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Purpose:
The Senior Competitive Intelligence Analyst plays a key role within Athene’s Retail Product Development team, leading the Competitive Intelligence function supporting our U.S. retail annuity business. You’ll transform market, competitor, product, and sales information into actionable insights that influence product strategy, rate-setting decisions, competitive positioning, and new product development across fixed annuity, fixed indexed annuity, and registered index-linked annuity products.You’ll partner across Product, Sales, Marketing, Executive Leadership, and External Communications/Investor Relations to provide timely perspectives on an evolving annuity marketplace. At Athene, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact at scale within a growing retirement services business, supported by our strategic relationship with Apollo and a culture that values innovation, ownership, collaboration, and making things happen.
Accountabilities:
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Own and continuously enhance competitive intelligence reporting and benchmarking across Athene’s core retail annuity product lines, identifying meaningful market movements, competitor actions, emerging trends, and potential opportunities.
Turn complex competitive data into actionable insights and recommendations that inform rate-setting, product positioning, executive discussions, and broader business strategy.
Partner with Product Development and Product Management to incorporate market and competitive perspectives into new product ideation and enhancements to existing products.
Leverage technology, automation, data visualization, and emerging AI capabilities to improve the speed, scalability, and quality of competitive analytics while creating capacity for higher-value analysis and decision support.
Serve as a trusted competitive intelligence resource across the organization, responding to strategic and ad hoc business needs with accurate information, critical thinking, sound judgment, and a clear understanding of business implications.
Build and maintain an external market perspective through relevant industry committees and relationships with market research organizations and third-party providers of product and sales information.
Qualifications and Experience:
What You Need to Bring
5+ years of relevant experience in the annuity or life insurance industry, including competitive intelligence, product development, product management, market analysis, or relevant experience.
Strong knowledge of annuity products, including product features, value propositions, competitive positioning, and the factors influencing customer and distributor decisions.
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex information, identify what matters, and translate data into concise, decision-useful insights and recommendations for audiences including senior leaders.
Strong critical thinking, creativity, and independent judgment, with the adaptability and bias for action to navigate changing priorities, solve problems, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience with database, analytics, or data visualization tools, along with the AI fluency to identify appropriate opportunities to use AI and automation to improve efficiency, analysis, and insight generation.
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, management information systems, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of relevant experience in the annuity or life insurance industry, including competitive intelligence, product development, product management, or market analysis
- Strong knowledge of annuity products, features, value propositions, competitive positioning, and customer and distributor decision factors
- Ability to analyze complex information and translate it into concise, decision-useful insights and recommendations for senior leaders
- Strong critical thinking, creativity, independent judgment, adaptability, and problem-solving ability
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience with database, analytics, or data visualization tools
- Ability to identify opportunities to use AI and automation to improve efficiency, analysis, and insight generation
- Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, management information systems, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Athene Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is highlighted through a strong employer match and structured retirement programs. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful long-term value to total compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off policies span flexible or paid time off, a robust holiday schedule, volunteer time, and paid parental, family care, and military leave. Feedback suggests this breadth is a standout element across many roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include comprehensive health coverage, mental-health support, onsite fitness centers, and one‑on‑one coaching. HQ amenities and wellness perks are positioned as differentiators for on-site employees.
Athene Insights
What We Do
Athene, through its subsidiaries, is a leading retirement services company that issues, reinsures and acquires retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs. The products offered by Athene include: • Retail fixed, fixed indexed and registered index-linked annuity products; • Reinsurance arrangements with third-party annuity providers; and • Institutional products, such as funding agreements and group annuity contracts related to pension risk transfers. Athene's subsidiaries include Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company, a Delaware-domiciled insurance company, Athene Annuity and Life Company, an Iowa-domiciled insurance company, Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York, a New York-domiciled insurance company, Athene Securities, LLC, an Iowa-domiciled registered broker-dealer (member FINRA), and Athene Life Re Ltd., a Bermuda-domiciled reinsurer. -- The financial industry is ripe for change and Athene is leading the way. We’re determined to make retirement easier for you and other Americans by harnessing our passion, smarts and relentless spirit. Learn how to become an Athene financial professional at www.athene.com/contact. If you love a challenge and are driven to succeed, then Athene is your kind of company.
