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Get Access To All JobsAt Zurich Cover-More, we're proud to be one of the world's leading travel insurance and assistance providers. Each year, we protect more than 20 million travellers worldwide, making sure we're there every step of their journey with proactive care, personalised cover and specialist support. Zurich Cover-More partners with many of the world's best-known brands - think major airlines, travel giants, top banks, credit card providers, and large retailers - to deliver more care, more cover, for all.
Launched in December 2024, Zurich Cover-More is the global travel brand of Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world's leading multi-line insurers. Our family of customer-facing brands includes trusted names like Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely, and Blue Insurance. Together, we're redefining what it means to travel safely and with confidence. Whether it's a long-awaited holiday, a last-minute business trip, or an unexpected detour, we deliver in the moments that matter.
What you'll be doing:
In this role, you'll strengthen the connection between business strategy and technology priorities across North America. Working closely with senior business and technology leaders, you'll shape demand, establish clear priorities, and help ensure technology investments, resources, and delivery capacity are aligned to the priorities that matter most to the business.
- You'll act as a key technology partner to senior business leaders, developing a strong understanding of their strategies, priorities, and challenges.
- You'll translate business needs into clear technology requirements and actionable priorities.
- You'll strengthen alignment between business objectives and the North American technology agenda.
- You'll lead the technology demand intake process, ensuring new requests are clearly defined and assessed before prioritisation.
- You'll maintain visibility across the technology demand pipeline, including emerging requirements and business priorities.
- You'll evaluate competing demands based on business value, urgency, dependencies, and available capacity.
- You'll provide recommendations to senior leadership and steering committees to support informed investment and prioritisation decisions.
- You'll partner with IT leadership to understand delivery capacity, identify constraints, and recommend how resources should be allocated against business priorities.
- You'll ensure business problems, expected outcomes, scope, and requirements are clearly defined before initiatives progress into delivery.
- You'll establish expected business value upfront and provide visibility into whether technology investments are delivering their intended outcomes.
- You'll provide clear reporting on technology demand, portfolio priorities, capacity constraints, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- You'll lead and develop technology talent, supporting a collaborative and business-focused approach to IT planning.
What skills and experience you'll bring on this journey:
- A strong understanding of business strategy and how technology enables commercial and operational outcomes.
- Experience partnering with senior business and technology leaders.
- A background in technology strategy, IT planning, governance, or portfolio management.
- Strong knowledge of technology delivery processes and resource or capacity planning.
- The ability to assess competing priorities, evaluate trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience leading technology teams and developing talent.
- Desirable: Previous experience within insurance, financial services, or a similarly complex business environment.
Why you'll love working with us!
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
We have more than 3000 employees worldwide. We are a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts, customer service and corporate services professionals. We share a global purpose to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.
Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid approach ensures you can maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we rapidly expand our business across the globe. We're committed to helping our people thrive through a comprehensive onboarding experience, continuous professional development, and a supportive work environment that empowers growth at every stage of your career.
Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.
Investing in your health and your future. We offer a competitive high-deductible health plan, EAP programs and access to health and well-being activities along with a 401(k) program with employer matching to help you plan for your future.
Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. Wherever life has taken you, we welcome you to bring your whole self to work. Just be you - because that's exactly who we're looking for.
Apply today and let's go to great places together!
At Zurich Cover-More, compensation for roles is influenced by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. In compliance with local laws, Zurich commits to providing a fair and reasonable compensation range for each role. For more information about our Total Rewards, please click here. Additional rewards may encompass short-term incentive bonuses and merit increases. We encourage candidates with salary expectations beyond the provided range to apply as they will be considered based on their experience, skills, and education.
The compensation indicated represents a nationwide market range and has not been adjusted for geographic differentials pertaining to the location where the position may be filled. The proposed salary range for this position is $175,200 - $287,000 with STIP of 25%.
At Zurich Cover-More, we're proud to be one of the world's leading travel insurance and assistance providers. Each year, we protect more than 20 million travellers worldwide, making sure we're there every step of their journey with proactive care, personalised cover and specialist support. Zurich Cover-More partners with many of the world's best-known brands - think major airlines, travel giants, top banks, credit card providers, and large retailers - to deliver more care, more cover, for all.
Launched in December 2024, Zurich Cover-More is the global travel brand of Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world's leading multi-line insurers. Our family of customer-facing brands includes trusted names like Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely, and Blue Insurance. Together, we're redefining what it means to travel safely and with confidence. Whether it's a long-awaited holiday, a last-minute business trip, or an unexpected detour, we deliver in the moments that matter.
What you'll be doing:
In this role, you'll strengthen the connection between business strategy and technology priorities across North America. Working closely with senior business and technology leaders, you'll shape demand, establish clear priorities, and help ensure technology investments, resources, and delivery capacity are aligned to the priorities that matter most to the business.
- You'll act as a key technology partner to senior business leaders, developing a strong understanding of their strategies, priorities, and challenges.
- You'll translate business needs into clear technology requirements and actionable priorities.
- You'll strengthen alignment between business objectives and the North American technology agenda.
- You'll lead the technology demand intake process, ensuring new requests are clearly defined and assessed before prioritisation.
- You'll maintain visibility across the technology demand pipeline, including emerging requirements and business priorities.
