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We are seeking a highly organized and motivated Project & Process Excellence Lead to join our team. This role is central to driving our business and strategy forward by coordinating cross-functional strategic workstreams, evaluating and improving operational processes, and ensuring clear communication of project progress.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Strategy Execution: Support the advancement of strategic initiatives across the division, ensuring alignment to overall business goals.
- Ownership of recurring project status updates and administrative program coordination; including project updates and workstream accountability
- Shape Steering Committee agendas, materials, and outcomes to accelerate decisions and remove execution barriers
- Drive consistency in workstream execution
- Cross-Functional Project Coordination: Partner closely with marketing, business development, underwriting, product, and operations to align efforts, coordinate deliverables, and sustain recurring progress across multiple workstreams.
- Process Design & Improvement:
- Lead efforts to map, analyze, and improve end-to-end insurance and operational workflows
- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve handoffs, and increase scalability
- Partner with teams to design and implement practical, sustainable improvements
- Communication & Reporting: Own communication for project status, updates, and artifacts, creating clear, consistent, and actionable reporting for leaders and stakeholders.
- Expense Insight: Help centralize expense tracking and analysis, surfacing opportunities to improve financial efficiency across initiatives.
- Innovation & Ideation: Champion better ways of working, bringing forward creative solutions and process innovations.
Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of experience in project coordination, process improvement, or operations within insurance or financial services.
- Strong understanding of insurance workflows and operational flows.
- Experience working closely with senior leaders and navigating competing priorities
- Proven ability to lead complex initiatives without direct authority
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable updates.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution.
- Team-oriented, with proven ability to collaborate across diverse groups.
- Located near and accessible to one of our office hubs.
What We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate thrives in both detail and big picture. You can zoom out to see where the business is headed, while also rolling up your sleeves to get work done today. You are curious, collaborative, and energized by finding better ways to work. Above all, you help bring clarity and momentum to complex projects.
US Work Authorization
US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.
Pay information:
The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors. The salary for the position is $118,960 to $163,570 with a 30% bonus potential.
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better
We enjoy the everyday | We think further
In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.
All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
Are you ready to play your part?
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
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Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.
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