POSITION: Director, product marketing
FAVORITE MOVIE: When Harry Met Sally
FAVORITE HOBBY: Spending time with my two girls
FAVORITE VACATION SPOT: Bermuda
PROFESSION WOULD LIKE TO TRY: Teaching at a university
NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT: Positive attitude /
During her 15-year career at MetLife Auto & Home in Warwick, Erin Plaziak has learned that working for a large corporation has its benefits, including a path up the ladder through diverse positions, ranging from company representative to communications editor to marketing researcher.
A 1993 magna cum laude alumna of Rhode Island College, Plaziak started with the company that year. “My initial assignment was claim representative,” she wrote recently, “which enabled me to develop an understanding of the primary importance of outstanding customer service.”
From there, she was promoted through five positions in less than two years and became the company’s senior news editor, which required her to write and place more than 200 press releases a year.
Then, after nine years in marketing positions, Plaziak during February was promoted to director of product marketing. She now leads a marketing research and product- development team.
It is her comprehensive background in the insurance industry that has led Plaziak to be honored with two distinctions from the Insurance Institute of America. She’s been named an Associate in Personal Insurance and an Associate in Insurance Services. And during 2007, MetLife chose Plaziak as one of its 15 developing leaders.
The daughter of a breast cancer survivor, Plaziak has served on the board of directors for the Rhode Island Breast Cancer Coalition for 10 years. She has received MetLife’s Volunteer Service Award for her work with the National Breast Cancer Coalition. •
