VP, Business Enablement

The Role at a Glance

The VP, Distribution Strategy & Enablement serves as the principal operating partner to the distribution organization translating distribution strategy into operating model decisions, enterprise execution priorities, performance management routines, and enabling capabilities that allow market-facing teams to focus on customers and brokers. The leader provides a single point of accountability for the distribution organization’s non-market-facing work, including strategic planning, enterprise partner coordination and performance reporting.

What you'll be doing

Strategic Leadership & Business Planning

• Maintains knowledge of current and emerging trends and collaborates with senior leadership to incorporate them into future strategies.
• Contributes to business unit, operational, and enterprise strategy creation.
• Leads the development of the division distribution organization’s annual and multi-year strategic plan in partnership with the Chief Distribution Officer.
• Translates distribution strategy into operating model decisions that improve clarity, connectivity, and execution across the organization.
• Provides thought leadership and functional expertise to internal and external stakeholders.

Operational Excellence & Performance Management

• Leads identification, development, and implementation of strategic process improvements that reduce workload and improve quality.
• Establishes priorities, performance goals, and objectives to achieve business results.
• Guides and evaluates departmental performance and takes action to meet or exceed performance standards.
• Owns the distribution performance management system, including KPI governance, dashboards, reporting, and executive insights.
• Establishes governance routines, decision forums, and operating mechanisms to monitor priorities, risks, dependencies, and progress.
• Identifies and reduces internal complexity through process improvement, role clarity, and cross-functional coordination.

Transformation, Change & Technology Enablement

• Leads and enhances organizational initiatives through change management and enterprise transformation efforts.
• Acts as business owner for the distribution technology ecosystem, including CRM, portals, service tools, and analytics platforms.
• Drives execution of major transformation initiatives, including operating model redesign, compensation redesign, governance, and talent assessment efforts.
• Ensures technology and operational capabilities are aligned with business objectives and enable organizational effectiveness.
• Directly leads strategic planning teams and capability-building functions, including training and development programs.
• Partners with HR and the Chief Distribution Officer on organization design, competency models, career paths, workforce planning, and headcount modeling.

Enterprise Partnership & Stakeholder Management

• Serves as the primary relationship owner with key enterprise partners including Finance, IT, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Reporting & Analytics.
• Collaborates across functions to align priorities, operating decisions, and execution plans with business objectives.
• Builds strong partnerships to support strategy execution, cross-functional alignment, and organizational success.

What we’re looking for

Education

• 4  Year/Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience (4 yrs of experience in lieu of Bachelors)

Experience

• 12+ Years years of progressive experience in financial services, insurance, or employee benefits, with a minimum of 5 years in roles with significant
• operating model, strategy, or distribution leadership scope. (Required)
• A demonstrated track record of consistently meeting and/or exceeding performance expectations
• Possesses a bias for action and avoids workplace distractions
• Drives performance targets to completion

Application Deadline