Director, Product Strategy & Analytics

Director, Product Strategy & Analytics


Director, Product Strategy & Analytics

Who are we?
Versant Health is one of the nation’s leading administrators of managed vision care, serving millions of our clients’ members nationwide. We are driven by our mission to help members enjoy the wonders of sight through healthy eyes and vision. As a Versant Health associate, you can enjoy a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which includes health and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) with company match, pet insurance, no-cost-to-you vision insurance for you and your qualified dependents. We are also invested in your success. There are many opportunities for advancement and development throughout all stages of your career with us.

See how you can make a difference with the support of strong leadership and a team environment.

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What are we looking for?
The primary responsibility of the Director, Product Strategy & Analytics, will be to lead efforts leveraging analytics from multiple sources to develop comprehensive data analysis packages across market segments and business units to drive local market insights and targeted growth strategies. This position will work closely with sales directors and underwriting leads, and will partner with finance, reporting, marketing, and strategy to build out business plans and strategies to accelerate profitable growth for the business, tailoring those plans by business unit, market segment, and distribution channel to best meet the needs of those markets. These insights will also be used to develop organization objectives and key results (OKRs) for the product, as well as measure progress against those OKRs over time. This includes trend analysis and root cause drivers for over/under performance vs. targets. Market insights and strategies will also guide annual planning processes and help feed the product development pipeline. This position is new role reporting directly to the AVP, Product Strategy & Analytics.

Where you will have an impact
• Consolidate market specific data from multiple sources
• Interpret data and analyze results to provide ongoing insights to inform strategies and growth opportunities.
• Build comprehensive data packages, leveraging data visualization models and storytelling, to develop insights and drive creative dialogue in market
• Work with finance and reporting teams to streamline data collection methods to enable data consolidation efficiently.
• Collaborate with sales, underwriting, finance, strategy, and product teams to develop data-driven and scalable growth strategies
• Understand challenges and barriers to accelerating growth in market and work with key partners to remediate – can include partnering with product to prioritize product development initiatives.
• Support the development of business cases related to product enhancements, new product services and capabilities, and growth initiatives.
• Develop strong relationships with key internal Versant Health and MetLife group partners (sales, marketing, distribution, product, finance, technology, etc.) as well as key marketplace partners (customers and brokers).
• Monitor and interpret market and competitive intelligence to understand opportunities, risks, and other implications for product strategies and analysis.
• Support analytics and insights on vision product performance
• Provide ongoing reporting and analytics updates

What’s necessary to do the job?
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; higher-level degree MBA/MS a big plus.
• 10 years of experience in the insurance marketplace.
• Demonstrated history of data analytics.
• Previous responsibility in leading market segment and product strategies.
• Proven experience in delivery of business drivers and financial performance measures.
• Knowledge / experience with supported products, market, industry, and business intelligence.
• Strong communication and presentation skills resulting in positive business outcomes internally and externally.
• Experience communicating and interacting with members of the Executive Leadership to provide updates on data analytics, business intelligence, and strategic initiatives.

HIPAA & Security Requirements
All Associates must comply with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as it pertains to disclosures of protected health information (PHI) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and HIPAA Privacy Policies and Procedures. As a component of job roles and responsibilities, Associates may have access to covered information, cardholder data or other confidential customer information which must be always protected. As a result, Associates must explicitly adhere to all data security guidelines established