Senior Project Manager - Life & Annuities
National Life Group
Operations
Montpelier, VT, USA
USD 101,250-148,500 / year
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.
Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.
Role Summary
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.
This role requires a minimum of 8 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Initiation & Value Alignment
- Drive alignment of initiatives to strategic objectives and enterprise priorities
- Lead tradeoff 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
Minimum Qualifications
- 10–15 years of experience leading complex programs or multi-team initiative
- 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, tradeoff 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
Benefits
- Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!
Base Pay Range. 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.
Additional Compensation and Benefits. 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.
National Life is accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis and the role remains open until filled.
National Life Group® is a trade name of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, VT – founded in 1848, Life Insurance Company of the Southwest, Addison, TX – chartered in 1955, and their affiliates. Each company of National Life Group is solely responsible for its own financial condition and contractual obligations. Life Insurance Company of the Southwest is not an authorized insurer in New York and does not conduct insurance business in New York. Equity Services, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, is a Broker/Dealer and Registered Investment Adviser affiliate of National Life Insurance Company. All other entities are independent of the companies of National Life Group.
Fortune 1000 status is based on the consolidated financial results of all National Life Group companies.
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