Senior Project Manager Life & Annuities

Senior Project Manager Life & Annuities

Addison, TX; Montpelier, VT

Come join one of America's fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for optimizing delivery across multiple initiatives or programs, ensuring the system of work delivers expected business value. This role enables cross-functional decision-making, manages systemic risks, and improves flow across the organization. The Senior PM operates at a strategic level, aligning execution to enterprise priorities and driving value realization.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

This role requires a minimum of 8 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Initiation & Value Alignment

• Drive alignment of initiatives to strategic objectives and enterprise priorities
• Lead tradeoff decisions to maximize value across competing initiatives
• Ensure initiatives are connected to measurable business outcomes

Adaptive Planning & Flow Management

• Optimize sequencing, capacity, and flow across programs and teams
• Identify and remove systemic bottlenecks and constraints
• Enable coordinated execution across interconnected initiatives

Risk, Uncertainty & Decision Enablement

• Enable cross-functional decision-making across leaders and domains
• Anticipate systemic risks and second-order impacts
• Resolve ambiguity and guide teams through complex trade-offs

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Align senior stakeholders with competing priorities and constraints
• Influence decision-making at leadership level
• Maintain enterprise-level visibility of progress, risks and value

Minimum Qualifications

• 1015 years of experience leading complex programs or multi-team initiative
• Minimum of 8 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry, with demonstrated understanding of products, operations, and regulatory environment
• Proven ability to deliver strategic initiatives with measurable business outcomes
• Strong experience managing interdependencies across domains and functions
• Advanced capability in decision facilitation, tradeoff analysis and ambiguity resolution
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise alignment
• Strong financial and operational acumen tied to value realization
• Expertise in multiple delivery methodologies and tools
• Strong executive presence and decision facilitation capability
• PMP or equivalent experience expected; track record of enterprise impact