Unum Hiring for Finance Partnerships Program Director Job at Chattanooga, TN Full Time

Unum is a company of people serving people. As one of the world’s leading employee benefits providers and a Fortune 500 company, Unum’s financial protection benefits help protect more than 36 million working people and their families from the financial impact of illness or injury.

Unum’s two distinct, but similarly focused US businesses – Unum US and Colonial Life – are each a market leader in making disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental, and vision insurance accessible in the workplace.

Headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Unum also has significant US operations in Portland, Maine and Baton Rouge, Louisiana – and over 35 field offices nationwide. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Recognizing the changing nature of the Finance function to meet our stakeholders needs, manage risk and drive profitable growth, Unum Finance is launching a large-scale transformation effort. This role will be heavily involved in supporting our vision to ignite the change by bringing people, processes, and data together to deliver trusted insights that drive Unum’s growth and enable us to protect more families, their finances, and their futures.

This position will serve as the leader of our Finance Partnerships focus area in our broader transformation efforts. You will plan and manage key strategic activities and programs to perform the following:

• Assess Finance’s current patterns of partnering with the Enterprise
• Support design and development of new engagement models and service levels
• Provide timely advice or key updates on critical programs or issues requiring the Finance leadership’s attention.

This position is expected to lead, execute, and implement change and shares ownership with Finance leadership for achieving goals and objectives for this critical transformation focus area.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand the organization’s core business goals and establish processes to help drive and prioritize key projects to advance the talent strategy aligned to the business strategy, manage critical issues to ensure attention and focus of the executive team; ensures executive leader is fully prepared for upcoming commitments/events.
• Manage targeted projects or initiatives and coordinate and execute the agenda and strategy. Conduct research and create background material for the leadership team. Facilitate communication among various work streams, organizations and/or stakeholders.
• Consistently evaluate and manage project/program initiative results by monitoring progress towards meeting goals and achieving implementation/performance benchmarks, ensuring follow-through on the part of key players, and sustaining momentum needed to drive these initiatives
• Establish and manage strong working partnership with key business leaders, stakeholders, including internal and external partners, and Board of Directors; ensuring timely updates and objectives are being attained.
• Provides leadership, direction and integration of activities across multiple teams to ensure successful execution.
• Acts as a role model for project management and program management professionalism, critical thinking, and setting productivity pace. Promotes a financial focus and emphasizes business value metrics.
• Participate in meetings and regular updates to leadership teams regarding the progress, objectives, and key deliverables of the strategic projects/workstreams.
• Oversee development of executive communications, including presentations, speeches, blogs and other communications (e.g. Offsite Meetings and other business presentations)
• Represents the senior leadership team through experienced, knowledgeable and polished interaction leaving an elevated professional image with internal and external stakeholders
• May perform other duties as assigned

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 5 years work experience required, ideally in finance, business strategy, consulting, operations or communications
• Understanding of Agile methodology preferred
• Strong business acumen, with understanding of the Financial Services industry
• Exhibits strong leadership skills, including the ability to effectively partner, problem-solve and influence at the C-Suite level
• Exceptional critical thinking and analytical skills with an ability to make connections, synthesize information and develop action plans
• Strong project management skills with an execution and results orientation
• Ability to translate business problems and needs into actionable requirements.
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to proactively prioritize, adapt to change and execute in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency to form solid business relationships at all levels, internally and externally
• Expert skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.)

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Our company is built on helping individuals and families, and this starts with our employees. We want employees to maintain a positive balance, which is why we provide access to the benefits and resources they need to invest in themselves. From our onsite fitness facilities and generous paid time off to employee professional development programs, we are committed to helping employees live and work their best – both inside and outside the office.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

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