*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Actuarial Sr Mgr*

Position Overview

The Actuarial Sr. Manager is responsible for leading Individual Annuity product development, making critical decisions on product selection and prioritization, recommending annuity product strategy to create and maintain competitively relevant products, and developing talent.

Key Responsibilities

Annuity Strategy and Product Development

• Recommend annuity product development strategy. Develop tactics around our individual life product offerings.

• Empower the team to create and maintain competitively relevant products that assist customers in achieving financial planning and protection goals while balancing Securian’s risk management and capacity, short- and long-term earnings, sales and distribution needs, and inforce business.

• Lead pricing initiatives and set rates, collaborating with both distribution and risk and finance to ensure sales and earnings goals are achieved.

• Develop and leverage internal and external relationships necessary to understand the individual annuity competitive landscape, successfully launch and service products, and compete and win.

Talent and Relationship Management

• Lead a team of actuaries to support the outcomes of the annuity line.

• Develop and coach talent, setting expectations for results the team will drive, coaching for effectiveness and creating a culture of collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and empowerment.

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with external partners. Represent Securian externally through active involvement in ACLI, NAIC, LIMRA and regulatory bodies to advocate for important issues influencing annuities and Securian’s competitive position.

• Build relationships and collaborate with teams across the organization in order to partner on product development initiatives.

Qualifications

• Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries (FSA) preferred, Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA) preferred.

• Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

• 10+ years of annuity product development experience, including how annuity products are sold and deep understanding of the needs of the customer and distribution partners preferred.

• 5-10 years talent development experience.

• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to interact with wide variety of people that is demanded by the job. 

• Understanding and collaboration with distribution partners, including BDs, FIs, IMOs, etc. preferred.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.** 

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. Ifyou’rein a commutable distance (90 minutes) you’ll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

Physical job requirements: 

• Ability to utilize keyboard, mouse and computer for up to 8 hours per day. 

• Ability to work at least 40 hours per week. 

• Ability to utilize telephone for up to 8 hours per day. 

• Ability to perform grasping tasks throughout the entire work day (examples: handwriting, grasping of equipment/machines, paper manipulation, sorting, folding, handling stacks of paper). 

The physical job requirements described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of jobs. 

$124,000.00 - $230,000.00

For more information regarding Securian’s benefits, please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these plans. In all cases, the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

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