Assistant Vice President, Competitive Intelligence & Corporate Development

About the role

The Business Intelligence & Planning Department is dedicated to empowering informed decision-making and driving strategic growth through comprehensive financial planning, data-driven insights, and governance excellence. Our mission is to deliver accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence to all stakeholders around the company by leveraging the strengths of our integrated teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic advisor to Executive leadership, helping shape Safety National’s long-term business strategy through actionable market and competitive intelligence.
• Understand competitors, reinsurers, emerging industry trends, potential acquisition targets, and new product opportunities.
• Identify and evaluate strategic growth opportunities across acquisitions, partnerships, investments, and new products or markets.
• Lead and evolve the competitive intelligence program, analyzing financial, regulatory, and market data to assess competitor performance, strategic positioning, emerging opportunities, and potential risks.
• Transform complex information into executive-ready reports, presentations, market sizing, business cases, and recommendations that support strategic planning and capital allocation.
• Build relationships, monitor market developments, and help translate intelligence into meaningful business opportunities.

Qualifications

• Education: A bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, Insurance, Strategy, or a related field is required.
• MBA or other advanced degree Required Qualifications: 5 or more years of experience in competitive intelligence, corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, investment banking, private equity, management consulting, corporate development, or a related analytical field.
• Experience evaluating acquisition targets, strategic partnerships, investments, or other corporate development opportunities.
• Experience analyzing financial statements, company performance, valuation, and strategic positioning.
• Ability to synthesize large volumes of information into concise, actionable insights.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and business intelligence or analytical tools.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex analyses to executive audiences.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Prior experience in public accounting or a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation.
• Insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or specialty risk management industry experience, including familiarity with carriers, MGAs, TPAs, brokers, reinsurers, or related organizations.
• Strong understanding of insurance industry economics, distribution models, and competitive dynamics.

Skills

Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with Safety National policies, standards, and procedures.

Benefits

Total Rewards That Put Employees First: In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation that includes base salary, holiday bonus, and incentive awards is only a small portion of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. Our total rewards approach recognizes and rewards the time, talents, efforts, and results of our valued employees. Highlights of our exceptional benefits include generous health, dental, and vision coverage, health savings accounts, a 401(k)-retirement savings match and an annual profit sharing contribution. We proudly offer family forming benefits for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy, generous paid time off and paid holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave, a hybrid work environment, and company-paid life insurance and disability.

Pay

The target base salary range for this position is $149,000 to $200,500. Compensation for the successful candidate will consider the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location.

Schedule

This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview.