Principal Financial Group · 2 days ago
Strategic Portfolio Manager
Principal Financial Group is a trusted leader in financial services, focused on making financial security accessible to all. They are seeking a Strategic Portfolio Manager to lead the enterprise data & analytics portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and fostering collaboration among stakeholders.
Financial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
Ensure alignment of the EDA portfolio to Business and Enterprise strategic priorities and objectives and the achievement of strategic outcomes
Enhance the use of data and analytics to influence decision making towards building the right things
Partner with portfolio stakeholders to deliver results that advance strategic outcomes
Lead and proactively communicate results, progress, risks, roadblocks, financial aspects, and data to teams, sponsors and stakeholders ensuring collaboration, decision making, and direction
Lead continuous improvement, partnering with leaders, coaches, and team members to develop discovery and innovation, improve delivery speed, increase transparency, and achieve strategic outcomes
Advocate, influence, and lead change to become a more high-performing organization with an innovative culture
Effectively drive the portfolio to execute on customer needs and business objectives through organizing, communicating transparently, aligning and collaborating, and handling dependency and risk
Work across teams and vendors to remove impediments and ensure decision making leverages data where possible
Qualification
Required
8+ years of demonstrating progressive responsibility for strategic integration, stakeholder alignment, complex decision making, analysis, and informal leadership or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, military experience, or education
4+ of those years listed above, having direct responsibility for management of complex, cross-functional initiatives
Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, facilitation, planning, and decision-making skills
Ability to build and maintain relationships and facilitate collaboration and communication, including being perceived as a leader at all levels without formal authority
Results oriented and able to adapt and deal with ambiguous situations and manage expectations
Ability to influence effectively in matrix management environment
Strong business insight and an understanding of the capabilities of information technology and applications to find opportunities for improvement
Experience assessing organizational culture and operating model needs; and appropriately adapt to deliver required results
Preferred
Experience/understanding of IT and Data & Analytics domains
Benefits
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness.
Pension Eligible
Company
Principal Financial Group
Principal Financial Group® is dedicated to improving the wealth and well-being of people and businesses around the world—helping more than 62M customers plan, protect, invest, and retire as of December 31, 2023.
Funding
Current Stage
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