Remote Leader, Workplace Solutions Enablement

Horace Mann; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Horace Mann seeks a strategic Manager, Workplace Solutions Enablement to translate priorities into action and drive business results. You will lead cross-functional initiatives across Product, Distribution, Marketing, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and Customer Experience, guiding work from concept to execution.

You will build and mentor a small team, establish clear ownership and milestones, and deliver scalable processes that improve future initiatives while communicating

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Insurance industry experience, including experience with individual Supplemental Insurance, Group Employee Benefits, or both.
• Experience across multiple components of the insurance value chain, such as Product, Distribution, Marketing, Operations, Administration, Technology, or Customer Experience.
• Prior people leadership experience with responsibility for employee development, workload management, prioritization, and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously with limited day-to-day supervision.
• Proven ability to lead multiple complex, cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Demonstrated success operating in ambiguity, structuring complex business problems, determining next steps, and adapting as priorities change.
• Strong business judgment with the ability to distinguish between decisions that can be advanced independently and those requiring leadership escalation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, workstreams, deliverables, and enablement activities.
• Take broad or ambiguous strategic direction and determine the structure, resources, stakeholders, and next steps required to advance the work.
• Establish clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success for key initiatives.
• Develop recommendations and proposed solutions within established strategic direction, escalating significant strategic decisions, investments, or business tradeoffs when appropriate.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and business outcomes.
• Independently lead multiple complex initiatives spanning product, distribution, go-to-market, digital, operations, and integration.
• Partner across Product, Distribution, Marketing, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and other functions to drive alignment and remove barriers.
• Represent Worksite Development and Supplemental & Group business priorities in cross-functional discussions and initiatives.
• Influence stakeholders and drive progress without relying on direct reporting relationships.
• Create structure and accountability while remaining adaptable as business priorities, regulatory requirements, organizational needs, and market conditions evolve.
• Directly lead an initial team of two employees, with accountability for performance, development, workload allocation, prioritization, and quality.
• Coach and develop team members while establishing clear expectations and accountability.
• Delegate effectively and align team resources to the highest-value business priorities.
• Foster an environment of collaboration, ownership, sound judgment, and continuous development.
• Develop recommendations using market, customer, distribution, competitive, operational, and performance insights.
• Maintain strong knowledge of Supplemental & Group products, distribution channels, operations, and business processes.
• Structure complex or undefined business challenges, synthesize information from multiple sources, and develop clear paths forward.
• Apply sound business judgment to determine which decisions can move forward independently and which require leadership escalation.
• Support product commercialization, distribution enablement, go-to-market execution, and organizational readiness.
• Ensure business teams and partners have the plans, resources, processes, and information needed to successfully execute new initiatives.
• Identify dependencies, resource constraints, implementation risks, and operational impacts early enough to support effective decision-making.
• Develop scalable and repeatable ways of working that improve execution across future initiatives.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented solutions and identify opportunities for refinement.
• Establish practical measures of success and use business results to inform future recommendations.
• Improve cross-functional processes and ways of working to strengthen efficiency, transparency, accountability, and execution.

Skills

Strategic thinking

People leadership

Cross-functional influence

Complex initiative management

Business problem solving

Supplemental & Group insurance know

Product commercialization

Distribution enablement

Executive communication

Prioritization & resource mgmt

Adaptability

Operational execution

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Horace Mann seeks a strategic Manager, Workplace Solutions Enablement to translate priorities into action and drive business results. You will lead cross-functional initiatives across Product, Distribution, Marketing, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and Customer Experience, guiding work from concept to execution.

You will build and mentor a small team, establish clear ownership and milestones, and deliver scalable processes that improve future initiatives while communicating