Vice President – Technologies Job recruitment
Job Description
Available Openings: 1
Job Title: Vice President - Technologies
Job ID: 83664
Location: DePere, WI
Business Unit: Auto Home
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Eligible for Relocation: N
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Travel Percentage: None
License:
About Ameriprise
You're ambitious and confident, ready for a challenge and
looking for the right opportunity. You want a career with a
company that enables you to achieve your highest potential while
rewarding you for your efforts. Ameriprise Auto Home Insurance is
a division of Ameriprise Financial, a FORTUNE 500 ® company¹,
and one of the fastest growing insurance companies in the country.
We provide automobile, homeowners and umbrella insurance
products, generating more than $600 million in annual premiums. If
you're driven to succeed and prepared to meet the ever-changing
needs in our industry, you're ready for a career at Ameriprise Auto
Home Insurance. You'll advance your career with a company
committed to being the most respected personal insurance company
in the country.
Ameriprise Auto Home is an equal opportunity employer.
¹ FORTUNE Magazine, May 4, 2009.
Ameriprise Financial is pleased to be using an authentic Eames DCW manufactured by Herman Miller, courtesy Eames Office LLC, eamesoffice.com, eames foundation.org.
© 2009 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. All rights reserved.
Responsibilities
This IT generalist position provides direction and leadership for technology at the Ameriprise Auto Home Insurance (AAH) division. This may include any aspects of technology and technology support for AAH including business-specific applications, infrastructure, outside professional services and the technical personnel that maintain these systems or services.
Responsibilities include:
- Consistently refresh and directionally align technology strategy to business strategy. Strategize, plan, staff, and deliver technology resources to meet business need.
- Ensure that major projects or large technology-based initiatives are delivered on-time and within budget. Serve as liaison between business and technology organization, helping to translate technical details into business terms and vice versa. Negotiate contracts as appropriate.
- Provide day-to-day leadership of direct and indirect reports who are primarily technical people leaders which includes coaching, providing employee feedback through effective performance management practices, ensuring employee skill and leadership development, and conducting regular one-on-one meetings. Manage multi-million dollar technology budget.
- Participate in or lead the annual technology planning process which may involve gathering information and estimates from system domain areas based on business priorities, understanding the health of system assets in applying new investments, and providing input to the business to create an investment agenda. Understand resourcing and financial models for the appropriate costing and scheduling of IT services.
- Provide day-to-day support of the systems. Assess, communicate, and escalate high-impact issues to appropriate leaders in the business and technology to get problems resolved in a timely manner.
- Understand and support the disaster recovery and business continuation programs in the business.
- Oversee policy development and governance of IT standards, methodologies, security, scorecard, and vendors in managed area.
