HeadofPurchaseandUnderwritingTransformation

We are seeking a **strategic, ambitious, and entrepreneurial leader** to serve as **Head of Purchase & Underwriting Transformation**, a highly visible **leadership role** responsible for shaping and delivering the future of Guardian’s purchase experience and underwriting capabilities across Life, Disability, and Annuity products. This program plays a foundational role in Guardian Financial Protection and Retirement Solutions’ (FPRS) Journey-to-30 strategy. Our objective is clear—make purchasing protection and retirement solutions frictionless by minimizing evidence requirements using third party data and develop machine learning models to make pricing more dynamic and granular. Offer turnaround times should take minutes rather than weeks or months with little to no effort required by an applicant and no rework when applying for multiple coverages. In this role, you will lead the **strategic modernization of the purchase and underwriting ecosystem** , helping define the long‑range vision for how customers, advisors, and colleagues experience the application, risk management, and policy activation journeys. You will partner with senior leaders to translate this bold vision into a multiyear roadmap with prioritized work efforts aligned with measurable outcomes, powered by modern platforms, advanced data, automation, and AI‑enabled decisioning. In addition to managing a team of transformation consultants, product managers, and product owners aligned to the various systems, you will work across business units and corporate functions to deliver material improvements in advisor productivity, prospect conversion, operational efficiency, and risk outcomes. This will include collaborating with colleagues across Product, Pricing, and Underwriting, Distribution, Data & Technology, and Data Science, amongst other important functional stakeholders. A successful candidate will set bold strategic direction, delivering a clear and compelling business case, and aligning investments a