Northwestern Mutual - Milwaukee, WI
posted 6 months ago
About the position
As a Senior Technical Program Manager at Northwestern Mutual, you will play a pivotal role in planning, coordinating, and actively managing the IT delivery plans for complex, cross-functional technical solutions that span multiple technical products. Your primary responsibility will be to manage the end-to-end plan that encompasses all necessary changes to technical products in support of initiative outcomes. This role requires a strong focus on aligning large, complex programs consisting of multiple efforts, ensuring that all teams are working towards a unified goal. You will be accountable for defining the program structure and creating a single, unified plan to deliver on the program objectives. This involves making connections across technology and business teams, facilitating the identification of interdependencies, and driving clarity on objectives, priorities, and measures. Additionally, you will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating program risks and issues, as well as removing any impediments that may hinder progress. In this role, you will lead highly visible multidisciplinary project teams or initiatives, providing thought leadership and solving unique problems that have a broad impact on the business. Your ability to explain difficult or sensitive information and work towards building consensus will be crucial in this position. You will also have the opportunity to impact the direction and resource allocation for programs, projects, or services, all while working within general department policies and industry guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate and actively manage IT delivery plans for complex, cross-functional technical solutions.
- Accountability for aligning one or more large, complex programs consisting of multiple efforts.
- Make connections across technology and business teams to drive identification and facilitation of interdependencies.
- Define the program structure and create a single, unified plan to deliver on program objectives.
- Drive for clarity on objectives, priorities, and measures.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks and issues, and remove impediments.
- Lead highly visible multidisciplinary project teams or initiatives and provide thought leadership.
- Solve unique problems with broad impact on the business, requiring conceptual and innovative thinking.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 4 years of professional experience.
- Four or more years of project management experience in technology and/or business functions.
- Experience with project management methodologies or SDLC (systems development life cycle).
- Working knowledge of project management/agile tooling.
- Understanding of software development, testing, and implementation as well as technical concepts.
- Ability to work closely with engineers, product managers, and business leaders.
- Experience managing large scale, cross-functional initiatives using various delivery methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, lean, scrum).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to dig into details, learn, ask questions, and become the 'go to expert' on certain concepts and topics.
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities
- Medical/Dental/Vision plans
- 401(k) and pension program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Commuter plans
- Paid time off
- Extensive Professional Training Opportunities
- Excellent Work/Life Balance
