Consultant, Unum Ventures

When you join the team at Unum you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout lifes 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

And thats just the beginning

With 10000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether youre directly supporting a growing family or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others and join Team Unum today!

The Consultant Unum Ventures will manage a portfolio of early-stage startups participating in The Foundry serving as a trusted advisor as founders strengthen their businesses and prepare for successful enterprise partnerships. This role will help startups identify and address growth and readiness gaps establish and track key milestones navigate Unums requirements and resources and build relationships with relevant internal stakeholders. The Consultant will combine startup advisory relationship management and program execution to help portfolio companies make meaningful progress while supporting Unum Ventures strategic priorities.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing a portfolio of early-stage startups serving as a trusted advisor to founders and helping them define priorities establish milestones and make measurable progress toward enterprise readiness.
• Develop a deep understanding of each startups business model product customer needs and growth challenges. Provide guidance and coaching to help founders strengthen their offering refine their strategy and prepare to engage successfully with enterprise customers.
• Connect startups with subject matter experts mentors advisors and internal stakeholders who can help address key business product operational or enterprise readiness challenges.
• Serve as subject matter expert for strategic intelligence in supporting Ventures teams conducting market industry and competitive research to help founders and Ventures teams identify opportunities risks and emerging trends.
• Facilitate regular portfolio reviews and stakeholder engagement sessions to align startup objectives program milestones and strategic opportunities with Unum priorities.
• Partner with internal teams across the business to help startups understand strategy demand enterprise requirements and navigate potential pathways to partnership pilot or commercial engagement.
• Manage startup progress through a structured portfolio management framework tracking milestones identifying risks and growth opportunities measuring enterprise readiness and ensuring startups receive the support needed to advance through the Ventures ecosystem.
• Support startup sourcing evaluation and onboarding activities providing insights on founder strengths business readiness strategic fit and potential opportunities for engagement across Unum Ventures.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

• Bachelors degree required.
• 3-5 years of experience in startups consulting venture programs accelerator/incubator environments innovation product strategy business development or related fields.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with internal stakeholders to oversee partnership operational connections.
• Entrepreneurial mindset; a self-starter with a problem-solving orientation
• Excellent written and oral communication skills both in presentation style with large groups and informally with smaller groups
• Ability to think and act both strategically and tactically.
• Driven self-motivated a consultative nature and a great problem solver.
• Proven ability to negotiate influence and persuade with internal and external partners.
• Comfortable working with stakeholders across the organization with varied levels of seniority
• Strong relationship management/conflict management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills. Must possess a positive professional company image to external customers.

Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga TN with international offices in Ireland Poland and the UK Unum also has significant operations in Portland ME and Baton Rouge LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia SC with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring placement and advancement without regard to a persons race color religion national origin age genetic information military status gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description actual pay will be based on skill geographical location and experience.

$75500.00-$142700.00

Additionally Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health vision dental) insurance benefits (short & long-term disability) performance-based incentive plans paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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