Jobs at Horace Mann

Leads Supplemental and Group insurance priorities from strategy through execution. Manages complex cross-functional initiatives, establishes plans, milestones, ownership, and success measures, and develops recommendations for leadership. Partners across product, distribution, marketing, operations, technology, legal, compliance, finance, and customer experience. Leads and develops a small team, supports commercialization and business readiness, removes execution barriers, manages risks and dependencies, and improves processes and ways of working.

Manage full-cycle recruitment across multiple business areas, advising hiring managers, developing sourcing and selection strategies, screening candidates, coordinating interviews, supporting offers and background checks, and ensuring compliant, inclusive hiring practices. The role also promotes the employer brand through job postings, social media content, career fairs, and recruiting events while maintaining a strong candidate experience.

Conducts quality audits across insurance operations, including customer service, new business, underwriting, and policy services. Reviews work for accuracy, completeness, and compliance; documents findings; identifies trends, root causes, and process gaps; provides feedback to leaders; and supports corrective actions, audit program development, regulatory alignment, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Leads Supplemental and Group analytics and business intelligence initiatives, manages and develops analysts, defines KPIs, oversees dashboards and reporting, and translates complex data into strategic recommendations. Partners with business leaders and enterprise Data and Technology teams on data governance, quality, warehouse initiatives, and transformation. Drives cross-functional operational improvements, communicates insights to senior leadership, and ensures analytics support reliable, actionable decision-making.

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.

Lead software quality assurance across multiple projects and business areas. Develop test strategies, coordinate functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing, manage defects and risks, assess release readiness, and oversee onshore and offshore QA resources. Mentor analysts, improve QA governance and processes, expand automation and AI-assisted testing, prepare quality reporting, and collaborate with business, development, product, and project stakeholders.

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.

Leads Horace Mann’s national Exclusive Agent sales channel across insurance and financial services. Owns sales performance, profitable growth, retention, productivity, agent recruiting and engagement, territory strategy, channel modernization, compensation, and agency economics. Builds and develops a distributed field leadership organization, establishes performance systems, drives CRM and digitally enabled selling, and partners cross-functionally to align enterprise priorities and strengthen service to educators.

Supports investment portfolio administration, reporting, risk and compliance monitoring, trade and valuation review, private asset pricing, and alternative investment operations. Compiles Board and Investment & Finance reports, monitors regulatory requirements, coordinates subscription documentation, and maintains front- and middle-office procedures supporting SOX compliance, disaster recovery, and process improvement. Partners with investment managers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to resolve operational issues and ensure accurate investment data.

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.

Senior IT leader responsible for leading a 30+ developer application development organization across multiple insurance lines. Owns modernization, legacy reduction, AI-enabled application delivery, cloud architecture, vendor evaluations, and roadmap alignment with business stakeholders while developing engineering managers and driving cross-line transformation.

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

The Financial Advisor will develop comprehensive financial plans, make investment recommendations, provide client support through reviews, and analyze life insurance and annuity options.