Sr. Director Business Operations & Strategy

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

• Accountable for aligning multiple large, highly complex, strategic programs consisting of multiple efforts.
• Ensure teams are aligned with our corporate strategy and higher level vision.
• Help to develop strategy for planning and executing highly complex efforts.
• Accountable for aligning all stakeholder leadership on strategy, business priorities and approach to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the experience.
• Serves as the integration point to support complex, enterprise wide initiatives.
• Removes barriers to enable continuous value flow.
• Accountable for implementing and enhancing best practices to ensure optimized delivery of value.
• Educate and implement an agile mindset across efforts.
• Enables and drives cross collaboration with other Program Directors to create alignment.
• Foster a positive working environment of empowerment, inclusion, and engagement all while striving to deliver solutions that align with the corporate strategy.
• Develop and grow people through coaching and mentoring new leaders within the organization.
• Foster and enable learning culture.
• Leverages data to inform, guide, and/or support business decisions.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 15+ years of experience managing complex programs that deliver a digital product experience, and require working with a range of diverse business areas.
• Experience leading with an agile mindset exhibiting customer / client orientation
• Proven ability to influence executives, business leaders, stakeholders and team members
• Ability to work as part of a team and build collaborative relationships with all levels of the organization
• Previous experience exhibiting strong servant leadership
• Action-oriented with a sense of urgency
• Effective working with ambiguity
• Possesses strong decision making ability