Insurance Solutions Strategy, Sr Director

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Summary:
Accountable for developing an integrated insurance product suite strategy and product design approach in partnership with product line leaders to drive business outcomes in service of enterprise strategy.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Strategy Development

• Develops an integrated insurance product suite strategy, ensuring alignment with company's overarching strategy, mission and goals.
• Collaborate, plan and organize with and through people to bridge strategies across product lines and teams.
• Develop strategic positioning and storytelling on the integrated product strategy working in partnership with Sales Enablement and Enterprise Strategy

• Identifies gaps and recommends product solutions to close the gaps in partnership with product line leaders. Manages product suite development pipeline, ensuring enterprise understanding of the "what" and "why"
• Develops decision-making framework to inform product development roadmap

Product Development

• Partners with product line leaders and delivery team to develop and implement integrated product design and development approach.
• Exhibits expert level problem solving and business acumen to solve unique, complex problems across the product suite with a broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.

Enterprise Integration

• Represents insurance product suite to influence and facilitate effective collaboration and decision-making across the organization in alignment with integrated product strategy.

• Establishes and maintains organizational savviness, an executive presence and high level of business acumen for Insurance Solutions to unearth issues, opportunities, problems, etc.
• Works closely with enterprise partners to ensure deeper understanding and alignment of insurance product strategy and development roadmap

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years' business leadership experience.
• Proven leadership skills working with diverse teams.
• Superior interpersonal skills to lead groups of people.
• Experience in portfolio and/or project management, strategic and operational planning, and leading multiple complex projects with organization-wide impact.
• Demonstrated organizational agility to work across organizational boundaries, influence, and collaborate with all levels on solutions that benefit the organization.
• Ability to work horizontally w/ shared priorities elevate functional priorities over department objectives.
• Thinks within lateral accountabilities and interdependence.
• Proven skills in dealing with ambiguity and paradox, and leading change.
• Exceptional business acumen and focus on achieving business impact through progressive practices and sound business judgment.
• Ability to translate goals and strategies into executable business plans.
• Strong integrity and proven ability to treat confidential information confidentially.
• Demonstrated learning agility and outside-in perspective to identify future trends and practices.
• Strong organizational skills; able to handle competing demands, and work under tight deadlines and short time frames.
• Strong problem solving and strategic/critical thinking skills.
• Ability to identify underlying issues and influence others without formal authority.
• Facilitation and team building skills; ability to play an active, operational and communicative role. Interpersonal savvy and comfort interacting with and presenting to all levels of the organization, including senior leaders.
• High degree of self-motivation with leadership and initiative in sharing information, contributing towards group goals, and accepting responsibility for results.
• Pro-active and an ability to anticipate needs for a range of broad / complex business problems and staying ahead of them; comfortable working in an ambiguous environment.

Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$123,480.00
Pay Range - End:
$229,320.00
Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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