VP, Group Products & Regional​/Nat'l Markets

VP, Group Products & Regional/Nat'l Markets

The Role at a Glance As the VP, Life, Disability, Absence and Regional/National Product Leader, in our Workplace Solutions Group Protection (GP) Product team, you will provide strategic leadership to drive effective market intelligence analysis, product strategy and development, and life-cycle management of non-medical insurance products, including Disability, Absence, Life, and Worksite products. You will be responsible for developing strategy and leading constant improvement in product innovation, business development and coordinating with Distribution and other senior leaders on expansion into existing, new, tangent or underdeveloped markets.

You will bring a disciplined, data-driven approach and a proven ability to connect financial insights to product innovation, market positioning, and operational execution—delivering both top-line growth and sustained profitability.

What you'll be doing

• Provide strategic leadership, direction, and execution for all new product development and ongoing product management for non-medical insurance products, including Absence, Disability, Life & other Worksite products
• Oversee the entire product life cycle, from strategic planning and prioritization to product launch and implementation, and post-implementation monitoring
• Define and drive department strategy and roadmap and ensure it fits within the overall Product Solutions and GP strategy
• Drive portfolio-level decision-making by integrating financial performance with customer needs, broker dynamics, and operational considerations
• Partner with pricing and business line leaders to translate financial performance into insights and actions that enable balanced growth and sustainable margin achievement
• Provide highly specialized expertise to internal stakeholders through an advanced understanding of enterprise-wide risk exposures and characteristics of new product development
• Prepare compelling business rationales and presents recommendations to business executives to contribute to development of key business initiatives including new products, business ventures and/or innovative development efforts
• Drive cross-enterprise collaboration with internal/external stakeholders to provide targeted distribution and competitively position products/services in the market
• Partners with Portfolio Enablement, IT and other business operational areas to promote high quality development & implementation of technology solutions

What we're looking for

Must-haves:

• 12+ Years of Group Benefits experience including product development and/or product management experience
• 5+ years of managerial, strategy, and influencing senior management/critical stakeholders experience
• Proven experience building and executing upon product roadmaps
• 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelor's)
• Deep knowledge of Product Development and Management best practices
• Deep knowledge of Group Protection Absence, PFML, and Statutory products
• Deep understanding for best practices of other services providers within competitive benefits offerings
• Proven ability to analyze and interpret key financial metrics such as loss ratios, expense ratios, margin contribution, and lifetime value to inform product and portfolio decisions
• Demonstrated ability to successfully hire, retain, develop and coach staff via a culture of real-time performance feedback, with ability to build both technical and leadership skills
• Demonstrated strong relationship management skills with internal clients (e.g. senior/executive management, peers and colleagues); proven ability to develop creative and collaborative approaches

Nice-to-haves:

• Supplemental Health product development and/or management experience

Final date to receive applications Applications for this position will be accepted through August 28th, 2026 subject to earlier closure due to applicant volume

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