Hybrid Senior Business Program Manager

at Northwestern Mutual

• Job title: Senior Business Program Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $84,350 - $156,650 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Milwaukee, United States

About the role

• Senior Business Program Manager overseeing leader development programming and experiences at Northwestern Mutual. Focused on designing, implementing, and evolving leadership initiatives for diverse roles within the company.

Responsibilities

• Designing, development and testing of leadership program initiatives in support of broader field leadership strategy.
• Ensures coordination of large-scale leader development programs including partnering with field learning and development and events to ensure programming, logistics and coordination are aligned with program objectives as defined by role.
• Ensures all leadership programs support and align to our NM strategy and leadership behavior model.
• Maintain, evolve and teach NM's leadership model, enlisting leaders to develop and then coach/role model the needed capabilities to realize vision.
• Facilitates collaborative process with home office stakeholders, subject matter experts, target audience members, and leaders to identify critical outcomes and measurement strategy.
• Conceptualizes, storyboards and gains agreement on the big picture of the program and how leaders will benefit personally, professionally as well as their businesses.
• Documents instructional strategy and curriculum components required to achieve desired outcomes, including performance support strategies.
• Develops and/or sources content and facilitates reuse between formal learning and performance support on-the-job.
• Works across Career Distribution to ensure effective implementation of leader development programs.
• Advance leadership programs to align to competencies and growth goals.
• Establishes leadership metrics and leverages them to report business results and secure support to further develop and evolve leadership programs to ensure relevance and contemporary learning experiences.
• Leverages retention tools to further support leadership development.
• Keeps abreast of industry-wide innovations and thought leaders.
• Mentors, advises, informs and consults members of Distribution Performance teams on expectations of leadership development programming including their roles in reinforcing content and programming.
• Manage vendor relationships with outside vendors supporting field leadership development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years professional experience with 3+ years in leadership development or other related HR field.
• Demonstrated ability to identify or anticipate future trends and appropriately within NM.
• Ability to create, innovate, consult, market, and implement.
• Excellent facilitation experience to include integrating staff from various functions, leading and influencing others who are not under direct control.
• A demonstrated high level of consulting, influencing and decision-making skills including extensive experience in consulting methods, tools and technologies focused on leadership talent management.
• Demonstrated ability to take an idea from conception to successful and sustainable execution including leading all phases of project or program development, design, implementation including ongoing delivery management.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with an ability to lead, manage, and collaborate in multiple and diverse projects.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) with an ability to provide individual and group feedback, make presentations and create written reports.
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to establish rapport at all levels of the Home Office and Field, as well as external audiences.
• High degree of self-motivation with leadership and initiative in sharing information, contributing towards group goals, and accepting responsibility for results.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities