National Client Manager, Home Office

Job Posting End Date: September 20 When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:  Award-winning culture  Inclusion and diversity as a priority  Performance Based Incentive Plans Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability  Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)  Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution  Mental health support  Career advancement opportunities  Student loan repayment options  Tuition reimbursement Flexible work environments  *All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans . And that’s just the beginning…   With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!  General Summary: The Home Office National Client Manager (HO NCM) is responsible for maintaining a consultative relationship with complex group, VB, and integrated customers with 2,000 or more lives. The HO NCM develops and implements a customized service strategy for assigned cases, nationally. The HO NCM is accountable for growth and retention through strategic management of customer relationships and plays an instrumental role in improving block profitability, driving increased participation, and achieving case and premium persistency targets. The HO NCM has flexibility in assigned cases for permanent and temporary assignments in order to assist field partners, nationally, as needed. The HO NCM is responsible for facilitating special initiatives and projects as needed and acting as liaison for our field partners. Principal Duties and Responsibilities Implementation and Ongoing Client Service Accountable for leadership of right resources and coordinating concentrated efforts to meet the specific needs of the client Develops high level actions through risk and H&P analysis and claim consultation. Utilizes expertise in Unum services and solutions (implementation, contracts, FML, Health and Productivity, and client reporting and analysis) to recommend actions, resolve issues, and identify solutions Assures the complete and accurate implementation of new business and partners with Home Office functional areas to achieve a successful implementation. Effectively delegates and sets expectations with customer business team is critical. Holds partners (Home Office, Third Parties, and Technology Partners) accountable for driving day to day issue resolution for inforce customers and implementation project planning Strategic Planning and Execution Owns the account management strategy for an assigned block of business nationally, with the flexibility to service other national cases as needed and capacity allows Responsible for the development and implementation of strategic customized business plan for each client which includes plans to proactively engage the client and increase client’s understanding of Unum’s value proposition, their benefits and industry trends. Strategic execution of renewal conditioning, planning and prepares for pre-renewal face to face visit to review claim trend analysis and Integrated Disability Management models to discuss any issues prior to the actual renewal meeting. Partners with Sales Consultants to jointly present and/or in some instances own annual renewal, including gathering of claim trend analysis, underwriting data, Return to Work