Job Description

Division or Field Office:

Corporate Enablement Tech Div

Department of Position: Enterprise Agility Department

Work from:

Home Office, Erie PA Salary Range:

$124,607.00 - $199,048.00 *

salary range is for this level and may vary based on actual level of role hired for

*This range represents a national range and the actual salary will depend on several factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the skills, education, training, credentials, location (State) based on ERIE's geographical differences, and experience of an applicant, as well as level of role for which the successful candidate is hired. Position may be eligible for an annual bonus payment.

At Erie Insurance, you’re not just part of a Fortune 500 company; you’re also a valued member of a diverse and inclusive team that includes more than 6,000 employees and over 13,000 independent agencies. Our Employees work in the Home Office complex located in Erie, PA, and in our Field Offices that span 12 states and the District of Columbia.

Benefits That Go Beyond The Basics

We strive to be Above all in Service® to our customers—and to our employees. That’s why Erie Insurance offers you an exceptional benefits package, including:

• Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents. Coverage begins your first day of work.
• Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums. We currently pay up to 97% of employees’ monthly premium costs.
• Pension. We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
• 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match. The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
• Paid time off. Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
• Career development. Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.
  

Additional benefits that include company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.

Drives the transformation of ERIE’s Business Agility to enable our ability to respond to change, learn and pivot, and deliver with speed in a competitive market. Manages a team to implement changes that will impact a significant number of stakeholders across the organization and present challenges in complexity or deadlines. Partners with management to develop a strategy to set and achieve the team’s goals as an enabler to the Enterprise Agility Goals.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages overall operations of designated area of authority. Interviews, hires, trains and directs personnel. Prepares and conducts performance assessments, coordinates discipline and oversees Employee development as required.
• Ensures effective prioritization of the team’s work. Identifies, removes and/or escalates impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and applies a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.
• Collaborates with management, program leaders and product teams to implement, scale, and continuously improve agile practices, building a strategic, milestone-based plan for business agility transformation and implements measures to track progress.
• Provides thought leadership and expertise on agile best practices in an environment with products in different stages of their agile journey.
• Provides targeted and timely communication of results, achievements and challenges to direct reports, peers, and leaders.
• Establishes a collaborative partnership and community of practice with other agile coaches and practitioners across the organization. Facilities forums to improve methodologies and practices progressing ERIE’s agile practices.
• Contributes to the development and management of an agile education and training program progressing ERIE’s agile practices through training and hands-on coaching.
• Presents to leaders, peers, and staff with eloquence and authenticity, communicating a compelling vision and inspire others to deliver on an ambitious, complex roadmap.
• May provide practice, discipline and technical guidance; develops and maintains relationships with other practice owners and discipline leads.

The first seven duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become evident.

Capabilities

• Values Diversity (Leader)
• Optimizes Work Processes (Leader)
• Self-development (Leader)
• Cultivates Innovation (Leader)
• Customer Focus (Leader)
• Decision Quality (Leader)
• Collaborates (Leader)
• Develops Talent (Leader)
• Ensures Accountability (Leader)
• Instills Trust (Leader)
• Nimble Learning (Leader)
• Persuades (Leader)
• Plans and Aligns (Leader)
• Drives vision and purpose (Leader)

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor degree in business, finance, management information systems, project management, or related field and eight years of related experience required; or
• Associate degree in a technical field, plus ten years of related experience, or;
• High School Diploma plus twelve years of related experience required.

Additional Experience

• In-depth knowledge of Agile techniques, Lean-Agile practices and Design Thinking practices and tools, required.
• Management experience preferred.
  

Physical Requirements

• Climbing/accessing heights; Rarely
• Driving; Rarely
• Lifting/Moving 0-20 lbs; Occasional (<20%)
• Lifting/Moving 20-50 lbs; Rarely
• Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Rarely
• Manual Keying/Data Entry/inputting information/computer use; Frequent (50-80%)
• Pushing/Pulling/moving objects, equipment with wheels; Occasional (<20%)