Competitive Intelligence Analyst

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $92k - $118k / year

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eFinancial

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2001

💸 Finance

🏪 Marketplace

Finance • Marketplace

<eFinancial> is an online life insurance quote comparison and brokerage platform that helps consumers compare and purchase term, permanent, and final expense life insurance from top-rated carriers. The site offers quick online quotes, a 10-question term calculator, educational resources, and access to licensed agents who can provide personalized guidance and same-day coverage in many cases. eFinancial aggregates carrier options, highlights plan differences (coverage lengths, premiums, medical exam requirements, cash value), and emphasizes customer support and easy application processes.

📋 Description

• Continuously monitor competitor, product, underwriting, pricing, distribution, technology, and market signals to identify meaningful shifts, risks, and opportunities. • Translate raw intelligence into concise executive-ready outputs using the Insight → Implication → Action framework. • Build and maintain the core CI toolkit over time, beginning with a market watch summary, competitor moves log, source library, and focused competitor profiles, then expanding into scorecards, battlecards, dashboards, and quarterly executive reviews as the function matures. • Prioritize CI work based on decision impact, repeatability, and feasibility, ensuring the function produces fewer, sharper outputs rather than broad reporting that cannot be sustained. • Conduct ad hoc deep dives on competitor moves, new entrants, partner opportunities, pricing changes, underwriting shifts, and distribution dynamics. • Analyze where the company is winning or losing in the market and help identify the underlying drivers behind performance gaps. • Partner with Product, Underwriting, Distribution, Marketing, Sales, and other cross-functional teams to validate findings and convert insights into action. • Support quarterly executive competitive reviews, monthly market summaries, and rapid-response briefs for time-sensitive competitive developments. • Build and maintain the SharePoint-based CI intelligence hub, including competitor profiles, source library, market watch archive, decision briefs, and competitor moves log. • Use AI-enabled tools and workflow automation to accelerate signal gathering, summarize recurring sources, classify competitive moves, and improve consistency of outputs while maintaining human judgment and source validation.

🎯 Requirements

• 5-8+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, market intelligence, strategy, product strategy, management consulting, corporate development, analytics, or a related field. • Strong analytical skills, including benchmarking, gap analysis, market mapping, trend analysis, and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative information. • Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguity, structure new problem spaces, and convert incomplete information into clear conclusions, practical implications, and recommended actions for senior decision-makers. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create concise, executive-ready briefs, presentations, and decision support materials. • Comfort working with cross-functional stakeholders and influencing action without direct authority. • High intellectual curiosity, structured thinking, attention to detail, and sound judgment about what matters most. • Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and research tools; experience with BI tools, dashboards, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, AI-enabled research, or workflow automation is preferred. • Familiarity with life insurance, financial services, distribution partnerships, underwriting, or regulated markets is strongly preferred; candidates with transferable experience in strategy, market intelligence, or competitive analysis in adjacent industries will also be considered.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance: Choose from a variety of plans to fit your healthcare needs. • Dental Insurance: Coverage for preventive, basic, and major dental services. • Employer-Paid Vision: Comprehensive eye care coverage at no cost to you. • Employer-Paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance: Peace of mind and additional protection. • Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance: Financial support in case of illness or injury. • 401(k) Plan: Save for your future with a company match to help you grow your retirement savings. • PTO and Sick Time accrue each pay period: Take time off when you need it. • Annual Bonus Program: Performance-based bonus to reward your hard work.