AVP, Product Manager- Total Leave

Job Posting End Date: January 17

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:

Unum is seeking an AVP, Product Manager to spearhead the evolution of Unum Total Leave—our industry-leading, digitally enabled leave and disability management solution. Will be at the forefront of our expanded HR solutions portfolio, including HR Connect, Unum Leave Logic, and Unum Behavioral Health that aim to address emerging customer needs. This platform brings leave and disability benefits (Short Term Disability, Leave, and ADA) into one comprehensive program and delivers them through simple and engaging digital experiences complimented by caring and expert interactions in the moments that matter. We’re seeking a tech-savvy, strategic leader with a strong background in the leave and disability market, Fineos or absence/disability technologies, integration strategies, ecosystem development and customer experience innovation. Will be collaborative market influencer, and strategic planner responsible for driving business transformation.

The Product Manager serves as a business owner across all platforms/clients for one customer value stream (e.g. Policyholder, Plan Administrator and Field/Broker)/Business Delivery Highway (BDH). They are accountable for achieving select business, operational, usage and financial goals for their value stream/BDH and lead Product Owners, Process Improvement resources and Agile Teams to deliver customer delight. Product Managers obsess over their value stream and are thought leaders who influence the organization. They represent customers and own the major product backlogs, defining scope (epics), success criteria, strategy and prioritization of key initiatives to achieve business output goals. They play a central leadership role in the strategic imperative of enabling our business transformation through the development and delivery of market leading products and services in our chosen categories. They have end-to-end responsibility delivering aggressive business objectives by applying Scaled Agile methodology e.g. design and implement of (continuous) changes within the area of responsibility in line with the change agenda (within budget, timelines and quality standards) considering the overall strategy of Operations, Technology and UUS/Colonial Life.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Proven track record in leading business and technology transformations with successful outcomes 
• Responsible for (long term) planning and directing an organization's strategic agenda including long range goals within the customer values streams
• End to end business and IT planning and prioritization to deliver value stream/BDH goals and align teams with the highest business value
• Implement and manage Lean Management system in partnership with Customer Experience and Process experts to:
  • Focus on changing culture & behavior for sustainable growth;
  • Adding strong end-to-end focus on process improvement;
  • Enable faster benefit realization through the agile use of technology;
  • Continue tracking, huddles, side by sides, & Process standardization;
• Setting up and managing the Scaled Agile Framework for a Cust