Chief of Staff, Employee Benefit Sales & Client Management

About the role

The AVP, Chief of Staff, Employee Benefits Sales & Client Management, serves as a strategic partner and execution leader to the SVP, Regional Sales & Client Management and the SVP, National Accounts Sales & Client Management. In this highly visible role, you will align priorities, advance key business initiatives, and strengthen leadership effectiveness across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Align priorities, advance key business initiatives, and strengthen leadership effectiveness across the organization.
• Provide strategic insights, oversee performance reporting and KPI management.
• Lead cross-functional efforts.
• Develop a team of Impact Managers focused on critical business priorities.
• Create structure, accountability, and disciplined execution to move strategic priorities forward.
• Build alignment across leaders, teams, and stakeholders while fostering collaboration and commitment.
• Drive results through effective coaching and development of talent while building high-performing teams.
• Navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving business needs with confidence and resilience.

Requirements

• Educational background: Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field required. MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Experience: Typically requires 10+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, sales operations, consulting, transformation, or related leadership roles.
• Experience: Demonstrated success partnering with senior executives to drive strategic priorities and business outcomes.
• Experience: Leading and developing teams.
• Behaviors: Builds trust, navigates ambiguity, and influences effectively without formal authority.
• Skills: Strong analytical, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Experience: Employee Benefits, insurance, or financial services experience preferred.
• Experience: Prior Chief of Staff, strategy, consulting, or enterprise transformation experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Ability to travel occasionally for planning meetings, leadership events, and team engagement activities is a requirement of the role.

Skills

• Strategic Visioning: Connects business priorities to long-term outcomes and helps leaders focus on the highest-value opportunities.
• Engaging Hearts & Minds: Builds alignment across leaders, teams, and stakeholders while fostering collaboration and commitment.
• Driving Results: Creates structure, accountability, and disciplined execution to move strategic priorities forward.
• Developing People: Effectively coaches and develops talent while building high-performing teams.
• Adaptability: Navigates ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving business needs with confidence and resilience.

Benefits

• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions.
• An annual incentive bonus plan.
• A generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure.
• A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement.
• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools.

Pay

The actual compensation for this role will be based on a combination of education and experience, knowledge and skills, position budget, internal equity, and market data. Salary Range: $154,250.00 - $260,750.00 Positions will be posted for at least 5 days from original posting date.

Schedule

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Mortgage Investors, LLC, StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., and American Heritage Life Insurance Company and American Heritage Service Company, marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law.