Lead Group Product Manager
About The Position
Lincoln Financial is hiring a Lead, Group Product Manager for its Group Benefit Product Organization. The role leads and delivers group product and service offering initiatives intended to drive profitability. It maintains product and service offering availability, exceptions, monitoring, competitiveness, and segment management efforts, and serves as a key resource for internal and external needs across product lines. The position supports product development, pricing, and complex ongoing product and service management, as well as strategic initiatives. It leads cross-enterprise teams and partners with stakeholders to provide segmented offerings with distinct competitive advantages. It also contributes product expertise to strategy and road maps, marketing and launch materials, day-to-day product management support, market and competitive research, financial objectives, issue resolution, and business process redesign. The role is hybrid, with three days per week in a Lincoln office. Alternate locations listed are Charlotte, North Carolina; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Omaha, Nebraska; and Radnor, Pennsylvania. Relocation assistance is not available.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; four years of experience may substitute for a bachelor's degree.
- At least five years of product management or development experience aligned with the responsibilities of the position.
- Working knowledge of insurance products.
- Proven ability to operate effectively and lead cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret complex internal and external materials to inform strategy, including regulations, contracts, proposals, technical procedures, and industry publications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage and build credibility with internal and external senior leadership.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft products, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Ability to use AI tools effectively and responsibly in daily work, validate AI-generated outputs, and identify opportunities to improve productivity, decision-making, and outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- SharePoint experience.
- Experience with segmented product offering strategy.
Responsibilities
- Support product development, pricing, complex ongoing management activities for products and service offerings, and strategic initiatives.
- Lead cross-enterprise teams and collaborate with stakeholders to provide segmented product and service offerings with distinct competitive advantages.
- Collaborate with product marketing, field distribution, and training partners, providing subject matter expertise for product documentation, training materials, positioning, marketing, and launch campaigns.
- Contribute subject matter expertise to product strategy, road maps, and enhancements across all products.
- Provide business and technical support for group product management activities, day-to-day inquiries, and escalated issues from field associates.
- Identify and direct monitoring, competitive intelligence, and market research, including analysis of systematically gathered information supporting product development initiatives and service offering documentation.
- Manage service offerings to achieve product and business financial objectives; identify, analyze, and escalate issues; and lead resolution with business partners.
- Work with assigned business areas to redesign or reengineer processes supporting product and service offering initiatives.
Benefits
- Clearly defined career tracks and job levels, with associated behaviors for Lincoln's core values and leadership attributes.
- Leadership development and virtual training opportunities.
- PTO and parental leave.
- Competitive 401(k) and employee benefits.
- Free financial counseling, health coaching, and employee assistance program.
- Tuition assistance program.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Productivity and technology tools and training.
- May be eligible for the discretionary Annual Incentive Program.
- Other rewards may include long-term incentives and sales incentives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
