VP, Regional Business Service & Impl

MetLife; McLean (VA); Híbrido; USD 275 000 - 330 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Health plan

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Tuition assistance

Resumo da oferta

MetLife is seeking a Vice President to lead Regional Business & Specialty Service & Implementation, overseeing end-to-end service and implementation for customers with 2–4,999 employees. This executive will drive customer experience, operational excellence, and scalable growth across multiple market segments.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Technology, Finance, and Operations to align capabilities with priorities, while building a high-performing leadership team and prioritizing

Qualificações

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in customer operations, service delivery, implementation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, or a related industry.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the strategy, operations, and performance of a large-scale Service & Implementation organization serving Regional Business and Specialty Market customers.
• Drive transformation initiatives to improve customer experience, operational effectiveness, and scalability through process optimization, automation, and tech-enabled solutions.
• Champion AI fluency and responsible AI adoption to enhance productivity, customer outcomes, and decision-making with governance and risk management.

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Description and Requirements

The Team You Will Join

Join the nation’s largest non-medical carrier of group insurance, where your work will impact over 55,000 customers and cover more than 50 million employees and family members. As part of MetLife’s Group Benefits team, you’ll deliver innovative benefits solutions - life, disability, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits - tailored to today’s employers and workforces. Collaborate with customers, brokers, and partners to expand our offerings and reimagine digital experiences. Join us and be part of an organization committed to supporting customers when they need us most.

The Opportunity

The Vice President, Regional Business & Specialty Service & Implementation is responsible for leading the end-to-end service and implementation organization supporting customers with 2-4,999 employees across MetLife's Regional, Small, and Specialty Market segments. This executive leader drives exceptional customer experiences, operational excellence, business transformation, and scalable growth while leading a large, multi-functional organization and partnering across the enterprise to achieve business, customer, and financial objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, operations, and performance of a large-scale Service & Implementation organization supporting Regional Business and Specialty Market customers across implementation, servicing and account management functions.


• Drive transformation initiatives that improve customer experience, operational effectiveness, scalability, and ease of doing business through process optimization, automation, and technology-enabled solutions.


• Champion AI fluency and responsible AI adoption across the organization, identifying opportunities to leverage AI and automation to enhance associate productivity, improve customer outcomes, accelerate decision-making, and simplify operations while ensuring appropriate governance and risk management.


• Establish and execute service strategies, operating models, performance metrics, and service-level commitments that deliver best-in-class customer outcomes while supporting business growth and profitability.


• Partner closely with Sales, Product, Technology, Finance, Operations, and Market Enablement leaders to align operational capabilities with customer, distribution and enterprise priorities.


• Serve as the executive escalation point for key customers, brokers, and sales leaders while strengthening external relationships and advancing customer retention and satisfaction.


• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team and engaged workforce through talent development, succession planning, organizational effectiveness, and a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Proven executive leadership experience managing large, complex service, operations, implementation, or customer experience organizations with responsibility for significant business outcomes.


• Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformational change initiatives, including operational modernization, digital enablement, process improvement, and organizational simplification.


• Strong strategic, financial, and business acumen with the ability to translate enterprise priorities into measurable operational and customer results.


• Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills, with a track record of partnering effectively across senior leadership teams and external stakeholders.


• A customer-centric, people-focused leadership style that inspires engagement, develops future leaders, and fosters a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in customer operations, service delivery, implementation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, or a related industry.


• Experience leading large-scale, multi-functional organizations through significant growth, change, and transformation.


• Proven ability to deliver operational excellence while balancing customer experience, employee engagement, and financial performance.


• Demonstrated success influencing enterprise strategy and leading cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment.


• Experience leveraging technology, automation, data and AI-enabled capabilities to improve operational efficiency, decision-making, customer experience and workforce productivity.


• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and build adoption of emerging technologies while maintaining appropriate governance, risk management, and customer focus.


• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of group benefits, insurance, employee benefits, or related financial services businesses.


• Experience leading customer service, implementation, billing, eligibility, enrollment or participant service operations at scale.


• Experience sponsoring or leading AI, advanced analytics, automation, digital transformation, or workflow modernization initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes.


• Demonstrated success fostering AI fluency within a large organization, including enabling leaders and teams to effectively incorporate AI-enabled tools into day-to-day operations and decision-making.


• Background in Lean, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, Digital Transformation, or AI-enabled service operations.


• Experience managing large operational portfolios, enterprise modernization programs, or customer experience transformation initiatives.


• Advanced degree (MBA or Master's degree).

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

The expected salary range for this position is $275,000 - $330,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

Benefits We Offer

Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits.

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, 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 individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion and long-term value.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!

MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law ("protected characteristics").

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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liabilities.

This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 90 days from the listed posting date.References

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