WoodmenLife

Procurement

• Develop and implement sourcing and purchasing strategies and practices aligned with organizational objectives and financial metrics.
• Establish and manage processes for vendor identification, evaluation, selection, and risk assessment, including determining when Request for Proposal (RFP) should be initiated for existing vendors.
• Provide guidance to vendor relationship managers and division leaders on sourcing and purchasing to ensure cost efficiency, compliance and strategic alignment.
• Lead direct and/or indirect team members to engage proactively with vendor relationship managers in determining renewal decisions or assessing potential vendor replacements.
• Collaborate with legal, enterprise risk management, and executive leadership to ensure contract compliance, risk mitigation and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Support vendor relationship managers in building and maintaining strong vendor partnerships that drive performance, innovation, and compliance.
• Lead vendor negotiations to secure favorable terms, pricing, and service-level agreements.
• Oversee the contract lifecycle, ensuring timely drafting, review, negotiation, and renewal of vendor contracts.
• Use the central repository to manage vendor contracts and renewal timelines.
• Monitor supplier performance, assess risk, and address issues promptly.
• Optimize procurement budgets, implement cost-saving initiatives, and drive process improvements.
• Track and report on procurement KPIs to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Maintain and present market analysis to IT and business leaders regarding innovative product, solution and service opportunities.
• Advance the organization’s skills that support business agility, speed and risk management through automation or the adoption of new technology and leveraging internal and external data sources.

Director of Procurement

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Act as the primary FP&A partner to assigned business leaders, supporting them in setting, monitoring, and managing operating budgets
• Develop a strong understanding of key expense drivers, including:
• Staffing and organizational design
• Vendor relationships
• Technology and systems
• Strategic and operational initiatives
• Provide insight and constructive challenge on:
• Cost trends and emerging risks
• Budget variances and root causes
• Opportunities for efficiency or reinvestment
• Support leaders in identifying, quantifying, and tracking expense management initiatives against established targets
• Support the annual budgeting process by coordinating inputs from business leaders and ensuring alignment with enterprise financial goals
• Prepare rolling forecasts and expense outlooks, incorporating:
• Emerging trends
• Business decisions
• Changes in assumptions
• Analyze actual results versus budget and forecast, clearly explaining drivers and implications to business partners
• Assist in the development of multi‑year expense plans aligned with strategic objectives and growth expectations
• Partner with FP&A leadership, actuarial, and accounting teams to support the development of a 3‑ to 5‑year financial plan, including:
• Expense trajectories
• Profitability considerations
• Capital and scale implications
• Identify and model key financial levers affecting long‑term performance, such as:
• Scale and growth
• Productivity and efficiency
• Expense mix
• Business and assumption sensitivity
• Develop clear, decision‑oriented analyses that help leaders understand the financial implications of strategic and operational decisions
• Support scenario and sensitivity analysis related to:
• Expense levels
• Organizational changes
• Strategic initiatives
• Contribute to executive‑level materials summarizing:
• Expense performance
• Key risks and opportunities
• Forward‑looking insights

Budget Analyst

Director

• Establish operational standards, governance routines, and performance expectations for TPA partners.
• Drive disciplined execution of service delivery, ensuring adherence to defined processes, timelines, and quality standards.
• Ensure alignment of TPA services with operational priorities, service models, and customer experience expectations.
• Develop and maintain a performance management framework, including SLAs, KPIs and scorecards with clear targets and expectations.
• Establish and enforce standardized operating rhythms, including performance reviews and issue escalation protocols.
• Monitor and analyze vendor performance data to ensure consistent achievement of service, quality, and financial metrics.
• Hold vendors accountable through structured performance reviews and enforcement of contractual obligations.
• Establish continuous improvement expectations with TPAs to enhance efficiency, quality, and our cost position.
• Document and ensure lessons learned and best practices are captured and consistently applied.
• Oversee vendor contracts to ensure clear alignment between performance expectations and financial outcomes.
• Partner with Finance to manage cost and identify opportunities to optimize vendor spend.
• Partner with Procurement and Legal on contract negotiations, renewals, and performance-based adjustments.
• Proactively identify and mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks associated with vendor performance.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for TPA performance, providing clear visibility and escalation to senior leadership
• Partner with key business stakeholders, technology partners, and senior leaders to ensure alignment between vendor performance and business needs.
• Provide clear, data-driven reporting on vendor performance, risks, and improvement actions.
• Lead with a hands-on and metrics-driven mindset, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and aligned with business objectives.

