The Opportunity

As a quantitative consultant you will work in an agile, innovative and collaborative environment.? You will meet with internal business partners and other team members to agree on specifications so you can build/update excel models to accurately handle key transactions for life and annuity products.? You will validate that the results are accurate and that the model satisfies the business need.? You will initially assist with projects and then take a lead role on projects and direct other team members to assist you.

The Team

We are comprised of modelers and specialized customer service associates responsible for support of new business and in-force retail life policies and annuity contracts.? We have technical actuarial skillsets, excellent communication and problem solving skills and a detailed knowledge of our life and annuity products and functionality.? This combination is unique to our team. ?We question everything, make sure we only work on tasks that belong with our team, make our processes efficient, look for problems to solve and insert ourselves wherever we can be of assistance.? We anticipate future problems when developing solutions today.? We enhance customer experience and profitability by driving product design and system solutions and by presenting innovative, empathetic, solution-oriented communications to specialized service and exception requests.

The Impact

The following day-to-day position responsibilities will foster teamwork, accountability, agility, communication and leading others.? If successfully carried out, you will be efficient, avoid re-work and assist business partners with better servicing their customers.

• If you are assisting on a project, make sure the project lead and business partners are aware of the status of your project deliverables
• If you are a project lead, make sure those team members assisting you are aware of the tasks assigned to them as well as task delivery dates
• If you are a project lead, make sure business partners are aware of the status of your project deliverables, including those assigned to other team members
• Meet with business partners weekly to discuss delivery tasks
• Decide which tasks you will work on each day and for how long
• Identify tasks you do that shouldn?t be done in our organization
• Identify tasks that can be made more efficient
• Identify tasks that can be automated and given to business partners

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor?s degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Finance or related business discipline
• Advanced Excel with the ability to create formulas, V-look ups, pivot tables.
• A broad-based knowledge of actuarial business functions and statistical methods of analysis and technical acumen with computer tools and technology
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with technical/ non-technical audiences
• Comfortable dealing with both complexity and ambiguity, and able to explore multiple solutions to a problem
• General knowledge of the life and annuity industry and products
• Demonstrated ability to build excel models
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and with a group
• Demonstrated ability to work remotely as part of a team

The Ideal Qualifications

• Ability to work at both the 10,000 foot level and in the weeds and to switch between the two as needed
• Business acumen, decision making and presentation skills
• Leadership skills

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with the Product Management Team
• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
• Access to mentorship opportunities
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical nosiness with industry leading pay and benefits