Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Hartford is an insurance company committed to making a difference and providing opportunities for growth. The Statutory Senior Implementation Consultant will manage the project implementation of statutory accounts, ensuring all requirements are met while maintaining strong communication with clients and internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Project managing the implementation of new, add issue cases and ensuring all business partners complete requirements of the sold case process
- Project Manage the reimplementation of Statutory cases with acquisitions and major changes in account structures, ensuring all business partners complete requirements of the reimplementation process
- Responsible for accurately gathering data and documentation directly from the broker, customer, or Implementation Manager from the point of sale through the finalization of the Customers Implementation
- Attend customer/broker kick-off meetings virtually, working with the IM if a co-mingled case or if Standalone Statutory facilitating the initial introduction of the implementation process. Including creation and development of kick off materials
- Owns the completion and retention of implementation documentation
- Collaborates with Underwriting on pricing and plan design to ensure sold case proposals match customer needs found during data gathering
- Responsible for the development of finalist materials specific to Implementation process
- Presents virtually with the IM or alone , the Implementation process to the customer/broker during the pre-sale finalist presentation
- Adherence to Compliance policies and procedures including but not limited to encryption of emails as appropriate
- Actively participates in internal roundtables and consultation with the sales exec and internal business partners
- As discussed with the IM, responds to internal/external customer calls and correspondence related to the implementation of sold case and add issues
- Follows through on expressed commitment to the external/internal customers and if commitment cannot be met, provide clear expectations on next steps
- Researches and resolves customer issues, offering alternative solutions
- Provides consultation on benefits, plan designs and contract language that have been sold to the customer to ensure deliverables meet the customer's needs
- Responsible for ensuring customer deliverables are delivered accurately and timely
- Facilitates PG (Performance Guarantee) negotiations with client/broker and internal disciplines
- Drafts, negotiates, and distributes initial Agreements and Applications (PG's, ASO, LOI's, etc.) and coordinates client signatures and countersignatures
- Identify non-standard language, provisions or agreements that require consultation with other business
- Develop successful customer/broker relationships over a compressed timeframe to facilitate the Implementation
- Transition the case to field service team upon completion of the Implementation without service disruption to the customer
- Mentors and trains new team members
- May be overall project leader for other Statutory Implementation Consultants to support large blocks of business
- May represent Statutory Implementation in large interdepartmental projects; new product and service rollouts, compliance/legal issues, best practice/procedure changes
Skills
- Statutory product experience required
- Prior Employee Benefit Implementation experience
- Customer facing and finalist meeting experience
- 2+ years knowledge of Group Benefits Life and Disability products, provisions and service offerings required
- 2+ years Group Benefit Project Management and organizational skills required
- Demonstrates proficiency in utilization of administrative systems (i.e. NSR, Prism/Promise, Case Management, Fusion, WFT, Document Management Folders, SharePoint sites)
- Ability to develop strategic alliances with various internal and external business partners
- Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, MS Project)
- Effective financial underwriting, marketing, relationship and account management capabilities
- Outstanding communication and overall audience assessment. Fosters open communication that encourages team to express thoughts and ideas
- Negotiating and Influence– finds compromises between disparate points of view, builds constructive consensus
- Develop effective strategic relationships – Interacts effectively at all levels both within and outside the company
- Works well in ambiguous, 'gray' situations
- Strong consultative, critical thinking and problem solving skills
Benefits
- Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition.
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