Chief of Staff, Property & Commercial

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing auto insurers thanks to our low rates, outstanding service and clever marketing. We're an industry leader employing thousands of dedicated and hard-working associates. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, we offer associates training and career advancement in a financially stable and rewarding workplace.

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

About The Role

We’re seeking a Chief of Staff to work in close collaboration and partnership with the Property & Commercial Executive and leadership team. As a strategic partner, you will play a key role in driving the Property & Commercial agenda at GEICO during a period of exciting growth and transformation.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Running high visibility projects, ranging from operational efficiency, change management, analytic deep dives, team off-sites, and annual planning.
• Being the ‘go-to’ person on the Property & Commercial team. Managing and triaging the workflow; prioritizing, delegating, and completing work.
• Owning business head’s management team agendas, with a lens on strategic planning and prioritization of topics, desired outcomes and guest participants based on business priorities and with input from key partners.
• Enabling the team to prioritize and get after what is the most impactful for our internal customers and identifying any roadblocks that might get in the way.
• Ensuring the team is a smoothly running engine, with team wellness and high engagement at the core, enabling healthy team collaboration, efficient project management, robust data and reporting, and effective stakeholder communication.
• Outlining overall business priorities, goals and metrics and maintain related progress updates.
• Operating at a strategic level on all things relating to our Leadership Team, ensuring we fully leverage our internal team, and delivering a best-in-class experience.
• Creating and coordinating content for Business Head’s speaking engagements and presentations, both internal and external
  
  

Skills & Experiences

• 7+ years of program management, strategy, business operations in a fast-paced environment, preferably within the insurance or financial services industry.
• Experience working strategically and collaboratively across multiple functions.
• An analytic prowess, drive to support decisions with data, and the ability to make data digestible to varied audiences.
• Comfort making decisions and turning strategy into executable plans and actions.
• Experience in diagnosing pain points for teams, moving them from good to great.
• Trusted Advisor — Serves as a strategic thought partner, sounding board, and confidante to the Property & Commercial Executive and team. Honest, reliable, and consistent.
• Strong communicator — Both written and verbal. Good sounding board, provider of open, honest feedback.
• Multi-tasker — Ability to get things done. Operational superstar. Efficient with resources available.
• EQ — Ability to smooth out collaboration across groups, challenge decisions, and voice concerns.
• Low Ego — Committed to making leaders better & comfortable being behind the scenes. Help employees understand where you can be useful for them versus being a roadblock to the top.
  
  

Leadership Qualities

• You thrive on the success of the team, as well as your fellow team members.
• You work well in a fast paced, demanding environment.
• You are passionate and ready to help us take Property & Commercial to new heights.
• You have the versatility to be both an individual contributor as well as run cross-functional projects.
• Strong on decision-making in a highly consensus-based environment.
• Leads from the front and isn’t shy about using their voice.
• Ability to lead and influence with empathy and humility.
• Ability to navigate and lead through complexity.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to make decisions and communicate them effectively in a highly complex environment with numerous stakeholders and tradeoffs to be considered.
• Curiosity, critical thinking skills; a lifelong learner who sees situations through multiple lenses.
• Exceptional character and an ability to instill confidence and build trust. Someone who possesses high emotional intelligence, and is an attentive, empathetic listener.
  
  

Location:

• This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum, on-site presence of 3 days per week at our Fredericksburg, VA; Chevy Chase, MD; Dallas, TX; or Tampa, FL office.
  
  

Annual Salary

$121,975.00 - $229,600.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
  
  

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.