VP, Transformation & Product Leader

Job Posting End Date: October 30 When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:  Award-winning culture  Inclusion and diversity as a priority  Performance Based Incentive Plans Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability  Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)  Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution  Mental health support  Career advancement opportunities  Student loan repayment options  Tuition reimbursement Flexible work environments  *All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans . And that’s just the beginning…   With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!  General Summary: This position sits in the leadership team of the Transformation Acceleration Office (TAO) and is responsible for coordinating the Value Stream program end-to-end, establishing and evolving the overall Value Stream structure, and partnering with Value Stream Owners to align scope, outcomes, priorities, phasing, and asset reuse across Value Streams. The role monitors overall program progress, resolves cross-value stream issues and dependencies, and drives alignment with the enterprise roadmap and capability-development priorities. In parallel, this leader serves as the accountable owner of the Product Chapter, setting and evolving product standards, playbooks, frameworks, and ways of working to ensure consistent product practice across the organization. The role maintains an enterprise view of the Product talent pipeline, partners with leaders and HR on staffing, coaching, learning, and development needs, and builds feedback mechanisms that continuously improve Product Chapter practices. This role combines program-level strategy and coordination with people and capability leadership. Success requires strong cross-functional stakeholder management, sound value-based decision-making, deep product management expertise, and a demonstrated ability to coach and develop product talent across a distributed, embedded workforce. Principal Duties and Responsibilities  ·    Establish and continuously evolve the end-to-end Value Stream program structure, governance, and coordination mechanisms. ·    Partner with Value Stream Owners, sponsors, and run-team leaders to align Value Stream scope, intended outcomes, priorities, sequencing, phasing, and reuse of capabilities and assets. ·    Codify and update the organization’s best-practice methodology for scaling front-to-back Value Stream delivery. ·    Ensure Value Stream roadmaps, risk logs, and dependency logs are established, maintained, and used to monitor progress across the overall program. ·    Develop and maintain a clear decision framework for identifying, escalating, managing, and resolving cross-value stream issues and dependencies. ·    Monitor cross-value stream risks, issues, capability gaps, and interdependencies, and coordinate timely resolution with accountable leaders. ·    Drive alignment between Value Stream plans, the enterprise roadmap, and capability-development priorities. ·    Promote transparency and disciplined decision-making by providing an integrated view of Value Stream progress, dependencies, and areas requiring leadership action. ·    Serve as the