The Assistant Director, Software Engineering, owns end‑to‑end technical quality and delivery execution across UI, services, and data platforms. This role is accountable for technical direction, delivery excellence, and people leadership for the Real Estate engineering teams.
In this role, you will lead engineers directly while partnering closely with Product Managers, Architects, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable solutions aligned with team’s objectives. You are both a technical authority and a people leader—setting direction, raising standards, and developing engineering talent.
What You'll Do in the Role:
Define and communicate technical direction for Real Estate team, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and delivery standards.
Translate product and business outcomes into pragmatic technical designs and implementation plans.
Lead solution design across front‑end (React), backend services (Node.js, REST APIs), and data platforms (dbt, Snowflake) with clear interface contracts and data lineage.
Drive technical decomposition and sequencing for initiatives spanning applications, APIs, pipelines, and warehouse models.
Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.
Own technical risk management, including early identification of architecture, integration, performance, and security risks.
Ensure API and data integrations are resilient, well-documented, and reusable across teams.
Improve data reliability and trust by guiding data warehouse model quality, transformation design, and warehouse performance optimization.
Support production stability by guiding incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements.
People Leadership & Team Development
Serve as direct people leader for engineers, responsible for coaching, growth, performance management, and career development.
Build a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, quality, learning, and constructive feedback.
Lead regular technical and delivery reviews, fostering a healthy review and mentorship culture.
Develop team capability through coaching, pairing, and intentional skills development.
Partner with Engineering Management on hiring, onboarding, and succession planning.
Set clear expectations and accountability for technical excellence, delivery outcomes, and operational readiness.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Partner closely with Product Managers to balance delivery speed, quality, and long‑term maintainability.
Coordinate cross‑team dependencies and release readiness for shared components, platforms, and data pipelines.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and other investment delivery teams’ Technical Leads to align standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
Communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, providing clarity under ambiguity.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
8+ years of software and data engineering experience, with strong full-stack and data platform expertise.
Prior experience leading engineers directly (or demonstrated readiness to step into people leadership).
Proven technical leadership across multiple teams or complex cross-functional initiatives.
Strong experience building modern web applications with React.
Strong experience building backend services and designing REST APIs.
Strong experience with data warehousing best practices.
Experience with database performance tuning, cost-aware design, and data governance controls.
Experience designing secure, scalable, and observable systems in enterprise environments.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate engineering maturity.
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience in investment services domains.
Experience modernizing legacy applications and data pipelines.
Experience with platform migration programs and phased cutover strategies.
Experience defining shared engineering standards across multiple teams.
Skills You Have:
Databases & Data Platforms: Advanced
Data Interpretation: Advanced
Adaptive Communication: Advanced
Engineering Expertise & Practices: Advanced
Talent Development & Planning: Advanced
Coaching & Mentoring: Expert
Product Roadmap: Advanced
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$176,000.00Pay Range - End:
$264,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Resource Management (NM) - Advanced, Data Interpretation (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Data Integrity (NM) - Advanced, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Expert, DevOps (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Vision & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Talent Development & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Coaching & Mentoring (NM) - Expert, Accountability (NM) - Advanced, Engineering Expertise & Practices (NM) - Advanced, Business Application (NM) - Advanced, Business Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Databases & Data Platforms (NM) - Advanced, Data Security (NM) - Advanced, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Advanced, Product Roadmap (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Expert, Data Literacy (NM) - Advanced, Programming Languages (NM) - Advanced, Data ETL (NM) - Advanced, Data Analytics (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Consulting (70%):
Consulting Level 1- 3 delivery and referral coordination: Triaging, delivering, and referring Practice Management Level 1-3 content and support.
Consulting knowledge depth: Deep expertise in one or more of NM’s Practice Management content areas including human capital, transition/succession, practice efficiency, and/or related.
Teams and Ensemble Platform: Ability to provide in-depth support for potential and operating teams and ensembles.
Complex consulting quarterbacking and ownership: Quarterback complex consultations with field, field leaders, performance team members and home office, including industry partners when appropriate. Responsible for consult ownership, stakeholder communication, resolution, and documentation for future team reference.
Team escalation point: Act as an escalation point within the team as a resource for complex cases.
Consulting quality and continuous improvement: Leadership in helping the consulting team improve the client experience, overall quality of the interaction, best practice sharing and improvement opportunities. Proactively brings the voice of the field back and shares with other stakeholders to drive innovation and improvement.
Subject Matter Expertise (15%):
Content: Coordinating with Practice Management Managers on content development, execution, communication, adoption, and gathering feedback. Act as an escalation point within the team for questions and content, coordinating with the Business owners and other areas for resolution, further escalating to others when required. Recognizes challenges and recommends process improvement.
Project leadership: Proactively leads others in design and delivery of materials related to subject matter expertise, practice management and thematic/topical content. Includes education and coaching of team members on content, language, consistent usage and updates. Brings the voice of the team back for ongoing content improvement.
External strategic partner coordination: Work with external strategic partners, acting as a main point of contact in content development, coordination and communication.
Thought leadership: Developing thought leadership and furthering related strategy, content, resources and social media, incorporating outside financial services industry perspective and trends.
Strategy, Communication & Presentations (15%):
Strategy: Participates in strategy development, communication and execution, occasionally representing and acting on senior leadership’s behalf. Works within ambiguity to help identify, clarify and create opportunities for strategic improvement.
Field, field leadership, home office communication and engagement: Educate and communicate with partners regarding practice management tools and resources. Develop cross-functional relationships to create practice management advocates within the home office, the field, and field leadership.
Presentation responsibilities: Create, lead, and facilitate conference calls, webinars, presentations, study groups and workshops within the home office, in the field, and with all levels of advisors and leadership.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, marketing, or related. MBA, CFA, CFP, or ChFC preferred.
Formal coaching or consulting training and/or designation preferred.
Seven years of progressively responsible experience in financial services consulting, sales, marketing, or related function, with experience in field-facing business consulting and management, within NM preferred.
Three years of experience with industry practice management and/or Ensemble business model program preferred.
Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to lead content design and delivery.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize consulting and project work and make the outputs visible and transparent with both the client and key internal stakeholders.
Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to establish rapport at all levels of the home office and third parties including senior leaders, consultants and external partners.
High degree of self-motivation, self-starter, and leadership with initiative in sharing information, contributing towards group goals and accepting responsibility for results.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Organization (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Project Management (NM) - Advanced, Field Relations (NM) - Advanced, Field Advocacy (NM) - Advanced, Thought Leadership (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Problem Management (NM) - Advanced, Solution Development (NM) - Advanced, Change Management (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, End-User Advocacy (NM) - Advanced, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
THIS ROLE WILL BE BASED IN MILWAUKEE, WI.
As the Enterprise Insights Specialist – Consumer & Client Research, you will bring deep consumer and client understanding, coupled with strategic foresight, to life to inspire profitable growth. You will have the opportunity to work with cross-functional teams, perform custom research as applicable and drive project management for insights projects across consumer, client and field teams. This is a unique opportunity for an individual with a self-starter mentality to have oversight of the projects across the function while also ensuring appropriate tracking of these projects.
As the central orchestrator and research librarian for our Enterprise Insights team, you will lead workflow optimization and institutionalize knowledge through disciplined archival. You will leverage AI to enhance insight discoverability, preventing redundant work and driving efficiencies across the team. By centralizing these assets, you will accelerate speed-to-discovery, allowing leadership to pivot quickly in response to emerging market trends. Ultimately, you will instill a rigorous discipline around intake and knowledge management to ensure every strategic decision is backed by the organization’s collective intelligence, mitigating risk and driving sustainable competitive advantage.
What You’ll Do:
Intake Process, Documentation & Traffic Support
Workflow Oversight: Work with the team to manage and monitor research tasks in Jira to ensure project progress and resource efficiency.
Intake Management: Ensure all initiatives begin with a logged research brief to define objectives and requirements.
Status Reporting: As needed, provide updates on team capacity and project status based on Jira traffic metrics.
Rights Compliance: Document and enforce sharing protocols for internal, field, and external access per guidelines.
Insights Curation: Partner with leads to ensure research outputs are formatted for long-term searchability and actionability.
Knowledge & Data Management
Knowledge Archival: Lead the systematic storage of findings across SharePoint and the Research Hub for easy retrieval.
AI Integration: Leverage approved AI tools to automate the coding, tagging, and searching of research files.
Quarterly Spotlights: Produce a quarterly digest of projects and impact (in partnership with respective teams) to drive enterprise-wide awareness.
Standardization: Maintain team-wide standards for naming conventions and folder structures for a "single source of truth."
What You'll Bring To The Role
Minimum of 2-3 years' experience/knowledge desired in consumer insights, research & project management.
Direct to consumer (B2C) category experience strongly preferred.
Exposure and experience to custom research methodologies such as concept testing, communications evaluation and syndicated data collection/research.
Expertise using MS Office tools such as Excel, Word and syndicated tools for project tracking.
Strong technical market research skills that include; quantitative, qualitative, primary, and secondary.
Experience should include budget management, and vendor management.
Degree in business, marketing, social sciences, statistics or related field. Ideally from top-tier school.
Strong business acumen.
Financial Services Experience Not Required; but must have, or acquire soon after, intimate knowledge of NM field, markets, clients and products.
Able to be both strategic and tactical, with strong analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills. Ability to unite key colleagues and cross-functional partners by gaining trust through demonstrating business expertise.
Acts in the best interest of consumer / clients and the company.
MBA or Master's Degree strongly preferred.
#LI-Onsite, #LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$70,320.00Pay Range - End:
$105,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
At Northwestern Mutual, we want to be at the center of our clients’ financial lives. The Sophisticated Planning Strategies (SPS) Team partners with top firms to deliver best-in-class wealth planning services to high-net-worth clients.
This role sits at the intersection of operations and systems, supporting how our services are delivered today while helping improve the tools, processes, and reporting that enable us to scale. You’ll work on both core operational processes, projects, and supporting systems, making this role ideal for someone who enjoys structured, detail‑oriented work and is also motivated to solve problems and improve how things work.
What You’ll Do
Support Tools, Reporting, and Systems
Partner with senior team members to build and enhance tools, dashboards, and reporting used to manage SPS operations
Apply hands-on development experience in Power BI and Power Query to design, build, and optimize data models, dashboards, and automated reporting solutions that drive business decisions
Lead system configuration efforts, ensuring tools are aligned with evolving business needs and operational priorities
Perform data validation, reporting updates, and system support activities
Contribute to automation and system enhancements that improve efficiency and user experience
Support third-party integrations and SharePoint-based solutions as part of broader tools and systems ecosystem
Own and Improve Operations
Execute and own complex operational processes that enable SPS services, including new offerings such as tax preparation and family office services
Help develop and refine processes as services evolve, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability
Identify issues or inefficiencies and take initiative to recommend and implement improvements
Lead and Contribute to Projects
Lead or support projects and initiatives that improve how work gets done across SPS
Coordinate with stakeholders to gather input, track progress, and ensure timely execution
Support changes impacting the field, including communication and implementation activities
Collaborate and Build Capability
Work closely with cross‑functional partners across operations, technology, and the field
Share knowledge, document processes, and help build team understanding and backup coverage
Grow into increased ownership of processes, tools, or workstreams over time
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Experience
2–5 years of experience in operations, information systems, or a related field
Experience developing in Power BI or Power Query, including building scalable dashboards and automated reporting solutions
Experience executing and owning repeatable operational processes with strong attention to accuracy and detail
Exposure to tools, workflows, reporting, or data‑supported operations
Experience managing multiple priorities in a deadline‑driven environment
Exposure to system integrations or data flows
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience
Skills You Have
Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
Continuous Improvement: Utilizes available methods to identify opportunities, executes solutions and measures impact to improve existing practices and processes. Implements feedback and lessons learned. Leverages the ability to identify and experiment assumptions and hypothesis for products to be able to refine and improve them at any stage of the life cycle.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people inside and outside of the organization. Builds appropriate rapport, constructive and effective relationships. Uses diplomacy and tact and diffuses high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning Agility & Critical Thinking: Pursues learning and obtains knowledge continuously in relevant fields, methods, or technologies in current and future practices; continuously utilizes critical thinking to identify opportunities, execute solutions, and measure impact to constantly improve existing practices and processes based on feedback, lessons learned, and market trends.
Project Management: Delivers projects in alignment to business requirements, specific success criteria, and stakeholder expectations. Plans, manages, and completes projects keeping cost and time considerations in mind.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$70,320.00Pay Range - End:
$105,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Project Management (NM) - Beginner, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Beginner, Process Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Beginner, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Beginner, Documentation (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
We are seeking an experienced and technically strong Assistant Director to lead execution, delivery, and evolution of the Data De-Identification (DDI) initiative, a critical component of our broader Testing Transformation strategy. This role requires a deeply technical and hands-on engineering leader with experience designing and delivering data de-identification solutions, including techniques such as data masking, truncation, tokenization, synthetic data generation, data scanning, and remediation. The Assistant Director will be responsible for applying these techniques at scale across complex enterprise systems to ensure secure and compliant handling of sensitive data.
Reporting to the Senior Director, this role is responsible for driving day-to-day engineering leadership, technical direction, and roadmap execution for DDI solutions. The Assistant Director will lead a team of engineers and vendor partners to build scalable, secure, and high-impact solutions that improve how sensitive data is handled across prevent, detect, and remediate pillars.
This role requires a hands-on technical leader who has practical experience working on similar data protection, privacy, or de-identification initiatives, with the ability to navigate complex data ecosystems and influence enterprise-wide adoption.
What You'll Do:
Engineering Leadership & Delivery
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of engineers, fostering accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Own end-to-end delivery of DDI solutions, ensuring timely execution against roadmap commitments such as Data masking, Data truncation, Synthetic data generation, Data scanning and discovery and Data remediation workflows
Drive a strong execution culture, ensuring work is prioritized, tracked, and delivered with quality and predictability.
Actively remove blockers and ensure teams are focused on delivering outcomes.
Define and create new technical solutions to address complex business and engineering challenges within the DDI domain.
Pull together key technical SMEs (data, platform, security, application teams) to evaluate solution options, align on architecture, and drive execution.
Drive alignment and progress despite constraints (technical, organizational, or operational) to ensure successful delivery of results.
Technical Leadership & Decision Making
Serve as a hands-on technical leader, capable of diving deep into architecture, design, and implementation.
Make and drive key technical decisions aligned with enterprise architecture and long-term scalability goals.
Review and guide system design, data flows, and integration patterns across applications.
Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, design patterns, and data protection standards.
Roadmap Ownership & Product Alignment
Partner closely with Product, Program, and Business stakeholders to define and execute the DDI roadmap.
Translate business strategy into clear technical plans, priorities, and deliverables.
Ensure DDI solutions to integrate seamlessly into the broader developer workflow, test environments, and automation ecosystem.
Continuously evaluate and refine roadmap based on business needs, technical insights, and outcomes.
Vendor & Execution Management
Lead delivery through a mix of internal teams and vendor partners.
Demonstrate a proven ability to get work done through vendor resources, ensuring accountability, quality, and delivery outcomes.
Establish clear expectations, operating models, and performance metrics for vendors.
Actively manage vendor relationships to optimize cost, productivity, and results.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Collaborate across engineering, platform, security, and business teams to align solutions with enterprise needs.
Drive enterprise adoption of de-identified and synthetic data patterns, influencing teams to shift toward secure and compliant data practices.
Work closely with Testing Transformation teams to drive alignment across test data, environments, tooling, and automation.
Influence decisions and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders and teams.
Operational Excellence
Implement and improve engineering processes, SDLC practices, and delivery frameworks.
Ensure high standards for product quality, reliability, and performance.
Drive continuous improvement in development, deployment, and operational practices.
Talent Development
Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent.
Provide direct feedback, mentorship, and performance evaluations.
Build strong technical capabilities within the team and develop future engineering leaders.
Domain Expertise
Proven experience working on data de-identification, data privacy, or sensitive data management initiatives
Strong understanding of:
Data masking and obfuscation techniques
Synthetic data generation approaches
Data discovery, classification, and scanning tools
Data remediation and compliance workflows
Technical & Leadership Skills
Strong understanding of SDLC and modern engineering practices
Solid data engineering knowledge, including how data flows across systems and environments
Proven ability to make sound technical decisions and guide architecture/design
Experience working with public cloud and on-prem application architectures
Technology Experience
Familiarity with databases and platforms such as:
Aurora/RDS, Postgres, DB2, DynamoDB
Databricks, MySQL, Sybase
Strong understanding of design patterns, distributed systems, and data security practices
Execution & Vendor Management
Demonstrated success in delivering outcomes through vendor partners and hybrid teams
Ability to manage multiple priorities, teams, and dependencies effectively
Communication & Influence
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to influence teams and leaders on important technical and business decisions
Comfortable operating with visibility across leadership levels
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
8–12 years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields
3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices.
4–8+ years leading engineering teams, including Software Engineering, DevOps, or Data Engineering including:
Growing engineering skill sets in others.
Developing future engineering leaders.
Providing direct feedback and performance reviews.
Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.
Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods.
Solid understanding of the organizations primary domains and business functions.
Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business.
Ability to successfully communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.
Leads the team to collaboration.
Skills You Have:
Accountability- Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
Adaptive Communication - Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Analytical Thinking - Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
Application Security- Application Security: Introduces security standards during application development and implements security procedures to protect applications in production. Utilizes knowledge to implement authentication for applications that contain sensitive data. Ensures that no PII/PCI information is logged. Conducts PenTest for external facing apps.
Business Influence - Business Influence: Collaborates, communicates and influences direct reports, stakeholders, and other business functions based on understanding of the marketplace, organizational needs, and the client as a people manager.
Cloud Technology - Cloud Technology: Applies knowledge of cloud service platforms and delivery models to support, develop, adopt, secure, implement and evaluate end-to-end cloud solutions delivery and data storage instead of through traditional physical servers in a back office.
Coaching & Mentoring - Coaching & Mentoring: Develops others by providing actionable, constructive feedback through the lens of technical expertise and offers guidance to others on how to leverage, prioritize, and develop skills to achieve one's goals and objectives.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning - Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Data Literacy - Data Literacy: Utilizes appropriate data for a particular purpose by thinking critically about information yielded by data analysis; applies data analytics tools/methods and their appropriate purposes and recognizes when data is being misrepresented to resolve issues or escalate to the appropriate party.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$176,000.00Pay Range - End:
$264,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Application Security (NM) - Advanced, DevOps (NM) - Intermediate, Release Management (NM) - Advanced, Software Problem Solving (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Vision & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Data Literacy (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Expert, Talent Development & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Coaching & Mentoring (NM) - Advanced, Accountability (NM) - Advanced, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Advanced, Cloud Technology (NM) - Advanced, Business Application (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Expert, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, Software Development (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Expert, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, IT Strategy (NM) - Advanced, Application Performance Management (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related field plus five years of experience as a test engineer or related occupation. Five years of experience must include three years of experience with each of the following: (1) PL/SQL; (2) Unix shell scripting; (3) Informatica; (4) SSIS packages data testing; (5) Big data and Hive data testing; (6) Python and Spark; (7) AWS S3; (8) ETL and data warehouse concepts and testing; (9) GIT package creation; and (10) Testing Maturity Model and SDLC leadership. Must also have two years of Databricks experience.
Interested candidates send resume to apply@northwesternmutual.com. Reference code 183 in the subject line.
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. If noted, this is standard pay structure for this position.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for additional information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
$5M Signature / $7.5M Authority
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY APPLICANTS WITH INDIVIDUAL LIFE UNDERWRITING EXPERIENCE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE.
Job Summary
Builds relationships with Financial Advisors and internal partners. Develops the skills necessary to successfully underwrite Life, Disability, and/or Long-term Care insurance policies in an inclusive and fast-paced environment ensuring all quality, service and production goals are met.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Field & Client Experience.
Responsible for credible and effective relations and communication with field and customer to include responding to case appeals/inquiries and assists with placing business.
Provides guidance and assistance to the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network and Financial Representatives regarding case underwriting and risk appraisal.
Responsible for prescreen inquiries.
Underwriting
Responsible for the analysis and appraisal of a broad range of insurance applications; approves, classifies, or declines applications for various ages and policy amounts with occasional guidance, as needed.
Uses advanced UW knowledge and expertise to provide the appropriate level of underwriting skill and mentoring to UWs.
Uses advanced skills to review applications and adheres to underwriting standards.
Solves complex problems and escalations.
Advanced level of experience with NM product types and changes
Models change agility while maintaining mortality and morbidity expectations.
Demonstrates continuous learning through the early adoption of new ways of underwriting.
Proficient with Reinsurance programs and able to determine where to best place a case.
Underwrites applications, maintaining industry-leading mortality and morbidity giving the best possible offer that can be made.
Provides active case and requirement management and provides customized service with guidance.
Demonstrates advanced ability to communicate & negotiate with Field Partners to explain modified or declined decisions & assist in policy placement.
Provides advanced financial, medical, and lay underwriting assessments and offers innovative solutions to keep Northwestern Mutual as the choice of our customers.
Actively utilizes the most effective means to obtain the necessary information, including Internet searches, direct contact with the insured, and communication with third party advisors (Accountants, Attorneys, etc.)
Collaborates with medical directors and technical staff.
Responsible for adherence to procedures and regulatory processes.
Understands and meets all quality, service, and production goals.
Partners with Underwriting Support for case management.
Cross-Functional leadership.
Subject matter expert in product process w/collaboration w/functional partners and participates in projects and department initiatives.
Collaborates and designs P3 curriculum with L&D/Tech Team.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree preferred or demonstrated consistent success in prior Underwriting role as evidence by satisfactory case management and quality review.
Minimum of 5 years of underwriting experience.
Analytical skills with an established record to make independent decisions on complex cases and apply sound judgment in the application of rules.
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to handle confidential information, exercise tact, diplomacy, and resourcefulness.
Proficient in computer skills and using various software packages.
Ability to work accurately while maintaining speed and flexibility in a team and independent production environment.
A high degree of organization and the ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines.
Demonstrated strong leadership skills and a high degree of self-motivation and initiative to lead projects or committees.
Displays agility to manage multiple tasks and adapt in a changing work environment.
#LI-Remote or LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$89,360.00Pay Range - End:
$134,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Change Adaptability (NM) - Advanced, Information Optimization (NM) - Advanced, Underwriting Ecosystem (NM) - Advanced, Customer Support (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Insurance Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Technology Adaptation (NM) - Advanced (Inactive), Information Gathering (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Training, Educating & Awareness (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Data Application (NM) - Advanced, Decision Making (NM) - Advanced, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Advanced, Mortality, Morbidity, & Risk Analysis (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility (NM) - Advanced (Inactive), Underwriting Practices (NM) - Advanced, Reasoning (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Provides technical leadership to team.
Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices across department.
Mentors, guides and coaches engineers within their division for job performance as well as technical and leadership growth.
Recruits , hires and onboards talent, ensuring the right mix of talent within team.
Manages team size / design and budget.
Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis for their products.
What You'll Bring to the Role
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
6-8 years of professional experience required.
3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices.
2-5+ years of experience leading engineering teams including:
Growing engineering skill sets in others.
Developing future engineering leaders.
Providing direct feedback and performance reviews.
Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.
Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods.
Solid understanding of the organizations primary domains and business functions.
Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business.
Ability to successfully communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.
Leads the team to collaboration.
Skills You Have:
Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
Adaptive Communication:
Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Business Application: Utilizes both business acumen and technology expertise to translate business requirements/capabilities into technical solutions, and applies technical knowledge of a product/platform/application to align it with a particular line of business (LOB) based on the organization's technology needs and business goals.
Coaching & Mentoring : Develops others by providing actionable, constructive feedback through the lens of technical expertise and offers guidance to others on how to leverage, prioritize, and develop skills to achieve one's goals and objectives.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning:
Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.
Technical Problem Solving: Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope, applies best practice based on experience and expertise, explores the art of possible. Solves problems effectively and gains alignment on the path forward. Defines, understands, and documents what is being solved for.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$176,000.00Pay Range - End:
$264,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$193,600.00 USD - $290,400.00 USDStructure 115:
$202,400.00 USD - $303,600.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Engineering Practices, Systems Architecture Design, Software Development, Technical Solution Development, Technical Communication, Technical Design Documentation, Programming Languages, Cloud Technology, Production Monitoring, Deployment Strategies, Containerization, Code Analysis, Continuous Integrations, Data Solutions, Continuous Learning, Technology Strategy Development, System Architecture, Cross-Functional Partnerships, Agile Methodology, Root Cause Analysis, Automation Processes, Resource Management
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
1M Signature / 5M Authority.
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY APPLICANTS WITH INDIVIDUAL LIFE UNDERWRITING EXPERIENCE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE.
Job Summary
Builds relationships with Financial Advisors and internal partners. Develops the skills necessary to successfully underwrite Life, Disability, and/or Long-term Care insurance policies in an inclusive and fast-paced environment ensuring all quality, service and production goals are met.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Field & Client Experience
Responsible for credible and effective relations and communication with field and customer to include responding to case appeals/inquiries and assists with placing business.
Provides guidance and assistance to the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network and Financial Representatives regarding case underwriting and risk appraisal
Responsible for prescreen inquiries.
Underwriting
Responsible for the analysis and appraisal of a broad range of insurance applications; approves, classifies, or declines applications for various ages and policy amounts with guidance, as needed.
Independently reviews applications and adheres to underwriting standards and demonstrates an intermediate level of experience with NM product types and changes.
Develops and demonstrates change agility while maintaining mortality and morbidity expectations.
Demonstrates continuous learning through the early adoption of new ways of underwriting.
Develops proficiency with Reinsurance programs and determining where to best place a case.
Underwrites applications, maintaining industry-leading mortality and morbidity giving the best possible offer that can be made. Provides active case and requirement management and provides customized service with guidance.
Communicates & negotiates with Field Partners to explain modified or declined decisions & assist in policy placement.
Develops proficiency in financial, medical, and lay underwriting assessments and provides innovations solutions to keep Northwestern Mutual as the choice of our customers.
Actively utilizes the most effective means to obtain the necessary information, including digital health data, Internet searches, direct contact with the insured, and communication with third party advisors (Accountants, Attorneys, etc.) with limited guidance.
Discusses cases with peer reviewers with medical and technical staff, as needed.
Understands and meets all quality, service, and production goals.
Solves issues & escalations, with guidance as needed.
Partners with Underwriting Support for case management
Cross-functional leadership
May serve as underwriting representative for improvement in product process w/collaboration w/functional partners. Participates in other projects as needed.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience is preferred.
1.5 years of traditional underwriting experience.
Analytical skills with the ability to make independent decisions and apply sound judgment in the application of rules.
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to handle confidential information, and exercise tact, diplomacy, and resourcefulness.
Proficient in computer skills and using various software packages.
Ability to work accurately while maintaining speed and flexibility in a team and independent production environment.
Highly organized with the ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines.
Displays agility to manage multiple tasks and adapt in a changing work environment.
#LI-Remote or LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$70,320.00Pay Range - End:
$105,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Information Gathering (NM) - Intermediate, Underwriting Practices (NM) - Intermediate, Information Optimization (NM) - Intermediate, Technology Adaptation (NM) - Intermediate (Inactive), Insurance Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Underwriting Ecosystem (NM) - Intermediate, Mortality, Morbidity, & Risk Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility (NM) - Intermediate (Inactive), Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Reasoning (NM) - Intermediate, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Intermediate, Decision Making (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Data Application (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Provides highest level of program/portfolio management expertise and consultation to the business in order to meet department, cross-department and enterprise wide goals. Plans, monitors and manages internal business programs from initiation through rollout and ongoing program management. Accountable for aligning one or more large, complex business programs consisting of multiple efforts and/or programs supporting strategic corporate initiatives.
Program Management includes managing multiple different projects within a program / portfolio which incorporate multiple larger initiatives and overseeing programs / portfolios and initiatives which are ongoing.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Independently leads large, complex, and multi-faceted programs or portfolios. Responsible for managing scope, risk, business value, schedule and budget.
Defines, maintains, and revises program objectives and deliverables; accountable for defining the program structure and creating a single, unified plan to deliver on program objectives. Manages programs to ensure appropriate allocation of resources according to program objectives, specifications, deliverables, and changes.
Accountable for building and motivating team members and influencing them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work. Accountable for identifying and resolving issues and conflicts within the team at a portfolio/program level.
Drives for clarity on program objectives, priorities, and measures. Develops solutions/recommendations to unique and complex problems and ensures program solutions are consistent with organizational objectives. Identifies, assess, and mitigates program risks and issues and removes impediments.
Develops strong relationships with business clients to manage program delivery expectations and implementation. Manages the resources and vendors assigned to program by verifying progress and removing obstacles.
Makes connections across teams and workstreams to drive identification and facilitation of inter-dependencies.
Responsible for gathering and delivering metrics required by the program. Uses data to make successes and challenges visible, and to drive insights and action plans to continually adjust and pursue program goals. Leveraging tools and techniques to enable end-to-end value delivery and the best ongoing rollout and ongoing experience.
Applies extensive business acumen in depth and breadth of industry, and company initiatives, products complexities, in order to incorporate knowledge into program objectives.
Uses extensive knowledge of program management and business requirements to understand the key business drivers as they relate to the programs. Conduct complex analysis to identify scope and nature of program deliverables; programs are intended to solve a department or business need.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree with an emphasis in, Business, Project Management or related field preferred OR a significant amount of directly-related work experience beyond the minimum required for the position
Minimum 7 years of related experience; diverse project or program management experience to include analysis, design, documentation, project/support management.
Ability to work with general direction to scope, plan and manage cross-department or multi-department programs
Demonstrated ability to lead and manage large and highly complex assignments including those with enterprise-wide impact.
Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks simultaneously, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Seen as a team player and is supportive of group decisions and ideas.
Written and oral communications skills with the ability to build rapport within the company, field and /or outside vendors.
High degree of personal initiative and motivation.
Degree with a project management emphasis or PMI certification preferred
Experience with project methodology through project life cycle phases
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$108,160.00Pay Range - End:
$162,240.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$118,960.00 USD - $178,440.00 USDStructure 115:
$124,400.00 USD - $186,600.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Risk Management (NM) - Advanced, Change Adaptability (NM) - Advanced, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Advanced, Program Management (NM) - Expert, Program Governance (NM) - Expert, Prioritization (NM) - Advanced, Business Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Advanced, KPIs & Metrics (NM) - Intermediate, Process Mindset (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Working under the Chef Team Leader and Restaurant Manager, the Chef prepares food from scratch for cafeteria and catering services. Preparing a variety of menu items including soups, roasts, casseroles, sauces, vegetables, salads, sandwiches, and bakery items using scratch cooking/baking techniques (roasting, sautéing, grilling, steaming, proofing and baking), you will work to improve the quality/healthfulness of foods by researching and testing menu items that fit a wellness profile, Additionally, you will: put safety first, observing safe food handling techniques, safe ergonomic and personal safety techniques, and maintaining a clean, organized and safe work area, and operating and cleaning equipment following established safety guidelines. You will work as part of a team, supporting the menu planning/management process. This role calls for an effective communicator, able to interact with customers and servers as to menu, food preparation, etc.
What You'll Do in the Role
(30%) Responsible for preparing from scratch a variety of menu items for cafeteria and catering services which include, but are not limited to, soups, roasts, casseroles, sauces, vegetables, salads, sandwiches, and bakery items. Uses scratch cooking and baking techniques, which include demonstration cooking, roasting, sautéing, grilling, steaming, proofing and baking. Works to improve the quality and wellness of foods by participating in researching and testing menu items that fit a wellness profile. Prepares foods using healthy and flavor-enhancing herbs, spices and cooking techniques. Bakes fresh a variety of products using raw dough, mixes and some scratch baking. Assures proper proofing and baking methods to offer fresh breads, and other bakery as required.
(25%) Practices safe food handling techniques in all areas of the job as outlined in food safety standards. Practices safe ergonomic and personal safety techniques in all aspects of work as outlined in restaurant standards, including the proper use of personal protective equipment and observance of proper body mechanics. Maintains a clean, organized and safe work area, which includes walk-in coolers, food preparation areas, stock areas, etc. Performs a variety of tasks to assure regular sanitation standards are met including sweeping, washing and polishing. Responsible for maintaining accurate and complete labeling and date marking of products to assure freshness. Maintains time and temperature records to minimize exposure of food to unsafe temperatures and minimize the risk of bacteria growth. Operates and cleans equipment following safety guidelines including use of PPEs.
(20%) Supports the menu management process that includes: following recipes, provides feedback for recipe improvements, follows the ordering process as defined, assures correct portions, monitors adequate records including HACCP logs and usage reports, inventories food storage areas, and assesses leftovers. Projects the ordering needs and quantities of all foods on the menu to provide timely preparation and cost-effective menu management for upcoming meals and events.
(15%) Routinely delivers on Restaurant Hospitality standards. Communicates with customers and servers through routine greeting and providing information verbally regarding the menu, preparation methods and services. Responds to any questions or concerns with the approach of immediate resolution of concerns or corrective action on matters that may be impacting the customer experience. In compliance with Restaurant Division Professional Conduct Expectations and maintains professional communication with all." (10%) In the absence of the Chef Team Leader, covers responsibilities to assure customer-focused decision-making in the continuation of food preparation, ordering, and service to the restaurant division. May adjust work location, tasks or assignments routinely throughout the day to adjust to changes in business need, customer demands, or any other business reason
What You'll Bring to the Role
Associate degree or equivalent work experience with a minimum of three years of high-volume restaurant or corporate dining experience required.
Upscale culinary experience preferred.
Demonstrated ability to interpret written instructions to assure adequate outcome of quality, volume and presentation of foods.
Demonstrated knowledge of and performance in food safety production, receiving and storage practices.
High degree of personal initiative and motivation combined with a willingness to work as part of a team.
Demonstrated commitment to customer service through positive customer interaction and anticipation of needs to enhance the customer experience.
Demonstrated strong initiative and a commitment to continued culinary growth.
Must have the ability to perform the essential physical requirements of the job.
#IN-POST
#LI-POST
Candidates must successfully complete and pass any required testing.Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$17.93Pay Range - End:
$26.89Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
At Northwestern Mutual, we are managing over $425 billion in client wealth assets and delivering integrated wealth management solutions to millions of households nationwide. With a 165-year legacy and the urgency of a company investing boldly in its future, we are executing an ambitious multi-year transformation in our Field and Wealth area — reimagining the advisor and large teams experience, modernizing our technology platform, and building next-generation Data and AI capabilities spanning across client onboarding, financial planning, Investment management and advisor enablement. As we accelerate our investment in Wealth Tech, we are seeking an exceptional Senior Director of Product to lead a dynamic team of product managers to lead and drive the implementation of modern wealth tech stack. The director will possess and apply their wealth business domain expertise while working in close partnership with wealth business leaders to co-develop innovative technology strategies and ensure technology initiatives closely align with business goals. Collaboration across engineering, design, servicing, Investment management, Field and other Enterprise partners is essential to drive product development and deliver impactful solutions.
What You’ll Do in the Role/Skills You’ll Have
Business Influence: Collaborates, communicates and influences business partners, direct reports, stakeholders, and other enterprise functions based on understanding of the wealth domain and organizational needs. Building trust with business partners, direct reports, stakeholders, and other enterprise functions and brings positive impact to the overall outcome of the organization.
Business Strategy Translation: Translate business strategy into actionable technology capabilities, objectives, and measurable results by partnering with business, engineering, design, servicing, field and enterprise teams and applying wealth domain expertise.
Roadmap Creation: Develop a long-term (2-5 years) technology roadmap for Wealth business solutions, foster a culture of domain expertise, and enable strategic business objectives. Provide direction that illustrate the epics and features that will be delivered across a portfolio of products or platform and how it integrates with other cross functional team efforts.
Leadership: Creates the future by fostering an engaging environment and encourage accountability and development. Breaks down barriers so individuals and teams can be accountable and responsible to do their best.
Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines team objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
Business Acumen: Applies knowledge of both general and organization-specific business issues/financial implications for the organization to problem solve.
Dependency Management: Utilizes data and insights to identify and monitor enterprise dependencies and guides the development and execution of sophisticated product strategies by applying risk management methodologies for optimal results.
Goal setting: Partner with key functions to set technology objectives and key results aligned to the business strategy for the Wealth product portfolio. Aligns other functions like engineering, design, field, finance, service and enterprise around a common set of measurable goals.
Requirements Specification: Identify and prioritize technology capabilities and drive the development and implementation of advanced product solutions or platforms for the field and home office customers.
Team Leadership: Foster an engaging environment, encourage accountability and growth, and remove obstacles to maximize team performance. Identify necessary skills, build or adjust teams to fit those needs, and set long-term goals for both the product portfolio and individual team members.
Alliance Building: Collaborate with employees and stakeholders, nurture talent, and proactively address skill gaps to maximize business value outcomes.
Opportunity Creation: Turn challenges into growth opportunities, resolve conflicts, and inspire high-performing teams through expertise, energy, and empathy.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Build and model a culture of data-driven decision-making. that influences business, engineering and other stakeholders to model this behavior.
Prioritization: Partner with business stakeholders to balance priorities aligned to business strategies, track progress against key metrics and results, and support teams as they achieve ambitious goals.
Dependency Management: with enterprise dependencies
Requirements Management: Accountable for their team's product requirements including the ability to evaluate what good requirements look like, teach best practices, and use requirements effectively to build outstanding products.
Product Definition: Identifies and validates problems and/or opportunities for multiple user groups/scenarios across the organization. Aligns stakeholders and documents high-level business requirements for various user groups, build alliances and help build and maintain vendor relationships and relevant processes from technology perspective.
Communication: Collaborates cross functionally with business partners and executives in engineering, design, field and enterprise departments to allow for the smooth and efficient flow of product activities.
Team Building: Aligns employees’ passion to business value outcomes, grow talent and proactively solve for talent gaps. Identifies & recruits internal and/or external industry resources to address those needs. Drives high performing teams and can lead with expertise, energy and empathy.
Conflict Resolution: Turns challenging teams, interpersonal conflicts, and cross-departmental political initiatives into opportunities. Pinpoints root causes disagreement to resolve conflict.
Team outcomes: Accountable for helping teams track progress against key results and help balance priorities with strategic initiatives or the introduction of new products, strategies and capabilities.
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent technical, business or financial field.
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) or CFA, preferred.
15+ years of working as a product manager on technology-powered product teams.
Working knowledge of modern techniques in product discovery and delivery.
Domain experience with Investment and Wealth management.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience in high-level business discussions and deep technical discussions.
5+ years of formal people management experience managing other product managers.
Ability to work in a matrix organization.
#LI-hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$176,000.00Pay Range - End:
$264,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Advanced, Product Roadmap (NM) - Expert, Performance Analysis (NM) - Expert, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Field Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Digital Field Enablement (NM) - Intermediate, Product Lifecycle (NM) - Expert, Talent Development & Planning (NM) - Expert, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Expert, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Expert, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Competitive Benchmarking (NM) - Advanced, Facilitation (NM) - Intermediate, Change Management (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Vision & Planning (NM) - Expert, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Expert, Agile Product Ownership (NM) - Expert, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Vision Setting (NM) - Expert, Customer Centricity (NM) - Expert, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Escalation Tracking (NM) - Intermediate, Client Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Accountability (NM) - Expert, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Advanced, Customer Analysis (NM) - Expert, Business Influence (NM) - Expert, Production Reporting & Metrics (NM) - Expert, Solution Design Oriented Thinking (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
You’ll leverage exposure to all of the products that the Company offers along with working with attorneys, actuaries, and product line partners to gain approval of our products that are ultimately sold by our Financial Representatives nationwide. Your ability to learn quickly, be detailed oriented, influence without authority and a desire to multi-task and do project management on a small-scale will set you up for success in this role and open the door to future career opportunities.
What You'll Do
Determine and provide appropriate tools and services to support project leaders within the Product Compliance Division in the drafting and filing process of new and revised product forms and changes to existing forms by updating forms in the contract software.
Analyze state submission requirements that are put forth in the Legacy and new SERFF platforms by creating the appropriate drafts for filing submissions.
Determine the method of submission and the requirements necessary for submission of state-regulated forms to gain state approval consulting with project leaders within the Product Compliance Division.
Submit all necessary components to state insurance departments in 51 jurisdictions including the Interstate Compact.
Create, code, proof, document, maintain and organize company policies, contracts, forms, and all other necessary records such as state filing requirements and procedures, information used for research and historical purposes, and procedures driven by regulatory change.
Review advertising pieces that require filing and provide feedback based on state requirements and consult with peers and other members of the Product Compliance Management team as needed.
Review and verify replica policy requests to ensure they are correct, and if they are not correct, provide guidance and/or the correct policy pages.
Use developed knowledge and skills to analyze state submission requirements (checklists, certifications, etc.) for electronic filings and determine the appropriate requirements for submission of state-regulated forms to gain state approval.
Prepare company forms for production by naming components and uploading them to the company mainframe and the Factory platforms. Update and proof assembly instructions for changes as they occur and perform testing duties as requested.
Develop final documentation of standard and state-specific company forms. Create and update electronic form repository to be used as a resource by internal company officials.
Train new team members as needed. Document and maintain procedures for Product Compliance team to follow.
Perform other miscellaneous duties and project work required to support the goals of the Product Compliance Division.
What You'll Bring To The Role
Minimum Educational Requirements -High School Diploma
2 to 4 years of experience in company contract design and production demonstrating strengths in analytical, communications (oral and written) and technical skills.
Proficient in Office Products, and word processing.
#LI-Onsite, #LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$52,720.00Pay Range - End:
$79,080.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
As the Senior Manager of Advisor Insights, you will bring financial advisor understanding and strategic foresight to life to inspire profitable growth. You will drive the learning agenda across cross-functional teams, developing forward-looking strategies grounded in field realities and emerging trends.
This is your opportunity to help build a new, centralized enterprise insight capability. You will advocate for financial advisors, anticipating their needs while bridging these findings with consumer realities. Beyond driving field research, you will act as a compelling team leader with natural servant leadership abilities, passionate about mentoring and shaping our analytical talent.
You will design impactful reporting frameworks by synthesizing custom field research, advisor sentiment, and client NPS where applicable. As a master storyteller, you will help weave disparate field, consumer, and client data into meaningful insights that bring extreme clarity to the organization and empower stakeholders to take insight-led action.
By helping to integrate insights across the advisor, client, and consumer journeys, you will unify field experience assessment scores and holistic feedback into a cohesive lifecycle view. This approach allows you to proactively prescribe targeted solutions that elevate the advisor experience and drive enterprise success.
Finally, you will support our steady enterprise approach to AI adoption, leveraging AI-driven tools to enhance field research capabilities and keep the team at the cutting edge of data synthesis.
What You'll Do
Lead the Field learning agenda working closely with Field, Journey, Marketing, Product and Digital teams to develop products, communications and strategies that are grounded in deep financial advisor understanding.
As part of the Enterprise Insights team, be the go-to source for ad-hoc analysis and actionable research. Be an advocate for the field, client and consumer in internal meetings and a driver of insight-led actions across the enterprise.
Deliver reports, insights and implications to assigned business partners to inform decisions that improve the field / consumer / client experience.
Perform data analysis and interpretation, using basic statistical techniques (Frequency distributions, Descriptive statistics, T-tests; Cross-tabs, Correlations, Text analytics) to reveal new findings and insights to marketing and other business partners.
Determine requisite data elements and work with technical resources to design integrated internal and syndicated datasets to provide required analysis.
Identify opportunities to enhance the team's analytical capabilities by evaluating current processes, new trends, working with business partners, and taking initiative to apply new and improved research best practices.
Proactively share relevant information and insights with the internal teams.
Interpret and synthesize multi-source data into insights that lead to actionable strategies and plans for the brand.
What You'll Bring To The Role
Minimum of 5 years' experience/knowledge desired in research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques. B2C category experience strongly preferred.
Seasoned expert in advanced features of a variety of programs which may include Excel, Access, SQL, SAS, SPSS, Tableau and Business Intelligence tools.
Experience and knowledge of the following advanced analytic techniques (Regression, Factor analysis, Cluster analysis highly preferred).
Experience should include budget management, and vendor management.
Strong technical market research skills that include; quantitative, qualitative, primary, and secondary.
Degree in business, marketing, social sciences, statistics or related field. Ideally from top-tier school.
Strong business acumen.
Financial Services Experience Not Required; but must have, or acquire soon after, intimate knowledge of NM field, markets, clients and products.
Able to be both strategic and tactical, with strong analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills. Ability to unite key colleagues and cross-functional partners by gaining trust through demonstrating business expertise.
