VP, Product Manager - Quote & Buy

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Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America. We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands. Job Summary: IPH is seeking a VP Product Manager - Quote & Buy . The Vice President, Product Manager - Quote & Buy serves as the executive business sponsor and accountable owner of a large‑scale, enterprise transformation program focused on modernizing the quote‑to‑purchase and customer service experience to drive profitable customer acquisition and materially improve enterprise performance. Representing the business at the executive level, this role translates strategic objectives into a clear acquisition and service transformation vision, measurable outcomes, and sustainable value creation. The VP provides decision leadership across the transformation portfolio to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy, growth priorities, and risk posture across customer acquisition, service delivery, and supporting platforms. As the primary owner of the approved business case, the Vice President is fully accountable for benefit realization, including cost reduction, expense savings, productivity improvements, conversion uplift, and customer‑experience outcomes. The role ensures value commitments are translated into executable plans, governed through disciplined performance management, and embedded into the operating model beyond program completion in close partnership with Finance, Technology, Marketing, and Transformation leadership. Acting as the voice of the business, this leader drives adoption and change at scale, ensures organizational readiness, and establishes clear accountability for acquisition and service outcomes across the enterprise. Job Location : Primarily Remote - USA. Candidates local to Chicago, IL are preferred. Travel : Expected travel up to 2-3x a month to Chicago, IL. This is subject to change based on business needs. Main Responsibilities: Enterprise Transformation & Value Realization Serve as executive business sponsor and value owner for acquisition and customer service transformation initiatives, with end-to-end accountability for outcomes defined in the approved business case. Own the delivery, tracking, and sustainment of financial and operational benefits, including cost reduction, expense savings, productivity improvement, conversion uplift, and customer experience gains. Establish value governance, performance management cadence, and post implementation validation in partnership with Finance, Technology, and Transformation leadership. Lead executive decision making across scope, sequencing, and investment tradeoffs to maximize enterprise value and manage risk. Customer Acquisition & Quote to Purchase (Quote & Buy) Optimization Serve as executive sponsor for improving the end-to-end quote to purchase experience to maximize conversion, reduce friction, and drive profitable customer acquisition. Lead channel optimization across web, mobile app, aggregators, partner channels, and telephony, ensuring consistent, high performing acquisition journeys. Sponsor quote flow redesign initiatives, aligning service, technology, and content decisions to simplify journeys and improve completion rates. Establish governance for conversion analysis and friction removal, leveraging data, analytics, experimentation, and customer insights. Drive content and customer communications improvements throughout the acquisition journey to increase clarity, confidence, and ease of purchase. Ensure cross market alignment of acquisition journeys, balancing local needs with enterprise-wide standards, scalability, and performance benchmarks. Partner closely with Marketing, Digital, Technology, and Customer Experience leadership to embed acquisition optimization into the broader transformation roadmap. Customer Service Strategy & Operating Model Evolution Define and sponsor the future state customer service operating strategy aligned to enterprise customer experience objectives and long-term cost to serve targets. Provide strategic oversight of service performance outcomes, ensuring operating models, escalation structures, and service design support acquisition, retention, and growth goals. Drive continuous modernization of service delivery approaches to enable scalability, resilience, and measurable experience improvements. Platform, Data, & Automation Enablement Sponsor the strategic evolution of the customer service and acquisition technology ecosystem, ensu