Jobs at Horace Mann

Manage procurement strategies and category management, driving cost savings and supplier performance while overseeing a team and developing sourcing strategies.

Designs, develops, maintains, and improves software applications and business processes. Responsibilities include full lifecycle development, troubleshooting, performance and reliability improvements, CI/CD collaboration, requirements analysis, technology research, package maintenance, portfolio planning, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires independent work, cross-functional collaboration, and strong software development, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Supports enterprise business processes and technology systems by eliciting and documenting requirements, performing gap and issue analysis, translating business needs into technical specifications, and designing process improvements. Coordinates small to mid-sized projects, monitors deliverables, and ensures solutions meet organizational standards. Acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, facilitates communication, manages requirements throughout delivery, and provides guidance to less experienced staff.

Coordinates technology releases across multiple teams, managing schedules, readiness criteria, change tickets, deployment plans, risks, dependencies, communications, and post-release reviews. Facilitates release planning, Change Advisory Board activities, testing, production deployments, infrastructure readiness, rollback planning, and off-hours implementations. Partners with technical and business stakeholders to ensure releases are approved, deployed, validated, and continuously improved. Requires strong knowledge of software development lifecycles, change management, deployment processes, branching, build management, and Agile and ITIL practices.

Leads enterprise marketing and distribution strategy, analytics, planning, forecasting, investment decisions, and performance management across agent, call center, partnership, and internet channels. Owns lead-funnel analytics, market opportunity modeling, dashboards, KPIs, and executive insights to drive profitable growth. Partners cross-functionally to implement strategies and develops a high-performing strategy and analytics team.

Build and manage an organization-wide developer enablement program, including tiered training, risk overlays, solution intake, compliance tracking, tooling standards, documentation, and technical support. Deliver training, resolve or route developer questions, maintain approved integration and package catalogs, and collaborate with Security, Architecture, Governance, and Data teams to improve development processes and guidance.

The Accountant III prepares insurance-related general ledger entries, reconciliations, payments, financial reports, and statutory statements. The role analyzes reinsurance data, supports tax and audit requests, coordinates state filings, investigates reconciling items, and assists with accounting projects, software conversions, validation, and testing. It also identifies opportunities to improve and automate accounting processes while applying GAAP, statutory, and company accounting policies.

Lead an IT software engineering and support team responsible for digital platform stability, defect resolution, incidents, and system enhancements. Prioritize requests based on business value, urgency, and feasibility; communicate trade-offs and timelines to stakeholders; establish support and ticketing processes; analyze defect trends; and drive continuous improvement. Champion team adoption of agentic AI coding tools, prompt and context engineering, reusable integrations, and evidence-based verification of AI-generated work.

Leads, coaches, and develops new insurance agents as they establish sustainable agencies. Provides field coaching, sales execution, business planning, performance management, market-development guidance, and data-driven performance analysis. Partners with recruiting and internal teams to support agent transitions, growth, profitability, and accountability. Requires extensive travel to agent markets and active Property & Casualty and Life & Health licenses.

Supports enterprise business processes and technology systems by eliciting and documenting requirements, conducting gap and issue analysis, translating business needs into technical specifications, and designing process improvements. Coordinates small to mid-sized projects, monitors deliverables, manages requirements throughout the SDLC, and serves as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams. The role also facilitates collaboration, supports strategic initiatives, and guides less experienced staff.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and supports enterprise software applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, APIs, and related technologies. Owns application performance, reliability, scalability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Serves as a technical subject matter expert, contributes to architecture and technology decisions, partners with DevOps on CI/CD automation, and mentors engineers. Collaborates with business stakeholders, product owners, vendors, and project teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

The Domain Managing Architect leads architectural strategies in digital domains, ensuring technology solutions align with organizational goals, including cloud adoption and AI governance.