Consistently displays professional courage to research design, analysis and interpretation to deliver credible work product free of bias.
Acts in the best interest of consumer / clients and the company.
Embraces new research tools and AI capabilities as they become available and approved.
MBA or Master's Degree strongly preferred
Skills You Have
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Problem Management: Classifies, prioritizes and initiates action, and documents root causes of problems and implements remedies. Manages the lifecycle of all problems. Prevents incidents from happening and minimizes the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented.
Research Communication: Synthesizes and communicates research findings and insights in compelling ways to stakeholders to influence potential design and decision making. Translates data into compelling narratives to demonstrate business insights and opportunities and influence business decisions.
Research Design: Leverages methods such as surveys, contextual inquiries, card sorting, and focus group to identify problems/risks and devises plans to address concerns raised via research.
#LI-Onsite, #LI-Hybrid #LI-Remote
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$89,360.00Pay Range - End:
$134,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Job Posting End Date:
The timeline for this job posting may be shortened or extended based on organizational needs.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Customer, Market & Ecosystem Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Research Design (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Problem Management (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Research Communication (NM) - Advanced, Research Methods (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Segmentation (NM) - Intermediate, Data Collection & Analysis (NM) - Advanced, Marketing Intelligence (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
This role is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and executing early-stage startup investments that align with Northwestern Mutual’s strategic focus on fintech and AI. This role drives corporate growth by managing the full investment lifecycle, building founder relationships, and presenting opportunities to the investment committee. This role offers the unique benefit of operating within a well-resourced corporate entity while maintaining the agility and investment discipline of a traditional venture capital fund and is ideal for an individual with a proven track record in venture capital who is ready to lead significant investment initiatives. Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures operates as the corporate venture capital arm of Northwestern Mutual, a Fortune 100 financial services firm that helps Americans achieve financial security. This role operates within the broader Corporate Strategy team and may be based in San Francisco or Milwaukee with regular travel expected. What You’ll Do
Deal Sourcing and Generation: Proactively identify and engage with promising startups, entrepreneurs, and co-investors to generate a robust pipeline of investment opportunities aligned with Northwestern Mutual’s strategic interests.
Investment Due Diligence: Lead comprehensive market, product, technology, and financial due diligence processes. This includes conducting in-depth analyses, building financial models, and presenting detailed investment recommendations to the investment committee.
Deal Execution: Structure, negotiate, and close new venture capital investments, including term sheets, shareholder agreements, and other definitive documentation.
Portfolio Management: Actively support portfolio companies’ post-investment, including monitoring performance, providing strategic guidance, and facilitating introductions to relevant Northwestern Mutual business units where appropriate. This involves working closely with founders and management teams to foster growth and achieve strategic milestones.
Strategic Alignment: Serve as a key liaison between Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures portfolio companies and Northwestern Mutual’s internal business units, identifying and cultivating opportunities for collaboration.
Market Intelligence: Develop and maintain deep expertise in relevant technology sectors, identifying emerging trends, competitive landscapes, and disruptive innovations that could impact Northwestern Mutual’s core businesses.
Relationship Building: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships within the venture capital ecosystem, including founders, limited partners, co-investors, and industry experts.
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Experience: 5+ years in venture capital, corporate development, strategy consulting, or investment banking and a history of academic excellence.
Strategic Thinking: Proven ability to analyze competitive landscapes, market trends, and business models.
Interpersonal Skills: Strong ability to communicate effectively and build relationships with various stakeholders, including startups, venture capitalists, and senior leadership.
Analytical Ability: Demonstrated ability to evaluate and interpret financial data and other technical information, including proficiency in valuation, financial modeling, and investment structuring.
Communication Skills: Demonstrated superior written and verbal communication skills with ability to build rapport and gain acceptance at all levels of an organization. Strong presentation skills with an ability to synthesize, distill and summarize complex information.
Other Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Possess a balance of analytical ability and social fluency, a sense of urgency, and deep intellectual curiosity. Future focused.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$176,000.00Pay Range - End:
$264,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Using project management expertise, plans, monitors and manages internal projects from initiation through completion. Secures required resources and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks, and changes. Manages projects to ensure on-time completion according to specifications and within budgeted costs. Incumbent is concerned with clearly identifiable elements or functions within a larger project or independently manages moderately sized projects.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Independently leads complex departmental project/support assignments and/or participates in cross-departmental projects with responsibility for managing scope, risk, business value, schedule and budget.
With department management, defines the objectives to be accomplished by the project team. With the team, develops the project plan. Directs team members to determine the best methods to achieve the projects objectives. Allocates staff and budget resources required to achieve project objectives.
Identifies and solves a range of problems in straightforward situations. Analyzes possible solutions and assesses each using standard procedures, developing a recommended approach.
Conducts analysis to identify the scope and nature of a business and/or system problem. Responsible for accomplishing the stated project objectives through key project management responsibilities that include building the project requirements and managing the triple project constraints of cost, time, and scope.
Responsible for developing, maintaining and revising project deliverables. Responsible for gathering and delivering metrics as required by the project.
At the direction of project manager lead, develops presentations and communications which incorporate a clear understanding of corporate communications theory and practice.
Identifies alternative options in the development and enhancements for new policies and processes. Incumbent will build out new processes and systems that help realize efficiencies and cost savings for the division.
Responsible to manage project risk through the development, maintenance and revision of reports and tracking tools. Using approved methodologies uses all available tools to identify potential problems before they occur.
Understands the key business drivers as they relate to the projects. Adapts to the various internal procedures and forms close links with the business partner representatives, ensuring that the key issues of cost, time, scope and above all, client satisfaction, can be realized.
Explains information and persuades others in straightforward situations. Effectively interact, negotiate and influence project teams and business partners to provide acceptable solutions and results.
Acts as a liaison to facilitate an understanding and partnership between business clients. Manages the resources and vendors assigned to their projects by verifying progress and removing obstacles.
Gathers and delivers day-to-day progress of a project as it relates to managing scope, schedule, cost and quality in order to support project management decisions and compliance with Company approved methodology and required deliverables.
Other responsibilities may be assigned as necessary.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis in, Business, Project Management or related field preferred OR a significant amount of directly-related work experience beyond the minimum required for the position.
Minimum 2 years experience/knowledge in processes and project management to include analysis, documentation.
Ability to work with general direction to scope, plan and manage cross-department or multi-department projects
Demonstrated ability to lead and manage mid-complexity assignments.
Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks simultaneously, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Seen as a team player and is supportive of group decisions and ideas.
Written and oral communications skills with the ability to build rapport within the company, field and /or outside vendors.
High degree of personal initiative and motivation.
Degree with a project management emphasis or PMI certification preferred
Experience with project methodology through project life cycle phases preferred
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$70,320.00Pay Range - End:
$105,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, KPIs & Metrics (NM) - Beginner, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Beginner, Business Acumen (NM) - Beginner, Consulting (NM) - Beginner, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Beginner, Documentation (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Project Management (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Management (NM) - Beginner, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Process Mindset (NM) - Beginner, Project Methodologies (NM) - Intermediate, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Beginner, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
As the Senior Manager of Enterprise Insights – Consumer & Client Research, you will bring deep consumer and client understanding, coupled with strategic foresight, to life to inspire profitable growth. You will drive the learning agenda across cross-functional teams, developing forward-looking strategies grounded in the consumer and category trends shaping client perceptions.
This is your opportunity to be part of a new, centralized enterprise insight capability. You will fiercely advocate for consumers and clients, anticipating their needs while bridging these findings with financial advisor inputs.
You will design impactful reporting frameworks by synthesizing custom research, Client NPS tracking, Brand Health tracking, and insights gathered from supporting our consumer and client communities. As a master storyteller, you will help weave disparate consumer, client, and field data into meaningful insights that bring extreme clarity to the organization and empower stakeholders to take insight-led action.
By helping to integrate insights across the consumer, client, and advisor journeys, you will unify holistic feedback into a cohesive consumer life stage view. This approach allows you to proactively prescribe targeted solutions that elevate the consumer and client experience while driving enterprise success.
Finally, you will support our steady enterprise approach to AI adoption, leveraging AI-driven tools to enhance consumer and client research capabilities and keep the team at the cutting edge of data synthesis.
What You'll Do
Lead the Consumer & Client learning agenda working closely with Field, Journey, Marketing, Product and Digital teams to develop products, communications and strategies that are grounded in deep consumer and client understanding.
As part of the Enterprise Insights team, be the go-to source for ad-hoc analysis and actionable research. Be an advocate for the client and consumer in internal meetings and a driver of insight-led actions across the enterprise.
Deliver reports, insights and implications to assigned business partners to inform decisions that improve the consumer / client experience.
Perform data analysis and interpretation, using basic statistical techniques (Frequency distributions, Descriptive statistics, T-tests; Cross-tabs, Correlations, Text analytics) to reveal new findings and insights to marketing and other business partners.
Determine requisite data elements and work with technical resources to design integrated internal and syndicated datasets to provide required analysis.
Identify opportunities to enhance the team's analytical capabilities by evaluating current processes, new trends, working with business partners, and taking initiative to apply new and improved research best practices.
Proactively share relevant information and insights with the internal teams.
Interpret and synthesize multi-source data into insights that lead to actionable strategies and plans for the brand.
What You'll Bring To The Role
Minimum of 5 years' experience/knowledge desired in research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques. CPG category experience strongly preferred.
Seasoned expert in advanced features of a variety of programs which may include Excel, Access, SQL, SAS, SPSS, Tableau and Business Intelligence tools.
Experience and knowledge of the following advanced analytic techniques (Regression, Factor analysis, Cluster analysis highly preferred).
Experience should include budget management, and vendor management.
Strong technical market research skills that include; quantitative, qualitative, primary, and secondary.
Degree in business, marketing, social sciences, statistics or related field. Ideally from top-tier school.
Strong business acumen.
Financial Services Experience Not Required; but must have, or acquire soon after, intimate knowledge of NM field, markets, clients and products.
Able to be both strategic and tactical, with strong analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills. Ability to unite key colleagues and cross-functional partners by gaining trust through demonstrating business expertise.
Consistently displays professional courage to research design, analysis and interpretation to deliver credible work product free of bias.
Acts in the best interest of consumer / clients and the company.
Embraces new research tools and AI capabilities as they become available and approved.
MBA or Master's Degree strongly preferred
Skills You Have
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Problem Management: Classifies, prioritizes and initiates action, and documents root causes of problems and implements remedies. Manages the lifecycle of all problems. Prevents incidents from happening and minimizes the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented.
Research Communication: Synthesizes and communicates research findings and insights in compelling ways to stakeholders to influence potential design and decision making. Translates data into compelling narratives to demonstrate business insights and opportunities and influence business decisions.
Research Design: Leverages methods such as surveys, contextual inquiries, card sorting, and focus group to identify problems/risks and devises plans to address concerns raised via research.
#LI-Onsite, #LI-Hybrid #LI-Remote
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$89,360.00Pay Range - End:
$134,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Job Posting End Date:
The timeline for this job posting may be shortened or extended based on organizational needs.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Research Design (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Customer, Market & Ecosystem Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Problem Management (NM) - Intermediate, Research Communication (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Research Methods (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Segmentation (NM) - Intermediate, Data Collection & Analysis (NM) - Advanced, Marketing Intelligence (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Northwestern Mutual is looking for a hardworking Platform Senior Systems Software Engineer to join our growing Kubernetes Platform team. The Kubernetes Platform team develops, maintains, loves, and appreciates all things containers. We enable hundreds of developers to harness the power of Kubernetes and the cloud to deploy outstanding apps and infrastructure on their own 1000s of times a day. This is a fun, fast-paced experience that exposes you to cutting-edge cloud technologies and encourages personal learning and development
What You'll Do in the Role
Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers
Proficiency in DevOps and Agile principles
Apply engineering standard methodologies to analyze and develop software solutions
Leverages established coding standards, best practices, and automation capabilities to develop solutions to support our users
Identify technical problems and develop software solutions and automation capabilities
Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project
Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration and continuous development pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
What You'll Bring to the Role
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
At least 4 years of working experience
5+ years of professional IT experience
3+ years' experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred), and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes – CKA Preferred)
5+ years' experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
5+ years' experience with networking and Linux based platforms
5+ years' experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Experience working with DevOps, CICD, GitOps, Agile methodologies
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation and how to apply it with services such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
Experience with Unit Testing
Experience with Linux and Windows. Understanding how to install, configure and manage. Very comfortable with CLI
Skills You Have
Cloud & IT Infrastructure: Embraces, prioritizes, and applies DevOps principles and mindset to cybersecurity services and capabilities; leverages understanding of enterprise IT environment from operating system to networks and domain services and orchestrates applications and infrastructure through a pipeline approach.
Cloud Technology: Applies knowledge of cloud service platforms and delivery models to support, develop, adopt, secure, implement and evaluate end-to-end cloud solutions delivery and data storage instead of through traditional physical servers in a back office.
DevOps: Applies continuous integration and delivery to implement applications and services at a higher velocity.
Infrastructure Automation: Articulates and applies systems architecture and automation technologies to support and implement automation optimization and initiatives.
Programming Languages: Demonstrates proficiency in one or more programming languages to execute activities, tasks, practices, and deliverables associated with writing and modifying programs and scripts that comprise an application system; designs, codes, tests, and installs complex computer programs and maintains detailed documentation of programming tasks.
Software Engineering: Designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains software applications for the organization to use to process complex technical information. Demonstrates the ability to convert design specifications into functional software solutions that meet customer needs. Includes planning, designing, programming, debugging, testing, documenting and maintaining applications and services, using established coding standards and methodologies. Ensures that the code delivered is reusable and modular. Uses software development processes in which the smallest testable parts of an application (units) are individually and independently scrutinized for proper operation.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Software Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Cloud & IT Infrastructure (NM) - Advanced, Technology Roadmap (NM) - Intermediate, CI/CD Processes (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, DevOps (NM) - Advanced, Site Reliability Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Business Application (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Cloud Technology (NM) - Advanced, Infrastructure Automation (NM) - Advanced, Programming Languages (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Intermediate, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Provides advisor practices & team success strategy program management expertise and consultation to business in order to meet department and cross department goals. Responsible for developing, maintaining, and revising program deliverables. Oversees business programs from initiation through rollout and ongoing program management. Accountable for driving programs with medium complexity.Program Management includes managing multiple different projects within a the advisor practices & team success space, including programs which incorporate multiple larger initiatives and overseeing programs / portfolios and initiatives which are ongoing.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Independently leads moderately sized, medium complexity programs or portfolios. Responsible for managing scope, risk, business value, schedule and budget.
Assists in defining objectives to be accomplished by the program team and developing the program plan. Manages programs to ensure appropriate allocation of resources according to program objectives, specifications, deliverables, and changes.
Drives for clarity on program objectives, priorities, and measures. Takes a broad perspective to identify and recommend solutions for program needs.
Develops strong relationships with business clients to manage program delivery expectations and implementation. manages the resources and vendors assigned to program by verifying progress and removing obstacles.
Makes connections across teams to drive identification and managing of inter-dependencies.
Responsible for gathering and delivering metrics required by the program. Uses data to make successes and challenges visible, and to drive insights and action plans to continually adjust and pursue program goals. Leveraging tools and techniques to enable end-to-end value delivery and the best ongoing rollout and ongoing experience.
Builds and maintains strong depth and breadth of industry and company initiatives, products, etc in order to incorporate knowledge in to program objectives.
Understands the key business drivers as they relate to the programs. Conduct analysis to identify scope and nature of program deliverables; programs are intended to solve a department or business need.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree with an emphasis in, Business, Project Management or related field preferred OR a significant amount of directly-related work experience beyond the minimum required for the position
Minimum 5 years of related experience to include project analysis, design, documentation, project/support management.
Ability to work with general direction to scope, plan and manage cross-department or multi-department programs
Demonstrated ability to lead and manage complex assignments.
Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks simultaneously, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Seen as a team player and is supportive of group decisions and ideas.
Written and oral communications skills with the ability to build rapport within the company, field and /or outside vendors.
High degree of personal initiative and motivation.
Degree with a project management emphasis or PMI certification preferred
Experience with project methodology through project life cycle phases
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$108,160.00 USD - $162,240.00 USDStructure 115:
$113,040.00 USD - $169,560.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, KPIs & Metrics (NM) - Beginner, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Intermediate, Process Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Management (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Program Management (NM) - Advanced, Program Governance (NM) - Advanced, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Lead the development and execution of practice management priorities that support advisors and their teams.
Translate business needs into practical, scalable solutions and drive work forward through collaboration, sound judgment and strong execution.
Consult with field leaders, career advisors, ensemble practices, and their teams to identify opportunities that improve business performance and advisor/firm outcomes.
Help mature and support practice management priorities and ongoing programs.
Serve as a subject matter expert and thought partner on practice management trends, business needs, and field-facing solutions.
Partner across the enterprise to align strategy, influence direction, and build support for practice management initiatives.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in business, finance, marketing or related field or an equivalent professional experience.
Minimum ten years of progressive experience in financial services, business consulting, practice management working in a management or consulting capacity
Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple projects and to solve complex business problems in a dynamic environment.
Deep understanding of advisor business models, the distribution system and the factors that drive growth, operational efficiencies, profitability and continuity.
Proven ability to lead through influence, build credibility quickly and establish strong relationships across field and home office audiences
Strong strategic thinking, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complex business needs into clear direction and actionable solutions.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Organization (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Project Management (NM) - Advanced, Field Relations (NM) - Advanced, Field Advocacy (NM) - Advanced, Thought Leadership (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Problem Management (NM) - Advanced, Solution Development (NM) - Advanced, Change Management (NM) - Advanced, End-User Advocacy (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The primary responsibility of this role is to lead the growth, enhancement, and maintenance of all aspects of NMWMC’s advisory platform, including trading capabilities, proposal workflow, billing capabilities, investment policy violations, reporting, and integrated solutions. A key component of the role includes designing and implementing new platform features and configurations in support of product enhancements and additions that advance usability, scalability, and advisor satisfaction. This position requires a strong understanding of the advisory product suite, including investment knowledge and significant wealth management expertise, along with deep understanding and expertise in the Envestnet platform and associated integrations.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Translates product strategy into platform design details, implements changes, and tests that products perform as designed.
Assists in leading platform strategy, design, configuration, execution, and testing for advisory program products and features.
Understands the impact of regulatory compliance on platform functionality and investment products, and participates in project teams to implement necessary changes to products, programs, or processes.
Interprets field feedback and customer needs and serves as the go-to product platform expert who can explain and translate product or program platform functionality, features, and functions to internal and external partners.
Responsible for pre-project planning and business cases for small projects.
Presents platform enhancements and best practices to large groups of internal and external stakeholders.
Serves as a deep subject matter expert for internal home office teams that have a platform dependency or are building integrated software or processes with a platform dependency.
Leads solutioning and investigation for complex platform issues and defects.
Serves as a subject matter expert for advisors and teams related to platform functionality, including educating and coaching on best practices and mentoring around core methodologies, patterns, standards, and processes.
Collects feedback from advisors, teams, and internal stakeholders on desired new platform features. Solutions configuration options and platform development projects required to deliver new features. Leads the process of documenting requirements, partnering with external vendors and internal stakeholders on feature design, testing, implementation, rollout, and change management.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, finance, economics or related field or equivalent experience.
5 plus years of experience in financial services .
Demonstrated knowledge of the Wealth Management industry, including product, pricing, and customer preferences.
Strong organizational and follow-through skills, with ability to work within deadlines, prioritize work and multitask.
Ability to participate as a subject matter expert in departmental or cross-departmental initiatives.
Ability to anticipate impact of decisions, future consequences and trends.
Ability to build strong internal and external networks and utilize resources in the industry .
Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to make effective formal presentations to small and medium size groups.
FINRA - Non-Registered Fingerprinted.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Risk Evaluation (NM) - Advanced, Product Management (NM) - Advanced, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Investment Products (NM) - Advanced, Accountability (NM) - Beginner, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Data Literacy (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Product Positioning (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Decision Making (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Products (NM) - Advanced, Product Development (NM) - Advanced, Business Influence (NM) - Beginner, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced, Solution Design Oriented Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Customer, Market & Ecosystem Knowledge (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
As part of the Family Office Services team, the Family Wealth Strategist is a highly dynamic and experienced professional with a Juris Doctor (JD) and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® designation. The Family Wealth Strategist will serve as the Lead Advisor’s counterpart providing consultative services complementing and extending the advisor’s industry expertise. The individual will be responsible for designing and integrating a wide array of wealth management strategies and family office services to align a high-net-worth or ultra-high-net-worth family’s financial capital with its values, long-term vision, and family dynamics for a seamless client experience. The ideal candidate will possess a unique blend of legal expertise and financial planning knowledge to act as the integrator and leader in the delivery of quality services across multiple domains and areas of planning. The role goes beyond understanding specific technical strategies, but to anticipate the impact and understand the interplay a particular solution may have on other disciplines. This role requires strategic thinking, excellent project management skills, exceptional interpersonal ability, clear communication, and a deep understanding of complex financial, legal, and tax landscapes.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Act as the advisor’s primary point of contact and liaison, coordinating all aspects of the client's integrated plan between the family, internal teams, and external partners to ensure a cohesive approach.
Conduct thorough discovery to ascertain the family’s long-term objectives that align with their principles and vision.
Based on the family’s objectives, identify issues and needs to design an integrated plan.
Consult with the advisor and family on the overall integrated plan and the complex interaction between different domains.
Recognize opportunities to position and coordinate internal and external partners in alignment with objectives.
Construct an actionable roadmap prioritizing when and how to address the family’s needs and structure engagement pricing.
Communicate pertinent client information and objectives among multiple partners to streamline communications while minimizing duplication.
Collaborate with strategic partners to develop and implement strategies across a broad range of legal, tax, and financial planning topics to ensure alignment with the client’s integrated plan and effectively facilitate the communication of complex techniques.
Manage the delivery of planning components ensuring timely execution and a seamless experience throughout the engagement.
Support the development of advisors to equip them to lead family meetings and conversations.
Qualifications
Juris Doctor (JD) degree required.
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® designation required. Other advanced degree or designation desirable (MBA, CFA, CPA).
Series 6 or 7 and resident state insurance license required or working towards license within 6 months.
Minimum 12 years of experience in wealth management, financial planning, or a related field directly working with advisors and U/HNW clients ($40M+).
Experience working with family offices highly desirable.
Strong expertise across multiple areas of wealth management including financial planning, insurance and investment products, estate and business planning, and other HNW planning strategies with a deep understanding of the implications a particular solution may have on others.
Exceptional organizational, strategic, and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex legal and financial concepts clearly and concisely to non-expert family members.
Unquestioned integrity, professionalism, and discretion when handling highly confidential matters.
Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive projects.
Proven ability to develop rapport and strong relationships with clients, financial advisors, internal teams and third-party partners.
Advanced experience with financial planning software and Excel, PowerPoint, and CRM systems.+
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$160,000.00Pay Range - End:
$240,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Responsible for the day to day technical support of the FPS Investment Account Opening operations team to ensure quality and timely outputs are delivered to subscribers, as the services evolve with technology and product enhancements. Positively influences and leads changes with individual FPAs and the team.
Develops and provides technical training to Investment Client Onboarding and other FPS teams, including Service Development and User Support, to improve the overall service and experience that FPS delivers to the field. Identifies gaps in learning/training and recommends plans of action.
Uses investment account opening or operations expertise, critical thinking and judgment to resolve difficult plan requests, issues, complaints or errors related to FPS standards or procedures. This includes analyzing discrepancies related to plans, initiating corrective action, and providing counsel and information to subscribers and home office cross-functional teams. Evaluates and grants flexibility to established practices and procedures when appropriate.
Mentors less experienced staff, providing answers to questions, advice, feedback and support. Provides performance feedback to the manager.
Assists in design of and executes quality assurance plans necessary to ensure quality outputs are delivered to FPS subscribers
Identifies, develops and implements process, system and workflow improvements and ensures team alignment.
Ability to assist in both team and cross-functional team projects and process improvements.
Acts as backup and/or escalation for subscriber support calls when necessary.
Viewed as an expert on FPS procedures and standards and FPA use of various technologies.
REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and progressively responsible work experience
Minimum of two years of professional level experience, preferably related to investment account opening or operations and related technologies.
Demonstrated ability to understand FPS processes and standards and marry it with general planning knowledge to drive quality results.
Demonstrated leadership and mentoring/coaching skills and the ability to develop and train/up-skill team members.
Experience with implementing process improvements, process introduction and system enhancements in support of technology changes.
Demonstrated high level of organization and follow through with the ability to effectively identify and independently establish priorities and meet deadlines on multiple assignments with high quality results.
Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to positively influence, work cooperatively, and negotiate with individuals in the department and the field to maintain maximum operational efficiency
Series 7 required.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$70,320.00Pay Range - End:
$105,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Teamwork (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Compliance (NM) - Advanced, Escalation Management (NM) - Advanced, Change Adaptability (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Prioritization (NM) - Advanced, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Advanced, Customer Support (NM) - Advanced, Client Advocacy (NM) - Advanced, Field Relations (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Quality Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Data Security (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Products (NM) - Advanced, Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Advanced, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
• Own case work end‑to‑end for rep reassignment: intake, research, documentation, operational updates, and final quality checks across brokerage and advisory accounts.
• Consult the field on access/navigation, reassignment rules, and account maintenance; de‑escalate sensitive scenarios with clarity and empathy.
• Safeguard supervisory integrity by applying oversight standards on impacted advisory accounts and ensuring policies and controls are followed.
• Resolve and prevent issues by investigating root causes, reconciling discrepancies, and maintaining an auditable trail.
• Analyze data and trends (Excel) to monitor volumes, turnaround times, error patterns, and downstream impacts; recommend fixes and backlog items.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with ICS peers and enterprise partners (e.g., CL&R, Advisor Solutions, Risk Client Services) to remove friction and improve consistency.
• Support service performance for case queues and phone coverage as needed, adjusting priorities to meet demand.
• Contribute to change by participating in UAT and process improvements; communicate changes clearly to stakeholders.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s in Business or related field or equivalent industry experience.
• 3+ years in investment services/operations with a track record of resolving complex inquiries.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous situations; analytical, detail‑oriented, and comfortable making decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication; able to influence without authority and collaborate across levels.
• Self‑directed, organized, and effective at managing multiple assignments.
• Solid operational knowledge of brokerage/advisory products and procedures.
• Excel proficiency; comfort with data analysis and pattern recognition.
• Facilitation/presentation skills to explain complex operational changes simply.
Licensing
This is a non‑licensed, NRF role. No FINRA registrations are required. (You will complete NMIS fingerprinting and be classified as an Access Person for personal securities transaction reporting.)
Attention to DetailFocuses on specific details to identify and correct errors before they impact quality. Produces work that reflects thorough review, accuracy, strong presentation, and overall quality.
Financial Services Industry AcumenApplies knowledge of general and organization-specific financial services concepts, market practices, regulations, and business ethics. Uses industry knowledge to support sound problem-solving and operational stability.
Root Cause Analysis & Decision QualityUses problem-solving methods to understand the underlying causes of issues. Makes timely, data-driven decisions by evaluating risks, gathering business requirements, and identifying practical solutions.
Technical Problem SolvingConducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope. Applies best practices, explores possible solutions, gains alignment on the path forward, and clearly documents what is being solved.
Customer Service MindsetAnticipates customer needs and applies a strong understanding of customer perspectives to solve problems and drive outcomes. Uses knowledge of customer trends and business impacts to help stakeholders make informed decisions.
This position has been classified as an Associated Person under NMIS guidelines and requires fingerprinting and completion of required form.Non-Registered Fingerprinted - FINRACompensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$56,640.00Pay Range - End:
$84,960.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Intermediate, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Field Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Audits (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Services Industry Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Management Systems (NM) - Intermediate, Organization (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Products (NM) - Intermediate, Tax Awareness (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Principals are responsible for the analysis, evaluations, and execution of private equity and debt investment opportunities originated by NM Capital. You'll develop investment theses, conduct industry and business due diligence, review financial models and valuations, structure investment securities, and more. Principals are also responsible for monitoring and optimizing investments in the NM Capital portfolio and have opportunity for upward mobility.
Principal Responsibilities:
Analyze, evaluate, and execute private equity and private credit investments.
Develop investment theses.
Perform detailed financial analysis and modeling.
Author investment memos and lead investment committee discussions.
Cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior level executives, legal counsels, investment bankers, and private equity sponsors.
Actively monitor and optimize portfolio performance.
Operate in a team environment and mentor junior investment professionals.
Qualifications:
A minimum of five years of experience in investment banking, private equity, equity research, or other related industries.
A broad knowledge of investments, an understanding of economic forces affecting a wide range of industries, proficiency in accounting, and strong computer modeling skills.
Strong interpersonal skills including written / oral communication and relationship building.
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Compensation Range:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed.
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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.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for additional information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
Investment Underwriting, Financial Modeling, Investment Presentations, Financial Analysis, Strategic Influence, Data Integrity, Financial Writing, Business Development, Investment Valuation
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
We're strong and growing. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We're strong, innovative and growing.
We invest in our people. We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career and in turn, our business.
We care. We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefitted from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they're passionate about.
The primary responsibility is to assist with management of investment products including design and implementation of new or existing products, promotion strategies, overall execution of the product strategy and day-to-day product line management to advance sales and servicing. This position must understand the products they are responsible for and analyzing/developing solutions for complex Legal/Regulatory/Competitive issues that may arise.
Interprets field feedback and customer needs and is the go-to product expert that can explain and translate product or program features and functions to internal and external partners.
Translates product strategy into product design details, implement changes, and test that products are performing as designed.
Utilizes expertise of investments products and technology platform offerings to analyze, implement and test platform updates.
Understands profitability of assigned products via sales growth, net cash flow, sound product design and managed expenses. Researching product design of competitive offerings, models changes to pricing and rates and makes recommendations.
Understands the strategic role Wealth plays in the enterprise and how investment products integrate with insurance products.
Provides investment product subject matter expertise to support ongoing product evolution including coordinating and driving efforts with technical, operational, compensation, investment and regulatory experts.
Understands impact of regulatory compliance on assigned investment products and participates in project teams to implement necessary changes to products, programs or processes.
Builds leadership skills and may informally mentor others on small projects, teams or committees.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, finance, economics or related field or equivalent experience.
5 plus years of experience in financial services.
Demonstrated knowledge of the Wealth Management industry, including product, pricing, and customer preferences.
Strong organizational and follow-through skills, with ability to work within deadlines, prioritize work and multitask.
Ability to participate as a subject matter expert in departmental or cross-departmental initiatives.
Ability to anticipate impact of decisions, future consequences and trends.
Ability to build strong internal and external networks and utilize resources in the industry.
Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to make effective formal presentations to small and medium-size groups.
FINRA - Non-Registered Fingerprinted.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Risk Evaluation (NM) - Advanced, Product Management (NM) - Advanced, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Investment Products (NM) - Advanced, Accountability (NM) - Beginner, Data Literacy (NM) - Intermediate, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Product Positioning (NM) - Advanced, Decision Making (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Products (NM) - Advanced, Product Development (NM) - Advanced, Business Influence (NM) - Beginner, Solution Design Oriented Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced, Customer, Market & Ecosystem Knowledge (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Provides administrative support to ensure efficient operations within the Insurance Solutions and Advanced Markets teams. Supports leaders and employees through a variety of tasks related to organization and communications. Responsible for confidential and time sensitive materials. Familiar with a variety of organization concepts, practices and procedures. Ensures duties are completed accurately and delivered in a high quality and timely manner.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Organizes and schedules meetings and appointments.
Creates materials as needed including spreadsheets, presentations, memos, letters, faxes, and forms.
Assists in preparing and updating reports, dashboards, etc.
Point of contact for technology access/services, often functions as PC/LAN contact.
Maintains all department supplies; anticipates needs and orders.
Arranges travel as needed.
Prepares and monitors invoices, submits and reconciles expense reports.
Takes minutes of meetings as needed.
Resource to department on office and administrative functions.
Works on projects as requested.
Other department specific duties as assigned.
Handles sensitive information in a confidential manner.
Qualifications
Three or more years of administrative or assistance experience.
High school diploma or equivalent; college coursework preferred.
Proficient in MS Office at intermediate levels.
Proficient in general technology.
Strong organizational and planning skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Attention to detail and problem solving.
Strong time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$26.09Pay Range - End:
$39.13Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Teamwork (NM) - Advanced, Organizational Excellence (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Advanced, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Administrative Service Delivery (NM) - Advanced, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Documentation (NM) - Intermediate, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Delivers a personalized and remarkable experience for our clients by answering their questions, providing servicing options and helping them with their products or services in a call center environment.
Resolves inquiries and transactions from Financial Reps and clients on basic and intermediate (semi-complex) level calls and transactions and is learning to become proficient in complex work.
Researches and evaluates possible solutions to semi-complex problems that requires identifying root cause and some deviations from procedures
Takes ownership of calls and begins to anticipate future issues to avoid repeat calls and unnecessary call transfers
De-escalates client experience situations and applies skills learned in Effortless Experience training (CEB) to all situations.
Serves as a trusted advocate for our Financial Representatives and partners with them to meet the needs of our clients.
Embraces new technology, educates clients and Financial Representatives on our client website and self-service capabilities and understands risks and impacts that the transaction has on the client or policy.
Embraces change by keeping an open mind to new ideas, and readily adjusts to new or changing processes.
Embraces continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for improvement.
Fosters a professional relationship with our clients to enhance brand loyalty.
Handles phone and transactional responsibilities while adhering to strict confidentiality and privacy standards.
Multi-tasks between phone and casework/transactional duties with the high degree of accuracy and quality.
What You'll Bring to the role:
Associates degree in business or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of 1 year related customer service experience with proven customer service skills.
Advanced knowledge of single risk product or process.
Basic understanding of multiple risk products or processes.
Basic understanding of financial planning.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to multi-task and handle high volume of calls/case load with the greatest possible degree of accuracy.
Strong organization skills with the ability to prioritize tasks.
Ability to welcome change and embrace continuous improvement in a fast-paced work environment.
A strong desire to continuously learn and improve.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to provide options.
Demonstrated computer experience with solid keyboarding skills and proficiency with current software packages.
Ability to navigate multiple systems and applications to complete standard requests.
Successful completion of any required testing
Skills You Have:
Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Case Management: Communicates status of the case, manages requirements, and answers questions of clients. Monitors all cases to ensure that all claims and / or inquiries are necessary, reasonable, and legitimate.
Change Adaptability: Becomes adaptable in response to continual changes; shows an openness to new ways of working, new methods, work-in-progress improvements and changes and seamlessly navigates the changing business environment and adjusts behavior as appropriate to the situation.
Customer Service Mindset: Anticipates customer needs and applies understanding of customer needs or perspectives to solve problems and drive outcomes as the basis for decision making. Leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions.
Escalation Management: Addresses and resolves incidents where customer wants to communicate with leadership or higher authorities regarding their problems. Empathizes, understands, and interacts with the customer to mitigate their issues using domain expertise and adaptive communication techniques.
Teamwork: Engages in others' behaviors to generate strong team cohesion and orientation. Facilitates open dialogue within and across teams to create trust and understanding. Shares collective successes and opportunities to improve as a group
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This position has been classified as an Associated Person under NMIS guidelines and requires fingerprinting and completion of required form.Non-Registered Fingerprinted - FINRACompensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$20.51Pay Range - End:
$30.76Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Data Security (NM) - Intermediate, Teamwork (NM) - Intermediate, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Field Relations (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Quality Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Client Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Insurance Products (NM) - Intermediate, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Case Management (NM) - Beginner, Escalation Management (NM) - Intermediate, Tax Awareness (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Assistant Director, Talent Selection Design is responsible for the end-to-end design, governance, and continuous improvement of how the enterprise identifies and selects talent that drives business growth, ensuring practices are consistent, skills-based, and deliver strong candidate-centric hiring experiences.
This role modernizes how the organization identifies and selects talent, strengthening internal and external selection practices. The focus is on improving quality of hire and enabling faster, more equitable decisions through data, technology, and AI-enabled tools. The role ensures the talent selection process is effective, scalable, and aligned with business priorities, talent strategy, skills, and organizational culture and behaviors.
The Assistant Director partners with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, HR Service Delivery, and hiring managers to bring new perspectives and consultation to selection challenges, ensuring data-informed hiring decisions that strengthen organizational capability and directly support the achievement of operational and strategic business objectives.
What You'll Do:
Enterprise Talent Process Ownership
Own the end-to-end design of the enterprise selection philosophy, processes, and governance anchored in skills to improve quality of hire, candidate experience, and business outcomes.
Ensure talent selection practices are pragmatic, hiring manager and candidate-friendly, and aligned with enterprise talent philosophy, business needs, and culture.
Accountable for supporting delivery of the talent selection processes through developing clear guidance, materials, draft communications, and readiness support for recruiters, HR Business Partners, hiring managers, and employees.
Providing day-to-day support and management of processes, including escalated technical inquiries, issue coordination, and follow-through with HR stakeholders.
Utilize talent analytics and relevant success metrics to assess the effectiveness of initiatives, monitor adoption, gather insights for continuous improvement, and track progress and outcomes.
Partners with the HR Advisory team to brainstorm and enable Career Center consultations related to talent selection, including resume support, and interview preparation.
Continuous Improvement
Lead retrospectives and synthesize quantitative and qualitative feedback to identify opportunities to simplify and strengthen talent selection practices.
Translate insights into clear recommendations and design enhancements that improve clarity, consistency, impact, and the candidate, hiring manager, and recruiter experience.
Stakeholder Partnership & Enablement
Serve as a primary point of contact for the talent acquisition team on enterprise talent selection processes. Strengthens knowledge management for recruiters, hiring managers, HR Services, HR business partners.
Provide consultation, guidance, and problem-solving support related to process execution, interpretation, and application.
Partner with Enterprise Risk and Legal to support audits, compliance reporting, and risk-based inquiries related to enterprise talent selection processes.
Develop, deliver, and scale enablement materials (e.g., toolkits, job aids, FAQs, talk tracks, training, etc.) to support consistent enterprise adoption.
Creates automated and scalable self-service support through AI tools to quickly surface accurate guidance for hiring managers, recruiters and HR, reducing the day-to-day support requests (i.e. strengthen interviewing and selection practices for hiring teams).
Partners with HR Technology, Talent analytics, and Talent Acquisition to modernize and scale selection through fit-for-purpose tools, digital workflows, and data-informed capabilities. Support evaluation and adoption of AI-enabled solutions in ways that strengthen consistency, efficiency, and candidate and hiring-team experience.
What Experience You'll Bring:
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
Graduate degree strongly preferred
Experience
6–8 years of experience in talent management, Talent Acquisition, or related HR disciplines with a focus on high-impact, enterprise talent processes
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide talent acquisition and selection processes (e.g., requisition-to-offer workflows, structured interviewing and assessment, selection governance, and skills-based hiring)
Experience partnering with Talent Acquisition and HR Business Partners
Experience leveraging Workday as a process owner to drive mature, scalable talent selection processes and insights.
Skills & Capabilities
User-Centered Design Process: Designs products, services, and experiences that are tailored to the needs, preferences, and behaviors of the end-user.
Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.
Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Consulting: Connects with stakeholders to understand and gain specific information to help resolve customer problems in a given domain. Communicates effectively intent to customers, solicits customer requirements, utilizes domain knowledge and collaborates with the right stakeholders.
Executive Presence: Builds and maintains an authentic personal brand, inspiring and motivating people to pursue a desired outcome by sharing a clear vision and demonstrating confidence, professionalism, self-awareness and trust with business stakeholders.
Business Influence: Collaborates, communicates and influences direct reports, stakeholders, and other business functions based on understanding of the marketplace, organizational needs, and the client as a people manager.
Change Management: Acts as an advocate for change as well as identifying gaps/issues that should be addressed to deliver optimal client/field experiences. Leads change management, when driving technology or process improvements, applying relevant change acceleration, risk mitigation, and stakeholder management methodologies and best practices. Analyzes business trends and current state to develop a case for change that aligns with business strategy. Implements plans and strategies to manage organizational and behavioral changes by aligning leaders and engaging impacted stakeholders.
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Learning Agility & Critical Thinking: Pursues learning and obtains knowledge continuously in relevant fields, methods, or technologies in current and future practices; continuously utilizes critical thinking to identify opportunities, execute solutions, and measure impact to constantly improve existing practices and processes based on feedback, lessons learned, and market trends.
Strategic Thinking: Uses critical thinking and knowledge of business demand to plan, design, prioritize and execute high impact initiatives and programs.
Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
#LI-Hybrid, #LI-remote
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$108,160.00Pay Range - End:
$162,240.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Support the Company's overall expense management process, focusing on ensuring optimal use of Company resources and ultimately protecting or maintaining product value and financial strength either at the corporate level or for an assigned function/department. Develop timely and accurate expense reporting and provide value-added expense management consultation and analysis. This includes consulting with business partners and building financial models to evaluate strategic decisions, providing financial analysis, developing forecasts and budgets, comparing expectations to peers and/or internal expectations, evaluating and presenting options and prioritizing solutions within the department. May interact with executive officers, department heads, and other members of senior management to provide meaningful expense management consultation and analysis, and presents recommendations to aid in decision-making.
What You'll Do:
Identifies issues for routine casework and participates in discussions to resolve those issues across departments. Makes decisions on more complex casework after consulting with higher level staff.
Supports managers and directors to understand department operations and resulting cost structure.
Coordinates monthly reporting of all expenses to meet financial reporting needs of the department.
Monitors spend, develops forecasts and budgets and analyzes expense results.
Applies creativity and innovation in identifying process improvements and other opportunities for the departments to better manage expenses or reduce spend.
Builds financial models to predict and understand the business as well as actual results.
Understands cost drivers, internal metrics, unit costs and benchmarking for tracking and comparing results.
Challenges assumptions made in forecasts and projections.
Assures that all expense activity follows the appropriate accounting controls, policies and procedures and is appropriately accounted for on the general ledger in compliance with statutory and/or GAAP accounting standards.
May be responsible for maintaining aspects of the financial reporting systems (Such as PeopleSoft, IBM TM1 system, Apptio, or Project Portfolio Management).
May be responsible for corporate expense projections, metrics, fixed assets, accounting for payroll, fixed assets and intercompany charges between NM and its subsidiaries, and procure to pay process or other corporate processes.
Supports special projects and assignments related to expense management, product line allocations, financial reporting, process improvements, or other projects as requested by division leaders.
May collaborate with other enterprise resources in Human Resources, Corporate Strategy or Planning Coordinators.
What Experience You'll Bring:
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related degree with accounting emphasis preferred.
Typically three or more years of financial management experience and/or financial planning and analysis experience.
Analytical, planning, organization, budgeting, problem solving, negotiation, oral and written communication skills are essential to this role.
Ability to develop and interpret financial models for analysis.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage multiple assignments concurrently while effectively prioritizing.
Ability to develop and present recommendations to management.
Ability to communicate clearly with peers and at different levels of management within finance and across the company.
CPA or CMA designation is preferred.
#LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$65,440.00Pay Range - End:
$98,160.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$72,000.00 USD - $108,000.00 USDStructure 115:
$75,280.00 USD - $112,920.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Resource Management (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Expense Reporting Management (NM) - Intermediate, Process Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Beginner, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Beginner, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Beginner, Business Automation (NM) - Beginner, Financial Forecasting (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Acumen (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Assistant Director, Talent Management Experience Design for Career & Talent Planning owns the end-to-end design, execution, and continuous improvement of enterprise processes and experiences that empower employees to invest in their growth and strengthen the talent pipeline required to sustain and accelerate business performance.
This role is committed to the employee-facing experience, designing and curating an ecosystem that empowers individuals to explore career possibilities, set meaningful development goals, and track progress against a personalized growth plan that is integrated into the flow of work. The role also ensures these processes and experiences are effective, scalable, and aligned with business priorities, talent strategy, skills development, and the organization’s culture and behaviors.
By leveraging talent data, skills insights, fit-for-purpose technology, and AI-enabled tools, this role ensures career and development experiences do not live in isolation by connecting them to talent review and calibration processes and agile succession approaches. In doing so, it makes individual growth aspirations visible to the organization, continuously informs leadership pipelines with real-time development data, and enables talent readiness to be assessed and acted upon with consistency and rigor.
Partnering closely with HR Business Partners and key stakeholders, the Assistant Director brings fresh perspectives to complex talent challenges, influences across functions and leadership levels, and translates people data and business insights into experience designs that reduce critical talent risk, strengthen organizational resilience, and create the conditions for both individual fulfillment and enterprise growth.
What You'll Do:
Enterprise Talent Process Ownership
Own the end-to-end design of the enterprise career, talent review & succession philosophy and processes, including: career planning, development planning, continuous career & development conversations, talent review & calibration, succession planning, and skill development.
Own the enabling technology experience and requirements for these processes (e.g., Development Plans, Talent Card, Talent Marketplace, Gigs, Career Hub, career navigation tools, etc.).
Ensure talent processes are practical, leader and employee-friendly, and aligned with enterprise talent philosophy, business needs, and culture.
Accountable for supporting delivery of these talent processes through developing clear guidance, materials, draft communications, and readiness support for HR Business Partners, leaders, and employees.
Providing day-to-day support and management of processes, including escalated technical inquiries, issue coordination, and follow-through with HR stakeholders.
Utilize talent analytics and relevant success metrics to assess the effectiveness of cycles, monitor adoption, gather insights for continuous improvement, and track progress and outcomes.
Continuous Improvement
Lead retrospectives and synthesize quantitative and qualitative feedback to identify opportunities to simplify and strengthen these talent processes.
Translate insights into clear recommendations and design enhancements that improve clarity, consistency, impact, and the employee, leader, and HR experience.
Stakeholder Partnership & Enablement
Serve as a primary point of contact for HR on enterprise talent management processes. Strengthens knowledge management for HR Services and HR business partners.
Provide consultation, guidance, and problem-solving support related to process execution, interpretation, and application.
Develop and deliver enablement materials (e.g., toolkits, job aids, FAQs, talk tracks, training, etc.) to support consistent enterprise adoption.
Creates automated and scalable self-service support through AI tools to quickly surface accurate guidance for employees, leaders and HR, reducing the day-to-day support requests.
Partners with the HR Advisory team to brainstorm and enable Career Center consultations related to career development and talent review & succession, including career planning and development action guidance.
Partners with HR Technology and Talent analytics to modernize and scale our talent management practices through fit-for-purpose tools, digital workflows, enhancements, and data-informed capabilities.
What Experience You'll Bring:
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field required
Graduate degree strongly preferred
Experience
6–8 years of experience in talent management, organizational effectiveness, or related HR disciplines with a focus on high-impact, enterprise talent processes
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide talent management processes (e.g., career development, talent reviews, succession planning, and skills)
Experience partnering with HR Business Partners
Experience leveraging Workday as a process owner to drive mature, scalable talent management processes and insights.
Skills & Capabilities
User-Centered Design Process: Designs products, services, and experiences that are tailored to the needs, preferences, and behaviors of the end-user.
Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.
Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Consulting: Connects with stakeholders to understand and gain specific information to help resolve customer problems in a given domain. Communicates effectively intent to customers, solicits customer requirements, utilizes domain knowledge and collaborates with the right stakeholders.
Executive Presence: Builds and maintains an authentic personal brand, inspiring and motivating people to pursue a desired outcome by sharing a clear vision and demonstrating confidence, professionalism, self-awareness and trust with business stakeholders.
Business Influence: Collaborates, communicates and influences direct reports, stakeholders, and other business functions based on understanding of the marketplace, organizational needs, and the client as a people manager.
Change Management: Acts as an advocate for change as well as identifying gaps/issues that should be addressed to deliver optimal client/field experiences. Leads change management, when driving technology or process improvements, applying relevant change acceleration, risk mitigation, and stakeholder management methodologies and best practices. Analyzes business trends and current state to develop a case for change that aligns with business strategy. Implements plans and strategies to manage organizational and behavioral changes by aligning leaders and engaging impacted stakeholders.
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Learning Agility & Critical Thinking: Pursues learning and obtains knowledge continuously in relevant fields, methods, or technologies in current and future practices; continuously utilizes critical thinking to identify opportunities, execute solutions, and measure impact to constantly improve existing practices and processes based on feedback, lessons learned, and market trends.
Strategic Thinking: Uses critical thinking and knowledge of business demand to plan, design, prioritize and execute high impact initiatives and programs.
Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
#LI-Remote, #LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$108,160.00Pay Range - End:
$162,240.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Support the Company's overall expense management process, focusing on ensuring optimal use of Company resources and ultimately protecting or maintaining product value and financial strength either at the corporate level or for an assigned function/department. Develop timely and accurate expense reporting and provide value-added expense management consultation and analysis. This includes consulting with business partners and building financial models to evaluate strategic decisions, providing complex financial analysis, developing forecasts and budgets, comparing expectations to peers and/or internal expectations, evaluating and presenting options and prioritizing solutions across the company.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Interacts with executive officers, department heads, and other members of senior management to provide meaningful expense management consultation and analysis and presents recommendations to aid in decision-making.
Proactively identifies issues and facilitates discussions to resolve those issues across functions and departments.
Independently meets with managers and directors to understand department operations and resulting cost structure.
Coordinates monthly reporting of all expenses to meet financial reporting needs of the department.
Monitors spend, develops forecasts and budgets and analyzes expense results.
Applies creativity and innovation in identifying process improvements and other opportunities for the function/departments to better manage expenses or reduce spend.
Responsible for building complex financial models to predict and understand the business as well as actual results. Understand cost drivers, internal metrics, unit costs and benchmarking for tracking and comparing results.
Challenge assumptions made in forecasts and projections.
Make connections to understand and integrate internal best practices to best support overall business objectives.
Assures that all expense activity follows the appropriate accounting controls, policies and procedures and is appropriately accounted for on the general ledger in compliance with statutory and/or GAAP accounting standards.
May be responsible for developing strategies to best utilize systems and maintaining expertise over financial reporting systems (Such as PeopleSoft, IBM TM1 system, Apptio, or Project Portfolio Management).
May be responsible for corporate expense projections, metrics, accounting for payroll, fixed assets and intercompany charges between NM and its subsidiaries, procure to pay process or other corporate processes.
Leads special projects and assignments related to expense management, product line allocations, financial reporting, process improvements, or other projects as requested by division leaders.
Collaborates with other enterprise resources in Human Resources, Corporate Strategy or Planning Coordinators.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related degree with accounting emphasis preferred.
Typically, 5 or more years of financial management experience and/or financial planning and analysis experience.
Strong analytical, planning, organization, budgeting, problem solving, negotiation, oral and written communication skills are essential to this role.
Ability to develop and interpret financial models for complex analysis.
Demonstrated ability to make effective decisions and influence without authority at all levels of leadership.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage multiple assignments concurrently while effectively prioritizing.
Ability to develop and present recommendations to management.
Ability to build rapport and acceptance at different levels of management and across various departments.
CPA or CMA designation is preferred.
#LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Resource Management (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Process Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Business Automation (NM) - Intermediate, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Forecasting (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Expense Reporting Management (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
About the Job
We're strong and growing. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We're strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career and in turn, our business. We care. We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefitted from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they're passionate about.
Summary
Provides advertising compliance expertise to field and home office business partners through review of marketing, sales training, and recruiting materials. This role will collaborate with field and home office business partners on advertising regulation education and project consultation that demonstrates a commitment to shared outcomes and strategic objectives.
What You'll Do
Conduct a comprehensive review of marketing, advertising, sales training, and recruiting materials across a variety of mediums for compliance with applicable regulations, company policies and best practices.
Lead division priorities and projects.
Provide subject matter expertise for home office and field business partners on advertising compliance questions.
Own and drive consultative, educational relationships with business partners.
What You'll Bring To The Role
Bachelor's Degree Preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.
FINRA series 7 & 24 required or can be obtained within 6 months.
Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience. Experience in financial services industry preferred.
Communications, customer service, or related business/professional experience preferred.
Working knowledge of technology tools and applications.
Knowledge of insurance and investment products and operations.
Convey emotional intelligence and strong interpersonal skills to build constructive relationships.
Ability to solve complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
Ability to explain difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus
Benefits:
Great pay package, 401K, Company sponsored retirement plan, Educational assistance, Performance based incentive pay, Medical, dental and vision insurance, Parental leave, Caregiver time off….and more
#LI-Hybrid
#LI-Onsite
Candidates must successfully complete and pass any required testing.Series 24 - FINRAFINRA, Series 7 - FINRAFINRA, SIE - FINRAFINRACompensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$75,600.00Pay Range - End:
$113,400.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Business Partnerships, Customer Service, Marketing Materials, Risk Management, Case Documentation, Policy Setting, Process Improvements, Field Consulting, Life Insurance Products, Marketing Compliance, Investment Prodct Management, Marketing Distribution (Inactive), Sales Process, Regulatory Requirements, Negotiation, Peer Reviewing
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Provides administrative support to ensure efficient operations within the department/division. Supports leaders and employees through a variety of tasks related to organization and communications. Responsible for confidential and time sensitive materials. Familiar with a variety of organization concepts, practices and procedures. Ensures duties are completed accurately and delivered in a high quality and timely manner.
What You'll Do:
Organizes and schedules meetings and appointments.
Creates materials as needed including spreadsheets, presentations, memos, letters, faxes, and forms.
Assists in preparing and updating reports, dashboards, etc.
Point of contact for technology access/services, often functions as PC/LAN contact.
Maintains all department supplies; anticipates needs and orders.
Arranges travel as needed.
Prepares and monitors invoices, submits and reconciles expense reports.
Takes minutes of meetings as needed.
Resource to department on office and administrative functions.
Works on projects as requested.
Other department specific duties as assigned.
Handles sensitive information in a confidential manner.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Three or more years of administrative or assistance experience.
High school diploma or equivalent; college coursework preferred.
Proficient in MS Office at intermediate levels.
Proficient in general technology.
Strong organizational and planning skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Attention to detail and problem solving.
Strong time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work.
Skills You Will Have:
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Emotional Intelligence: Includes self-awareness and self-management, empathy towards stakeholders (internal and external) via active listening. Builds trusting relationships and establishes credibility with peers, mangers and stakeholders to influence optimal outcomes for employees and clients.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people inside and outside of the organization. Builds appropriate rapport, constructive and effective relationships. Uses diplomacy and tact and diffuses high-tension situations comfortably.
Organizational & Political Savvy: Marshalls resources effectively and efficiently to orchestrate multiple activities; navigates internal and external politics adeptly to recognize and leverage organizational realities for efficient problem-solving.
Organizational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workloads effectively, consistently meeting service level agreements under tight deadlines, competing initiatives and multiple stakeholders.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$26.09Pay Range - End:
$39.13Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Teamwork (NM) - Advanced, Organizational Excellence (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Advanced, Administrative Service Delivery (NM) - Advanced, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Documentation (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Serve as strategic advisor to SME leaders and stakeholders, consulting on performance, and learning and development design and needs
Drive annual business planning, on behalf of advisor development experience, including development and measurement of OKRs and KPIs.
Develop, monitor, and adjust multi-year delivery and innovative roadmap
Establish a measurement strategy, anchored to enterprise priorities and business objectives
Gather NM data and NM/External insights to inform approach and demonstrate value
Establish and monitor standards, frameworks, and methodologies to ensure curriculum programs maintain high quality, consistency and alignment with NMU vision
Integrate and embed AI-driven solutions in both curriculum delivery and management
Stay current, source and evaluate vendor relationships to inform buy/build/rent strategy (industry and discipline), and ongoing management
Contribute curriculum architecture and standards to governance processes and systems
Monitor and evaluate emerging and modernized innovations in curriculum design, learning experiences, and deliver models that improve learner experience
Apply adult and modern learner theory and principles to learner experience architecture and design
Deliver and lead principles for curriculum co-creation and performance consulting, enabling team to consult effectively with business and field partners
Lead, coach, and develop a team of learning, curriculum, and performance consulting professionals
Assess team capabilities and skill gaps; create targeted development plans to build future-ready skills
Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation (AI), accountability, and psychological safety
Qualifications
Degree/background/certifications in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, Education, Business, AI in learning, workflow learning
Experience in learning strategy, performance consulting
Experience managing large contract vendors, including sourcing, negotiating, and ongoing relationship management
10+ years of experience in learning strategy, curriculum design, and/or performance consulting
Creating operating models, in which the team can deliver value and operate
Experience leading teams of learning, curriculum, or performance consulting professionals
Experience partnering with senior leaders and SMEs to design enterprise learning solutions
Demonstrated success leading/delivering multi-year learning roadmaps and enterprise-level initiatives
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USDStructure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
We are seeking an experienced Assistant Director of IAM to lead and mature our Privileged Access Management (PAM) team. This is a people-first management role responsible for a large team of engineers and analysts.
You will work as an engineering leader responsible for strategy, delivery, and operation of our enterprise PAM Program—driving automation of Elevated Privilege (EP) discovery and vaulting, managing EP access requests and certifications, non-human identity (NHI) governance and management, and delivering zero standing privilege and just-in-time access at scale.
Success in this role requires operating at a high tempo while maintaining strong operational disciple and driving automation, continuous improvement, and measurable impact for our customers and the business. We are looking for an Assistant Director with experience in building high-performing teams, influencing stakeholders, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
What You'll be doing
Define and execute the multi-year IAM/PAM strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, risk reduction, and regulatory compliance.
Own the end-to-end PAM program: non-human identity and agentic AI security frameworks and access control, secrets lifecycle management, service account certifications, PAM tooling capability development and deployment, and reporting.
Accountable for a full range of people manager responsibilities including communication, coaching, mentoring and staff development, performance management, salary administration, and staffing decisions.
Perform functional management duties to ensure optimum effectiveness and quality by managing adherence to strategies, goals, budgets, operating policies and procedures as an NM frontline manager.
Accountable for translating the departmental strategy to IAM security operational objectives (OKR) including both systems and processes. Drives for results through others to include:
Integrating and designing measurement systems, targets and specific initiatives in support of the various strategies.
Partner with other IAM teams, including IGA, Directory Services, and Cloud IAM, to implement Elevated Privilege access controls across all applications and systems.
Accountable for providing guidance and escalation avenues for the business unit based on understanding the business values, goals, work processes and workflows.
Accountable for evaluation, review and approval of risk assessment and risk management strategies and processes to establish a foundation for appropriately managing systems and data risks.
What You'll Bring to the Role
Bachelor’s degree preferred; bachelor’s or advanced degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field.
Eight (8) years of progressive IAM experience, with 3+ years running a PAM program.
Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise PAM platforms such as CyberArk and Hashicorp Vault.
Proven delivery of automated secrets management, agentic AI controls, EP access requests and certifications, just-in-time access, and role engineering at scale.
Proven people management skills to include human relations and interpersonal skills necessary to manage multiple teams.
Proven ability to build effective teams committed to organizational goals.
Proven analytical abilities especially in decision making and problem solving.
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and the ability to handle ambiguity.
Proven ability to cultivate relationships and counsel key business partners within all levels of the organization. Strong stakeholder management skills.
Experience with Agile methodologies/DevSecOps environment desired.
Relevant security certifications (CISM, CISSP, CCSP, etcetera) are desired.
What Sets you Apart:
Ability to identify and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders representing a broad range of functions and levels to ensure alignment with departmental and enterprise business strategies.
Ability to influence others through a combination of active listening, conveying and asserting complex ideas in simple terms, and persuading others.
Accountable for an effective and efficient business unit designed and maintained to support the business outcomes. Responsible for the integration of:
Organization/department design and structure
Workforce management (forecasting, obtaining, developing and assigning the right resources)
Effective and efficient internal workflow and processes
Information and knowledge flows throughout the business unit and out to the organization through both formal and informal exchanges
You identify with and exhibit the values of accountability, bias for action, engineering excellence, and a customer first mindset.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$160,000.00Pay Range - End:
$240,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$176,000.00 USD - $264,000.00 USDStructure 115:
$184,000.00 USD - $276,000.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Security Practices (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Intermediate, Prioritization (NM) - Advanced, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Business Automation (NM) - Advanced, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Expert, Strategic Vision & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Talent Development & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Accountability (NM) - Advanced, DevSecOps (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Identity Protocols (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Expert, Identity & Access Management Industry Standards (NM) - Advanced, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Advanced, Cloud Deployment Models (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Access Management Tools & Technologies (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Technology Solutions & Support Consultant is an on-site position embedded within network offices nationwide, dedicated to advancing financial advisors' sales effectiveness and practice growth through innovative technology solutions. This dual role involves optimizing technology configurations and driving technical product integration while simultaneously delivering customized consulting to align digital strategies with business objectives and championing the adoption of Northwestern Mutual’s technology suite. By spearheading strategic technology integration, the consultant transforms advisor practices, driving continuous improvement and fostering collaboration across all organizational levels.
What You'll Do:
Develop relationships with financial advisors (FA), FA teams, and network office (NO) leadership and their teams, focusing on understanding basic business objectives and support needs.
Assist advisors and teams in using Northwestern Mutual’s technology tools effectively, demonstrating how they enhance client-advisor experiences and productivity.
Utilizes extensive knowledge of computers, mobile devices, hardware, software configurations, operating systems, and LAN.
Develop a thorough understanding of the insurance and investment sales cycles to understand how technology can be integrated into business processes.
Apply consulting strategies to demonstrate technology benefits, focusing on clear communication to ensure audience understanding.
Provides advanced project consultation, and subject matter expertise to enterprise partners on technology needs, remodels, new office buildouts, and upgrades to enhance the customer experience.
Collect feedback from advisors and teams to relay to Home Office leadership, helping ensure technology solutions meet user needs.
Manages escalations and project management of enterprise technology implementations and upgrades, including communication and feedback to local and corporate leadership.
Support the identification of inefficiencies with guidance, suggesting simple technology applications to improve advisor practices.
Participate in planning sessions to support goal achievement, learning strategic methods to increase productivity and client satisfaction.
Assist in delivering training on technology best practices, facilitating classes under supervision to promote effective tool usage.
Help prepare users for new technology deployments by assisting with training and communication of benefits.
Handles vendor management of third-party technology solutions providers and implementations, ensuring effective collaboration and integration.
Track engagement activities and attend training sessions to expand knowledge and skills, contributing to improvement efforts.
Maintains a high level of proficiency and expertise in complex computer hardware and software technologies through continuous education, advanced training, and self-study.
Travel may be required based on supported offices.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Bachelor’s degree in business or related field, or equivalent experience.
Minimum of 2 years related experiences including consultation experience working with professionals within financial services or similar industry.
Experience coaching and training professionals.
Technology support experience preferred.
Ability to understand sales-focused software technology and its benefits.
Advanced knowledge in computer, mobile device hardware, and software troubleshooting including proficiency in using software support tool
Ability to build and maintain relationships.
Proven ability to consult and drive measurable improvements in an outcome-based model. (E.g. prior demonstrated ability to drive % increase in adoption, sales etc.)
Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate groups of people.
What Sets you apart:
Adaptive Communication (NM) - Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Consulting (NM) - Consulting: Connects with stakeholders to understand and gain specific information to help resolve customer problems in a given domain. Communicates effectively intent to customers, solicits customer requirements, utilizes domain knowledge and collaborates with the right stakeholders.
Field Advocacy (NM) - Field Advocacy: Serves as an advocate and liaison of the field to produce meaningful interactions with the field that increase awareness and satisfaction with products and services; brings a field-centric mindset to value creation, prioritization, sequencing, and/or design of digital product enhancements, to maximize value to the field and increase the effectiveness of adoption.
Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people inside and outside of the organization. Builds appropriate rapport, constructive and effective relationships. Uses diplomacy and tact and diffuses high-tension situations comfortably.
Prioritization (NM) - Prioritization: Assesses and accurately assigns priority levels to different tasks based on importance, urgency, and alignment to business and strategic goals.
Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Technical & Digital Acumen: Leverages knowledge and approaches of digital products and technologies to solve problems, complete tasks and accomplish goals. Demonstrates effective adaptability to new and emerging technologies.
Training Needs Analysis (NM) - Training Needs Analysis: Identifies skills gaps using data analysis and qualitative observation and advises on learning needs for successful individual and organizational performance.
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This position has been classified as an Associated Person under NMIS guidelines and requires fingerprinting and completion of required form.Non-Registered Fingerprinted - FINRACompensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$70,320.00Pay Range - End:
$105,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$77,360.00 USD - $116,040.00 USDStructure 115:
$80,880.00 USD - $121,320.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Sales Cycle Acumen (NM) - Beginner, Training Needs Analysis (NM) - Beginner, Change Management (NM) - Beginner, Domain Expertise (NM) - Beginner, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Beginner, Consulting (NM) - Beginner, Prioritization (NM) - Beginner, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Beginner, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Troubleshooting (NM) - Beginner, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Beginner, Field Advocacy (NM) - Beginner, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Beginner
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
As a Cloud Engineer III on Cloud Foundations, you’ll help build and run the secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platform capabilities that power Northwestern Mutual’s technology ecosystem. This team is moving toward a services- and automation-first model, where core cloud capabilities are delivered through standardized patterns, APIs, pipelines, and self-service workflows rather than one-off manual provisioning. You’ll work across AWS and Azure to improve platform consistency, strengthen governance and observability, and reduce friction for application teams adopting cloud services.
This role is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys solving real platform problems, improving how things operate at scale, and partnering across engineering, security, and network teams to turn solid architecture into usable, supportable services. We value technical curiosity, practical automation, clean engineering habits, and a mindset that balances speed with stability, security, and long-term maintainability.What you’ll do:
Demonstrate technical leadership within the team
Proficiency in DevOps and Agile principles
Apply engineering standard methodologies to analyze and develop software solutions
Leverages established coding standards, best practices, and automation capabilities to develop solutions to support our users
Identify technical problems and develop software solutions and automation capabilities
Have the technical skill to adequately review the software code developed in the project
Strive for continuous improvement on all aspects within the team and build continuous integration and continuous development pipeline (CI/CD)
What you’ll bring:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
2-4 years of working experience
3+ years of professional IT experience
Experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred), and containerized applications and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes – CKA Preferred)
3+ years' experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
3+ years' experience with networking and Linux based platforms
3+ years' experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Experience working with DevOps, CICD, GitOps, Agile methodologies
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation and how to apply it with services such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
Understanding of certificates, firewalls, vulnerability management, authentication, and authorization
Understanding of Unit Testing
Experience with Linux and Windows. Comfortable with CLI
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Problem solver who enjoys learning on the job and thinking outside of the box
Skills you have
CI/CD Processes: Involves expertise in implementing and maintaining automated testing processes for software delivery pipelines. Requires knowledge of version control systems. Builds tools and continuous integration servers to enable continuous testing, integration, and delivery of software products. Collaborates with developers to ensure that automated tests are executed at each stage of the pipeline, identifies and reports issues, and provides feedback to improve the overall quality of the applications.
Cloud & IT Infrastructure: Embraces, prioritizes, and applies DevOps principles and mindset to cybersecurity services and capabilities; leverages understanding of enterprise IT environment from operating system to networks and domain services and orchestrates applications and infrastructure through a pipeline approach.
Cloud Technology: Applies knowledge of cloud service platforms and delivery models to support, develop, adopt, secure, implement and evaluate end-to-end cloud solutions delivery and data storage instead of through traditional physical servers in a back office.
Infrastructure Automation: Articulates and applies systems architecture and automation technologies to support and implement automation optimization and initiatives.
Site Reliability Engineering: Uses software tools to automate IT infrastructure tasks such as system management and application monitoring. Ensures software applications remain reliable amidst updates from development teams. Improves reliability of scalable software systems.
Software Engineering: Designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains software applications for the organization to use to process complex technical information. Demonstrates the ability to convert design specifications into functional software solutions that meet customer needs. Includes planning, designing, programming, debugging, testing, documenting and maintaining applications and services, using established coding standards and methodologies. Ensures that the code delivered is reusable and modular. Uses software development processes in which the smallest testable parts of an application (units) are individually and independently scrutinized for proper operation.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$108,160.00 USD - $162,240.00 USDStructure 115:
$113,040.00 USD - $169,560.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Software Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Cloud & IT Infrastructure (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Technology Roadmap (NM) - Intermediate, CI/CD Processes (NM) - Advanced, DevOps (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Site Reliability Engineering (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Business Application (NM) - Intermediate, Cloud Technology (NM) - Advanced, Infrastructure Automation (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Programming Languages (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate, Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Shape on-campus experiences across 2+ million square feet spanning two campuses in two states, through strategic leadership in workspace. Develop and implement comprehensive workspace strategies aligned with the company's vision, prioritizing projects to meet the evolving needs of the enterprise. Staying current with industry trends, drive innovation to enhance the campus environment. Manage all phases of workspace projects, from concept to completion, balancing client requests, resources, funding, and internal priorities. Effective communication with clients and stakeholders, coupled with strong financial discipline, ensures projects stay on budget and on schedule. Enhance operational efficiency and ensure compliance with regulations and institutional policies.
What You'll Do in the Role
Formulate and execute comprehensive design & space planning strategies that inform the facilities master plan and align with the company’s vision and objectives for on-campus experiences.
Strategically prioritize design & space projects to align with the dynamic needs of an evolving enterprise ecosystem.
Develop cost effective and efficient space planning strategies to meet the evolving occupancy requirements of the Company.
Stay current with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in workspace & space planning, influencing internal stakeholders to adopt new innovations to enhance the campus experience.
Ensure facilities design accommodates our diverse workforce and supports Enterprise Sustainability Governance objectives.
Plan, prioritize, and oversee delivery of a dynamic portfolio of workspace projects, including enterprise efforts, facilities-directed projects, and internal customer requests.
Develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
Effectively manage design & space requests through a transparent and simple intake process. Provide clear and consistent communication to clients and stakeholders throughout the project.
Provide leadership and direction to the design and planner team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.
Mentor and develop team members, encouraging professional growth and ensuring high performance.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including construction project managers, architects, engineers, contractors, and other stakeholders, to ensure cohesive project delivery.
Bring strong financial discipline to all aspects of project planning and operations, ensuring financial resources are used effectively, and projects remain within budget constraints.
Ensure all designs and projects comply with relevant building codes, safety regulations, and institutional policies. Analyze new and changing federal and local regulations with respect to their impact on the home office campuses.
Document all aspects of workspace projects, including plans, changes, and outcomes.
Prepare detailed project reports for senior management and stakeholders, summarizing progress, challenges, and recommendations.
What You Bring to the Role:
Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis in, Business, Project Management or related field preferred OR a significant amount of directly related work experience beyond the minimum required for the position.
Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience, including a mix of people leader, process and project management experience to include analysis, documentation and experience leading complex, large-scale projects/programs.
Demonstrated superior people leadership, management, human relations and interpersonal skills necessary to directly lead and develop teams.
Project management experience required preferably in the area of workspace, construction, etc.; or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Demonstrated experience in business processes such as planning, budgeting, staff management, and executing systems and procedures.
Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks simultaneously, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Superior written and verbal communication skills with ability to build rapport, negotiate and gain acceptance at all levels.
Strong analytical skills and commitment to customer service excellence along with sound decision making skills and the ability to function in an immediate needs' work environment when appropriate.
High degree of personal initiative and motivation.
Skills You Have
Accountability: Advanced
Business Influence: Advanced
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Advanced
Customer Service Mindset: Expert
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$108,160.00Pay Range - End:
$162,240.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$118,960.00 USD - $178,440.00 USDStructure 115:
$124,400.00 USD - $186,600.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
This is a mainframe role focused on IBM z/OS environments.
While the role exists within the broader Software Engineering family, day‑to‑day responsibilities are exclusively centered on z/OS platform engineering and operations. Experience with distributed systems or cloud technologies is not required for success in this position.
What You’ll Do
Mentor, enable, and teach peers to be self‑sufficient within the mainframe platform
Apply engineering standard methodologies to analyze, design, and maintain z/OS system‑level solutions
Leverage established standards, best practices, and automation to support mission‑critical mainframe workloads
Identify complex system‑level problems and implement reliable, supportable solutions in a highly regulated production environment
Review, verify, and validate system‑level changes, configurations, and automation introduced into production
Drive continuous improvement across reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational efficiency
Develop, maintain, and execute disaster recovery and redundancy strategies
Partners with vendors and enterprise teams on emerging best practices, patterns, and technologies
Proactively learn emerging platforms and related technologies
Establish and maintain best practices related to compliance, security, privacy, and legal requirements
Anticipate deviations from standard practices and determine practical paths forward
Track industry trends relevant to the domain and apply them where appropriate
Break down complex problems into manageable components and help others do the same
Mainframe / z/OS–Focused Responsibilities
Perform hands‑on z/OS system administration including IPLs, system startup/shutdown, parameter tuning, and system recovery
Plan, execute, and validate IBM and ISV software installs and upgrades using z/OSMF Software Instances and Workflows
Manage SMP/E environments including PTFs, HOLDDATA, USERMODs, and consolidation builds
Install, analyze, and modify system exits and USERMODs, including assembler updates when required
Build and maintain system‑resident DASD volumes, system libraries, and reproducible system builds
Configure and administer JES2
Administer RACF security including users, groups, profiles, access controls, and policy enforcement
Author, debug, and optimize JCL for batch processing
Analyze SMF/RMF data for accounting, capacity planning, and system performance tuning
Administer and tune DFSMS components including DFSMShsm and DFSMSrmm
Configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP for z/OS and associated services
Develop automation and tools using REXX, CLIST, and UNIX System Services scripting
Use monitoring tools such as BMC MainView and/or Intellimagic Vision
Support mainframe hardware environments including HMC operations, CPC/LPAR configuration, and IBM zSeries platforms
Participate in on‑call rotations and ITIL‑aligned incident, change, and problem management
Coordinate with vendors and ISVs for licensing, problem determination, and PTF coordination
Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and operational procedures
Mentor and train junior staff on z/OS engineering and operational practices
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Note: This position requires deep experience in IBM z/OS systems programming. Candidates whose background is primarily AWS, Linux, Windows, or distributed/cloud platforms without substantial mainframe experience are unlikely to be a fit.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
At least 4 years of relevant experience
5+ years of professional IT experience, primarily focused on enterprise mainframe platforms
Experience applying DevOps concepts, Agile methodologies, and automation in mainframe environments
Experience monitoring and tuning performance of large‑scale systems
Working knowledge of scripting or programming concepts for automation
Familiarity with authentication, authorization, certificates, and vulnerability management
Required z/OS / Mainframe Experience
Extensive hands‑on experience as a z/OS Systems Programmer in production environments
Strong knowledge of z/OS internals, JES2, RACF, SMP/E, and system libraries
Proven expertise in SMF/RMF‑based performance tuning, capacity planning, and problem determination
Experience with DASD, tape management, and SAN technologies, including Hyperswap
Proficiency with REXX, CLIST, and USS shell scripting (additional languages a plus)
Experience supporting Sysplex and Coupling Facility environments (preferred)
Exposure to subsystems such as CICS, DB2, and MQ and their integration with z/OS
Knowledge of PKI/SSL, LDAP integration, Kerberos, and mainframe security hardening
Experience with z/OSMF, Ansible, or automation/orchestration tooling for mainframe lifecycle management
Familiarity with cloud‑to‑mainframe integration or CI/CD concepts as applied to z/OS
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills under sustained production pressure
Skills You Have
The hiring team will assess candidates against the following skills:
Communicates complex technical information clearly across both technical and non‑technical audiences.
Designs and supports systems with a strong customer‑first mindset, particularly for mission‑critical platforms.
Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise‑class hardware, system software, networks, and data storage platforms.
Uses monitoring and performance tools to diagnose, optimize, and stabilize system performance.
Demonstrates deep expertise in operating system architecture, internals, and resource management.
Develops, maintains, and documents complex programs, scripts, and automation.
Resolves complex technical issues and drives alignment on durable solutions in production environments.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Cloud Infrastructure (NM) - Advanced, Enterprise Architecture (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Infrastructure Development (NM) - Expert, Talent Development & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Programming Languages (NM) - Expert, Strategic Vision & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Industry Standard Frameworks (NM) - Advanced, Project Methodologies (NM) - Advanced, OS Level Knowledge (NM) - Expert, Accountability (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Expert, Monitor System Health (NM) - Advanced, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, SaaS (Software as a Service) (NM) - Advanced, Automation Strategy & Implementation (NM) - Expert, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Container Orchestration (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
As a member of the Insurance Products & Operations team and working collaboratively with the other members of the Law Department, you will serve as a point of contact on legal, regulatory, and other issues related to risk products and insurance operations. You will Provide business areas with timely and high-quality advice on law, regulation, industry standards, and best practices relating to issues impacting the Company’s risk products through the entire product life cycle, from product innovation, design, and development to the payment of claims. You will act as a trusted advisor helping business professionals reach important decisions that mitigate legal and regulatory risks in a rapidly changing environment.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
You must have at least 3-6 years' experience as an attorney practicing in-house, at a law firm, or in the governmental or regulatory space.
You must have a strong academic record and a Juris Doctorate degree. A license to practice law in the State of Wisconsin or a commitment to become licensed within the first year of employment is required
Experience working with insurance or risk products (ideally life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance, or annuities), insurance litigation, and/or financial services regulatory enforcement.
You must be able to research and analyze a variety of legal issues, synthesize complex information, work independently and with a team, and provide legal advice to business professionals at all levels of the Company.
A successful candidate will be flexible and adaptable in terms of general skills and aspirations.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a highly analytical and curious mind, creativity, comfort dealing with ambiguity, integrity, high ethical standards, and a positive demeanor, both with the Company’s business areas and Law Department attorneys.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and contribute effectively in a team environment and to manage a multi-jurisdictional practice.
Ability to “own” issues and work autonomously while effectively prioritize multiple tasks.
A keen problem-solving approach using sound legal reasoning and practical business judgment to identify and address risks to achieve results that balance benefits for all partners of the Company.
Skills You Have:
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Continuous Improvement: Utilizes available methods to identify opportunities, executes solutions and measures impact to improve existing practices and processes. Implements feedback and lessons learned. Leverages the ability to identify and experiment assumptions and hypothesis for products to be able to refine and improve them at any stage of the life cycle.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Decision Making: Makes timely, data-driven decisions by understanding the probability of success, identifying risks, gathering business requirements, and developing value statements.
Policy & Procedure: Analyzes current policies and procedures, identifies gaps or areas for improvement, and develops and implements new policies and procedures to address those gaps. Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, as well as effectively communicates policies and procedures to employees and stakeholders. Understands the various components of a workflow, identifies bottlenecks, and implements improvements to increase productivity, reduce costs, and streamline operations.
Project Management: Delivers projects in alignment to business requirements, specific success criteria, and stakeholder expectations. Plans, manages, and completes projects keeping cost and time considerations in mind.
Risk Assessment & Identification: Leverages industry knowledge to determine and seek hazards that could potentially prevent the program, enterprise, or investment from achieving their objectives; designs systematic processes of identifying severity of hazards and evaluating the scale and impacts of any associated risk on the business.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$144,000.00Pay Range - End:
$216,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Project Management (NM) - Expert, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Expert, Risk Assessment & Identification (NM) - Expert, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Expert, Accountability (NM) - Expert, Decision Making (NM) - Expert, Business Influence (NM) - Expert, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Expert, Attention to Detail (NM) - Expert
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Vice President of Finance for Technology and Digital Procurement leads enterprise-wide sourcing, vendor strategy, and commercial negotiations across technology domains, with a strong emphasis on building and sustaining strategic relationships with CIO/CDO and senior technology leaders. This role acts as a trusted partner to IT leadership, aligning procurement strategy with technology roadmaps, innovation goals, and business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic CIO/CDO Partnership
Serve as the primary procurement strategic partner and day-to-day relationship leader for the CIO, CDO, and senior technology executives.
Partner with IT leaders to translate technology strategy and roadmaps into multi-year category strategies, sourcing plans, and vendor ecosystem decisions.
Build and sustain executive-level trust through proactive engagement, transparent governance, and clear articulation of value, risk, and tradeoffs.
Shape technology demand and investment decisions by leading early engagement and intake with IT teams—clarifying business outcomes, requirements, timelines, and budget assumptions before sourcing begins.
Establish and run joint operating rhythms with CIO/CDO organizations (quarterly business reviews, pipeline reviews, and steering committees) to drive decisions, remove blockers, and maintain alignment.
Define shared success metrics with IT (cost, time-to-contract, risk posture, service performance, innovation outcomes) and provide executive-ready reporting on progress and realized value.
Broker alignment across IT, Finance, Legal, Risk, Privacy, and Information Security to ensure deals are executable and balanced across value, compliance, and operational constraints.
Own executive escalation paths and conflict resolution for sourcing decisions, supplier performance issues, and commercial disputes—ensuring fast, well-governed outcomes.
Bring external market intelligence to CIO/CDO leaders (pricing benchmarks, contract terms, emerging vendors, platform shifts) and curate executive-level vendor engagement to accelerate innovation and modernization.
Lead change management for new procurement operating models, standards, and policies within technology teams through stakeholder communications, training, and adoption measurement.
Establish and manage business facing service level agreements, OKRs, and KPIs that drive success for EE&T.
Technology Procurement Leadership
Set the enterprise technology procurement vision and multi-year strategy across software, cloud, infrastructure, SaaS, data, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies—aligned to CIO/CDO priorities and business outcomes.
Own technology commercial governance and portfolio outcomes, including executive prioritization, financial stewardship (budget impact, TCO), and risk posture across major programs and strategic suppliers.
Lead (and when appropriate, personally conduct) the most complex, high-value negotiations and approvals—setting deal strategy, ensuring contract structures and commercial models (subscription, consumption-based, enterprise agreements) protect the enterprise and enable speed, innovation, and scalability.
Supplier Lifecycle Management
Define and lead the enterprise technology supplier lifecycle strategy including segmentation, preferred partner models, and build/buy/partner recommendations.
Establish executive governance with strategic suppliers through joint business planning and QBRs—driving roadmap alignment, performance commitments, innovation agendas, and supplier issue resolution.
Optimize enterprise value while managing concentration, operational, and third-party risk—ensuring resilience, contractual protections, and exit/transition readiness across critical vendors.
Architect a healthy vendor ecosystem by maintaining competitive tension, commercial optionality, and a clear rationalization roadmap (standardization, consolidation, and strategic diversification where needed).
Governance & Value Realization
Establish procurement governance aligned with EE&T operating models and agile delivery.
Track and communicate total value delivered (cost savings, risk reduction, innovation enablement).
Ensure compliance with legal, security, and regulatory requirements.
Leadership & Influence
Lead and develop a high-performing technology procurement team.
Influence senior stakeholders across IT, finance, legal, and business units.
Act as a change leader modernizing procurement practices and operating models.
Qualifications & Experience
15+ years of experience in technology procurement, sourcing, or vendor management.
Proven experience partnering with CIOs/CDOs and senior IT leaders at an enterprise level.
Deep understanding of modern technology ecosystems, cloud platforms, AI, and digital transformation.
Strong executive presence with exceptional negotiation and relationship-management skills.
Experience operating in complex and matrixed organizations.
Experience in insurance, financial services, banking, and/or investment firms preferred.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$160,000.00Pay Range - End:
$240,000.00This role is eligible for additional short-term and long-term incentive compensation.
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
What's the Job:
Implement and maintain IGA capabilities including lifecycle management, access requests, entitlement management, role management (RBAC), access reviews, and separation of duties.
Develop, and maintain Java applications and services that support IAM/IGA (e.g., custom connectors, middleware, REST APIs, microservices, utilities, web applications).
Produce documentation (designs, configurations, runbooks) and contribute to knowledge base and standards.
Contributes to the innovation of software development within IAM domain.
Consults on right-sizing decisions, software solutions, and services.
Accountable for building, managing, and maintaining Identity and Access related security tools and the infrastructure required to support them. Focus on designing and implementing automation to aid the team in creating efficiencies.
Participate in change management, release planning, and on-call rotation for production support as needed.
Support audit activities and evidence collection.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What You'll Bring to the role:
Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent work experience in the IT field.
Strong Java programming expertise (e.g., Java 8+), including object-oriented design, REST API integrations, and build tooling (Maven/Gradle).
Experience with engineering best practices to include analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting software solutions and infrastructure implementations/upgrades.
Experience in the following domains: SailPoint Identity, Privileged Access, Access Certifications, SSO/Federation, Active Directory, Azure, AWS
Strong problem-solving skills.
Strong documentation, testing and automation skills.
Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements.
Ability to explain technical solutions to technical teams and non-technical teams.
Strong ability to align and mature to security practices.
Strong ability to align technical needs to business processes.
Strong ability to prioritize work based on business objectives.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Business Automation (NM) - Advanced, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, DevSecOps (NM) - Intermediate, Access Management Tools & Technologies (NM) - Intermediate, Security Practices (NM) - Intermediate, Cloud Deployment Models (NM) - Intermediate, Identity & Access Management Industry Standards (NM) - Intermediate, Identity Protocols (NM) - Intermediate, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Support the Company's overall expense management process, focusing on ensuring optimal use of Company resources and ultimately protecting or maintaining product value and financial strength either at the corporate level or for an assigned function/department. Develop timely and accurate expense reporting and provide value-added expense management consultation and analysis. This includes consulting with business partners and building financial models to evaluate strategic decisions, providing financial analysis, developing forecasts and budgets, comparing expectations to peers and/or internal expectations, evaluating and presenting options and prioritizing solutions within the department. May interact with executive officers, department heads, and other members of senior management to provide meaningful expense management consultation and analysis, and presents recommendations to aid in decision-making.
What You'll Do:
Identifies issues for routine casework and participates in discussions to resolve those issues across departments. Makes decisions on more complex casework after consulting with higher level staff.
Supports managers and directors to understand department operations and resulting cost structure.
Coordinates monthly reporting of all expenses to meet financial reporting needs of the department.
Monitors spend, develops forecasts and budgets and analyzes expense results.
Applies creativity and innovation in identifying process improvements and other opportunities for the departments to better manage expenses or reduce spend.
Builds financial models to predict and understand the business as well as actual results.
Understands cost drivers, internal metrics, unit costs and benchmarking for tracking and comparing results.
Challenges assumptions made in forecasts and projections.
Assures that all expense activity follows the appropriate accounting controls, policies and procedures and is appropriately accounted for on the general ledger in compliance with statutory and/or GAAP accounting standards.
May be responsible for maintaining aspects of the financial reporting systems (Such as PeopleSoft, IBM TM1 system, Apptio, or Project Portfolio Management).
May be responsible for corporate expense projections, metrics, fixed assets, accounting for payroll, fixed assets and intercompany charges between NM and its subsidiaries, and procure to pay process or other corporate processes.
Supports special projects and assignments related to expense management, product line allocations, financial reporting, process improvements, or other projects as requested by division leaders.
May collaborate with other enterprise resources in Human Resources, Corporate Strategy or Planning Coordinators.
What Experience You'll Bring:
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related degree with accounting emphasis preferred.
Typically three or more years of financial management experience and/or financial planning and analysis experience.
Analytical, planning, organization, budgeting, problem solving, negotiation, oral and written communication skills are essential to this role.
Ability to develop and interpret financial models for analysis.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage multiple assignments concurrently while effectively prioritizing.
Ability to develop and present recommendations to management.
Ability to communicate clearly with peers and at different levels of management within finance and across the company.
CPA or CMA designation is preferred.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$65,440.00Pay Range - End:
$98,160.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$72,000.00 USD - $108,000.00 USDStructure 115:
$75,280.00 USD - $112,920.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Budgeting, Cost Forecasting, Expense Management, Reconciliations (Inactive), Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Financial Reporting, Accounting, Financial Reporting Systems, Negotiation
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Evaluates Real Estate investments to ensure compliance with architectural, construction and environmental risk policies for the Real Estate Investment Department within the mortgage loan portfolio and select equity investments within the equity portfolio as directed by the Director of Environmental and Architectural Services.
Manages the consultation processes within specifically assigned MSAs in conducting and reviewing due diligence for both Property Condition Assessments, Environmental Site Assessments and Seismic Risk Analyses.
Assists, communicates and advises business teams in the management and accounting of acceptable risks within the portfolios and against individual underwriting analyses.
Monitors construction quality and schedules with developers and partners on construction projects and approves changes/modifications to same.
Regularly contracts, hires and manages outside consulting firms for third party evaluations.
Responsible for understanding the entire Construction Draw management system, including reconciling development budgets and draw requests, attending construction draw meetings, and verifying construction status on individual projects on an as needed basis to assist the Construction Audit group.
Evaluate and enforce policies and procedures for architectural and environmental due diligence process.
Advise Director of ACE on potential deviations from policies and procedures and assist in amicable resolution thereof.
Provide Production Team with economic evaluation of capital expenditures and management of environmental risks and deferred maintenance.
Reviews and approves requested documentation including drawings/specifications, surveys, soils reports, consultants reports, and other documents to provide analysis as necessary to close new investments per established schedules.
Reviews and approves construction related documentation (design and construction contracts, budgets, soils reports, drawings and specifications) prior to construction commencement, monitors compliance, progress and quality during construction.
Hire and manage, nationally, consulting firms on a project by project basis to manage due diligence process. Interpret outcomes and discuss/debate issues with external consultants, Borrower's consultants and legal counsel, and represent Northwestern Mutual in a professional and ethical manner. Effectively manage costs associated with hiring third party consultants.
Provide timely support to Closing Unit including performing daily database entries to ensure adequate communication and management of transactions.
Where appropriate, ensure appropriate disbursement of construction loan and equity fundings.
Participates in deal review process for all new investments.
What you will Bring to the Role:
A bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, environmental, or construction management with direct, relevant real estate experience working with institutional investors and lending of a minimum of 7 years.
Candidates with longer, more specific real estate experience in lieu of educational experience may also be considered.
Knowledge of multiple building types and potential issues regarding each type (high rise, mid rise, industrial/flex space, garden apartments, etc.) is required.
Strong communication skills are a must, and courage to defend protocols established within Real Estate Services is mandatory.
Cross training to various disciplines described herein is required, and willingness to train (including internal and external classes) is a requirement. Must be willing and able to be located in the Northwestern Mutual Home Office Campus in Milwaukee, WI.
Short term national travel is required on a scheduled and unscheduled basis. Personal life flexibility must account for this need.
Specific experience working within and for an institutional investor will be given highest prioritization.
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Compensation Range:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed.
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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.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for additional information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Financial Market Monitoring (NM) - Intermediate, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Evaluation (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
What You'll Do
Work closely with all levels of IT to deploy and support z/OS Db2 infrastructure and the associated application stack
Provide leadership in technical aspects of assigned projects and support issues; bring new ideas to the table when appropriate
Work with companion teams to set up and enforce database standards
Identify opportunities to improve availability, reliability, and performance of system and application infrastructure
Monitor system and application performance & provide performance improvement recommendations
Upgrade, configure, and migrate new releases of Db2; regularly apply maintenance, and when necessary, apply PTFs/APRS
Manage Db2 active and archive logs
Modify Db2 zParms
Recycle Db2
Ensure recoverability of the system and applications’ database components
Support DR activities (RTO/RPO: synchronization methods)
Monitor instances for events and resolutions/escalations
Ensure the proper alerting is occurring for Db2 messages
Perform triage and troubleshooting
Install, upgrade, configure and migrate new releases of Db2 ISV products, apply maintenance, and when necessary, apply fixes
Support Db2 Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Products
Develop scripting to automate Db2 systems engineering tasks
What You'll Bring to the Role
Solid knowledge in Db2 subsystems and application tuning
A keen eye on process improvement and automation
Competence in Incident, Problem, and Change Management
In-depth experience in supporting mainframe technology (i.e. z/OS ISPF, JCL, JES2, etc.) specifically SMP/E or ZOSMF
Experience reviewing HOLDDATA
Utilize stand-alone utilities (i.e. DSNJLOGF, DSNJU004, DSNJU003, etc.)
Understand logical and physical database design
Experience as a z/OS DB2 administration, working with DDL, DML/DQL, DCL, DTL, DB2 commands, and SQL
System and Application Performance tuning; including tuning bufferpools
Experience in the Db2 Utilities (i.e. COPY, QUIESCE, REPAIR, REORG, LOAD, etc.)
Understand RACF Security
Understand Db2 managed security using RACF opposed to Db2 security
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
4-5 years professional experience. May include:
5 years of professional IT experience
5 years’ experience with at least one OS/hosting platform
5 years’ experience in performance tuning of application stacks
5 years’ experience with monitoring and performance management of systems
3-5 years’ experience with identity platform and tools
2 years’ experience with modern development and scripting languages
Experience with CICD concepts, tools, branching strategies, and leveraging knowledge to assist in delivering an infrastructure as a product
Excellent troubleshooting skills within area of expertise, and solid troubleshooting in adjacent domains
Solid understanding of traditional or cloud computing technologies including Networking, Compute, Storage, Development, Data, Operations, or Security
Experience with multiple delivery methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
Skills You Have
Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Infrastructure Development: Applies the knowledge of endpoint management and infrastructure platforms to analyze, design, implement, secure, and maintain hardware, network, and data storage platforms while ensuring that the infrastructure platforms align with the strategic direction of the organization. Designs, maintains, upgrades, and manages data centers and other operational components to support development operations efforts. Understands impacts on software development from Hardware design review.
Learning Agility & Critical Thinking: Pursues learning and obtains knowledge continuously in relevant fields, methods, or technologies in current and future practices; continuously utilizes critical thinking to identify opportunities, execute solutions, and measure impact to constantly improve existing practices and processes based on feedback, lessons learned, and market trends.
Monitor System Health: Applies the knowledge of various tools and techniques to monitor the performance of computer systems, networks, applications, and other infrastructure components to identify and diagnose problems, optimize performance, and ensure that the systems meet the established performance standards. Analyzes performance data, identifies trends, establishes performance baselines, sets up alerts and notifications, conducts periodic performance testing, and recommends solutions to improve system performance.
OS Level Knowledge: Leverages the fundamental concepts, principles, and components of an operating system to interact with and manage different operating systems, including installation, configuration, and maintenance. Demonstrates knowledge of how an operating system manages hardware resources, such as memory, processors, and storage, and how software interacts with these resources to design, develop, and maintain software that operates effectively on different platforms and provides the best possible user experience.
Technical Problem Solving: Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope, applies best practice based on experience and expertise, explores the “art of possible”. Solves problems effectively and gains alignment on the path forward. Defines, understands, and documents what is being solved for.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$108,160.00Pay Range - End:
$162,240.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$118,960.00 USD - $178,440.00 USDStructure 115:
$124,400.00 USD - $186,600.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Enterprise Architecture (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Cloud Infrastructure (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Automation Strategy & Implementation (NM) - Advanced, Infrastructure Development (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Industry Standard Frameworks (NM) - Advanced, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Advanced, SaaS (Software as a Service) (NM) - Intermediate, OS Level Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Business Influence (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Project Methodologies (NM) - Intermediate, Monitor System Health (NM) - Advanced, Accountability (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Programming Languages (NM) - Advanced, Container Orchestration (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
This is a hybrid position onsite are our corporate office in downtown Milwaukee. M, T, W are required onsite days.
About the Job:
The Product Designer delivers impactful, innovative, user-centered design solutions employing an iterative, evidence based design-process.
What You'll Do:
Analyze complex features and flows, balance user needs and business needs, and find solutions that make the complex feel simple.
Lead the creation thoughtful journey maps, user flows, site-maps, wireframes, and prototypes.
Follow an an iterative, evidence based design process, prototype, define experiments, and validate design ideas.
Produce work that follows UX best practices, internal guidelines, and also brings fresh ideas to the table.
Understand how to leverage qualitative and quantitative research insights to inform design decisions, and how to design an MVP with a longer term vision in mind.
Collaborate with other designers, product , and engineering partners, to deliver impactful work to users.
Juggle multiple projects with varied, scope, complexity, and timelines simultaneously
What You'll Bring to the Role:
A track record of delivering impactful design solutions and a history of successful collaboration with product and engineering partners in an agile product delivery organization.
A self-starter who is user-focused, detailed, and solutions-oriented
Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of user-centered design, visual design, brand development, and how products are put together.
Curiosity to understand the user
*Effective communicator of the user's perspective throughout the design process.
An understanding that UX is more than just UI, but includes all user-centered design activities from research, concepting, flows, sitemaps wireframes, prototypes, annotations, and more.
Working knowledge of Figma and other design and prototyping tools to get the job done.
An effective online portfolio available for viewing.
Skills You Have:
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Information Architecture: Organizes, labels, and structures content on a user interface in an effective and sustainable way.
Strategic Thinking: Uses critical thinking and knowledge of business demand to plan, design, prioritize and execute high impact initiatives and programs.
Teamwork: Engages in others' behaviors to generate strong team cohesion and orientation. Facilitates open dialogue within and across teams to create trust and understanding. Shares collective successes and opportunities to improve as a group.
User Analysis: Uses a variety of investigative methods to discover an end-user's needs, opinions, motivations, and behaviors in order to convert user insights into actual hypothesis to test and experiment on.
User-Centered Design Process: Designs products, services, and experiences that are tailored to the needs, preferences, and behaviors of the end-user.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$98,320.00Pay Range - End:
$147,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
User-Centered Design Process (NM) - Beginner, Usability Heuristics (NM) - Intermediate, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Product Design (NM) - Intermediate, User Interface Design (NM) - Intermediate, Inclusive Design (NM) - Beginner, Information Architecture (NM) - Beginner, User Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Beginner, Teamwork (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Beginner, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Beginner, Governance (NM) - Beginner, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Beginner, Creating Mockups (NM) - Beginner, Coaching & Mentoring (NM) - Beginner
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Field Claim Consultants are remote employees who conduct video, telephone, and in-person interviews (requiring travel), to evaluate and analyze the most complex contestable and non-contestable, Disability Income, Life, Long Term Care and Life Waiver of Premium claims. Interprets, analyzes, and identifies pertinent facts in accordance with policy provisions, state regulations and claims procedures and standards to assist with claim evaluation. Where necessary, consults with the Directors, Assistant Directors of Claims Division, Field Claims Consultant (FCC) Manager or the referring Analysts, Specialists or Consultants to ensure appropriate and timely handling of the claim.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Acts as a consultant for the DI Claims Department which involves conducting video, telephone and in-person interviews, requiring travel to the insured’s requested location.
Acts as a consultant to investigate contestable death claims for Life Benefits, which includes conducting phone and in-person interviews with Next of Kin, policyowner, beneficiaries etc.
Acts as a consultant for the DI Claims Department assisting with settling and negotiating Overpayments of benefits and conducting interview when needed.
Handle NM Group Claims, LTC, Compliance, Law and other areas of the company, as requested.
Acts in an investigative capacity leveraging a specialized skillset to assist the SIU with investigations including suspected fraud, diminished capacity, elder abuse, welfare checks and locating missing sources.
Settlement authority up to $250,000 and can meet in-person with policyowners, insured’s or their legal representatives to negotiate and resolve claims.
Provide detailed written reports on all interviews conducted, that must be clear, accurate, and concise.
Preparing and attaching accurate file documentation on claims related to referrals.
Protection and secure handling of sensitive claim/policy and client information.
Ability to effectively utilize various claims systems and tools, as part of core work responsibilities. Leverages systems knowledge and software such as (Zoom/ Dragon Naturally Speaking/ LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc.).
Acts as a leader, coach, and mentor to collaborate with colleagues to assist in enhancing claims knowledge and field handling opportunities.
Participate in project work to create efficiencies within the FCC Team to include system and application updates, MK Updates, and other opportunities the team identifies or as requested by Senior Leadership/Management.
Develop presentations for new analysts on identifying potential claim issues and FCC function. Research and create micro learnings for the Claims Division and deliver presentation for the Annual FCC Summit, Small Team Meetings and Benefits Briefings.
Continuous education by team members of enhancements of digital systems, contracts, new policy procedures, financial/tax updates.
Responsible for training new hires as needed. Such training will include interpretation and application of contracts, claim’s philosophy, including virtual and in-person interview techniques, use and applications of company computers, claims systems, and database knowledge.
Responsible for promoting NM’s brand and image as the face of the company during interactions with policyholders.
The FCC is responsible for:
Effective claim handling and evaluation of contestable and non-contestable, Disability Income, Life and Accidental Death Benefit, Life Waiver of Premium, Long-Term Care, claims through thorough and timely contact with Policyowners, Insureds, Physicians, business partners, and other parties.
Skillful collaboration with colleagues across all levels in diverse claims scenarios, including pending, active, terminated, appeals, overpayments, suspected fraud, Carpe Data, CDC’s, diminished capacity, and financial abuse.
Assist the Law Department and outside counsel when litigating cases through gathering and preparing necessary information and participating in depositions.
Assist Market Conduct with field investigations when circumstances require FCC involvement.
Preservation of NM's image and reputation in the obtaining of the necessary facts so as to permit approval, denial, or compromise of claims consistent with NM's claim philosophy, despite difficult and delicate circumstances.
Participate in the training and performance evaluation of new FCCs. Act as mentor to FCC(s) and other business line customers.
Act as a resource to the FCC staff on use of the laptop computer and other equipment assigned to them.
Preparation of timely and thorough written reports of activities performed to assist analysts and managers in administration of the claim or insurance matters.
Effective resolution of claims through skillful negotiation with policyowners, Insureds or their legal representatives by being sensitive to the rights of the other party, by protecting the Company and its policyholders from overpaying fraudulent or non-compensable claims.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Minimum of 5 years of complex disability or life claims handling experience demonstrating analytical ability, independent decision making and sound judgment, or equivalent analytical experience. Investigative background is desired.
Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to handle complex interpersonal situations.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, utilizing time management skills to set priorities and complete assignments in a timely manner.
Adapt quickly and remain agile in response to ongoing changes in digital systems, contracts, financial updates, and tax regulations.
Proficiency with laptop computers and utilizing software such as MS Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, Zoom, Slack, Dragon, and other technologies.
Proficiency in conducting research utilizing the internet.
Ability to travel by air, rail or vehicle and work nights/weekends when required.
Ability to coordinate and manage travel logistics and expense management related to in-person interviews or other company required activities.
Completion of industry courses as required by company.
Demonstrate a high level of integrity.
Excellent personal financial management and credit history.
Satisfactory driving record required for travel. Proof of auto insurance is required.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$89,440.00 USD - $134,160.00 USDStructure 115:
$93,440.00 USD - $140,160.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Dispute Resolution (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Problem Management (NM) - Intermediate, Escalation Management (NM) - Advanced, Financial Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Medical Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Contract Management (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Information Gathering (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Disability Insurance Claims Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Operations (NM) - Advanced, Interview Expertise (NM) - Advanced, Data Application (NM) - Advanced, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Decision Making (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Join the General Trading team within Northwestern Mutual's Investment Client Services division as a Senior Trading Specialist. In this hybrid role based in Franklin, WI, you'll advise clients and Financial Representatives on securities transactions across equities, fixed income, and options, while ensuring every trade is executed accurately and in full compliance.
This is a hands-on trading desk role where your market knowledge, client instincts, and attention to detail directly impact the investment experience for NM clients. If you bring experience with alternative investments, that's a strong plus for this team. You'll join a collaborative desk at a Fortune 100 company with 165+ years of financial strength, clear career paths, and experienced leadership.
Advisory & Trade Execution
Serve as a trusted resource for Financial Representatives and their clients on the purchase and sale of equities, fixed income, and options.
Assess client financial needs, risk tolerance, and suitability by combining your market expertise with client profiles and portfolio analysis to recommend appropriate investments.
Execute equity, fixed income, and options transactions on behalf of Financial Representatives, ensuring accuracy and full regulatory compliance.
Build credibility and develop lasting client relationships through ongoing assessment of financial needs and timely investment recommendations.
Market Intelligence
Stay current on securities market developments, using fundamental and technical research to support sound, timely investment decisions on behalf of Northwestern Mutual clients.
Educate clients on appropriate investment strategies based on market trends and individual financial profiles.
Compliance & Standards
Maintain full compliance with FINRA, SEC, and MSRB regulations.
Adhere to all internal trading policies, procedures, and standards.
Must-Haves
Bachelor's degree in business or a related field
3–5 years of experience in a retail brokerage sales or trading capacity
Strong knowledge of FINRA and federal/state securities laws and regulations
FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 licenses (active)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong attention to detail
Preferred
Alternative investment experience (highly valued for this team)
Portfolio analysis experience
Interest in client education and relationship building
Fortune 100 company with 165+ years of financial strength
Collaborative trading desk environment with experienced leadership at the manager and director level
Clear career paths within Investment Client Services
Comprehensive benefits, competitive compensation, and investment in your professional development
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$65,440.00Pay Range - End:
$98,160.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Intermediate, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Services Industry Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Audits (NM) - Intermediate, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Statutes & Regulation (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Organization (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Intermediate, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Securities (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Field Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Management Systems (NM) - Advanced, Tax Awareness (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Products (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Assistant Director, Experience Insights & Analytics plays a critical role in helping Northwestern Mutual make informed, evidence-based decisions that improve client and field experiences and support business performance. This role sits within the Client & Field Experience team and serves as a trusted insights partner to Strategy, Enterprise Insights & Research, Experience Design, and senior business leaders.
In this role, you will structure and analyze complex business and experience questions by integrating external trends, internal Voice of Client and Voice of Field insights, business performance, and experience performance data. You will translate quantitative and qualitative inputs into clear, decision-ready insights that inform client growth & segmentation, strategic priorities, experience improvement, and enterprise investment decisions.
The ideal candidate combines analytical rigor with strong business judgment, strategic thinking, and executive storytelling. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, synthesizing across diverse data sources, and moving beyond reporting to identify implications, opportunities, and recommended actions. Experience in financial services, customer or advisor insights, business analytics, or experience measurement is a plus.
What You'll Do
Lead structured analysis across external trends, internal insight sources, business performance, and experience performance to inform strategic decisions across client and field experiences
Frame and solve ambiguous business and experience questions by applying analytical thinking, structured problem solving, and clear interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data
Partner with analytics and technical teams to source and structure data, enable scalable reporting and analysis, and build integrated views of client and experience performance
Synthesize Voice of Client, Voice of Field, and other qualitative and quantitative insights to understand needs, expectations, pain points, and emerging opportunities across segments and life stages
Analyze consumer trends, competitive dynamics, and business performance to identify opportunities that improve growth, engagement, retention, satisfaction, and other priority business outcomes
Define, track, and interpret key experience metrics and benchmarks across client and field journeys to monitor end-to-end experience performance, identify gaps, and inform improvement priorities
Diagnose root causes of experience gaps by connecting feedback, experience metrics, behavioral insights, and operational and business drivers
Integrate and layer data across market trends, client and field feedback, business data, and external benchmarks into clear, actionable insights and decision-ready narratives
Partner closely with Strategy, Insights, Experience Design, Analytics, Business Intelligence, and business teams to inform strategy development, prioritization, and execution
Develop scalable reporting, dashboards, and executive-ready presentations that highlight trends, drivers, opportunities, and recommended actions for senior leadership
What You'll Bring
5–8 years of progressive experience in insights, analytics, business intelligence, or related roles
Bachelor’s degree or higher
Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and BI or data visualization tools to support reporting, dashboarding, and insight generation; experience with SQL or other data querying tools is a plus
Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, with strong executive communication and storytelling capabilities
Ability and willingness to self-manage workstreams, drive outcomes with limited direction, operate effectively in ambiguity, and thrive in a fast-paced environment with tight timelines
Able to operate strategically and tactically, with strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual thinking skills
Proven ability to build trust and influence across cross-functional partners through strong business acumen, collaboration, and sound judgment
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in financial services, insurance, or advisor‑led business models
Familiarity with Voice of Client or Voice of Field programs, journey analytics, or experience measurement frameworks
Demonstrated experience partnering with strategy, analytics, and experience teams and supporting leadership decision-making through performance reporting and insight synthesis
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USDStructure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Assist the Vice Presidents of Distribution Performance, and their Regional Oversight and Engagement teams in the ongoing support and delivery of Compliance and Supervision consultation to Field Leadership, Financial Representatives, and Home Office business partners. Provide consultative support on anything from appropriate sales practices to implementation of policies and procedures. In addition, you will provide support for various divisional, departmental and enterprise-wide projects as subject matter expert. Educate and train Representatives and their staff while performing branch inspections while striving to improve divisional work processes. Collaborate with field leadership in developing, implementing, and executing risk management plans for their local offices.
What You'll Do
Complete on-site inspections and annual reviews of books and records of Offices of Supervisory Jurisdiction, Registered Branch Offices and other field locations as required by FINRA.
Conduct interviews and client file reviews with representatives in field offices in accordance with firm policy and industry regulations.
Reviews and inspections consist of the following: Consult with Regional Oversight and Engagement team to assist with the creation and implementation Network Office specific solutions to material and ongoing compliance issues; and ability to document, draft, and follow-up with detailed reports regarding field offices and individual registered representative visits; and document observations and findings of sales practices through interviews with field management and registered representatives.
Effectively communicate, educate, train, and consult to registered representatives, field management, field supervisors and home office personnel regarding federal and state securities/insurance regulations and Northwestern Mutual compliance policies and procedures.
Partner with Network Office Supervision teams, the Regional Oversight and Engagement teams and home office Distribution Performance teams to assist with the assessment and improvement of current compliance and supervision processes.
Provide support for various divisional, departmental and enterprise wide projects as subject matter expert. This requires collaboration and communication with various levels of internal and external associates, review of relevant documentation and interpretation and application of industry regulations/state statutes to create efficiencies, mitigate firm risk, and comply with industry regulations.
Execute on certain oversight and supporting tasks designed to provide additional insight into Network Offices' business activities.
Maintain a strong knowledge of: regulations, industry standards, company policies/practices, NM distribution systems, products, and culture in order to make independent decisions; consult with appropriate team resources as needed, and drive highly effective communication.
What You'll Bring to the Role
Bachelor's Degree Preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
FINRA Series 7 & 24 required.
Minimum of 4 year of relevant experience. Experience in insurance, investment, or financial services industry preferred.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office with strong emphasis on Excel proficiency.
Ability to prioritize workload and seek support when appropriate, as well as work within a larger team.
Proven success in establishing effective team relationships.
Ability to solve problems by analyzing all possible solutions using technical experience, judgement, and precedent.
Ability to explain difficult or sensitive information.
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Candidates must successfully complete and pass any required testing.Series 24 - FINRAFINRA, Series 7 - FINRAFINRA, SIE - FINRAFINRACompensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$70,320.00Pay Range - End:
$105,480.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$77,360.00 USD - $116,040.00 USDStructure 115:
$80,880.00 USD - $121,320.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Project Management (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Advanced, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Risk Assessment & Identification (NM) - Advanced, Decision Making (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Compliance Metrics, Monitoring & Reporting (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Join the General Trading team within Northwestern Mutual's Investment Client Services division, where you'll serve as a trusted advisor to clients and Financial Representatives on securities transactions across equities, fixed income, and options. This hybrid role puts you at the center of NM's brokerage trading operations, executing complex trades, mentoring teammates, and staying ahead of market trends.
