Principal Business Strategy Analyst
Requistion: RP15546
Interest Category: Product Development
Business Unit: Retirement and Protection
Description: COMPANY
Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW) is a leading Fortune 500 insurance holding company dedicated to helping people secure their financial lives, families and futures. Headquartered in Richmond, VA, Genworth has approximately 6,400 employees operating through three divisions around the world. For more information on employment opportunities, please visit genworth.com/employment.
SUMMARY
The position reports to the Business Strategy Leader and is primarily responsible for enabling the USLI Senior Leadership Team and their staffs to develop broad strategic intentions, specific business strategies, and functional strategy deployment plans.
The Principal Strategy Analyst will have high exposure to Genworth senior executives and is expected to bring a creative and analytical skill set to solving strategic issues for the company. The position offers an excellent platform to learn the complexities of the insurance industry and lay the foundation for a successful career at Genworth.
Examples of more specific job activities are:
• Design, lead, and/or execute strategic analytical activities assessing Genworth's markets, competitors, regulators, distribution channels, products, services, business operations, financials, or any other subject area required to develop effective strategies
• Design, lead, and/or execute processes that enable cross-functional teams to develop strategies and deployment plans
• Deliver clearly articulated verbal and/or written strategy presentations to audiences such as the US Life SLT, the Genworth SLT, governance committees, the Genworth Board of Directors, investors, ratings agencies, regulators, distribution partners, customers, or suppliers.
•Work with the finance team on the development of Multi-Year Strategic Plans and Operating Plans
• Work with the product competitive intelligence and marketing customer insights teams to design, build, and operate benchmarking activities required to support strategy development
• Optimize strategy development costs including internal resources and external research/analytical expenses
• Coach cross functional strategy development team participants
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• BS or equivalent degree
• 10+ years work experience including exposure to distribution, product, and operations
• Demonstrated ability in developing business strategy and designing strategy development processes
• Demonstrated ability in creating clearly articulated strategy documents
• Demonstrated ability to work across commercial and business operating functions
• Strong financial and analytical skills
• An adaptive work style, strong communication and relationship building skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• MBA or other similar advanced degree
• Insurance industry knowledge
• Deep distribution, product, or service knowledge
•Experience in participating / managing strategic planning cycle for a large organization with strong cross-functional engagement and prioritization
•Advanced actuarial or statistical capabilities
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