VP/Director of Insurance Planning

AllianceBernstein Holding LP • Los Angeles, CA

127d • $200,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Bernstein's Wealth Strategies team is a multi-disciplinary group of professionals with expertise helping individuals and families navigate complex wealth planning. Our mandate is to provide actionable advice for clients as it relates to planning for lifetime spending, wealth transfer, philanthropy, and the investment implementation of these plans. We focus first on uncovering client priorities, values, and defining goals. We next help our clients achieve these goals by crafting a research based financial plan consistent with their priorities and values. We seek an insurance professional with well-rounded expertise in personal insurance planning for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their families, including life insurance, annuities, long-term care, health, disability, and property/casualty insurance. The individual will be based in one of our US offices and report to the Head of Bernstein's Wealth Strategies Group. The Director of Insurance Planning is a client-facing sales support role working alongside Bernstein's Wealth Advisors to expand the Private Wealth business. As a key domain expert supporting Bernstein's wealth planning research, the Director will frequently be called upon to provide thought leadership on insurance-related issues to clients, in audiences large and small, through individualized & group presentations, case studies, articles, and, potentially, external media.

Requirements

• Strong analytical skills and thought leadership.
• Effective interpersonal style and excellent public-speaking skills.
• Strong academic record and a history of professional success.
• Strong mathematical skills, including familiarity with basic estate planning analytical software and Excel.
• Experience in risk management and insurance planning.
• Knowledge of life insurance and annuity products, long-term care insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, and property/casualty insurance products.
• Experience in analyzing client insurance needs and evaluating insurance and annuity products.
• FINRA registration (SIE, Series 7 and Series 66 or equivalent) and Insurance Licenses (Life, Variable and/or Property/Casualty) are required.

Responsibilities

• Working with the firm's Financial Advisors and clients in analyzing existing and proposed insurance products and related strategies in the context of clients' tax and estate planning circumstances.
• Communicating our planning research conclusions and capabilities to clients, prospects, and professionals' both sophisticated and lay.
• Establishing the Bernstein brand in the high net worth channel by engendering trust and confidence among prospective and existing clients and their professional intermediaries.
• Working closely with our Financial Advisors as a strategic partner.
• Training and educating the Financial Advisors and members of the Wealth Strategies research team on insurance products and insurance planning strategies, and any related compliance guardrails.
• Assisting in the identification and research of current issues regarding asset allocation, tax management, investment planning, and other critical private wealth topics.
• Conducting original research and publishing articles, marketing materials and a variety of client-servicing presentations summarizing our research insights.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Employee wellness program
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Sick and vacation time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees