Head of Enterprise Program Management Office

American Modern Insurance Group, Inc., a Munich Re company, is a widely recognized specialty insurance leader that delivers products and services for residential property – such as manufactured homes and specialty dwellings – and the recreational market, including boats, personal watercraft, classic cars, and more. We provide specialty product solutions that cover what the competition often can’t.

Headquartered in Amelia, Ohio, and with associates located across the United States, we are part of Munich Re’s Global Specialty Insurance division. Our employees receive boundless opportunity to grow their careers and make a difference every day. 

Head of Enterprise Program Management Office

American Modern Insurance Group is recruiting for a newly created Head of Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) role to strengthen enterprise execution and turn strategic priorities into measurable business outcomes. In this role, you will oversee portfolio governance, investment prioritization, resource planning, and executive reporting while partnering with senior leaders to drive accountability and informed decision-making.

As a senior leader within the Strategy Office, the Head of EPMO establishes a consistent enterprise approach to portfolio management, program governance, business cases, implementation planning, resource and capacity management, and executive reporting. The role partners with senior business and functional leaders to translate Ambition 2030 and other enterprise priorities into coordinated execution and measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Portfolio Management and Prioritization

• Lead the enterprise portfolio of strategic programs and initiatives, ensuring alignment with American Modern’s strategy and business priorities.
• Establish consistent criteria and processes for evaluating, prioritizing, sequencing, and governing strategic initiatives.
• Maintain an integrated view of portfolio health, investments, milestones, resource requirements, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
• Facilitate enterprise decisions and trade-offs when strategic priorities, investments, or resource demands compete.
• Apply appropriate EPMO governance based on strategic importance, investment, cross-functional complexity, transformation impact, and risk.

Program Governance and Execution

• Establish enterprise standards and governance for complex, cross-functional strategic programs.
• Ensure programs have clear business ownership, objectives, business cases, implementation plans, milestones, resources, risks, dependencies, and success measures.
• Establish clear accountability among Business Owners, Program Managers, and Execution Owners, while preserving business ownership of outcomes.
• Provide objective visibility into program health and drive timely escalation and resolution of issues that threaten strategic outcomes.
• Promote phased execution and disciplined decision-making throughout the program lifecycle.

Business Cases, Investment and Resource Management

• Partner with business owners and Finance to strengthen business cases and ensure investments have clearly defined outcomes, costs, assumptions, risks, milestones, and measures of success.
• Support fact-based investment, prioritization, and continuation decisions throughout the lifecycle of strategic initiatives.
• Build enterprise visibility into resource demand, capacity, critical skills, and constraints across the strategic portfolio.
• Partner with functional leaders to address resource conflicts and improve prioritization and sequencing of strategic work.
• Ensure investment and resource requirements are appropriately reflected in business cases and implementation plans.

Risk, Governance and Executive Reporting

• Establish consistent practices for identifying, managing, and escalating portfolio and program risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Establish effective executive governance and review cadences for portfolio performance, prioritization, investment decisions, program health, and risk escalation.
• Provide senior leadership with concise, objective, decision-oriented reporting on portfolio performance, investments, capacity, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Partner across Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, Technology, Finance, and other functions to support effective enterprise execution.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on portfolio health, execution capacity, strategic delivery risks, and required interventions.

EPMO Leadership and Value Delivery

• Build, lead, and continuously mature American Modern’s enterprise portfolio and program management capability.
• Establish common EPMO methodologies, governance standards, tools, reporting practices, and performance expectations.
• Partner with business owners and Value Realization to establish meaningful KPIs, expected outcomes, and measures of success for strategic initiatives.
• Develop and coach program management talent and strengthen execution capabilities across the organization.
• Foster a culture of enterprise thinking, transparency, accountability, constructive challenge, and disciplined execution.
• Measure success based on business value and strategic outcomes, not solely project or milestone completion.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Technology, Engineering, Management, or a related discipline required; MBA or advanced degree preferred. 
• Significant progressive leadership experience in enterprise portfolio management, program management, business transformation, strategy execution, or a related discipline. 
• Demonstrated experience leading an enterprise PMO/EPMO or a portfolio of large-scale, complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives.
• Proven ability to work effectively with executive leadership and facilitate decisions involving competing priorities, investments, resources, and risks.
• Strong experience in portfolio prioritization, program governance, business cases, investment management, resource planning, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated success leading significant business transformation involving multiple functions, technology dependencies, organizational change, and investment.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to synthesize complex portfolio, financial, resource, and risk information into clear recommendations.
• Executive presence and communication skills, including the ability to influence in a matrixed environment and constructively challenge assumptions.
• Insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industry experience preferred.
• PMP, Agile, Lean, or comparable professional certification preferred. 

We are proud to offer employees, their domestic partners, and their children a wide range of insurance benefits, including:

• Two options for your health insurance plan (PPO or High Deductible).
• Prescription drug coverage (included in your health insurance plan).
• Vision and dental insurance plans.
• Additional insurance coverages provided at no cost to you, such as basic life insurance equal to 1x annual salary and AD&D coverage that is equal to 1x annual salary.
• Short and Long Term Disability coverage.
• Supplemental Life and AD&D plans that you can purchase for yourself and dependents (includes Spouse/domestic partner and children).
• Voluntary Benefit plans that supplement your health and life insurance plans (Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity).

In addition to the above insurance offerings, our employees also enjoy:

• A robust 401k plan with up to a 5% employer match
• A retirement savings plan that is 100% company funded.
• Paid time off that begins with 24 days each year, with more days added when you celebrate milestone service anniversaries.
• Eligibility to receive a yearly bonus as a Munich Re employee.
• A variety of health and wellness programs provided at no cost.
• Paid time off for eligible family care needs.
• Tuition assistance and educational achievement bonuses.
• A corporate matching gifts program that further enhances your charitable donation.
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community.
• Free parking.
• A hybrid environment that gives you a choice in where and how you get work done.
• A corporately subsidized on-site cafeteria as well as a We Proudly Serve coffee shop.
• An on-site complimentary workout facility as well as walking trails on campus grounds.
• On-site wellness center complete with nurse practitioner.

The base salary range anticipated for this position is $190,000 - $260,000, plus opportunity for company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay.  In addition, the company makes available a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

The salary estimate is adjusted to reflect the varying market conditions across different locations. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. Most candidates will start in the bottom half of the range.

At American Modern, we see diversity and inclusion as essential to meeting the challenges and opportunities around us. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture and build a workforce that reflects the communities in which we live and work. We strive to provide a workplace where all colleagues feel respected, valued, and empowered to achieve their best every day. We recruit and develop talent with a focus on providing our customers with innovative products and services.

We are an equal opportunity employer.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.