Job Location: United States : Illinois : Aurora

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Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Role Value Proposition

Delivers exceptional customer service and secures profitable revenue through the management of internal customer unit resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and manage internal customer unit personnel to assure timely and accurate preparation and delivery of all services
• Provides strategic guidance and outlook on managed block of business and for the customer unit
• Manage all aspects of overall success for day-to-day customer servicing.
• Works directly and closely with multiple customers, responding to requests and initiating contact in anticipation of emerging concerns and issues.
• Anticipates operational problems and identifies opportunities for improvement through detailed knowledge of clients' businesses.
• Works with internal resources such as Implementation, IT, contracts, legal and claims as a liaison to ensure timely, accurate delivery of services to clients; manages delivery of services provided by external vendors.
• Works with management colleagues to create profitable case-specific business plans and to identify revenue growth and expense reduction opportunities.
• Participates and support new business and renewal process through; strategy meetings, stewardship, developing proposals, meeting potential clients/brokers, and finalist meetings
• Responsible for maintaining complete and accurate customer unit data on all internal reporting systems.
• Manage and develop external broker and customer relationships and internal partnerships
• Development and ongoing training and learning opportunities for managed team
• Performs other related duties as assigned or required.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills

Required:

• 8-10+ years of relevant product/industry experience
• 5+ years of management/mentoring/leadership experience

• Strong project management skills including problem solving, attention to detail, analytical thinking, and decisiveness, as well as strong organizational skills.
• Industry, enterprise, and client business acumen
• Passionate and motivational, with excellent communication skills; Strong relationship building and collaboration
• Ability to work autonomously; effectively handle multiple tasks, prioritize deadlines appropriately and remain flexible.

• Comfortable adapting to ambiguity and changing priorities

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred
• Knowledge of Group Benefits core (particularly Life, Disability, and Dental) and voluntary products

Assignment Category

Full Time

Travel

Up to 50%

Business Category

US Business/Group Benefits

Number of Openings

1

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MetLife:

MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help its individual and institutional customers navigate their changing world. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

We are one of the largest institutional investors in the U.S. with $642.4 billion of total assets under management as of March 31, 2021. We are ranked #46 on the Fortune 500 list for 2021. In 2020, we were named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for the fifth year in a row. DJSI is a global index to track the leading sustainability-driven companies. We are proud to have been named to Fortune magazine’s 2021 list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.”

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