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Full Time Permanent

New York City, New York · USA job

Organizational Readiness Program Lead, Group Benefits Underwriting

Guardian Life Insurance

New York City, New York

Job description

Overview

In this role, you drive organizational readiness for underwriting initiatives within Group Benefits, guiding change management and shaping adoption. You will partner with the Underwriting Transformation team and cross-functional stakeholders to develop messaging, training, and resources that ensure successful implementation. You help sustain a culture of resiliency and growth, leveraging data to narrate performance, risks, and opportunities. This position offers strategic influence across underwriting and business partners, with a focus on accountability and sustainable change.

Compensation / Benefits
  • hybrid work arrangement
  • competitive salary with incentive compensation
  • professional development opportunities
  • leadership development and philanthropic opportunities
  • supportive and flexible work culture
  • equitable benefits for full-time employees
Responsibilities
  • Create detailed action plans with stakeholders to enable initiative execution and change adoption
  • Establish readiness across underwriting projects with consistent messaging, training, and IMS documentation
  • Influence adoption, foster resiliency and growth mindsets
  • Leverage data to narrate initiative performance, risks, and opportunities
  • Support culture transformation by embedding values and behaviors
  • Prepare presentations and talking points for underwriting and partners
  • Identify best practices and support capability development and maturity
  • Work autonomously to deliver high-quality, repeatable results
  • Build and maintain trusted stakeholder relationships and remove blockers to mitigate risks
  • Communicate innovations across Underwriting and business stakeholders
  • Hold teams accountable for timelines and deliverables
Key requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years in Group Benefits (preferred)
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
  • Proven ability to manage relationships within a matrixed organization
  • Self-starter with strategic thinking and stakeholder leadership
  • Strong communications, collaboration, and consensus-building skills
  • Ability to tailor communication to different levels and audiences
  • Highly organized with entrepreneurial mindset
  • Ability to articulate project benefits to customers and tell the story
  • Experience engaging with both technical and non-technical business areas
  • Ability to synthesize external/internal strategies and propose best practices
  • Change management experience preferred
  • strong communication and storytelling abilities
  • influencing and consensus-building
  • stakeholder management
  • adaptability and resilience
  • self-motivation and initiative
  • IMS documentation (informational management systems)

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