Director of Strategic Initiatives, Portfolio Enablement
Prudential Financial
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Newark • Connecticut • Maine • United States
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Salary
💰 $147,100 - $220,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead large scale strategic initiatives within Prudential Group Insurance business.
- Drive progress and business ownership, supporting business case development.
- Define portfolio and initiative level financial and operational success metrics.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders and vendors to ensure execution excellence.
- Partner with cross-functional delivery teams, 3rd party vendors, and enterprise shared service functions.
- Provide regular executive dashboard updates to Group Insurance leadership.
- Create and present executive level initiative briefing materials, including regular portfolio steering committee meetings with Group Benefits Senior Leadership, IT, Enterprise Strategy, and other stakeholders.
- Rally cross functional teams throughout the enterprise and hold teams accountable for deliverables and business results.
- Freely contribute unique opinions based on your experience while actively seeking the perspective of others.
Requirements
- 4-year bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience with minimum of 3 years of Group Insurance industry experience.
- 8+ years of portfolio management, management consulting, product development, or operations experience.
- Successfully led at least 3 or more large, cross-functional strategic programs.
- Can work in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment.
- Self-starter, highly motivated, strategic thinker who can lead independent stakeholder conversations and provide necessary thought leadership on program direction.
- Can define and drive portfolio related business results, leveraging both business and technology disciplines.
- Strong, proven communication, collaboration, and consensus building skills.
- Ability to adjust communication style and content to all levels in the organization.
- Experience synthesizing conceptual strategies and information into defendable portfolio investment proposals.
- Comfortable with data analysis and presenting data in a meaningful way.
- Highly organized and energetic with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Strong Group Insurance acumen and familiarity with a broad range of business processes beyond those impacted by your assigned book of portfolio initiatives.
- Able to effectively interact with various levels of an organization to review portfolio performance.
Benefits
- Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance.
- Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
- 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
- Company-funded pension plan.
- Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
- Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
- Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
portfolio managementmanagement consultingproduct developmentoperationsdata analysisfinancial metricsoperational metricsbusiness case developmentstrategic program leadershipbusiness results definition
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationconsensus buildingstrategic thinkingself-startermotivationorganizational skillsentrepreneurial mindsetadaptabilitystakeholder engagement