Business Unit Overview:
The Life Advanced Competitive Solutions team within Product Solutions supports New York Life's strategic efforts to compete and win in the life insurance marketplace. The team provides deep product expertise, competitive intelligence, and strategic insights that enhance field effectiveness and inform broader business decisions. As a critical partner to multiple stakeholders across the enterprise, the team delivers high-impact case support, competitive positioning, and industry trend analysis.
Role Overview:
As a Life Competitive Solutions Analyst, your primary focus will be delivering timely, accurate, and expert-level case support for New York Life Agents, field managers, and third-party distribution field directors. You will analyze how competitor products are designed relative to NYL products, assess complex case dynamics, and equip the field with clear and actionable positioning strategies. This role is critical in helping agents navigate competitive sales situations while strengthening New York Life's market presence.
What You'll Do:
- Provide individualized competitive case analysis for agents, field leaders, and third-party distribution including product comparisons, scenario modeling, and positioning recommendations.
- Respond to inbound inquiries via phone, email, and virtual meetings, delivering strong subject-matter expertise on life insurance product features and competitive dynamics.
- Develop clear, concise supporting materials such as case summaries, product comparisons, and agent-ready talking points.
- Collaborate with partners in Life Insurance Solutions Product Development, Product Management, and Competitive Intelligence to ensure alignment on insights and messaging.
- Monitor competitor actions, regulatory changes, and industry trends to support ongoing case work and field communications.
What You'll Bring:
- Strong understanding of individual life insurance products and competitive product features.
- Ability to analyze complex information and translate it into clear, actionable recommendations for field partners.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for agent and management audiences.
- Strong attention to detail and comfort working in fast-turnaround environments.
- Proven ability to manage multiple cases simultaneously and deliver high-quality work under time pressure.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in life insurance competitive intelligence, product management, or field-facing product support.
- FINRA Series 6 (or willingness to obtain).
- Familiarity with NYL's distribution model and sales processes within both Agency and Third-Party.
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $97,500-$139,500
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Please note: This role requires FINRA licensed and/or FINRA Associated Person pre-hire fingerprinting.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you'll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what's next, and your growth powers it.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.
Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
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Job Requisition ID: 93026
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What We Do
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of integrity, mutuality, and financial strength fuels a future defined by bold transformation.
As the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S., we operate on behalf of our policy owners—not shareholders. That structure allows us to take a long-term view, investing in people, purpose, and innovation that endures.
Guided by a clear enterprise vision to become a technology-, data-, and AI-powered company, we’re modernizing our platforms, rearchitecting experiences, and embedding intelligence across our products and services.
Our mission has always been about helping people through life’s most meaningful moments. Today, technology is amplifying that mission—enabling us to serve clients, advisors, and communities in more personalized, proactive ways.
With a diversified business portfolio spanning insurance, investments, retirement, group benefits, and direct-to-consumer offerings, New York Life delivers the stability of a Fortune 100 company with the agility of one that’s continuously evolving.
We’re powered by a values-led culture, inclusive teams, and a shared belief that when our people thrive, so does our company. Here, tradition fuels momentum—and your ideas, energy, and growth power what’s next.
Why Work With Us
New York Life is transforming from the inside out—blending 180 years of trust with the velocity of innovation. What makes us different is our culture: grounded in integrity, humanity, and shared success—values that show up in how we work, lead, and grow. If you want a place where innovation has purpose—build what's next with us.
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