Manager, Strategy
Americo Financial Life and Annuity · Kansas City, MO · 1 wk ago
On-siteBusiness DevelopmentFull-time
About the role
The Manager of Strategy will support Americo in articulating, evaluating, and executing the company's business strategy. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and leaders to identify strategic opportunities, analyze trends, develop recommendations, and monitor the performance of strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business leaders to develop and document corporate and departmental strategies.
- Lead strategic initiative planning efforts across departments.
- Partner with business leaders to conduct feasibility analyses on future opportunities.
- Support business case development and financial modeling for strategic initiatives.
- Lead execution and delivery of strategic initiatives, including product evaluations, platform implementations, and operational/process improvements.
- Collaborate across cross-functional teams to shape and execute strategic efforts.
- Support ongoing tracking of benefits realization of executed strategic initiatives.
- Gather and validate internal operational data to support prioritization of strategic opportunities.
- Prepare executive-level reports outlining progress against strategic priorities.
- Conduct competitor research and insights.
- Analyze customer and market trends (market sizing, customer segmentation, etc.).
- Ongoing review of innovation and technology trends.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in consulting, accounting, finance, or corporate strategy.
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and business case development.
- Experience working with analytics or business intelligence tools.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze, synthesize, and present large volumes of data.
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across cross-functional teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within the life insurance or annuity industry.
Benefits
Compensation includes a competitive pay and bonus program, comprehensive training, generous paid time off, maternity and parental leave, health and well-being benefits, tuition reimbursement, and community involvement opportunities.
Pay
Details about compensation are not specified in the job posting.
Schedule
The standard business hours are Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM.