Job Description

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

What's the role?

The Sr. Director, Portfolio Manager is a delegate, business partner, and governance manager across groups of enterprise programs. They achieve goals through smart business partnership, business savvy, program management expertise, ability to influence without authority, and maintaining top-of-mind awareness of each assigned program in their portfolio. They understand business risk profiles and dependencies, and serve as an advisor for their portfolio.

Responsibilities

* Advise and guide the planning, development, and implementation of enterprise programs through an integrated planning process.

* Ensure visibility into, and support, the on-going health of assigned portfolio, including monitoring compliance with stated objectives (OKRs, TCO, Risk, Variations).

* Monitor key interdependencies across the assigned portfolio and advise on implementation of effective measures to mitigate risk.

* Work with program managers to solve misalignment against the enterprise roadmap or multi-year strategy.

* Maintain an ongoing operating rhythm to review portfolio, and align program leaders and EPMG partners (Business Case, Resource, Planning, Prioritization, Metrics, Delivery)

* Leverage expertise to solve for program management issues. Guide to optimized and consistent methods in line with NM program management standards.

* Monitor and recommend initiatives pause or stop based on progress, risk and leading indicators.

* Support resource management through ensuring portfolio resource demands are kept up to date.

* Support and represent assigned portfolio to senior management through top of mind knowledge of resource gaps, priorities, portfolio progress/outcomes, and capacity.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

* Bachelor's degree in business or related field and minimum 12 years of professional work experience to include areas such as project and portfolio management, change management, and building measurement systems

* Complex problem-solving skills, digital savvy, organizational savvy, strategic agility, process improvement,

* Extensive organizational and time management skills, with experience in resource allocation and budget management

* Demonstrated experience in managing upward among senior leadership

* Strong short- and long-term planning skills, coupled with ability to lead resources in response to business needs

* Experience with multiple project methodologies and supporting management tools and processes

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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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