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Contract Development Consultant

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Hybrid
New York, NY
Junior
Hybrid
New York, NY
Junior
Draft, review, and maintain annuity contracts and related documents; manage regulatory filing activities (SERFF), analyze regulatory impacts, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and support contract management tools and process improvements.
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Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
Join MetLife's Retirement & Income Solutions team and help shape the future of financial security for millions. As the trusted market leader in institutional retirement, you'll contribute to delivering $5.5 billion in annual benefits payments to almost one million retirees and beneficiaries. Here, you'll work with annuities, risk solutions, and stable value products that help companies reduce risk and maintain financial strength while empowering individuals to retire with confidence. Join us to help solve today's most complex retirement challenges and make a lasting impact on our customers' lives.
The Opportunity
This role is primarily responsible for ensuring annuity contracts accurately capture MetLife's promises to its customers, reflect business and operational capabilities and intentions, and comply with relevant regulatory requirements to enable MetLife's purpose, "Always With You, Building a More Confident Future " .
Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain annuity contracts, certificates, proposals, commitment agreements, and related documentation to support new and existing RIS products and business opportunities.

  • Manage regulatory filing activities, including preparation of filing materials, responses to regulator inquiries, coordination of SERFF submissions, and negotiation of approvals with state insurance departments and the Interstate Insurance Compact.

  • Analyze regulatory requirements, legislative developments, product initiatives, and non-standard business situations to identify compliance impacts and recommend solutions.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to address contract matters, support strategic initiatives, and ensure contract language aligns with business, operational, and legal requirements.

  • Support process improvement initiatives, knowledge sharing, and adoption of contract management technologies and tools, such as Icertis and Copilot.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant business experience, or 4+ years of equivalent professional experience.

  • Experience drafting, reviewing, and managing contracts, regulatory filings, legal documentation, compliance materials, and other complex business documentation.

  • Strong analytical, research, problem-solving, organizational, and written communication skills with attention to detail.

  • Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple business functions and manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.

  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.

Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in insurance, annuities, financial services, contract development, compliance, or legal-related roles.

  • Knowledge of pension risk transfer, institutional income annuities, structured settlements, ERISA, and insurance regulatory filing requirements.

  • JD, MBA, Finance degree, or other advanced professional designation .

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $74,500 - $100,000 . This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife's U.S. benefits, please click here .
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 90 days from the listed posting date.
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