- You'll evaluate competing demands based on business value, urgency, dependencies, and available capacity.
- You'll provide recommendations to senior leadership and steering committees to support informed investment and prioritisation decisions.
- You'll partner with IT leadership to understand delivery capacity, identify constraints, and recommend how resources should be allocated against business priorities.
- You'll ensure business problems, expected outcomes, scope, and requirements are clearly defined before initiatives progress into delivery.
- You'll establish expected business value upfront and provide visibility into whether technology investments are delivering their intended outcomes.
- You'll provide clear reporting on technology demand, portfolio priorities, capacity constraints, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- You'll lead and develop technology talent, supporting a collaborative and business-focused approach to IT planning.
What skills and experience you'll bring on this journey:
- A strong understanding of business strategy and how technology enables commercial and operational outcomes.
- Experience partnering with senior business and technology leaders.
- A background in technology strategy, IT planning, governance, or portfolio management.
- Strong knowledge of technology delivery processes and resource or capacity planning.
- The ability to assess competing priorities, evaluate trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience leading technology teams and developing talent.
- Desirable: Previous experience within insurance, financial services, or a similarly complex business environment.
Why you'll love working with us!
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
We have more than 3000 employees worldwide. We are a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts, customer service and corporate services professionals. We share a global purpose to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.
Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid approach ensures you can maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we rapidly expand our business across the globe. We're committed to helping our people thrive through a comprehensive onboarding experience, continuous professional development, and a supportive work environment that empowers growth at every stage of your career.
Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.
Investing in your health and your future. We offer a competitive high-deductible health plan, EAP programs and access to health and well-being activities along with a 401(k) program with employer matching to help you plan for your future.
Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. Wherever life has taken you, we welcome you to bring your whole self to work. Just be you - because that's exactly who we're looking for.
Apply today and let's go to great places together!
At Zurich Cover-More, compensation for roles is influenced by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. In compliance with local laws, Zurich commits to providing a fair and reasonable compensation range for each role. For more information about our Total Rewards, please click here. Additional rewards may encompass short-term incentive bonuses and merit increases. We encourage candidates with salary expectations beyond the provided range to apply as they will be considered based on their experience, skills, and education.
The compensation indicated represents a nationwide market range and has not been adjusted for geographic differentials pertaining to the location where the position may be filled. The proposed salary range for this position is $175,200 - $287,000 with STIP of 25%.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Business Planning Manager
Frame your degree field precisely
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree field directly relates to business planning. A general management degree may draw an RFE, so document how your coursework maps to strategic planning, financial analysis, or operations management before applying.
Target employers with cap-exempt pathways
Nonprofits, universities, and government research organizations are cap-exempt, meaning your H-1B can start any time of year. Business planning roles exist at hospitals, research institutions, and university systems that bypass the April lottery entirely.
Search LCA filings to verify sponsorship history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Business Planning Manager roles by employers who have certified LCAs with DOL, so you're applying to companies with a documented track record of H-1B sponsorship rather than guessing from job descriptions.
Confirm the prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Look up the wage level for your target metro area using the OFLC Wage Search before your offer conversation. Level I and II wages apply to entry and qualified roles; Level III and IV signal senior expectations that your LCA must reflect accurately.
Use O*NET to strengthen specialty occupation documentation
The O*NET profile for Business Planning Managers lists the typical education and knowledge requirements USCIS expects to see. Reference this in your petition to anchor the specialty occupation argument in government-recognized occupational data.
Negotiate the I-129 filing timeline into your offer
Premium processing cuts USCIS adjudication to 15 business days for an additional fee, but standard processing can run four to six months. Ask your employer which option they plan to use before you set a start date or give notice to a current employer.
H-1B Visa Business Planning Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Business Planning Manager role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as business administration, finance, economics, or strategic management. Roles where any unrelated degree is accepted or where experience substitutes freely for education are harder to defend at USCIS. The job description should explicitly state the degree requirement, not just prefer it.
Which types of employers commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Business Planning Manager positions?
Large technology companies, healthcare systems, financial services firms, and multinational manufacturers file the most H-1B LCAs for business planning roles. Smaller companies can sponsor but often lack in-house immigration counsel, which can slow the process. You can browse verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate by filtering for this specific job title.
What happens to my H-1B if my employer restructures or eliminates the business planning function?
If your role is eliminated, you enter a 60-day grace period to find a new H-1B sponsor, file for a change of status, or depart the U.S. A new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition before your grace period ends. Business planning functions are frequently reorganized during mergers, so it's worth understanding your employer's financial stability before accepting an offer.
Can I be promoted from Business Planning Analyst to Business Planning Manager on the same H-1B?
A material change in duties, title, or salary can trigger an amended H-1B petition requirement. If the promotion substantially changes your job description or moves you to a new wage level, your employer must file an amended I-129 with a new LCA certified by DOL. Routine raises within the same role typically don't require an amendment, but a change in management scope usually does.
How does the H-1B lottery affect my job search timeline as a Business Planning Manager candidate?
USCIS opens H-1B registration in March for an October 1 start date. If you're on OPT and not selected, cap-gap extends your authorization through September 30 of that year. Planning your job search to have an offer in hand before the March registration window gives your employer the earliest possible filing opportunity and maximizes your options.