Head of Strategy Blog Post

Location : Boston or New York City or Springfield, MA

Job Description

At MassMutual, we’re passionate about helping millions of people find financial freedom. This passion has driven our approach to developing products which best meet the needs of our customers. To help us achieve our mission, we are hiring a Head of Strategy & Planning to join our Product team.

As the Head of Strategy & Planning, you’ll use your skills to drive a culture of product innovation and ideation and use your influence of thought leadership to drive a culture of agility and change, all in the spirit of providing the best outcomes for our customers and employees.

Objectives of this role :

The Product Head of Strategy and Planning will be a key member of the Product Senior Leadership Team for the enterprise-wide, growth driven Product organization within Brand, Product & Affiliated Distribution (BP&AD). Play a role in transforming and modernizing the product manufacturing processes and positioning us for future growth. The role will collaborate across the enterprise to prioritize and drive Product initiatives and assess competing resources / initiatives that may impact the team’s planned outcomes. This role will also coordinate, counsel and serve as a resource for the Product senior leadership team relative to various short-term initiatives, programs and strategies to ensure alignment with short to longer-term strategic priorities, financial plans and align execution.

Understand industry Competitive Landscape to ensure all Product line strategies position MassMutual for sales success and profitability. Elevate awareness of product-relevant industry and distribution trends and partner with Product line leads to apply these trends to successful outcomes. Assist in the development of innovative and profitable strategy recommendations.

Partnering with Head of Product to run the business including overseeing the budget process, expense management, facilities requirements and organizational communications. Ensuring we are properly managing talent and developing a winning culture.

Daily and monthly responsibilities :

• Through effective influencing, collaboration, mentoring and communication drive the execution of the team objectives
• Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders (i.e., Head of Product and product team, Finance, internal and external industry SMEs, ETX and Distribution channels)
• Ensure team talent development is a priority, modeling the performance management cycles (Check-Ins, quality and actionable pipeline and succession and development plans)
• Lead change management efforts across the organization, and partner with leaders to outline operational workflows, responsibility models (RACI), demand and capacity models, prioritization, process review and improvements; creation of road map to sequence transition activities, and a set of guiding principles on how to best position the organization and the employees to prepare for the transformation efforts. The role will assist with organizational FTE management and structure.
• Lead metrics and measurements data and partner with Product line leads to ensure data drives business decisions with positive outcomes
• Oversee all Budget considerations for individual team and the Product organization in a quality and timely manner
• Execute Product organization-wide impact projects, as appropriate

The Team :

As a member of this team you are responsible for supporting many cross channel business partners which requires a high level of collaboration, business acumen, accountability, resilience and strong communication. This team is motivated by finding the best product solutions and opportunities while always thinking in a forward and innovative way to break out of the crowded financial competitive space and utilizing the modern marketing technology and evolving channel ideas.

The Impact :

As Head of Strategy and Planning for the Product organization, this person will be responsible for the overall development, implementation and guidance over the team to build all operational and financial strategies for the BP&AD Product programs as well as the resourcing and efficiency of the strategic roadmap and measurement of all programs.

Skills and qualifications :

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