Director, LTC Client Engagement

Location: Portland, Maine, USA

Job Posting End Date: November 26

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Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

Award-winning culture

Inclusion and diversity as a priority

Performance Based Incentive Plans

Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability

Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

Mental health support

Career advancement opportunities

Student loan repayment options

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work environments

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…

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General Summary

The Director, Client Engagement leads the Long Term Care (LTC) Client Engagement team that supports our group and/or individual policyholders, with a primary focus on developing and executing strategic engagement initiatives in line with Unum’s closed block LTC strategy.

This role acts as a strategic partner across the Home Office, Field leadership, and broker organizations, ensuring alignment on engagement priorities and advancing a proactive, education-focused approach to managing client needs. The Director identifies emerging trends, shapes & implements scalable engagement strategies, and influences cross-functional decisions to drive appropriate risk-based outcomes.

The Director also oversees the evolution of the Client Engagement model and leads a team of professionals, ensuring strong capability, accountability, and alignment to business priorities. Through cross-functional collaboration and leadership of strategic initiatives, this role ensures the function delivers consistent, high-quality outcomes that support enterprise goals.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Efficiently recruit, manage, develop and motivate a team responsible for supporting all levels of the Field Office, brokers and clients as needed

Ownership for certain aspects of servicing of in-force customers, with appropriate collaboration with field and partners outside of own business area

Creating, testing and refining new approaches to our strategy to improve overall performance and sharing best practices

Embrace and lead change to improve workflow, enhance customer service and reduce operating costs

Leverage strong internal partnerships to find service resolutions and make it easy for our clients to do business with Unum

Instill a sense of urgency in others and ensure that field partners, brokers and clients are getting the level of responsiveness and service they expect

Provide strategic direction to team and partners as new processes, products, systems or platforms are developed

Ensure collective ownership of talent effectiveness across the teams with accountability for candid exchange of feedback that motivates and rewards high performers and ensures calibration of assessment

Identification of trends within teams and oversee the consistent implementation of creative strategies (e.g. training) to ensure team is knowledgeable and customer focused

Proactively identify and research problems or trends and develop and implement resolutions independently or partnering with internal connects as needed

Participate in a strategic leadership capacity in the analysis, design, development and delivery of Home Office driven projects

Initiate and drive continuous improvement efforts around key business processes

Keep abreast of Business and workflow changes in all supported organizations and implement workflow changes accordingly

Ensure that the highest level of quality is maintained

Perform other duties as assigned

Additional Locations: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, Columbia, South Carolina, USA