RFP Analyst

symetraexternal; United States; Remote; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Symetra is seeking an RFP Analyst to support the Benefits sales team by logging and tracking RFPs, gathering underwriting information, and ensuring timely proposals. You will monitor deadlines, coordinate with sales, and help maintain records and data quality across the RFP process. Strong detail orientation and communication are important.

This role provides exposure to underwriting workflows and the opportunity to contribute to winning proposals in a collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Review and submit RFP requests for evaluation; enter data into the appropriate database; ensure underwriting requirements are received and delivered.
• Identify and initiate RFP questionnaire requests; continually monitor RFP due dates and actively manage the RFP process to ensure compliance.
• Partner with sales team to ensure timely delivery of proposals and any sales materials, if needed.

Responsibilities

• Review and submit RFP requests for evaluation in a timely manner; enter RFP data into the appropriate database; ensure all requirements needed to assess risk are received and delivered to Underwriting.
• Provide back-up support to other field offices when needed.
• Other tasks or projects as assigned.

Job description

Symetra offers a thrilling chance to become part of our team as an RFP Analyst!

About the role

The primary role is to supplement sales efforts for sales teams within the Benefits division. Sales efforts include timely logging of all requests for proposals (RFPs), obtaining required information necessary for underwriting to review, and monitoring the RFP process to ensure compliance. This position involves having an excellent understanding of how Symetra products fit within the external marketplace and leveraging it to add value to the business.

What you will do

• Review and submit RFP requests for evaluation within a timely manner. Enter RFP data into the appropriate database. Ensure all requirements needed to assess risk are received and delivered to Underwriting. Request additional information if needed. Identify and initiate RFP questionnaire requests. Continually monitor RFP due dates and actively manage RFP process to ensure compliance. Partner with sales team to ensure timely delivery of proposal and any sales material, if needed. Follow RFP Mailbox records management process. Maintain sales activity request logs.
• Provide back-up support to other field offices when needed.

• Other tasks or projects as assigned.

Why Work at Symetra

Here’s what some of our employees share about why they choose to work at Symetra:

“I chose to work at Symetra because of the talented people I knew and the strong reputation they shared. Since joining in June 2021, what’s kept me here is the genuine sense of inclusion, respect, and teamwork. Symetra’s ‘We’ culture is more than a saying—it shows up in how teams collaborate and support one another.