Strategic Analyst Disability Insurance & Executive Benefits
Pittsfield, MA - USA
Job Summary
The Strategic Analyst Disability Insurance & Executive Benefits supports strategy execution and initiative governance by translating strategic direction into clear plans prioritized initiatives and leadershipready insights. This role partners crossfunctionally with Product Finance Legal Distribution Marketing and Technology to coordinate planning activities track progress and ensure alignment between enterprise strategy DI and MultiLife priorities and funded initiatives. The analyst maintains strategy roadmaps and initiative portfolios prepares executive materials and dashboards documents decisions and tradeoffs and monitors risks dependencies and performance metrics to enable informed leadership decisions and disciplined execution.
You are
A structured detailoriented business analyst who helps leaders turn strategy into action. You are comfortable working across multiple teams pulling together data assumptions and inputs to support planning prioritization and execution. You communicate clearly document decisions carefully and bring discipline to tracking initiatives risks and outcomes. You are equally effective in preparing executive ready materials and managing the daytoday coordination needed to keep complex initiatives moving forward.
You have
Professional Experience:
3-5 years of relevant experience in business analysis strategy execution or program and initiative management including experience in insurance finance or operations roles.
Experience supporting strategic initiatives in a matrixed organization.
Financial services or insurance experience preferred: especially with Disability and/or Executive Benefits.
Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience.
Technical Experience
Ability to build and maintain executive ready dashboards updates on portfolio
Leadership:
Demonstrates strategic thinking by translating enterprise and businessline strategy into clear priorities plans and decision insights.
Leads through influence without authority to align crossfunctional teams and drive outcomes.
Communicate effectively with senior leaders by distilling complex information into clear concise and actionable messages.
Applies strong organizational discipline to bring structure rigor and followthrough to planning and execution.
Strategic & Analytical Thinking
Ability to assess strategic options tradeoffs and risks and translate complex inputs into clear recommendations that support leadership decisionmaking.
Strong analytical skills to interpret data monitor initiative performance and identify insights trends and implications across a portfolio of strategic initiatives.
You will
Prepare executiveready materials for strategy planning prioritization and governance discussions.
Compile and synthesize data assumptions and crossfunctional inputs to support strategic decisionmaking.
Coordinate agendas prereads meetings and followups for strategy and prioritization forums.
Maintain strategy roadmaps priority lists and a portfolio view of active initiatives.
Track initiative timelines milestones owners risks dependencies and alignment to objectives and capital assumptions.
Consolidate status updates into concise summaries and dashboards for senior leadership.
Document decisions approvals scope or funding changes and key action items.
Support business cases capital requests and investment tradeoff analysis through clear insights and recommendations.
Reporting Relationships
As our Business Analyst DI and Executive Benefits you will report to our Head of Multi-life Risk Strategy & Underwriting and DI&ML Portfolio Management
Location
Bethlehem PA Holmdel NJ or Pittsfield MA with work from home flexibility.
Travel
20% of travel is required for this role for in-person and/or sales meetings.
Salary Range:
$68970.00 - $113310.00The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education experience knowledge and abilities of the successful addition to salary this role may also be eligible for annual sales or other incentive compensation.
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