Organizational Readiness Program Lead, Group Benefits Underwriting

As the Organization Readiness Program Lead, you will execute on and support the Group Benefits Underwriting Transformation strategy. You will collaborate closely with the Underwriting Transformation team and cross-functional Group Benefits partners as required.

You are responsible for guiding change management for key, underwriting initiatives - including coordinating communication strategies, influencing adoption and change resiliency, enabling training and resource development, and developing change champions. This role is critical in ensuring business readiness for various initiatives, enabling the development of key resources, awareness, and adoption across impacted teams.

Supporting transparent communication, program monitoring, and collaboration with stakeholders and business partners to drive accountability are key deliverables.

- Engage colleagues and stakeholders to create detailed action plans, enabling the execution of initiatives and change adoption - Establish organization readiness for Underwriting-wide projects across teams by driving the development of consistent messaging and communication, training and IMS documentation - Influence change adoption and foster culture of resiliency and growth mindsets - Leverage data insights to create narratives on the performance of initiatives, opportunities and risks. - Support the implementation and integration of values and supporting behaviors to drive desired culture transformation. - Support the creation of presentations appropriate for the Underwriting organization and talking points for various partners. - Proactively identify best practices and support business teams through capability development and maturity. - Ability to work autonomously and organize your work so the business can achieve high quality, repeatable, consistent results. - Establish and maintain long standing, trusted relationships with stakeholders and business partners. - Effectively remove blockers and mitigate risks, maximizing team productivity and ensuring delivery. - Communicate people, process, and technology innovations across Underwriting and business stakeholder. - Hold teams and individuals accountable for timelines and deliverables.

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience - 5+ years of experience in Group Benefits, preferred - Can work in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment. - Team player with proven ability to foster and manage working relationships within a matrixed environment with a positive attitude - Self-starter, highly motivated, strategic thinker who can lead independent stakeholder conversations and provide thought leadership. - Can drive portfolio-aligned business results across Business and technology disciplines - Strong, proven communications, collaboration, and consensus building skills, along with active listening skills - Ability to adjust communication style and content to different levels and audiences. - Highly organized and energetic with an entrepreneurial mindset. - Communicates a clear, vivid, inspiring, and relevant description or picture of project benefits/value to the customer.

Strong ability to influence and "tell the story." - Strong business acumen and ability to gain familiarity with a broad range of business processes - Able to effectively interact with various levels of an organization, including both technical and non-technical business areas - The ability to aggregate and interpret external and internal business strategies and solutions and recommend customized solutions/best practices. - Previous experience with change management preferred

The work arrangement for this role will be hybrid (3+ days per week in a Guardian office). Preferred locations include Boston, MA; Bethlehem, PA; and New York, NY. We will consider remote candidates if experience is aligned .

Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.