Senior Project Manager Annuities

Senior Project Manager – Life & Annuities

Come join one of America’s fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values:
Do good. Be good. Make good.

This role requires a minimum of 8 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for optimizing delivery across multiple initiatives or programs, ensuring the system of work delivers expected business value. This role enables cross-functional decision‑making, manages systemic risks, and improves flow across the organization. The Senior PM operates at a strategic level, aligning execution to enterprise priorities and driving value realization.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Initiation & Value Alignment

• Drive alignment of initiatives to strategic objectives and enterprise priorities
• Lead trade‑off decisions to maximize value across competing initiatives
• Ensure initiatives are connected to measurable business outcomes

Adaptive Planning & Flow Management

• Optimize sequencing, capacity, and flow across programs and teams
• Identify and remove systemic bottlenecks and constraints
• Enable coordinated execution across interconnected initiatives

Risk, Uncertainty & Decision Enablement

• Enable cross‑functional decision‑making across leaders and domains
• Anticipate systemic risks and second‑order impacts
• Resolve ambiguity and guide teams through complex trade‑offs

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Align senior stakeholders with competing priorities and constraints
• Influence decision‑making at leadership level
• Maintain enterprise‑level visibility of progress, risks and value

• 10–15 years of experience leading complex programs or multi‑team initiatives
• Minimum of 8 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry, with demonstrated understanding of products, operations, and regulatory environment
• Proven ability to deliver strategic initiatives with measurable business outcomes
• Strong experience managing interdependencies across domains and functions
• Advanced capability in decision facilitation, trade‑off analysis and ambiguity resolution
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise alignment
• Strong financial and operational acumen tied to value realization
• Expertise in multiple delivery methodologies and tools
• Strong executive presence and decision facilitation capability
• PMP or equivalent experience expected; track record of enterprise impact

The base pay range for this position is the range National Life reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position, taking into account the wide variety of factors, including prior experience and job‑related knowledge; education, training and certificates; current business needs; and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances.

The total compensation package for this position may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in National Life’s discretionary annual incentive programs, subject to the rules governing such programs.

If hired, the employee will be in an "at‑will" position and National Life reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Salary Pay Range: $101,250 - $148,500 USD

As set forth in National Life Insurance Company’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.