Director, Leave and Absence Strategy

Job Posting End Date: August 15

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life's moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments

• Support development of Unum Group's strategy and strategic priorities by identifying, analyzing, and addressing complex business issues and developing actionable strategies
• Ensure alignment of growth and innovation with Unum Group overall strategy
• Manage strategic initiatives, partnering with other departments and/or functional heads as appropriate, helping identify roadblocks and ensure process discipline
• Assess likely revenue and profit impacts of ideas and evaluate against the costs - make recommendations and build business cases, help monitor trajectory towards value realization
• Develop and maintain internal network of contacts to validate concepts, support information gathering, and facilitate socialization of ideas, while establishing a strong understanding of business operations and priorities for the organization
• Prepare presentations to senior leadership and Board of Director as needed
• Strategy Vertical
  • Help define the range of business opportunity for Unum in the wider U.S. markets in which Unum could credibly operate
  • Identify, analyze, and prioritize new market/partnership development opportunities through extensive competitive research, local market sales and service activities, strong understanding of businesses adjacent to Unum and important macro trends (regulatory, technological, economic, social, and demographic)
• Innovation vertical
  • Facilitate working sessions with the business to identify and prioritize innovation discovery pipeline
  • Lead development of materials related to innovation process (e.g., pilot, and minimum viable solution business cases, monitoring of portfolio, roadblock removal, etc.) to enable clear and timely decision-making
  • Partner with delivery teams as necessary to stay aligned to ongoing portfolio
  • Act as delegate in appropriate forums as necessary

• Bachelor's Degree required; MBA preferred
• Finance experience preferred
• 7+ years' experience in business strategy, corporate finance, business management or consulting
• Comfortable working at all levels in the organization from the C-suite to business unit professionals; team builder.
• Assimilate and adapt to Unum's culture while managing change using strong influencing skills, while operating in a new/unfamiliar environment, and working effectively within a highly matrixed organization.
• Knowledge of the basic economics of financial services & business services companies
• Strong team player with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines, while thriving in a fast-paced work environment
• Intellectually curious with demonstrated ability to learn about new business concepts and technology
• Focused on quick results and fast turnaround
• Very strong problem structuring and analytical skills
• Very strong modeling and presentation writing skills
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills
• Superior project management skills; strong collaborator
• Some travel required