Project Manager

Join National Life Group

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 Project Manager is accountable for orchestrating end-to-end delivery across teams, ensuring work is aligned to outcomes and flows efficiently through the system. This role facilitates decision-making, manages dependencies, and adapts plans in response to changing conditions. The Project Manager operates as a connector across stakeholders, enabling clarity, coordination, and progress toward business value.

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 5 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Initiation & Value Alignment

• Ensure initiatives are aligned to clearly defined outcomes and success criteria
• Translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans
• Continuously validate that execution aligns to intended value

Adaptive Planning & Flow Management

• Orchestrate sequencing of work across teams and functions
• Manage dependencies, capacity constraints, and bottlenecks proactively
• Adapt plans and priorities based on evolving conditions and insights

Risk, Uncertainty & Decision Enablement

• Surface tradeoffs and options (scope, time, cost, value) clearly
• Facilitate team-level decision-making and escalation paths
• Balance governance with flow to enable timely decisions

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Align stakeholders across business and technology functions
• Manage expectations through transparency of progress and risks
• Facilitate communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution

Minimum Qualifications

• 5–9 years of experience managing cross-functional projects end-to-end
• Minimum of 5 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry
• Proven ability to deliver outcomes (not just outputs) in a dynamic environment
• Strong capability in dependency management, sequencing, and flow optimization
• Demonstrated experience facilitating decisions and managing tradeoffs
• Experience operating across multiple delivery approaches (Agile, hybrid, predictive)
• Ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders
• Strong communication skills translating complex topics into actionable insights
• PMP or equivalent experience preferred; evidence of delivering measurable outcomes required

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family's specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Base Pay Range. The base pay range for this position is the range National Life reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors, including: prior experience and job-related knowledge; education, training and certificates; current business needs; and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances.

Additional Compensation and Benefits. The total compensation package for this position may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in National Life's discretionary annual incentive programs, subject to the rules governing such programs. If hired, the employee will be in an "at-will position" and National Life reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

National Life is accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis and the role remains open until filled.

Salary Pay Range $86,625 —$127,050 USD