Strategy Lead, Business Strategy

MassMutual; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

MassMutual is seeking a Strategy Lead to join the Corporate Strategy team and partner with executives to turn complex business questions into fact-based insights and actionable recommendations. You will drive high-impact strategy engagements across insurance, wealth management, and institutional solutions, with significant leadership opportunities early in your tenure.

The role focuses on translating recommendations into action, shaping strategic priorities, and mentoring analysts while

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high-impact strategy engagements.
• Ability to structure ambiguous business problems.
• Strong communication with executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex strategic projects influencing executive decision-making across business units.
• Synthesize quantitative and qualitative insights into executive-level briefings and recommendations.
• Drive stakeholder engagement across a broad range of partners and leadership teams.
• Coach and mentor analysts and contribute to the Business Strategy team's development.
• Contribute to Board strategy deliverables and macro analyses of external environment.
• Manage enterprise-wide relationships with Strategic Partner firms and identify collaboration opportunities.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Job description

Strategy Lead, Business Strategy

MassMutual is a Fortune 100 financial services company with scaled businesses across insurance, wealth management, and asset management.

Within the Corporate Strategy team, the Business Strategy team helps MassMutual leaders define priorities, evaluate growth opportunities, and make higher-quality strategic decisions in a changing financial services landscape.

As a Strategy Lead, you will partner with executives and senior leadership teams to turn complex business questions into fact-based insights, actionable recommendations, and measurable business impact.

This role offers many of the best elements of top-tier strategy consulting or similar work:

• Exposure to senior executives and highly consequential business decisions
• Opportunities to tackle the organization's most important strategic questions
• A wide variety of business challenges across multiple parts of the enterprise
• Significant responsibility and leadership opportunities early in your tenure
• Coaching, mentorship, and ongoing professional development

While avoiding many of the traditional downsides:

• Limited travel
• The opportunity to see recommendations translated into action
• Deep business context and long-term relationships with stakeholders
• Direct visibility into the outcomes and impact of your work

The Team

The Business Strategy team serves as an internal strategy function for MassMutual's business, with a focus on our revenue-generating areas of the enterprise. We work directly with executives and senior leadership teams on questions such as:

• How should MassMutual evolve its affiliated distribution model to win in a rapidly changing advice landscape?
• Where should we invest to drive long-term growth across insurance, wealth management, and institutional solutions?
• What competitive threats and opportunities should inform our strategic priorities?
• How can emerging trends create meaningful differentiation?
• What choices will have the greatest impact on advisor, customer, and business outcomes?

The team focuses on four core areas:

• Supporting Executive and Senior Leadership Team decision-making through high-impact strategy engagements
• Advancing MassMutual's affiliated distribution and wealth management strategy toward holistic financial advice and sustainable growth
• Providing thought leadership and strategic direction on third party distribution, product, marketing, and business model evolution
• Managing the firm-wide Strategic Partnerships program, inclusive of building this function out further

The team brings backgrounds in strategy consulting, insurance, wealth management, and corporate strategy, with a shared focus on practical impact.

The Impact

As a Strategy Lead, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and help shape the strategic direction of critical parts of the business.

Your efforts will focus on:

• Leading complex strategic projects that influence executive decision-making across affiliated distribution, wealth management, product, brand, marketing, institutional solutions, and third party distribution:
  • Structuring ambiguous business challenges into clear hypotheses, analytical workplans, and actionable recommendations
  • Synthesizing quantitative and qualitative insights into compelling executive-level communications
  • Driving stakeholder engagement across a broad range of business partners and leadership teams
  • Partnering with analysts to conduct research, develop analyses, and deliver high-quality strategic recommendations
• Helping shape the strategic trajectory of our businesses through both formal strategy projects and ongoing thought leadership:
  • Developing perspectives on industry trends, competitive dynamics, regulatory developments, emerging technologies, and evolving customer expectations
• Developing and collaborating with partners across the enterprise on Board strategy deliverables including macro analysis of the external and competitive environment
• Managing enterprise wide relationships with Strategic Partner firms, driving alignment and identification of additional partnership opportunities
• Coaching and mentoring analysts while contributing to the development of the broader Business Strategy