Assistant Director leading operations at The Nest Schools, providing high - quality early childhood education. Overseeing staff, budgets, and school initiatives in a supportive environment.
About the role
- Senior Director driving strategic initiatives and operational excellence in Northwestern Mutual's enterprise portfolio management. Leading cross-functional teams to manage transformation efforts with significant organizational impact.
Responsibilities
- Support definition and articulate the strategic vision for the future ways of working including: Domains, practices, and operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and program objectives
- Develop and lead initiatives that drive business transformation, articulating the 'How' and guiding strategic direction
- Support the development of updates for leadership regarding the overall new ways of working program
- Embrace a progress over perfection mindset to iteratively test and learn
- Assist in execution through development and oversight of operating rhythms, scorecards, and accountability mechanisms to sustain momentum
- Operationalize new ways of working alongside teams, utilizing data-driven decision-making through metrics, KPIs, and insights to measure value, course-correct, and guide decisions
- Implement best practices to improve the operating efficiency of the organization
- Manage cross-functional orchestration of stakeholders including business, technology, data, and finance, etc.
- Support change management efforts and communicate progress across levels of the organization
- Manage teams of professionals through vertical and horizontal relationships.
- Lead with and promote test-and-learn and iterative approaches
- Support development of talent through coaching and fluency-building programs to build a bench of transformation-ready talent.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years' business, strategy, and/or transformation experience
- Preferred management consulting experience leading organization change efforts, blending strategy and execution
- Highly independent self-starter with direct experience supporting other organizations through transformations
- Previous experience building materials for C Suite (SLT) audiences
- Experience in portfolio/project management, strategic/operational planning, and leading complex projects with organization-wide impact
- Demonstrated cross-functional and stakeholder management capabilities across all levels
- High degree of comfort with ambiguity, leading change, and demonstrating exceptional business acumen
- Ability to translate goals and strategies into executable business plans with strong integrity and confidentiality
- Demonstrated learning agility
- Strong organizational skills to handle competing demands and work under tight deadlines
- Strong problem-solving, strategic, and critical thinking skills to identify underlying issues and influence others
- Facilitation and team-building skills, with people management experience preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
- Paid time off
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