Competitive Intelligence – Senior Manager

Do you want to be a part of a Center of Excellence team that directly supports executive-level business decision-making that drives our business growth?

Our best-in-class research and intelligence program positions us as subject matter experts who are supported by a suite of modern intelligence tools, proprietary resources, and custom databases to support Guardian. Our program positions us to deliver an enterprise-wide 360-degree insights approach through market research, market and competitive intelligence, and consumer sentiment!

This Competitive Intelligence (CI) Senior Manager role is focused on supporting the Individual Markets Insurance (including Wealth Management) business, focused on life and disability insurance, annuities, retirement products, as well as additional businesses throughout the enterprise at Guardian with timely intelligence and insights.

You Have:

• Technical knowledge of the Individual Markets Insurance Benefits industry (including life and disability insurance, annuities, etc.) and Wealth Management industry (investments, financialservices and retirement planning
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Finance, Statistics, or a related field.
• Management industry (investments, financial and retirement planning).
• Experience leveraging a wide range of proprietary and public intel sources, including quarterly earnings and trending data, to develop and inform insights-based recommendations that support strategic decision making.
• Ability to effectively and efficiently curate, digest and interpret financial data from these techniques/sources and curating the insights from the data for executive-level audiences.
• Experience explaining market headwinds and tailwinds on key themes impacting the industry and our business.
• Experience partnering with executives to deliver insights that support business decision-making at the executive-level.
• Experience synthesizing truly impactful insights based on deep understanding of the operational and economic realities of the business; must be very comfortable with numbers, business and financial statistics
• Advanced Excel and document management skills required to support database management for longitudinal and market trending (including tracking of competitor top and bottom-line metrics, loss ratios, etc), and custom topic tracking such as competitive product enhancements and partnerships
• Strong project management skills, including successful industry survey management and synthesis; able to seamlessly bridge internal team members and vendor partners in the collection of data inputs and providing relevant, timely data outputs across a high volume of partners
• Strong storytelling skills that go beyond just data/information sharing, good attention to detail, formatting and quality output is critical, as is careful, thorough work that is concise and clear

Location & Travel:

• This role requires 3+ days a week in our Hudson Yards NYC or Bethlehem PA office.
• 5% travel to other offices as needed.

Salary Range:

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.  Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits.Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact applicant_accommodation@glic.com.

Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday.