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Northwestern Mutual · 3 hours ago

VP Digital Solutions - Core Enablers

Milwaukee, WI

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$235K/yr - $436K/yr

Northwestern Mutual is a company committed to delivering value and driving change through high-performing teams. The VP of Digital Solutions will lead engineering, product, design, and technology teams to define and deliver digital product visions while ensuring strategic alignment and technology modernization.

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Responsibilities

Drives digital transformation and technology modernization

Primary partner with key SLT members for aligned business areas and product lines

Collaborates cross-functionally with the Chief Digital & Technology Officer’s leadership team and key partners in the Information Technology department

Understands and drives the development of both engineering and business aspects of the product, representing the end-user's needs. Ensure the full product and engineering life cycle, health, hygiene, compliance and security is incorporated

Co-defines with the business the vision for digital products and collaborates cross-functionally to ensure goals are met, focusing on the end-user experience

Enables the business's product strategy, features, and end-user experience

Leads appropriate investments in emerging technologies to maintain industry leadership

Identifies and implements technology solutions to meet current and future needs

Manages a budget that balances priorities, tradeoffs, and efficiencies. Optimizes IT investments and ensures technology budgets align with strategic business priorities

Leads teams that track, analyze, and monitor technology performance metrics in pursuit of continuous improvement

Provide a high-level direction that illustrates the epics and features that will be delivered across a portfolio of products or platform and how it integrates with other cross functional team efforts

Builds and leads high-performing engineering, product, and technology delivery teams

Empowers teams to take ownership of digital transformation initiatives

Uses organizational awareness and ability to navigate peers to strategically build relationships across the organization

Collaborates across functions to ensure IT is a key enabler of business strategy

Thinks with an enterprise mindset to understand multiple perspectives in different contexts and how strategic initiatives in one business will impact the broader enterprise

Advocates for agile methodologies and iterative product development

Visionary leader who pushes the organization toward continuous digital reinvention

Advocates for innovation and digital transformation while growing relationships and delivery

Skilled at tailoring communications for technical/non-technical audiences to communicate technology strategy and initiatives

Advocates change management efforts to accelerate technology adoption

Champions a culture of continuous learning and digital upskilling

Comfortable with ambiguity, complexity, and rapid change

Willing to take calculated risks to drive technological advancements

Qualification

Digital transformationTechnology deliveryEngineering leadershipProduct developmentData-driven decision-makingP&L managementTechnology solutions implementationAgile methodologiesChange managementContinuous learning cultureRelationship buildingCommunication skills

Required

Deep expertise in engineering, product development, and technology delivery in large scale organizations in the financial services or insurance industry, ensuring alignment with business objectives

Extensive experience building and leading engineering, product, and technology delivery teams

Extensive experience with workforce planning including optimization through 3rd party vendors

Data-driven decision-maker with the ability to analyze complex business challenges

Extensive experience managing a matrix P&L and understands the elements of a P&L

Experience balancing cost efficiencies with innovation to drive competitive advantage

Extensive experience identifying, comparing, selecting, and implementing technology solutions to meet current and future business needs

Understands multiple perspectives in different contexts and how strategic initiatives in one business will impact the broader enterprise

Strong relationship-building skills to influence key stakeholders, including the peer-level executives, business partners, and senior leaders

Benefits

Flexible work schedules

Concierge service

Comprehensive benefits

Employee resource groups

Company

Northwestern Mutual

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Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to millions with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, and investments.

Founded in 1857

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.northwesternmutual.com

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