If Insurance
Product Solution Manager, Guidewire
If InsuranceNorway2 days ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyProduct Management, Marketing
When unexpected things happen in our customers’ lives, Claims is always by their side. Claims is a crucial part of If from a financial, people and customer perspective. In Claims we have approximately 2.500 committed claims professionals caring for our customers and taking care of more than 2 million claims on a yearly basis.

As Product Solution Manager, you will have a key role in ensuring that when bad luck strikes, customers’ lives get back to normal as quickly and smoothly as possible. We are in the process of transforming and re-engineer our selected claims core systems, claims automation and process setup, to a more modern, less complex and more efficient system landscape. Our future will be more based on Guidewire insurance Suite on Cloud rather than in-house built solutions. We are now looking for a person taking on the task of driving a multi-year journey together with key stakeholders from the Claims, Product & Price as well as Technology organizations.

About The Role

Your initial assignment will be as "Product Manager" within the Core Transformation Program (CTP), responsible for the Motor Claims Finland System Transformation (replacing current claims systems with our Guidewire Cloud Solution). You will be responsible for ensuring that business needs are met by the new solution and that the journey is planned and conducted in the best way balancing risks, costs and quality of outcome. You will have a broad mandate from the Business Owner Board, and your primary target is to ensure we prioritize the deliveries creating most value considering the overall Motor Claims Finland system transformation agenda.

This is a full-time assignment where you will be reporting to the CTP Program manager and be part of the CTP program management team.

You’ll experience

  • The opportunity to influence future claims ways of working & system solutions and to influence decision making at senior levels
  • A culture where insight and collaboration matter more than hierarchy
  • Close cooperation with various stakeholders in our business (Claims, Product & Price, Technology, Leadership) and with our external partners
  • A role that combines strategy, communication, and system Implementation In the context of a larger program


Key responsibilities in the role:

  • Defining the steppingstones in the transformation journey by scoping the Major Business Releases work towards in terms of functional and business portfolio scope
  • Drive the process to break Major Business Releases down into the highest-level work items (Epics) in ADO
  • Defining Epic roadmap for the Major Business Releases as well as objectives and key results per SuperSprint
  • Prioritize work items in the Program Backlog (on Epic and feature level) and follow development of these through to delivery ensuring support needed in terms of clarifications.
  • Ensure that key business decisions, needed in the work towards the Major Business Releases, are taken in the right forums. This includes identifying key business questions to be solved and decisions to be made and preparing decision materials
  • Responsible for securing specific business skills and involvement of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) / business line organization stakeholders
  • Support dialogue and cooperation with other Tribes/delivery units around dependencies and capabilities needed to be delivered by them
  • Ensure we have relevant and updated technology transformation artifacts supporting our work (Target architecture, Target system landscape, Technology roadmap)
  • Responsible for securing we have an optimal domain/team scope and structures, and that we steer delivery capacity to where it’s needed the most (cross domains)


About The Team

In terms of line organization, the position is within the Digital Claims, Claims Digital Strategy and Core team. Our purpose is to drive long term strategy for Claims core and digital solutions, leading initiatives on business transformation & technology projects and Nordic claims core systems business operations support. The team is rather small with a few people having skills within some of the key competence areas needed within Digital Claims. The wider team are the people from functions within the Claims and Core Transformation Program organization and the technology organization.

We offer

In the same way that we place high demands on you as an employee, we also expect you to place high demands on us as an employer. Here are some of the benefits of working at If:

  • An including work environment where everyone is welcome
  • Career and development opportunities in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics
  • Social activities, as well as highly skilled professional environment
  • Possibility of hybrid workplace
  • Health promoting workplace with e.g., wellness allowance and various sports activities
  • Great insurance benefits


Who are you?

You have strong collaborations skills and are used to working with complex stakeholder management. You are an experienced product owner, product manager (or similar), who has worked within a large and complex organization. You not only know business processes, but you also have insight into key technological capabilities being important for this area. You are experienced in utilizing agile practices and have been part of delivering in and being part of implementing an agile operating/delivery model.

You are a team player having a solid experience from change management with an interest to empower people and make them grow by applying a coaching leadership style. You are used to working in a complex delivery setup, have high integrity and are willing to challenge status quo in a constructive and actionable way. You can build trust and handle a large responsibility. You are ambitious to achieve sustainable results and not afraid of making decisions. In addition, you can work on a strategic level but are willing to go into more details when necessary.

You also have:

  • Extensive experience as leading transformation / change as product owner / product manager (or similar) in a complex financial-, insurance-, or service sector
  • Proven track record of leading projects and aligning diverse teams, translating between technical specialists and business needs.
  • Master’s degree in business, engineering, science, or a related field
  • Fluent in English and proficient in a Nordic language, fluent Finnish language seen as an advantage
  • Experience with insurance and guidewire claims


Additional facts and the recruitment process

Application deadline: Screening and interviewing will start immediately. However, application deadline is 25th of November 2025.
To apply for the position: Please attach your CV and answer the questions in the recruiting system. No cover letter needed. Please note that we cannot process any applications outside our recruitment system (Workday).
Work location: Espoo, Turku, Stockholm, Copenhagen or Oslo.
Travelling: Some travelling within the Nordics is needed.
Start: By agreement

For more information, please contact Head of Digital Claims Business Development Tero Kuusinen, [email protected], +358 50 4240693.

Background checks will be done in accordance with the law in the country of employment.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Come to shape the future of claims operations and systems with us.

About Us

We are If. Our purpose is to give people confidence today to shape their tomorrow.

To make this possible, trust is our backbone. We stay ahead and challenge ourselves to grow. And we always put our hearts into it – because it takes more than bright minds to make brilliant things happen.

We are the leading insurance company in the Nordics/Baltics and a stable employer with 7,900 dedicated professionals. But most importantly, we are protectors of people, enablers of companies and encouragers of dreams. With our joint force of expertise and engagement we always stand by our customers’ side. Giving them the security and the confidence to be curious, explore new worlds, start new businesses and live their lives.

We are an equal opportunity employer, convinced that a diverse and inclusive work culture boosts innovation and the growth of intellectual capital in many ways. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, or what you look like. It is the different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences each of us have and share, that will make a difference.

Come and join us!

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