Senior Associate, Voluntary Benefits Product Manager

 

Location Designation: Fully Remote 

Group Benefit Solutions delivers comprehensive insurance and absence management solutions for mid-sized and large companies. Our work fosters a healthier, happier, and more secure workforce, contributing to New York Life’s legacy of being there when we’re needed most. Here, you'll design, implement, and support these solutions directly impacting employees’ lives. At our core, we provide financial security and peace of mind to people through our absence, accident, disability, voluntary benefits, and life insurance solutions. Click here to learn more about Group Benefits solutions.

 

Role Overview:

Reporting to our Growth Center of Excellence lead, this position will support defining and executing our product roadmap.

The ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of the Voluntary Benefits market with a focus on Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance. He/She/They should have experience thinking strategically, executing on complex project plans, leveraging internal data and feedback to drive effective business decisions, and the aptitude to build solutions and capabilities.

 

What You'll Do:

· Build and maintain a level of technical and business knowledge about Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity products & solutions; act as the SME resource and point of contact for internal partners.

· Work collaboratively with matrix partners to gather market intelligence about products, pricing, positioning, value propositions, channel conflicts/opportunities to inform development / implementation of winning strategies and tactics.

· Leverage competitive insights, market knowledge, and business acumen to create a vision for their supported products and services as well as a multi-year plan (or roadmap) to achieve it, with the goal of maximizing the value created over the short and long-term.

· Partner with distribution to effectively communicate our value proposition to brokers and employer clients.

· Develop B2B strategies in partnership with Marketing to provide critical product information and consultation to clients and brokers.

· Responsible for oversight of key initiatives and critical functions in support of the roadmap to drive work across the company end-to-end throughout the product lifecycle – including filing, implementation, enrollment, and claims.

What You'll Bring:

· Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in the group insurance industry.

· Proven track record of developing strong relationships with matrix partners, distribution and/or vendors.

· Ability to drive results for multiple key objectives simultaneously and prioritize work.

· Open minded and creative – seeks ‘out of box’ solutions.

· Ability to provide direction to and influence cross-functional teams to ensure successful outcomes.

· Goal oriented and personally accountable; resourceful and self-directed.

· Ability to work effectively in dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment.

Required Competencies:

· Results - Proven track record of developing successful relationships with third party vendors and internal partners; high level of business acumen, problem solving, project management, and creative resourcefulness.

· Strategic and drive innovation - Ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and incorporate them into the organizational plan.

· Relationship Building - Enterprise thinker with proven ability to influence across a matrix environment. Ability to develop strong relationships across all levels of the organization, and with external partners.

· Communication - Strong and effective communication skills; ability to create and communicate a compelling vision internally and externally.

· Action Oriented - Enjoys working hard and looks for challenges; able to act and react as necessary.

 

It is recommended that all qualified candidates apply to this posting as soon as possible.  Residents of Colorado are hereby notified that the deadline to apply is two weeks from the Posting Date listed above.