Strategic Analyst - Disability Insurance & Executive Benefits

The Strategic Analyst, Disability Insurance & Executive Benefits, supports strategy execution and initiative governance by translating strategic direction into clear plans, prioritized initiatives, and leadership‑ready insights. This role partners cross‑functionally with Product, Finance, Legal, Distribution, Marketing, and Technology to coordinate planning activities, track progress, and ensure alignment between enterprise strategy, DI and Multi‑Life priorities, and funded initiatives. The analyst maintains strategy roadmaps and initiative portfolios, prepares executive materials and dashboards, documents decisions and trade‑offs, and monitors risks, dependencies, and performance metrics to enable informed leadership decisions and disciplined execution.

• You are
• A structured, detail‑oriented business analyst who helps leaders turn strategy into action.

You are comfortable working across multiple teams, pulling together data, assumptions, and inputs to support planning, prioritization, and execution. You communicate clearly, document decisions carefully, and bring discipline to tracking initiatives, risks, and outcomes. You are equally effective in preparing executive ready materials and managing the day‑to‑day coordination needed to keep complex initiatives moving forward.

• You have

• Professional Experience:

• + 3-5 years of relevant experience in business analysis, strategy execution, or program and initiative management, including experience in insurance, finance, or operations roles.

+ Experience supporting strategic initiatives in a matrixed organization. + Financial services or insurance experience preferred: especially with Disability and/or Executive Benefits. + Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.

• Technical Experience
• + Ability to build and maintain executive ready dashboards, updates on portfolio

• Leadership:

• + Demonstrates strategic thinking by translating enterprise and business‑line strategy into clear priorities, plans, and decision insights.

+ Leads through influence without authority to align cross‑functional teams and drive outcomes. + Communicate effectively with senior leaders by distilling complex information into clear, concise, and actionable messages. + Applies strong organizational discipline to bring structure, rigor, and follow‑through to planning and execution.

• Strategic & Analytical Thinking
• + Ability to assess strategic options, trade‑offs, and risks, and translate complex inputs into clear recommendations that support leadership decision‑making. + Strong analytical skills to interpret data, monitor initiative performance, and identify insights, trends, and implications across a portfolio of strategic initiatives.
• You will
• + Prepare executive‑ready materials for strategy, planning, prioritization, and governance discussions.

+ Compile and synthesize data, assumptions, and cross‑functional inputs to support strategic decision‑making. + Coordinate agendas, pre‑reads, meetings, and follow‑ups for strategy and prioritization forums. + Maintain strategy roadmaps, priority lists, and a portfolio view of active initiatives. + Track initiative timelines, milestones, owners, risks, dependencies, and alignment to objectives and capital assumptions. + Consolidate status updates into concise summaries and dashboards for senior leadership. + Document decisions, approvals, scope or funding changes, and key action items. + Support business cases, capital requests, and investment trade‑off analysis through clear insights and recommendations.

• Reporting Relationships
• As our Business Analyst DI and Executive Benefits, you will report to our Head of Multi-life Risk Strategy & Underwriting and DI&ML Portfolio Management
• Location
• Bethlehem, PA, Holmdel, NJ, or Pittsfield, MA with work from home flexibility.
• Travel
• 20% of travel is required for this role for in-person and/or sales meetings.

• Salary Range:

• $68,970.00 - $113,310.00 The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.
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• At Guardian, you'll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
• Inspire Well-Being
• As part of Guardian's Purpose - to inspire well-being - we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits . _Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits._
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
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• Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.

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• Visa Sponsorship
• Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.
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Visa Sponsorship:

Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.