for hybrid or remote due to the nature of the role.*
Who are we?
Western National Insurance Group is a private mutual insurance company with over 120 years of experience serving customers' property-and-casualty insurance needs in the Midwestern, Northwestern, and Southwestern United States. Known as “The Relationship Company®,” we define success as a measure of the relationships we’ve built over time. In everything that we do, we know that delivering a friendly and helpful interaction makes for a better experience for everyone involved. That’s the power of “nice”. At Western National, nice is something we work to bring to every person and organization with whom we partner and serve.
Does this opportunity interest you?
Western National is seeking a Business Analyst Manager to join our team!
The individual in this role will provide guidance, methodology, and formal organization for assigned projects. They will drive initiatives under consideration, provide formal organization and tracking methods for product initiatives through discovery, assessment, recommendation, approval, prioritization, and execution. They will drive completion of comprehensive business case and cost benefit analysis for proposed initiatives, responsible for drafting plans with input from Product Manager and in support of strategic direction (if assigned). They will provide daily management to the assigned product implementation or business analyst team through staffing, setting direction, performance management, training, coaching, and development. Lastly, they will provide project / product management leadership for organizational or special projects as assigned, in support of strategic objectives and company success.
What are the responsibilities and opportunities of this role?
- Partners with product teams and leaders across the enterprise to coordinate work necessary to assess potential business processes and software implementation initiatives, ensuring successful implementation of multifaceted product initiatives and business process efficiencies.
- Proactively coaches, mentors, directs, and develops individuals to achieve individual, departmental, and company goals.
- Handles the hiring, mentoring, training, performance management, and professional development of assigned individuals to build a team that is best-in-class at communication, collaboration, and facilitation to support and enhance the experience of our customers.
- Leads the product implementation