Trustmark’s mission is to improve wellbeing – for everyone. It is a mission grounded in a belief in equality and born from our caring culture. It is a culture we can only realize by building trust. Trust established by ensuring associates feel respected, valued and heard. At Trustmark, you’ll work collaboratively to transform lives and help people, communities and businesses thrive. Flourish in a culture of diversity and inclusion where appreciation, mutual respect and trust are constants, not just for our customers but for ourselves. At Trustmark, we have a commitment to welcoming people, no matter their background, identity or experience, to a workplace where they feel safe being their whole, authentic selves. A workplace made up of diverse, empowered individuals that allows ideas to thrive and enables us to bring the best to our colleagues, clients and communities. Trustmark Voluntary Benefits provides innovative voluntary benefits that help policyholders achieve greater financial security. Employers offer these benefits to help round out their benefits protection and help attract top talent to increase workplace satisfaction. Our clients trust us because with more than 100 years of industry experience, we have the expertise to provide complete benefit solutions that simplify the lives of employers while providing much needed protection to their employees. As the Applications Delivery Leader for the Voluntary Benefits division of Trustmark, you will leverage your extensive business acumen and expertise in voluntary benefits (life, group, supplemental health, term, employer, broker) insurtech/technology to serve as both a strategic partner and a technical subject matter expert. You will work closely with Trustmark’s business leaders, IT executives, and various internal and external stakeholders to steer the development and implementation of technology strategies, systems, and solutions for the Voluntary Benefits division. This is a hybrid role with 3 days at our campus in Lake Forest, IL, and 2 days remote. **Key Accountabilities:** **Strategic Leadership** **:** **Acts as a strategic business partner to the Voluntary Benefits division leaders through consulting and creating technology strategies, systems, and IT best-practice solutions specific to the division and represents division interests to senior IT leadership.** **Technical (Insuretech) Leadership** **: Serves as a point of contact for IT to the Voluntary Benefits leadership team, and works with the group to design business cases, gather and define requirements, present short/long term technical roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, assess risk, and work across the organization on the portfolio of voluntary benefit technology projects to support business goals and IT priorities.** **Communications:** **Communicates directly with executive level business unit and IT leadership, end users, cross-functional stakeholders internally and externally, to engage, develop trusting relationships, balance business support with IT best practices, drive consensus, and share out decisions, and project information with all stakeholders.** **Execution:** **Leads SDLC full end-to-end management, of the portfolio of projects for Voluntary Benefits, with support of dedicated application solutions engineers; oversees relevant 3rd party/vendor/Managed Service Provider contract and relationship management, performance, and financial oversight as the accountable leader for project execution.** **Innovation:** **Drives IT innovation and promotes new technologies, provides proactive improvements to technology and processes, drives change, and supports others through new approaches.** **Minimum Qualifications:** **• A bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years relevant experience in IT** **•** **Experience delivering a portfolio of strategic projects for a business unit** **• Demonstrated experience with insurance technology (** **insurtech** **)** **• Insurance industry knowledge of group administration platforms, billing, claims, commissions, full insurance lifecycle, etc.** **• Experience communicating directly with and advising non-technical senior business leaders as a technical subject matter/expert consultant** **• Experience assessing, evaluating and prioritizing technology solutions to business needs to drive decisions in the insurance technology landscape** **• Experience presenting short- and long-term technology roadmaps to support anticipated changes** **• Experience leading both internal and 3rd party/managed service provider/ vendor-based teams to achieve project goals** **• Experience with Agile and/or Waterfall, modern cloud and emerging technologies, API’s, Integrations, SaaS/PaaS, Applications, Policy Administration Systems** **​** **Key Attributes** **• Communication** **• Technical Knowledge** **• Thought leadership and Problem Solving** **• Project/Program/Risk Management** **• Vendor Negotiation/Management** **• Continuous Improvement** **• Customer Focus** Brand: Trustmark Come join a team at Trustmark that will not only utilize your current skills but will enhance them as well. Trustmark benefits include health/dental/vision, life insurance, FSA and HSA, 401(k) plan, Employee Assistant Program, Back-up Care for Children, Adults and Elders and many health and wellness initiatives. We also offer a Wellness program that enables employees to participate in health initiatives to reduce their insurance premiums. **For the fourth consecutive year we were selected as a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune.** The award is based exclusively on Trustmark associate responses to an anonymous survey. The survey measured 15 key drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of an organization. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, age, veteran or disability. Join a passionate and purpose-driven team of colleagues who contribute to Trustmark’s mission of helping people increase wellbeing through better health and greater financial security. At Trustmark, you’ll work collaboratively to transform lives and help people, communities and businesses thrive. Flourish in a culture where appreciation, mutual respect and trust are constants, not just for our customers but for ourselves. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. When you join Trustmark, you become part of an organization that makes a positive difference in people’s lives. You will play a vital role in delivering on our mission of helping people increase wellbeing through better health and greater financial security. Our customers tell us they simply appreciate the personal attention and knowledgeable service. Others tell us we’ve changed their lives. At Trustmark, you’ll be part of a close-knit team. You’ll enjoy abundant opportunities to grow your career. That’s why so many of our associates stay at Trustmark and thrive. Trustmark benefits from more than 100 years of experience but pairs that rich history with a palpable sense of optimism, growth and excitement for what’s ahead – and beyond. This is a place where associates bring their whole selves to work each day. A place where you can be yourself. Whatever your beyond is, you can achieve it at Trustmark.