Senior Director, Technical Program Management, Wealth & Field Experience

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

Be at the helm of huge transformation forming one of the most powerful digital engines in the financial services industry!

Lead a technical Digital Product program management team that plans, coordinates and actively manages the IT delivery plans for complex, cross-functional technical solutions that generally spans multiple, technical products.

Ensure the end to end plans are inclusive of all of the changes needed to technical products in support of initiative outcomes.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsibility for a full range of manager responsibilities including communication, coaching and staff development, performance management, salary administration and staffing decisions.
• Lead the functional management to ensure optimum effectiveness and quality by managing adherence to strategies, goals, budgets, operating policies and procedures.
• Oversee the leadership team that direct the project and program managers.
• Manage relationships between organizational teams involving senior leaders.
• Develop standards for monitoring and measuring the quality and execution of projects and programs to ensure outcomes and results are achieved.
• Identify methodologies and tool sets to be used.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience.
• Seven or more years of program management experience in technology and / or business functions. Experience with program management methodologies & governance.

Multiple years experience in team management

• Experience with project management methodologies & SDLC. Working knowledge of project management / agile tooling. Financial & team team management
• Understanding of how software is developed, tested and implemented as well as technical concepts.
• Ability to work closely with engineers, product managers and business leaders.
• Experience managing large scale, cross-functional initiatives using a variety of delivery methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, lean, scrum, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to dig into details, learn, ask questions and become the "go to expert" on certain concepts and topics.
• Leads highly visible multidisciplinary project teams or initiatives; provides thought leadership
• Solves unique problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions
• Guided by policies and divisional plan, impacts the team’s ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives
• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

LI-Hybrid

Compensation Range : Pay Range - Start :

Pay Range - Start : $133,140.00

$133,140.00

Pay Range - End : $247,260.00

$247,260.00

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