Director, TPA Vendor Relations

Actuary

• contribute to the growth and financial soundness of the organization by assisting actuarial functions that support WoodmenLife’s Strategic Finance & Risk team
• Researches and compiles data with acceptable levels of accuracy and efficiency that are used in financial solutions
• participation on a cross-division or cross-function project team
• Meets expectations for attendance and punctuality in accordance with the expectations established by your supervisor and WoodmenLife policy
• Performs other duties as assigned by management

Senior Actuarial Analyst

Business Analyst

• Lead thorough analyses of business processes, identifying strategic opportunities for improvement and automation and making the necessary changes to any documented procedures.
• Collaborate with and lead cross-functional teams to develop and implement solutions that align with strategic business objectives.
• Advise on the design, development, assessment, and implementation of organizational management projects, policies, and/or procedures.
• Analyze data to identify trends, opportunities and potential risks.
• Provide management with strategic solutions to increase efficiency and achieve operational goals.
• Acts as a change agent to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Conduct feasibility studies and cost-benefit analyses to evaluate potential projects, focusing on strategic alignment and impact.
• Be a subject matter expert (SME) across multiple areas of focus to provide guidance on potential work being introduced and for the lean business case. Understanding upstream and downstream impacts.
• As the SME of area of focus, partner with and lead Agile teams to define requirements and test cases.
• Validate that a solution based on the requirements will meet customer needs and achieve the business objectives.
• Partner with Agile team to identify test cases that meet the User Acceptance Testing.
• Mentor and guide junior business analysts.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Business Analyst II

• Assist the following actuarial functions: Pricing, Product Development, Product Administration, Illustration Actuary Compliance and Illustration System Administration, Refund Determination and Inforce Product Management, Financial Projections, including Enterprise Value Projections, Valuation and Financial Reporting, Experience Studies, Reinsurance, and Risk Management.
• May assist in the training of other associates.
• Participate on a division or cross-functional project team or committee.
• Meets expectations for attendance and punctuality as per supervisor and WoodmenLife policy.
• Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Assistant Actuary

Human Resources

• Serve as a primary point of contact for associates, retirees, and sales representatives regarding benefit programs.
• Respond to benefit-related phone calls, emails, and inquiries.
• Research and resolve routine complex benefit issues and discrepancies.
• Educate associates on available health, welfare, disability, life insurance, wellness, pension, and 401(k) benefits.
• Process benefit enrollments, qualifying life events, and coverage changes.
• Administer COBRA benefits for terminated associates and sales representatives.
• Coordinate disability benefit administration and return-to-work activities.
• Manage monthly benefits billing activities.
• Audit enrollment, payroll, vendor, and billing data to ensure accuracy.
• Maintain strong relationships with insurance carriers, benefit vendors, brokers, and consultants.

Benefits Specialist, Senior

Product Manager

• Drives the execution of the program vision as a participant within a support or enterprise project development team.
• Reviews and contributes to the program vision, Roadmap, and content presentations in preparation for Program Increment Planning.
• Assesses product usefulness and explains functionality to users.
• Coordinates resolutions that involve system or application-level changes for incidents reported by the business.
• Monitors new features and releases, and coordinates with Business Technology and stakeholders to plan and initiate upgrades.
• Acts as a liaison between the development team, stakeholders, and senior leadership in defining product features and user stories necessary to execute the program vision.
• In partnership with the Product Manager, System Architect/Engineering and key Stakeholders, responsible for managing the backlog and prioritizing stories for future implementation.
• Negotiates scope, priority, commitments, and schedule as needed in relation to all work within the backlog from multiple stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Inspects and evaluates product progress through each iteration- demos and determines whether the final product is acceptable.
• Participates in agile ceremonies such as program increment planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews to provide input on sprint accomplishments.
• Collaborates with other WoodmenLife product owners to exchange ideas on necessary product features.
• Understands how related project risks, assumptions, dependencies, or constraints can impact the delivery team and overall release plan.
• Based on the platform, may perform functional level configurations within the product. Sets and adapts administrative rules for product usage; monitors and reports on product usage, performance, and productivity.
• Sets up users and assigns rights to users within the product. Creates user level and administrative level workflows within the product.
• Meets expectations for attendance and punctuality in accordance with the expectations established by your manager and WoodmenLife policy.
• Performs other duties as assigned by management and/or occasional tasks to help the dev team meet their release commitments.
• Abides by all company security policies and procedures.

