Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
When you join New York Life, you're joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.
This position primarily involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely: Monday & Friday / on site: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Under certain circumstances, will consider a remote option.
New York Life's Group Membership Association Division (GMAD) is the leading provider of life, disability and supplemental health programs for the association market. GMAD's history stretches back over 70 years. Today, the business has $630M of premium in force, 300 group clients and nearly 900K customers.
The Head of Strategy & Analytics will report to the Head of GMAD and be a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). He/she will focus on leveraging data and analysis to inform strategic and operational decisions. In addition, this individual will drive execution on strategic and product initiatives that cut across departments. This includes leveraging data, facts, and sound logic to ensure we make well-reasoned decisions that improve business results. Leading a team of 4-5 analytics and product professionals, the Head of Strategy & Analytics will partner extensively with GMAD's leaders to help them manage their areas more efficiently and effectively.
This role is ideal for proven analytics professionals with the business acumen, leadership, and communication skills to expand their careers into strategy & product development. The same is true for candidates with a management consulting, strategy or product background with some technical experience but are willing to go deep on their data and analytics skills.
Role Description

• Business Analytics
  • Develop and refine KPI reporting in support of key GMAD initiatives with emphasis on quality rather than quantity. Partner with Finance to translate KPIs to financial impact.
  • Lead and develop 2-3 analytics professionals to deliver impactful reporting and ad hoc analysis in an efficient manner using BI and other analytic tools.
  • Own development and execution of selected, high profile business analysis projects (e.g., cost/benefit, sales growth, and operational efficiency analyses)
  • Partner with Operations to build out workforce management analytics.
  • Interpret the results of reporting/analytics in conjunction with business partners. Identify and execute improvements to reporting.

• Strategy Development & Execution
  • Manage execution on selected strategic initiatives through a mix of planning, problem solving and stakeholder management.
  • Bring facts and data to address key strategic and operational questions to improve decision-making and accountability for results.
  • Develop and adjust business cases for strategic initiatives. Partner with finance and other areas to measure initiative impact.
  • Identify and vet new strategic options with emphasis on high impact growth and operational efficiency initiatives.

• Product Development
  • Provide direction on product development and creative solutioning for client needs while balancing the GMAD's long term business needs.
  • Coordinate roll out of selected product and pricing initiatives. Troubleshoot obstacles and bring appropriate team members to identify solutions.
  • Update and socialize an updated mandate for our 2 product professionals. Balance current responsibilities with unmet product management needs

Desired Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in roles focused on business intelligence, analytics, or business strategy with progressively higher levels of responsibility.
• 3 or more years of working with large/complex datasets and extracting trends and actionable insights.
• For technical applicants, experience managing or working cross-functional initiatives and creating strong partnerships with stakeholders. For candidates with strategy backgrounds, experience working with data on a hands-on basis including BI tools, coding, or other technical work.
• Strong preference for proficiency with business intelligence tools, SQL and other data/analytics tools requiring programming. Similar depth desired with Excel and other MS Office applications
• Experience leading a team and developing talent.
• Excellent analytical and communication (written and oral) skills
• Strong project management skills required.
• Working experience with life, disability and/or supplemental health insurance products preferred
• Bachelor's degree required with a major in a technical or math oriented subject a plus. Master's degree or FSA desirable

This position primarily involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely: Monday & Friday / on site: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Under certain circumstances, will consider a remote option.
It is recommended that all qualified candidates apply to this posting as soon as possible. Residents of Colorado are hereby notified that the deadline to apply is 3 weeks from the Posting Date listed above.
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Salary range: $175,000-$220,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Click here to learn more about our benefits. Starting salary is dependent upon several factors including previous work experience, specific industry experience, and/or skills required.
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Job Requisition ID: 90126