Northwestern Mutual

Senior Director, Enterprise Portfolio Strategy – Advancement

Northwestern Mutual

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Milwaukee • New York • Wisconsin • United States

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Salary

💰 $126,000 - $234,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Support definition and articulate the strategic vision for the future ways of working including: Domains, practices, and operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and program objectives
  • Develop and lead initiatives that drive business transformation, articulating the 'How' and guiding strategic direction
  • Support the development of updates for leadership regarding the overall new ways of working program
  • Embrace a progress over perfection mindset to iteratively test and learn
  • Assist in execution through development and oversight of operating rhythms, scorecards, and accountability mechanisms to sustain momentum
  • Operationalize new ways of working alongside teams, utilizing data-driven decision-making through metrics, KPIs, and insights to measure value, course-correct, and guide decisions
  • Implement best practices to improve the operating efficiency of the organization
  • Manage cross-functional orchestration of stakeholders including business, technology, data, and finance, etc.
  • Support change management efforts and communicate progress across levels of the organization
  • Manage teams of professionals through vertical and horizontal relationships.
  • Lead with and promote test-and-learn and iterative approaches
  • Support development of talent through coaching and fluency-building programs to build a bench of transformation-ready talent.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years' business, strategy, and/or transformation experience
  • Preferred management consulting experience leading organization change efforts, blending strategy and execution
  • Highly independent self-starter with direct experience supporting other organizations through transformations
  • Previous experience building materials for C Suite (SLT) audiences
  • Experience in portfolio/project management, strategic/operational planning, and leading complex projects with organization-wide impact
  • Demonstrated cross-functional and stakeholder management capabilities across all levels
  • High degree of comfort with ambiguity, leading change, and demonstrating exceptional business acumen
  • Ability to translate goals and strategies into executable business plans with strong integrity and confidentiality
  • Demonstrated learning agility
  • Strong organizational skills to handle competing demands and work under tight deadlines
  • Strong problem-solving, strategic, and critical thinking skills to identify underlying issues and influence others
  • Facilitation and team-building skills, with people management experience preferred
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
  • Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
business transformationstrategic planningportfolio managementproject managementoperational planningdata-driven decision-makingmetricsKPIschange managementcoaching
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingcritical thinkingfacilitationteam-buildinglearning agilityindependence