Product Owner

Cloud Engineer

• Lead the evolution of our enterprise Azure platform
• Define cloud strategy and establish enterprise standards
• Guide modernization efforts
• Ensure platform enables secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology solutions
• Serve as Product Owner for the Nimbus Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE)
• Drive cloud adoption, platform maturity, governance, and reusable capabilities
• Collaborate with senior technology leaders and partner with enterprise stakeholders for cloud initiatives
• Mentor architects and engineering teams
• Promote best practices, standards, and support continuous learning
• Enable consistent cloud practices across delivery teams

Cloud Architect

Administrative Assistant

• This position has a 4/1 hybrid schedule (Friday remote)
• Responsible for a variety of administrative functions within a designated business unit.
• Responsible for confidential and time sensitive material.
• Prepares routine and advanced correspondence including letters, memoranda, and reports.
• Acts as a point of contact for financial matters with Departments of Insurance and External Auditor(s).
• Coordinates all activities of the Corporate Social Responsibility committee and all related processes.
• Point person for external auditors, coordinating on site meetings and visits, serves as a liaison between WoodmenLife employees and auditors, disseminating needs list to internal associates and providing supporting documentation to auditors.
• Manage the Corporate Credit Card program, ensuring cards are issued/increased/decreased upon proper approval, cancelled upon termination and fraud claims are processed timely.
• Manage the review and updates to the AML policies, procedures, and tracking of non-equivalent payments to ensure WoodmenLife is in compliance with the US Department of Treasury in conjunction with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act regulations. Assists the AML Compliance Officer as needed.
• Assists as a point person for Department of Insurance financial examiners, coordinating gathering of supporting documentation from the planning questionnaire, coordinating on site meetings and serves as a liaison between WoodmenLife employees and DOI Examiners.
• Provide a full range of administrative support to seven members of the leadership team, such as arranging travel, maintaining Outlook calendars, scheduling meetings, answering and screening calls and assisting with workflow.
• Provide assistance to staff, managers and senior-level officers as needed.
• Performs specialized administrative duties required to support the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, using discretion to make judgements based on operating guidelines. Serves as the liaison between WoodmenLife and charitable organizations. Coordinates marketing material and sponsorship attendance as needed.
• Manage the Employee Gift Match program, approving and declining requests as outlined in the guidelines, and making timely payments upon donation request.
• Manage the Employee Membership Drive process, attaining discount offers, communicating employee benefits, processing payments to finalize membership purchases.
• Meets expectations for attendance and punctuality in accordance with the expectations established by your supervisor and Woodmen policy.
• Plans, prioritizes manage calendars for Vice President, Directors and Managers via Outlook. Makes decisions daily regarding calendar conflicts.
• Effectively utilizes numerous communication tools both in person (live and telephone) and digital (use of email, Teams etc) to ensure all documentation data is collected and clearly understood.

Accounting Administrative Coordinator

• Design, build, and evolve WoodmenLife’s Azure cloud platform
• Partner closely with Cloud Architect and Enterprise Architecture teams to operationalize cloud standards and deliver reusable engineering patterns
• Lead design and engineering of complex Microsoft Azure platform solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards
• Own and evolve one or more Azure platform domains such as identity, networking, governance, or DevOps pipelines
• Integrate hybrid cloud environments leveraging Azure networking and identity services
• Lead Infrastructure as Code development using Bicep (primary), PowerShell, and Azure CLI
• Advance Azure Landing Zone components (governance, identity, network, security) to support enterprise-scale, secure-by-default environments
• Enhance cloud observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and App Insights to improve proactive detection and response
• Implement cost optimization and financial transparency practices aligned to business outcomes, including tagging, budgeting, and usage analytics
• Lead efforts to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud resource utilization and platform performance
• Lead development of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and modern Git-based workflows
• Build automation frameworks that streamline provisioning, monitoring, and operational tasks
• Mentor Systems Engineers and technical peers across the organization, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and high performance
• Implement Azure governance controls (Azure Policy, RBAC, resource organization)
• Ensure secure-by-default configurations aligned with enterprise security standards
• Lead planning and implementation of cloud-based Business Continuity and DR strategies

