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Strategic Research Communications Lead
Reinsurance Group of America
Chesterfield, MO, United States
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Position Overview
RGA Empowers Employees. It’s one thing to hire smart people, it’s another to empower them. This is one of the most important differences between RGA and its competitors. RGA empowers its employees to use their intelligence and creativity to find solutions for its customers. To be proactive in their approach to bringing value to our customers.
The Strategic Research Communications Lead is an innovative communicator who develops quantitative and qualitative research for strategic business initiatives and emerging areas of interest. Leverages research findings to create thought-leadership content, professional reports and presentations which build brand awareness, introduce research capabilities, support commercialization opportunities and exemplify RGA’s expertise.
Responsibilities
• Leads cross-functional research capabilities for emerging strategic research initiatives.
• Coordinates resources, synthesizes findings, organizes materials for reuse, proactively assesses team research needs, and effectively leverages insights for content development.
• Proactively researches innovative and disruptive technologies, products, and consumer behavioral patterns to predict trends, quantify the possibilities of impact to the market, and identify market shifts relevant to business initiatives.
• Develops industry subject content by researching and authoring white papers and thought- leadership pieces to build brand awareness and exemplify RGA’s expertise and capabilities.
• Acquires relevant facts, figures and metrics to assist in market sizing and effective evaluation of ideas and concepts.
• Develops research findings to support evaluation of partnership potential.
• Maintains a network of relevant research support tools to effectively produce a variety of research findings.
• Proactively liaises with global business units to provide research support.
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Education and Experience
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in business, library science, communications, English, liberal arts or equivalent.
• 7+ years’ experience in research and content development.
Preferred:
• Master’s degree
Skills and Abilities
Required:
• Highly advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge
• Self-motivated creative and collaborative capabilities
• Ability to ‘translate’ insurance concepts to people from diverse backgrounds and experience
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and collaborate with others
• Highly advanced investigative, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects
• Expert ability to balance detail with departmental goals/objectives
• General business knowledge
• Ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
• Ability to manage multiple projects or teams and set applicable goals
• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines
• Advanced interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to work effectively with different disciplines, including regional offices, USMM, GRDA, RGAx, Underwriting, Medical, Marketing, Corporate Communications, and IT
• Project management skills. Demonstrates an ability to evaluate project objectives and effectively communicate progress to a broad set of stakeholders.
• Manage external research support network to ensure quality and timely results from contracted resources.
• Effective ability to organize and share research findings with a large variety of audiences using internal collaboration tools such as Sharepoint, Box, and Yammer.
Company Overview
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA) is one of the largest global providers of life reinsurance, with offices around the world. RGA delivers expert solutions in individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting and product development. Our mission is to enhance our clients’ prosperity by supporting their financial and risk management capabilities.
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