[Remote] Senior Business Strategy Consultant - Group Insurance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Securian Financial is hiring a Senior Business Strategy Consultant for its Employee Benefit Solutions team. The role advances group insurance business strategy by identifying market opportunities, developing strategic recommendations, and leading cross-functional initiatives from exploration through execution planning.

Responsibilities

• Monitor market, customer, competitive, technology, regulatory, and industry trends and assess implications for the business
• Identify and explore new growth opportunities, partnerships, capabilities, and areas for differentiation
• Lead strategic analysis and develop recommendations, business cases, scenarios, and executive decision materials
• Lead high-priority cross-functional strategic initiatives from initial exploration through recommendations and execution planning
• Evaluate competitive activity, including investments, acquisitions, partnerships, products, technology, and distribution strategies
• Develop and test strategic hypotheses and challenge existing business assumptions
• Translate complex information into clear insights, choices, implications, and recommendations for senior leaders
• Partner across Product, Distribution, Finance, Operations, Technology, Marketing, and other functions to advance strategic priorities
• Maintain a pipeline of emerging opportunities and strategic questions requiring further exploration
• Measure progress against strategic priorities and identify where strategy or execution may need to adapt

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategic projects involving ambiguity and multiple stakeholders
• Experience conducting market, competitive, customer, and financial analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills that can be tailored to stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries
• Advanced degree
• 5+ years of experience in strategy, business development, program management or related field within the group insurance industry
• Experience with large employee benefits programs
• Initiative leadership creating clarity and momentum across complex initiatives without needing direct authority over participating teams
• Learning agility and curiosity by developing expertise in unfamiliar topics and actively exploring emerging opportunities
• Experience coordinating complex processes across teams and disciplines to deliver shared customer outcomes
• Business Acumen
• Collaboration
• Competitor Analysis
• Consulting
• Curious Mindset
• Data Analysis
• Market Opportunity Assessment
• Planning
• Strategic Influence

Benefits

• Hybrid work model with flexibility to work remotely and in the office; associates who live within a 90-minute commute of the Home Office in St. Paul, Minnesota spend 3 or more days each week working from the office.
• Associates who live outside a commutable distance may be eligible to work as a virtual employee.
• PTO program providing flexibility to take time away from work; additional PTO is provided the longer you stay at Securian.
• Flexible leave programs for parental leave, caregiver leave for family members, bereavement and military leave.
• Nine company paid holidays.
• Company-funded pension plan.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company contribution tied to company performance, up to 10 percent of eligible earnings, with a target of 5 percent; the amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings, sales and service.
• Medical, dental and vision coverage for associates and eligible family members, including spouses, domestic partners and children, from the first day of employment.
• Company-sponsored volunteer events.
• Volunteer paid time off.
• Dollar-for-dollar matching gift program.
• Associate Resource Groups, including Environmental Health & Sustainability, Mental Wellness and Disability, Pride at Securian Financial, Securian Young Professionals Network, Securian Multicultural Network, Securian Women and Allies Network, and Servicemember Associate Resource Group.

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