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Northwestern Mutual · 2 days ago

Lead Program Management Regulatory and Risk - Hybrid

Milwaukee, WI

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$93K/yr - $172K/yr

7+ years exp

Northwestern Mutual is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a Lead Program Management Regulatory and Risk professional. This role involves providing high-level program management expertise to meet departmental and enterprise-wide goals, managing complex regulatory and risk programs, and ensuring alignment with strategic corporate initiatives.

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Responsibilities

Independently leads large, complex, and multi-faceted programs or portfolios. Responsible for managing scope, risk, business value, schedule and budget

Defines, maintains, and revises program objectives and deliverables; accountable for defining the program structure and creating a single, unified plan to deliver on program objectives. Manages programs to ensure appropriate allocation of resources according to program objectives, specifications, deliverables, and changes

Accountable for building and motivating team members and influencing them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work. Accountable for identifying and resolving issues and conflicts within the team at a portfolio/program level

Drives for clarity on program objectives, priorities, and measures. Develops solutions/recommendations to unique and complex problems and ensures program solutions are consistent with organizational objectives. Identifies, assess, and mitigates program risks and issues and removes impediments

Develops strong relationships with business clients to manage program delivery expectations and implementation. Manages the resources and vendors assigned to program by verifying progress and removing obstacles

Makes connections across teams and workstreams to drive identification and facilitation of inter-dependencies

Responsible for gathering and delivering metrics required by the program. Uses data to make successes and challenges visible, and to drive insights and action plans to continually adjust and pursue program goals. Leveraging tools and techniques to enable end-to-end value delivery and the best ongoing rollout and ongoing experience

Applies extensive business acumen in depth and breadth of industry, and company initiatives, products complexities, in order to incorporate knowledge into program objectives

Uses extensive knowledge of program management and business requirements to understand the key business drivers as they relate to the programs. Conduct complex analysis to identify scope and nature of program deliverables; programs are intended to solve a department or business need

Qualification

Program ManagementRisk ManagementBusiness AcumenStakeholder RelationshipProject ManagementAnalytical ThinkingCustomer CentricityChange AdaptabilityProgram GovernancePrioritizationConsultingAdaptive CommunicationKPIs & MetricsProcess MindsetEmotional Intelligence

Required

Minimum 7 years of related experience; diverse project or program management experience to include analysis, design, documentation, project/support management

Ability to work with general direction to scope, plan and manage cross-department or multi-department programs

Demonstrated ability to lead and manage large and highly complex assignments including those with enterprise-wide impact

Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks simultaneously, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines

Seen as a team player and is supportive of group decisions and ideas

Written and oral communications skills with the ability to build rapport within the company, field and /or outside vendors

High degree of personal initiative and motivation

Experience with project methodology through project life cycle phases

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis in, Business, Project Management or related field preferred OR a significant amount of directly-related work experience beyond the minimum required for the position

Degree with a project management emphasis or PMI certification preferred

FINRA registration preferred