**Salary Range** : $105,700 - $158,500 Annual **Job Details** The stated pay range is based on a national-average location. Actual salary is determined by factors including relevant work experience, skills, and location. This position is bonus eligible. Optavise, a CNO Financial Group Company is seeking a Program Manager, Field Development to be accountable for the thought leadership, strategy development, project management, design, delivery, and overall effectiveness of sales and leadership development programs. This position partners with the Optavise Career Agency (OCA) and CNO Business Unit leaders to provide programs that help drive sales growth, recruiting, retention and compliance. This is your opportunity to set the bar for a rapidly growing division of CNO Financial Group. While some companies are maintaining status quo, we’re scaling up. **As a Program Manager, Field Development,** **your responsibilities will include:** + Design and implement a wide variety of learning and development initiatives using proven sources of content, best practices in training design and diverse delivery methods to address skills and development for associates within the OCA. + Facilitate delivery of sales training and learning and development content, including, but not limited to: in-person classroom instruction, live virtual training, and in-market field demonstration for OCA Field Managers. + Build and maintain working relationships with stakeholders to understand business goals to identify development needs and solutions, and to ensure initiatives are aligned. + Implement project plans for program development and transition to attain desired outcomes and accomplish objectives including ideation, project management, budget oversight and change management. + Measure the ongoing effectiveness of programs against key business objectives; includes learning approach, program content, and relevant KPIs. + Research and implement new assessment and feedback tools to provide stronger development insights and feedback loop for learners. + Provide an outside-in approach to the CNO learning strategy by leveraging industry best practices, innovation, competitive insight, and successful change management techniques to successfully partner with field leadership and business unit leaders. + Ability to work, collaborate, and contribute to overall mission of the team; working across strategy team and development areas to deliver results in non-hierarchical environment. **The Program Manager, Field Development position** **is well-suited for you if you:** + Possess solid sales training facilitation skills, including in-market demonstration of sales techniques with field leaders. + Understand Learning and Development principles including program consulting and design thinking. + Translate strategic goals into appropriate development programs, and to meet and manage the changing priorities of the organization. + Manage multiple and shifting priorities in a fast-paced and challenging environment. + Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. + Demonstrate strong program/project management skills, specifically regarding developing sales and sales management programs. + Have experience launching new sales growth programs that require significant rep/agent behavior change and adoption. + Effectively influence others to adopt new ways of working. + Design and scale selling systems through distribution teams. **What you’ll need:** + High School Diploma + 7 years of experience in Organization Effectiveness, Program/Project Management, or Leadership Development. + Ability and Willingness to travel up to 30% to interact with OCA sales teams. + Experience leading field and live virtual training. + Strong oral and written communication skills with excellent interpersonal skills. **What will set you apart:** + Bachelor’s degree. + Active Insurance License in resident state or ability to attain. + Proven insurance sales expertise and experience opening new accounts and coaching others to do the same. + 7+ years of experience in the worksite/voluntary benefits market. + 5 years of sales training experience, both classroom and field training. + Track-record of successfully leading sales teams. + Worksite/Voluntary benefits product and underwriting knowledge. The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: + medical insurance + dental insurance + vision insurance + 401(k) retirement plan with company match + short-term & long-term disability insurance + Paid time-off and corporate holidays, + paid parental leave + company paid life insurance Click on this link for additional information. CNO embraces flexibility and encourages you to work where you’re most productive. Associates who live within a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) have access to come into that office. Associates who live outside of a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) may perform this role full-time work from home (WFH) from any US based location, as long as you are willing to work central or eastern time zone hours. All associates may be asked to travel to varying corporate offices periodically. Work cannot be performed from outside of the United States. Optavise is a trusted benefits partner for business owners and human resources professionals who work hard to build and maintain a healthy, happy workforce. Through Optavise’s cohesive suite of products and services, we guide employers and employees through their healthcare choices to help reduce costs and increase benefits engagement. We streamline administration for employers and educate employees about benefits and care options, making it easy for them to choose and use their benefits wisely. Optavise provides a first-of-its-kind benefits solution, including: + Benefits administration technology for a streamlined enrollment process + Customizable selection of voluntary benefits that employees want and need + Year-round benefits education, communications and advocacy to inform and empower employees to become better healthcare consumers + Expert resources, helping employees maximize their benefits and make more informed choices for themselves and their family members. Our goal is to help people make good healthcare decisions. By simplifying administration and making benefits easier to understand, we help drive employee engagement and satisfaction, and save employers time and money. Optavise is the worksite marketing brand of CNO Financial Group. CNO provides life and health insurance, annuities, financial services, and workforce benefits solutions through our family of brands and supported by our associates and agents. Our customers work hard to save for the future, and we help protect their health, income and retirement needs with 3.2 million policies and more than $35 billion in total assets. Our 3,400 associates, 8,600 exclusive agents and independent partner agents guide individuals, families and businesses through a lifetime of financial decisions. We are financially strong and well positioned for continued growth, and we are grounded in our core values of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I); Integrity, Customer Focus, Excellence, and Teamwork. We have offices in more than 260 communities in the U.S., including our headquarters in Carmel, Indiana, and corporate offices in Birmingham, Chicago, Philadelphia, Orlando and Milwaukee. At CNO Financial Group, we’re always looking forward—to the security and stability we help create for our insurance brands’ customers, and the growth we create within our own company. We're looking for ambitious people who want to do more. We'll provide you with opportunities to grow your skills through challenging professional experiences. If you're looking for a culture that encourages development, helps you reach your potential, and rewards you for your contribution, then CNO Financial Group is right for you. For more information, visit CNOinc.com. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. **Compensation** Pay Range: $105,700.00 - $158,500.00 Annual We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. **ReqID** : JR168895 **Job Type** : Full time **Additional Locations** : Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Orlando, FL; Tulsa, OK; Phoenix, AZ; Milwaukee, WI; Dallas, TX;