Competitive Insights Consultant

Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; graduate degree preferred
  • 4+ years of relevant experience in strategy, insights, or consulting; 6+ years ideal
  • Experience in insurance or financial services is a plus
  • Ability to translate complex analyses into clear narratives
  • Strong analytical skills with business judgment
  • Experience with industry data sources like LIMRA, AM Best, S&P
  • Mentoring experience with junior team members

Responsibilities

  • Develop insights on competitive landscape and strategic implications
  • Tailor narratives for senior stakeholders' decision-making
  • Conduct analyses to identify competitive trends and risks
  • Communicate findings to enhance leadership understanding
  • Build relationships across Product, Distribution, and Strategy teams
  • Evolve Competitive Insights capabilities and frameworks
  • Collaborate on maintaining access to key data sources

Benefits

  • Meaningful work within a purpose-driven organization
  • Clear areas of ownership with direct impact
  • Collaborative environment valuing diverse perspectives
  • Access to continuous learning and development opportunities
  • Employee-led communities fostering connection and inclusion
  • A culture grounded in integrity and responsibility
Full Job Description
Competitive Insights Consultant

Strategic Intelligence Team

Full-Time

Boston, MA

The Opportunity

As a Competitive Insights Consultant, you will develop enterprise-level perspectives on the competitive environment and translate complex market and product dynamics into clear, decision-ready narratives. You will synthesize insights across sources, and help leaders assess competitive positioning, emerging risks, and opportunities.

This role partners closely with Product, Distribution, and Corporate Strategy to deliver perspectives that are actionable and impactful. We are looking for a strong problem-solver who brings structured thinking, synthesis, and executive storytelling, and who either brings deep expertise in insurance and financial services markets or is eager to build it.

The Impact

Enterprise Perspective & Narrative Development

  • Develop a cohesive view of the competitive landscape and its strategic implications


  • Tailor narratives to the decisions senior stakeholders are actually making


  • Create actionable outputs that inform and influence decisions


Insight Generation & Strategic Interpretation

  • Identify patterns and trends across competitor activity, market developments, and industry shifts


  • Broaden leadership understanding of opportunities, risks, and strategic choices


  • Lead forward-looking analyses to anticipate changes in the competitive environment


Senior Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

  • Contribute to leadership discussions with clear, well-supported perspectives


  • Communicate findings in a way that builds trust and advances discussion


  • Build strong relationships across Product, Distribution, and Corporate Strategy


Function Leadership & Integration

  • Partner with Market and Consumer Insights to connect competitive, market, and customer dynamics


  • Help evolve Competitive Insights capabilities, including publications, frameworks, and engagement models


  • Mentor junior team members and rotational analysts


Data & Analytical Foundation

  • Leverage industry data sources such as LIMRA, AM Best, S&P, and internal datasets


  • Ensure analytical rigor supports all narratives and recommendations


  • Collaborate with partners to maintain access to key data and insights


Strategic Partnership Enablement

  • Build and maintain competitive profiles of key accounts and strategic partners


  • Identify areas of strategic alignment for prospective partnerships


  • Prepare briefing content and coordinate interactions with external parties


Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree


  • 4+ years of relevant experience in corporate or business strategy, insights, market research, equity research, or consulting


Ideal Qualifications

  • 6+ years of relevant experience; background in insurance, financial services, or advising financial services clients is a plus


  • Graduate degree or professional designation relevant to the role


  • Proven ability to turn complex, ambiguous analysis into a clear point of view and a narrative that lands with senior executives


  • Demonstrated ability to introduce additional perspectives and help shape discussions constructively


  • Working knowledge of life insurance, annuity, or retirement products; willingness to build depth quickly


  • Familiarity with industry data sources (e.g., LIMRA, AM Best, S&P) and reporting practices


  • Strong analytical skills combined with sound business judgment: ability to synthesize disparate inputs into coherent perspectives and identify implications for strategy


  • Strong ownership mentality with the ability to operate independently and to drive high-impact workstreams


  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong working relationships across teams


  • Prior experience mentoring or developing junior team members


What You Can Expect at MassMutual

  • MassMutual offers the opportunity to do meaningful work within a purpose-driven organization that values long-term impact over short-term outcomes. In this role, you can expect:


  • Clear areas of ownership and accountability, with work that connects directly to company and customer outcomes


  • A collaborative environment where perspectives are welcomed


  • Access to learning, development, and internal networks that support continuous growth and skill-building over time


  • Employee-led communities and forums that foster connection, learning, and inclusion across the organization


  • A culture grounded in integrity, responsibility, and stewardship-supported by a company with a strong legacy and a future-focused mindset


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Salary Range:
$137,800-$180,800

At MassMutual, we focus on ensuring fair equitable pay, by providing competitive salaries, along with incentive and bonus opportunities for all employees. Your total compensation package includes either a bonus target or in a sales-focused role a Variable Incentive Compensation component.

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