How to hire a senior group manager

How to hire a senior group manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step senior group manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a senior group manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new senior group manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the senior group manager you need to hire. Certain senior group manager roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

   Determine employee vs contractor status

   Is the person you're thinking of hiring a US citizen or green card holder?

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   A senior group manager's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, senior group managers from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   Here's a comparison of senior group manager salaries for various roles:

   Type of Senior Group Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Senior Group Manager	Advertising, promotions, and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in products or services. They work with art directors, sales agents, and financial staff members.	$41-87
   Manager, Strategy	A strategy manager is a professional who reviews a company's objectives for growth and works with executives to formulate actionable plans to achieve these objectives. To make comprehensive recommendations, strategy managers must conduct data analysis of the organization as well as the overall industry... Show more	$37-73
   Development Manager	A development manager is responsible for assisting existing clients or potential clients of the services they need. A development manager serves as the initial point of contact for the clients to answer their inquiries and concerns before proceeding with a contract... Show more	$36-76

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Risk Management
   • SR
   • Project Management
   • Portfolio
   • Strategic Direction
   • Securities
   • Continuous Improvement
   • Direct Reports
   • Architecture
   • Strategic Plan
   • Client Facing
   • Financial Statements
   • Treasury
   • Performance Management

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   Responsibilities:

   • Perform ongoing infrastructure evaluations, Q.A., manage and identify life cycle replacement of critical assets, budget preparation and administration.
   • Implement a web portal to enable customer self-service.o manage, programme and maintain new CRM system enhancing technician and management visibility.
   • Deliver a SharePoint solution for support teams that reduce their service issue response time and improve customer service.
   • Implement Sarbanes-Oxley including all financial controls, documentation and testing.
   • Review standard rate changes and inventory reconciliations to ensure proper inventory valuation.
   • Review all reconciliations for accuracy and maintain a monthly accounting book for auditors.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your senior group manager job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A senior group manager salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, senior group managers' average salary in oklahoma is 39% less than in oregon.
   • Seniority. Entry-level senior group managers earn 52% less than senior-level senior group managers.
   • Certifications. A senior group manager with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a senior group manager's salary.

   Average senior group manager salary

   $125,188yearly

   $60.19 hourly rate

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   Entry-level senior group manager salary

   $86,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 17, 2025

   Average senior group manager salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	New York	$148,743	$72
   2	New Jersey	$147,264	$71
   3	Connecticut	$137,947	$66
   4	California	$128,659	$62
   5	South Carolina	$127,820	$61
   6	Arizona	$127,212	$61
   7	Pennsylvania	$126,720	$61
   8	Ohio	$125,490	$60
   9	Nevada	$125,101	$60
   10	Texas	$120,000	$58
   11	Illinois	$119,461	$57
   12	Florida	$119,141	$57
   13	Massachusetts	$115,725	$56
   14	Washington	$112,730	$54
   15	Delaware	$112,707	$54
   16	District of Columbia	$112,059	$54
   17	Virginia	$108,903	$52
   18	North Carolina	$106,751	$51
   19	Indiana	$100,835	$48
   20	Georgia	$96,135	$46

   Average senior group manager salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Citi	$199,907	$96.11	41
   2	Boston Consulting Group	$194,887	$93.70	2
   3	Rivian	$188,484	$90.62	11
   4	BNY Mellon	$186,103	$89.47	43
   5	Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama	$173,118	$83.23
   6	Match Group	$172,835	$83.09	23
   7	Ernst & Young	$172,242	$82.81	1,430
   8	Intuit	$171,021	$82.22	149
   9	Intuitive Surgical	$165,125	$79.39	21
   10	Citicorp North America, Inc	$162,839	$78.29
   11	Lam Research	$157,041	$75.50	12
   12	Lucid Motors	$156,959	$75.46	19
   13	Accenture	$155,216	$74.62	1,249
   14	Avanade	$153,950	$74.01
   15	Deloitte	$153,391	$73.75	2,316
   16	Twilio	$150,606	$72.41	5
   17	The Field Museum	$144,827	$69.63	3
   18	Amazon	$143,822	$69.15	901
   19	ZF Group	$143,637	$69.06	6
   20	Novartis	$142,732	$68.62	21

4. Writing a senior group manager job description

   A job description for a senior group manager role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a senior group manager job description:

   Senior group manager job description example

   - As part of the Group Medicare organization, manages an underwriting team performing renewal underwriting functions. - Anticipates and recognizes matters that materially affect financial results and makes sound, unbiased recommendations. - Will have managerial responsibilities for staff and may support Director as backup.- Leads team to achieve department specific goals through articulation and application of business strategy, initiatives, and underwriting policy.- Manages workflow within unit and directs changing priorities. - Ensures that timely actions and deliverables are met, and team members have the information to do their jobs.- Escalates underwriting exceptions and financial variances to senior management balancing membership, revenue growth and profitability targets.- Articulates company services, product standards, underwriting policies and new initiatives to sales, customers, brokers & consultants. - Leads process improvement initiatives to improve productivity, accuracy, and/or customer service and influences tool development. Takes accountability for driving solutions to completion.- Responsible for manager activities related to staffing, talent management, training and development.- Takes accountability for the team to ensure customer specific documents and deliverables are accurate and support the customers quote/renewal strategy. Also ensures accurate reporting of financials is maintained for the team.- Oversees training of underwriting staff and internal customers and external constituents. - Negotiates and explains rate development and application of underwriting policy. Assists team members in handling difficult renewal situations.#AetnaUW
   Pay Range
   
   The typical pay range for this role is:
   
   Minimum: 75,400
   
   Maximum: 158,300
   
   Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will take into account a wide range of factors, including location.
   
   Required Qualifications
   
   - Bachelor's degree or equivalent- 7-10 years financial underwriting experience with extensive insurance industry knowledge. - Demonstrated leadership that fosters and supports a strong team of individual contributors.- Experience in anticipating customer needs and requirements as well as facilitating and negotiating using tact and diplomacy.- Experience in building strong cross-functional relationships with internal and external constituents.- Demonstrated success in communicating effectively with internal and external constituents.
   
   COVID Requirements
   
   COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
   
   CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.
   
   You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.
   
   Preferred Qualifications
   
   same as above
   
   Education
   
   Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Accounting or related field preferred.
   
   Business Overview
   
   Bring your heart to CVS HealthEvery one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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5. Post your job

   To find senior group managers for your business, try out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important talent pools for any company is its current employees.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and your current work to ask if they know any senior group managers they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit entry-level senior group managers with the right educational background.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have more than 3.5 billion users, and they're a great place for company branding and reaching potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your senior group manager job on Zippia to find and attract quality senior group manager candidates.
   • Use niche websites such as swipe files, exit five, marketinghire, american marketing association.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with senior group manager candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents. You can move on to the technical interview if a candidate is good enough for the next step.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new senior group manager

   Once you've selected the best senior group manager candidate for the job, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, this letter should include details about the benefits and perks you offer the candidate. Ensuring that your offer is competitive is essential, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and you should be open to discussion. After you reach an agreement, the final step is formalizing the agreement with a contract.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   Once that's done, you can draft an onboarding schedule for the new senior group manager. Human Resources should complete Employee Action Forms and ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc. They should also ensure that new employee files are created for internal recordkeeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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