Senior Product Manager-Fixed Indexed Annuities

Who We Are

At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That’s why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.

We align to a set of Values that are the core pillars that define our culture and help bring our brand purpose to life:

• We are stronger as one: We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act   decisively for our customers and partners.
• We deliver on commitments: We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders.
• We learn, improve and innovate: We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.
• We are inclusive: We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work.

About The Role

This position is responsible for leading implementation, ongoing management and support for a specific product line that is sold by strategic partners within various sales distribution channels. Furthermore, this person will be a single point of contact for all product related items associated with their product line (i.e., marketing, rate setting, legal, operations, and compliance) while providing support to other lines when necessary. Additionally, this role is responsible for chairing leadership committees, development and delivery of project-related presentations, communicating key initiatives to our strategic account partners, ensuring adequate and compliant project documentation, monitoring sales trends, and identifying/resolving process/procedural issues that may arise with key stakeholders and clients.  The person in this role will be the product line expert and must have a proven record of driving results through cross-functional, multi-location business environments.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting either the Fixed, Index, or RILA and/or Variable Annuity product line and related initiatives designed to be distributed through various sales channels.
• Keen understanding of our suite of products and strategic partner preferences, sales metrics, and growth opportunities.
• Champion the IMO sales channel by understanding strategic partner preferences, fostering key relationships, analyzing IMO sales trends, identifying areas for improvement, subject matter expert for tactical indirect product initiatives, and contributing to the development of strategies to optimize sales growth.
• Lead discussions and updates for annual Owners Acknowledgement reviews with Legal, Product Development, and Compliance.
• Assist in setting strategic direction that will move product lines forward in harmony with company goals.
• Draft new product or feature announcements and work closely with Strategic Account Partners to ensure communication strategy aligns with distribution goals.
• Collaborate with the internal partners to develop and review content for client-facing communications and web material.
• Manages the creation of documentation related to new products or features as well as product or feature enhancements (i.e., comparative grids, presentations, etc.).
• Oversee initiatives and key meetings that include thoughtful preparation of agendas, chairing of meetings, identification of follow-up items, contributing to timely and thorough documentation and distribution of meeting minutes, as well as after meeting follow-up.
• Lead working groups comprised of participants from Legal, Operations, IT, Marketing, Sales, third party administrators, when applicable, and distribution partner representatives.
• Review and sign-off of marketing, point-of-sale, and other support materials/documents for each initiative.
• Continuously monitor, measure launched products, and feed learnings back into the product development and implementation processes.
• Other tasks as necessary to ensure timely, accurate, and cost-effective support of new initiatives or other projects supporting the company’s products and product roadmap.

Skills and Qualifications

• 3 to 5+ years of product and/or project management, operations, distributor/agency, sales, or marketing experience in the financial services industry; Annuity product and industry knowledge preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills – ability to understand and articulate impacts of simple to moderately complex concepts, as well as interpreting data analysis results
• Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills
• Strong relationship management skills. Prefer experience col