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About the Role
Northwestern Mutual is seeking a Managing Consultant, Strategic Advisory to join their team. This role is responsible for key deliverable development on strategic advisory engagements and initiatives, including gap assessments, financial analysis, and designing future state solutions. The consultant will serve as the primary day-to-day contact for delivery and execution partners.
Responsibilities
- Assess and analyze core business processes across various business segments
- Make strategic recommendations to drive enhanced output and results for business processes
- Analyze and quantify financial impact of engagements and process improvements
- Build and deliver presentations for key findings and recommendations to partner organizations
- Partner with data resources to quantitatively assess and analyze how core business activities tie into strategic direction and how they provide a competitive advantage for Northwestern Mutual
- Run delivery ceremonies (e.g. stand-ups, design sessions, client workshops, readouts)
- Identify and escalate blockers and risks to engagements to appropriate parties
- Summarize engagement deliverables for socialization as needed
- Design and conduct stakeholder interviews to quickly acclimate to new organizations, and identify areas of opportunity
- Identify best practices across Northwestern Mutual and industry standards
- Build relationship with decision makers in partnership organizations
- Partner with project management to ensure deliverable timelines are being met
- Participate in internal team activities to help share knowledge, research, and best practices
- Participate in stand-ups and project management cadences to help drive initiatives forward
Requirements
- 5-10 years recently in client-facing consulting roles or equivalent experience leading projects and initiatives
- 3-5 years of experience delivering strategy and or management consulting
- Proficient in data analysis and ROI modelling
- Strong experience in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, proficient in quickly creating board-level presentations
- Experience delivering key process improvement concepts (e.g. Lean Six Sigma)
- Ability to quickly learn new concepts or business strategies
- Ability to research and understand nuances of insurance segments
- Comfort with Executive-level storytelling and presentations
- Strong organizational skills; able to handle competing demands, and work under tight deadlines and short timeframes
- Demonstrated organizational agility to work across organizational boundaries, influence, and collaborate with all levels on solutions that benefit the organization
- Proven skills in dealing with ambiguity and paradox, and leading change
- Facilitation and team building skills; ability to play an active, operational and communicative role
Skills
- Cross Functional Partnering & Planning
- Vision Setting
- Program Management
- Analytical Thinking
- Customer, Market & Ecosystem Knowledge
- Industry Knowledge
Experience Level
- 5-10 years recently in client-facing consulting roles or equivalent experience leading projects and initiatives
- 3-5 years of experience delivering strategy and or management consulting
Salary/Compensations
- $118,960.00 - $178,440.00
- $130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USD
- $136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USD
About the Company
- Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 165+ years.
- Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident.
- We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients.
Equal Opportunity
- Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds.
- We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.