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Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy - Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy

At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions!

The current employee work arrangement for this position is Hybrid with work from home flexibility. You will need to be within a commutable distance to a Prudential office and plan to be in the office at least twice per week.

Prudential is seeking an experienced Director of Strategic Portfolio Enablement to lead large scale strategic initiatives within the Prudential Group Insurance business. This is a newly created position that will be responsible for driving progress and business ownership, supporting business case development, defining portfolio and initiative level financial and operational success metrics, and engaging with internal and external stakeholders and vendors to ensure execution excellence and sound change management. Prudential Group Insurance initiatives will encompass multiple product and service domains across a broad set of customer segments. As a utility player, you will partner with cross-functional delivery teams, 3rd party vendors, and enterprise shared service functions, as single point of accountability for the business on initiative progress, providing regular executive dashboard updates to Group Insurance leadership.

What you can expect:

A seasoned Group Insurance professional with exceptional communication, presentation, storytelling, analytical, and change ready mindset as you will work closely with our business leaders, technology organization, and enterprise teams to bring together a holistic view of a portfolio investment. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker and possess an optimistic, solutions-oriented approach with a drive for achieving business results.

What you'll need:

• 4-year bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience with minimum of 3 years of Group Insurance industry experience
• 8+ years of portfolio management, management consulting, product development, or operations experience
• Successfully led at least 3 or more large, cross-functional strategic programs
• Can work in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
• Self-starter, highly motivated, strategic thinker who can lead independent stakeholder conversations and provide necessary thought leadership on program direction
• Can define and drive portfolio related business results, leveraging both business and technology disciplines
• Strong, proven communication, collaboration, and consensus building skills
• Ability to adjust communication style and content to all levels in the organization
• Experience synthesizing conceptual strategies and information into defendable portfolio investment proposals
• Comfortable with data analysis and presenting data in a meaningful way
• Highly organized and energetic with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Strong Group Insurance acumen and familiarity with a broad range of business processes beyond those impacted by your assigned book of portfolio initiatives
• Able to effectively interact with various levels of an organization to review portfolio performance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Management consulting experience a plus (tier 2 firm or higher)
• Group Insurance financial experience working within an office of the CFO, Chief Strategy Office (CSO) or financial planning and analysis, or distribution sales enablement function
• Experience in content creation and story telling
• Group insurance product management and distribution experience a plus
• Group Insurance industry knowledge

Prudential supports all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.

At Prudential, you can:

Take charge of your career. We equip and empower our employees to expand their skills and experience by using powerful learning, gigs, and job opportunities. We offer a suite of services such as on demand resources and networking to propel your career forward.

We’re a global organization, full of outstandingly dedicated people who aren’t afraid to think differently, challenge the status quo and take sensible risks along the way. You will enjoy pushing boundaries as we build innovative technology that helps clients, customers and employees live their best lives. You will have access to leadership and learning opportunities and the resources needed to take your career in any direction. We will help you do your best work, offering flexibility, while delivering on our Purpose.

What we offer you:

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave
• Retirement plans:
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
• Company-funded pension plan
• Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

To find out more about our Total Reward package, see our Total Rewards Brochure. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $122,500.00 to $165,700.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.