Cloud Engineer III

General

• Provides leadership in marketing and promotion of mutual funds, 529’s, annuity products and any other approved products through WFS.
• Provides leadership and guidance to sales representatives.
• Assists sales representatives in presenting and assisting in sales by directly participating on sales calls.
• Develops, supports and trains sales representatives on initiatives and strategies.
• Supports sales growth by providing direct support to sales representatives.
• Responsible for promoting and educating non-licensed reps on the opportunity and benefits of getting securities licensed to grow the organization.
• Provides sales education to WoodmenLife Sales Representatives on fixed indexed annuities offered through Woodmen Insurance Agency by carriers that are not affiliated with WoodmenLife.
• Conducts outbound training webinars, PowerPoints and telephone calls to sales representatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned by Management.
• Meets expectations for attendance and punctuality in accordance with the expectations established by the supervisor and WoodmenLife policy.

Internal Wholesaler

• Provides administrative and operational support to Sales Managers and Home Office Sales Leadership.
• Serves as a resource regarding departmental policies, procedures, systems, and processes for associates and business partners.
• Organizes, prepares, and maintains reports, presentations, correspondence, spreadsheets, dashboards, and other business documents utilizing various office technologies and software applications.
• Coordinates recurring and ad hoc sales reports, ensuring information is accurate and distributed in a timely manner.
• Maintains calendars for Sales Managers, schedules meetings, and coordinates meeting logistics, agendas, materials, and follow-up activities.
• Coordinates travel arrangements and prepares expense reports in accordance with company policies.
• Facilitates communication between Sales Management, field leadership, agents, Home Office departments, and external business partners.
• Screens telephone calls, emails, correspondence, and meeting requests, responding independently when appropriate and escalating matters as needed.
• Composes and prepares correspondence, communications, meeting summaries, and presentation materials from general direction.
• Organizes and maintains files, records, meeting notes, project documentation, and other departmental information.
• Tracks action items, projects, and strategic initiatives to ensure timely completion and follow-up.
• Assists with planning and coordination of sales meetings, leadership meetings, training events, conferences, recognition programs, and special events.
• Supports the preparation and distribution of sales communications, announcements, newsletters, and departmental updates.
• Coordinates workflow between Sales Management and internal departments to ensure timely processing of requests, reports, approvals, and initiatives.
• Maintains confidentiality of sensitive business information and exercises sound judgment in handling matters of importance.
• Identifies opportunities to improve administrative processes, communication flow, and team efficiency.
• Provides support for special projects and other duties as assigned.

Senior Administrative Assistant

Office Coordinator

• Provides advanced, confidential administrative and operational support to the Sr. VP of Sales, Directors of Sales and Sales Management team.
• Manages calendars, schedules appointments, coordinates meetings, prepares agendas and materials, and records follow-up items.
• Coordinates, prepares and distributes reports, correspondence, memos, presentations, special reports and other documents.
• Serves as a liaison between Sales Management, Regional Directors, Recruiting Sales Managers, and other business partners.
• Coordinates travel arrangements, meeting logistics and expense vouchers as requested.
• Receives and screens telephone calls, emails, letters and visitors; responds to routine and non-routine requests for information.
• Organizes and maintains electronic files, records, correspondence and Sales Management materials in accordance with established procedures.
• Organizes and expedites the flow of work, reports, requests and communications through the Sales Management office.

Analytics Engineer

• Design and develop AI/ML solutions aligned with business objectives
• Build and deploy RAG augmented CoPilots into enterprise production environments
• Develop data pipelines and infrastructure to support AI workloads
• Monitor model performance and implement continuous improvements
• Ensure AI solutions meet security, compliance, and governance standards
• Design and integrate Agentic processes into enterprise systems and workflows
• Maintain and optimize data pipelines for training and inference
• Monitor model accuracy, drift, and performance metrics
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and best practice development
• Build prototypes, MVPs, and production-ready AI applications
• Develop agentic workflows and intelligent automation solutions
• Implement APIs and services for agent integration
• Apply AIOps/MLOps practices for deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• Partner with Data Teams, IT, and business stakeholders
• Contribute to enterprise AI strategy and adoption
• Stay current with emerging AI tools and technologies
• Promote responsible AI practices including fairness, explainability, and compliance