Product Manager

Full Time

Sales and Marketing

United States

Drives long-term strategy by researching and designing life and health insurance products for individual and group markets, from inception to launch. Manages existing product portfolios to ensure profitable sales.

Responsibilities

• Analyze market trends and competitive landscape to discern product opportunities and translate market conditions into valid value positions.
• Research potential market opportunities; build the business case for product innovations by gathering distribution and consumer feedback, reviewing industry sales trends, and understanding demographic shifts/consumer preferences.
• Make recommendations to the product leader and team on product features, competitiveness, profitability, sales goals and launch date.
• Conduct feasibility studies, research and development, and participate in labs to evaluate ideas. Collaborate with sales and margin analytics team and other business groups to conduct hypothesis testing and opportunity sizing; develop capabilities based assessments (CBA) and execution approach.
• Partner with distributors, Marketing, Finance, IT and other key stakeholders to recommend product features, competitiveness, profitability, sales goals and launch dates.
• Negotiate needs and bring consensus/closure to issues, and facilitate decisions on new business portfolio issues.
• Develop product specification documents, product guides and other product documentation.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to functional areas on product information required during the product development process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business related field or equivalent experience.
• Two years of product development experience in the life or health insurance industry.
• Understanding of insurance product features and riders.
• Understanding of insurance sales and marketing techniques.
• Analytical skills and attention to detail to perform market analysis, customer research, opportunity sizing, profitability assessments, and risk/legal/compliance assessments.
• Communication and interpersonal skills to educate audience and advocate recommendations with team members and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Decision making skills to create scope and content for consumer market research, and use insights to develop product design and features.
• Strategic thinker and facilitation skills.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Preferred Qualifications

Working Conditions

Office environment.

Compensation

**Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimated based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations.**

The Base Pay for this position generally ranges between $81,000 - $91,000 annually. This range is an estimate, based on potential qualifications and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Bonus Eligibility:

This position is also typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at Company Discretion at a rate of 12.5%.

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