If you bring strong fixed income trading experience and a passion for guiding clients through sophisticated investment strategies, this is your opportunity to make an impact at a Fortune 100 company with a 165+ year legacy. You'll work alongside experienced professionals on a collaborative trading desk that values market knowledge, compliance excellence, and client relationships.
Advisory & Trade Execution
Serve as a go-to resource for Financial Representatives and their clients on the purchase and sale of securities across equities, fixed income, and options.
Assess client financial needs, risk tolerance, and suitability, combining your market expertise with client profiles to recommend appropriate investments.
Guide the team and Financial Representatives through complex trading scenarios, including bond ladders, options strategies, executive option exercises, and restricted stock transactions.
Build credibility and develop lasting client relationships through ongoing assessment of financial needs and timely investment recommendations.
Account Management & Coordination
Manage the transition and ongoing servicing of advisory and retirement accounts when a local advisor is no longer available, including annual reviews, investment guidance, suitability determinations, and administrative coordination.
Partner with other ICS departments to facilitate administrative changes, disbursement requests, and account reassignments.
Mentoring & Leadership
Mentor and train Securities Specialists and new Trading Services team members on trade execution, systems, and best practices.
Evaluate and resolve complex issues escalated by team members, serving as a credible technical resource across the department.
Present material to large, diverse groups on complex trading strategies (bond ladders, covered call writing, etc.) and the overall operations of the trading desk.
Projects & Compliance
Contribute to trading desk projects, including policy development, process improvements, and creating educational communications for the field.
Serve as a backup to the Assistant Director for trade corrections, outgoing securities correspondence, daily workflow preparation, and customer complaint resolution.
Maintain full compliance with FINRA, SEC, and MSRB regulations, as well as all internal policies, procedures, and standards.
Stay current on securities market developments, using fundamental and technical research to support sound, timely investment decisions on behalf of clients.
Must-Haves
Bachelor's degree in business or a related field
5+ years of experience in a retail brokerage sales or trading capacity
Strong knowledge of FINRA and federal/state securities laws and regulations
FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 licenses (active)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
Strong attention to detail and ability to manage complex, multi-step processes
Preferred
Fixed income trading experience (highly valued for this team)
Project management experience or demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives
Interest in process improvement, workflow optimization, and mentoring others
Licensing We'll Support You In Obtaining
Series 65 (or IAR registration in Wisconsin) within your first 3 months
One or more of Series 4, 24, or 53 within your first 6 months
Study resources and exam support provided
Fortune 100 company with 165+ years of financial strength
Collaborative trading desk environment with experienced leadership at the manager and director level
Clear career paths within Investment Client Services
Comprehensive benefits, competitive compensation, and investment in your professional development
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$89,360.00Pay Range - End:
$134,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Field Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Change Adaptability (NM) - Advanced, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Services Industry Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Investment Products (NM) - Advanced, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Securities (NM) - Advanced, Process Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Compliance (NM) - Advanced, Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Audits (NM) - Advanced, Organization (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Prioritization (NM) - Advanced, Customer Support (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Business Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Advanced, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Advanced, Investment Management Systems (NM) - Advanced, Statutes & Regulation (NM) - Advanced, Tax Awareness (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
As a member of the Corporate Audit Department, this position supports the operations of the company’s internal audit department including leading audits, supporting efforts that mature audit operations procedures, supporting regulatory exam requests and interviews, providing department training, and supporting the department’s reporting to various internal stakeholders and external parties, including senior management, corporate committees, Board audit committees, and external industry groups.
What You'll Do:
Technical expert in Retail Investments and Compliance, Institutional Investments, or Insurance Business Operations and serves as a resource for Internal Audit staff and business partners on risks and controls in area of expertise.
Leads audits and consultations by scanning for and assessing risks of a given area, documenting controls, developing testing plans to address the risks, executing on high risk testing, reviewing testing performed by staff, and drafting issues and reports. Also assesses risks posed by business area and assesses the frequency and depth of future audits.
Coordinate and lead integrated operational and IT audits by aligning business process objectives with supporting technology controls, partnering with IT audit specialists to assess key risks, and ensuring end‑to‑end coverage across people, process, and systems within a regulated mutual life insurance environment.
Leverage approved artificial intelligence and advanced analytics tools to enhance audit planning, risk identification, testing efficiency, and insight generation across retail investment operations, while exercising professional judgment and ensuring outputs are used responsibly, transparently, and in compliance with company policy and regulatory expectations.
Manages audits and projects to ensure budgets and timelines are established and adhered to and monitors staff assigned to project to ensure objectives are met.
Communicates the audit process, objectives, timing, and outcome to business partners, senior management and where appropriate to entity audit committees and boards.
Contributes to continuous improvement efforts, leads change management efforts, and supports new and on-going training efforts.
Provides mentoring, training, and feedback to staff in area of expertise, audit technical matters, and for personal development.
Supports the department’s executive level reporting, including developing presentation material and regular updates to the Chief Audit Executive on the status of audit issue resolution.
Demonstrates or develops an appropriate level of organizational, regulatory, and business knowledge.
Establishes and maintains strong, collaborative relationships within the department and with our business contacts.
Performs special projects in the department that arise.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Experience executing audit engagement and/or assurance reviews; knowledge of internal audit methodology, procedures & tools.
Undergraduate degree (accounting, economics, business, or other relevant)
Minimum of eight years of experience in audit, compliance, data analysis, or related business operations.
Strong analytical and decision making skills. Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to lead others without direct authority, influencing a broad audience to adopt a particular strategy or direction.
Strong project management skills with the ability to lead or manage corporate wide audit projects or process improvement initiatives with a high degree of self-motivation and initiative.
Ability to negotiate and build consensus in a way that enables groups of people with diverse perspectives to accept a majority or common conclusion.
Ability to adapt to change, deal with ambiguity, and adjust (his/her) work to meet changing needs and information.
Proven ability to build rapport and exercise tact, diplomacy, and understanding of internal customers.
Experience coaching and mentoring employees or previous experience as a people manager.
Experience preparing reports for senior management, including use of PowerPoint.
Demonstrated interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
Knowledge of industry and regulatory practices within internal audit departments, financial services preferred.
CPA, CIA, CIDA, CFE preferred or willingness to obtain.
Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, PowerBI, Tableau or other data visualizations experience a plus.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$108,160.00Pay Range - End:
$162,240.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$118,960.00 USD - $178,440.00 USDStructure 115:
$124,400.00 USD - $186,600.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Data Collection & Analysis (NM) - Expert, Business Acumen (NM) - Expert, Risk Evaluation (NM) - Expert, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Project Management (NM) - Advanced, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Expert, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Data Security (NM) - Expert, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Advanced, Quality Audit Management (NM) - Advanced, Risk Consulting (NM) - Expert, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Facilitation (NM) - Advanced, Internal Controls (NM) - Expert, Documentation (NM) - Expert, Control Analysis (NM) - Expert, AI Risk Modeling (NM) - Advanced, IT Audit & Control (NM) - Advanced, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Advanced, Decision Making (NM) - Advanced, Risk Assessment & Identification (NM) - Advanced, Research Communication (NM) - Expert, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Advanced, Audits (NM) - Expert
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The VP – Enterprise Compliance Technology Solutions leads the development and execution of a multi-year technology strategy for the Enterprise Compliance function, leveraging advancements in AI and machine learning to enhance efficiency and proactive risk management.
The individual in this role provides expertise on how emerging technologies can impact regulatory compliance and represents the department in industry groups focused on compliance and technology. This includes overseeing the Compliance Systems Management (CSM) division, which is responsible for the strategy and effectiveness of compliance surveillance systems, data analytics programs, and regulatory monitoring processes. Ensuring data governance and the strategic application of analytics to enhance decision-making and risk management are also key responsibilities.
In addition, the role oversees the Technology Governance & Regulatory (TGR) team, which is responsible for providing expert consulting on compliant use of technology for all enterprise stakeholders in field and home office, maintaining the electronic communications and social media compliance programs, and has accountability for the governance, risk and compliance technology capabilities for the compliance programs.
Job Responsibilities/Skills for the Role:
Develops and leads the Enterprise Compliance Department’s strategic technology strategy, aligning department initiatives and the technology portfolio with enterprise strategy, initiatives, and business goals. Maintains strong relationships with business, risk, technology, and data partners, leads assigned divisions and teams, and fosters a culture of compliance through strategy, operations, and enterprise partnership.
Drives the integration of advanced technologies—including AI, machine learning, and workflow automation—into compliance operations to improve efficiency, agility, and proactive risk management. Provides expert guidance on the regulatory impact of emerging technologies, represents Compliance in industry groups, and translates technology and regulatory trends into actionable guidance.
Owns the design, development, and effectiveness of the enterprise’s compliance surveillance systems and data analytics programs, and directs monitoring, surveillance, and analytics strategy to ensure subject matter experts retain technical/product knowledge, prioritize enhancements, and measure value. Collaborates with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to implement the technology portfolio strategy and determine regulatory monitoring requirements across the life insurance company and regulated subsidiaries.
Develops and owns the department’s data analytics and Data Governance strategies, ensuring data quality, documentation, lineage, and controls. Identifies analytics-driven insights to advance company strategy, proactively manage risk, and increase consistency and data quality across Compliance, while building the team’s analytics expertise and digital fluency.
Leads interdepartmental initiatives to address sales practices, monitoring needs and delivers monitoring processes to support home office supervision and field management. Develops the compliance testing strategy and operating plan for transaction surveillance systems, leads testing teams, operationalizes proof‑of‑concepts into ongoing testing, and applies outcomes to enhance architecture, rules, and data sourcing.
Leads the Technology Governance & Regulatory (TGR) team and the Compliance by Design (CbD) process to integrate compliance requirements into Authorization to Operate (ATO) protocols. Advises on technology investments and third‑party vendor reviews, oversees e‑communications, social media, and books & records compliance, and owns GRC technology capabilities while collaborating to mature enterprise GRC instances and integrations.
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree (preferably with emphasis in broker dealer compliance) or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years of progressive compliance, supervision, technology or distribution leadership
Apply exceptional technical and analytical capabilities to use data and metrics for decision-making and builds multiyear technology roadmaps and successful partnerships with technology vendors.
Demonstrate strong organizational leadership and the ability to cultivate relationships and influence at all levels.
Experience in the investment, variable insurance, securities, or wealth management industry, including work with a national retail sales organization. (Preferred)
Possess thorough knowledge of federal and state securities and insurance regulations and regulatory expectations for broker dealers and advisory practices, and demonstrates strong strategic thinking, risk management, and decision-making skills. (Preferred)
Communicate complex compliance matters clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences, leads complex compliance programs and teams, and cultivates strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
Series 7 and 24 licenses (Preferred)
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$196,000.00Pay Range - End:
$294,000.00This role is eligible for additional short-term and long-term incentive compensation.
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
We're strong and growing. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We're strong, innovative and growing.
We invest in our people. We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career and in turn, our business.
We care. We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefitted from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they're passionate about.
About the Role
As a Prep Cook, you will work as part of a team preparing a variety of salads, hot vegetables, condiments, and related menu items, assisting with food prep needs for cafeteria and catering services. You will: observe the safest possible food handling practices by thoroughly washing all produce, properly thawing meats, sanitizing work surfaces, thorough hand washing, and adherence to all other hygiene requirements when handling ready-to-eat foods; support the menu management process, including assistance with ordering and inventory processes. You are an effective communicator, comfortable responding to customer questions or concerns in an expedient and appropriate manner. Flexibility is important in this role, as work location, tasks, and/or assignments vary routinely in response to changes in business need, customer demand, staffing changes, etc. At all times, quality, efficiency, and customer service are your highest priorities.
What You'll Do
Responsible for preparing a variety of salads, condiments or other related menu items for cafeteria and catering services which will include, but not limited to, salads, condiments, fruit plates, vegetables plates, sliced meats and sandwiches, and preparation of raw ingredients used for cooking.
Reviews recipes, anticipates proper organization of work to assure efficiency and food safety, makes recommendations to adjust recipes as needed to improve product.
Translates weights, measures and volume as the need arises in execution of recipes to assure consistency based on volume and other variables.
Assists chefs in food preparation as needed, which may include some hot food preparation.
Weighs, measures, cuts, slices and safely uses variety of equipment.
Assures the safest possible food handling practices by thoroughly washing all produce, properly thawing meats, sanitizing work surfaces, thorough hand washing and adheres to all other requirements when handling ready-to-eat foods. Responsible for maintaining accurate and complete labeling and date marking of products to assure freshness.
Maintains time and temperature records to minimize exposure of food to unsafe temperatures and minimize the risk of bacteria growth.
Operates and cleans equipment following safety guidelines including use of PPE's.
Supports the menu management process that includes: following recipes, provides feedback for recipe improvements, follows the ordering process as defined, assures accurate portions, monitors adequate records including HACCP logs and usage reports, inventories food storage areas, and assesses leftovers.
Projects the ordering needs and quantities of all foods on the menu to provide timely preparation and efficient menu management for upcoming meals and events.
Coordinates product to be distributed for use at various points of service including other kitchen areas, salad bar, serving stations and catered events.
Routinely delivers on Restaurant Hospitality standards.
Communicates with customers and servers through routine greeting and providing information verbally regarding the menu, preparation methods and services.
Responds to any questions or concerns with the approach of immediate resolution of concerns or corrective action on matters that may be impacting the customer experience.
In compliance with Restaurant Division Professional Conduct Expectations and maintains professional communication with all.
May adjust work location tasks or assignments routinely throughout the day to adjust to changes in business need, customer demands, staffing changes or any other reasons that the incumbent may observe and take action for or directed by manager or team leader.
As part of everyday duties, assist with serving lunch.
What You'll Bring to the Role
High school diploma or equivalent and a minimum of three years of food production experience is required.
Proven knowledge of and regular compliance with safe food handling standards is required.
A proven knowledge of weights and measures and the ability to read, interpret, and translate recipes are required.
Requires a high degree of personal initiative and motivation, combined with a willingness to work as part of a team and the ability to maintain a high level of organization while working quickly and productively.
Must have the ability to perform the essential physical requirements of the job.
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Candidates must successfully complete and pass any required testing.Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$15.06Pay Range - End:
$22.60Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Mutual Fund Administration (MFA) division is responsible for fund administration related to the Northwestern Mutual Series Fund which consists of 30 portfolios. MFA is also responsible for accounting and financial reporting related to Northwestern Mutual’s variable annuity and variable life separate accounts.
What You'll Do
Reviews the preparation of the financial statements and prepares the related financial materials and disclosures.
Provides financial information to meet the needs of internal and external customers, including preparing regulatory filings for the Securities and Exchange Commission, performance calculations and marketing information.
Responsible for mutual fund compliance with the IRS, SEC and all other regulators.
Researches and engages in various projects associated with new products, new funds, new regulations, system enhancements and ad hoc requests. Serves as a lead on project efforts.
Maintains book to tax differences and prepares the excise and fiscal tax calculations for the mutual funds.
Works with internal and external contacts such as information systems, investment traders, auditors, brokers, custodians, and investment advisors to achieve compliance with US GAAP and regulatory requirements.
Provides training and individual guidance on technical knowledge of fund administration. Serves as a resource to other team members.
Oversees and evaluates the work of third-party service providers, including fund accounting and custodial services, ensuring adherence to SLAs, internal controls and regulatory requirements.
Recommends and reviews new procedures to allow for added process/control improvements.
Identifies, researches, and resolves issues related to fund accounting, fund administration, and compliance.
Supports and maintains a robust internal control environment
Reviews the work of others
What You'll Bring To The Role
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field or equivalent education plus experience required.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation preferred.
Minimum of 5 years of progressive professional experience in the investment company industry preferably in mutual fund administration or auditing registered investment companies.
Experience with highly complex security transactions.
A working knowledge of GAAP and tax accounting for investments
High degree of self-motivation.
Proven ability to meet strict deadlines.
Polished communication skills with the ability to interact and engage at multiple levels.
Ability to work well with limited guidance.
Demonstrated superior analytical and problem-solving ability.
Demonstrated ability to retrieve and utilize information from accounting system and other sources.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$89,440.00 USD - $134,160.00 USDStructure 115:
$93,440.00 USD - $140,160.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The practice management compensation consultant specializes in helping Financial Advisors design incentive plans that attract top talent ensuring alliance with SEC, FINRA and state insurance regulations. This role requires balancing the talent demands of the financial advisors with complex governance, risk mitigation, and compliance standards.
As an integral consulting partner between the Home Office, Field Supervision and Financial Advisors, you will lead challenging, complex compensation conversations and provide direct consultation and guidance to align the interests of the employing Financial Advisor and the Enterprise.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Lead consultant on compliant team compensation incentive plans leveraging best practices.
Lead and influences outcomes in situations involving elevated complexity and ambiguity.
Subject matter expert on compensation strategies
Lead and/or support the development, implementation and maintenance of policies, procedures, resources, and training to support growth of sophisticated practices and drive business results. Adhere to compliant requirements.
Work independently to review, provide feedback, and guide advisors on their team member compensation incentive plans.
Formulate recommendations and solutions while balancing competing interests and meeting expectations of Career Advisors, Field Supervision, and Home Office Compliance and Legal.
Lead alignment with internal stakeholders
Assist Network Office Supervisors in individual case circumstances.
Provide advisor perspective and challenge conventional thinking
Identify and anticipate issues and conflicts; escalate to law and enterprise stakeholders as needed to resolve issues and move teams forward on a timely basis.
Identify resource and process improvement opportunities, recommend and implement actions to address them. Drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency.
Develop content and present to Network Offices, study groups, etc. on team compensation.
Assist Design and Execution team in creating resources for the field.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
Minimum five years of progressively responsible experience in financial services or other business administration functions, to include a minimum of 2 years organizational and project management skills with ability to prioritize, lead, manage, and collaborate in multiple projects.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize consulting and project work and make the outputs visible and transparent with both the client and key internal stakeholders.
Strong leadership, decision-making and team-building skills.
Ability to prioritize workload and seek support when appropriate, as well as work within a larger team.
Strong communication skills (oral and written) with ability to make presentations and create written reports.
Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to establish rapport at all levels of the home office and third parties including consultants and potential partners.
Strong analytical and research skills with proven ability to absorb complex information and independently solve problems in a dynamic environment.
High degree of self-motivation with leadership and initiative in sharing information, contributing towards group goals and accepting responsibility for results.
Ability to influence leaders and stakeholders without direct authority, using sound reasoning and credibility.
Sound decision-making skills ability to use a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment to arrive at a conclusion or recommendation.
Proactive, consultative mindset with the ability to identify and assess any emerging risks or trends.
Individual contribution leadership behavior focus: Solve for the Client; Lead with Enterprise Vision; Play to Win.
Experience working with Northwestern Mutual Field audience
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$89,360.00Pay Range - End:
$134,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$98,320.00 USD - $147,480.00 USDStructure 115:
$102,800.00 USD - $154,200.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
End-User Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Problem Management (NM) - Intermediate, Change Management (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Field Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Field Relations (NM) - Intermediate, Project Management (NM) - Intermediate, Thought Leadership (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Solution Development (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Organization (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Provides administrative support to a Vice President who contributes to functional strategy and is typically a SLT direct report. Exercises a high level of confidentiality, tact and diplomacy to support the department/area with limited supervision. Familiar with a variety of organization concepts, practices and procedures. Ensures duties are completed accurately and delivered in a high quality and timely manner.
What You'll Do:
Performs a variety of office maintenance and administrative functions; manages schedules and business travel, maintains supplies, prepares invoices and monitors expenses/budgets, takes minutes, etc.
Identifies efficiencies in processes and procedures.
Coordinates department meetings/town halls/committee meetings and events; prepares agenda, materials, etc.
Prepares and provides information needed; prepares reports, collects and analyzes information, prepares presentations, etc.
Assists in the employee experience by coordinating employee events, team communication, and onboarding/orientation to the department.
Works on or may lead projects as requested.
May provide work direction to other administrative or temporary staff.
Other department specific duties as assigned.
Maintains strict confidentiality in handling materials and sensitive information.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Five or more years of administrative assistant experience.
Associates degree or specialized training or equivalent experience; college degree preferred.
Proficient in MS Office at advanced levels.
High degree of organization and planning skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to apply good judgment in making independent decisions and coordinating information.
Ability to handle and manage multiple priorities and adapt to rapidly changing needs and priorities.
Skills You Will Have:
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Customer Service Mindset: Anticipates customer needs and applies understanding of customer needs or perspectives to solve problems and drive outcomes as the basis for decision making. Leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions.
Emotional Intelligence: Includes self-awareness and self-management, empathy towards stakeholders (internal and external) via active listening. Builds trusting relationships and establishes credibility with peers, mangers and stakeholders to influence optimal outcomes for employees and clients.
Organizational & Political Savvy: Marshalls resources effectively and efficiently to orchestrate multiple activities; navigates internal and external politics adeptly to recognize and leverage organizational realities for efficient problem-solving.
Organizational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workloads effectively, consistently meeting service level agreements under tight deadlines, competing initiatives and multiple stakeholders.
Teamwork: Engages in others' behaviors to generate strong team cohesion and orientation. Facilitates open dialogue within and across teams to create trust and understanding. Shares collective successes and opportunities to improve as a group.
Technical & Digital Acumen: Leverages knowledge and approaches of digital products and technologies to solve problems, complete tasks and accomplish goals. Demonstrates effective adaptability to new and emerging technologies.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$31.46Pay Range - End:
$47.19Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$34.62 USD - $51.92 USDStructure 115:
$36.19 USD - $54.29 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Administrative Service Delivery (NM) - Expert, Teamwork (NM) - Advanced, Documentation (NM) - Expert, Business Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Expert, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Expert, Organizational Excellence (NM) - Expert, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Expert, Attention to Detail (NM) - Expert, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Expert, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Expert
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Enterprise Compliance Differentiated Solutions Consultant is an individual contributor role responsible for supporting compliance strategies and practical business solutions for complex field practices. This role partners across Enterprise Compliance, supervision, and field stakeholders to analyze issues, support solution development, and promote consistent execution. The position contributes to effective collaboration through issue resolution support, information sharing, and participation in strategic compliance initiatives.
Provide consultation and support on complex compliance and supervision topics, including researching issues, coordinating questions, and supporting timely resolution.
Gather, organize, and communicate information needed to support a consistent cross-network office experience, including workflow improvements related to cross-territory challenges.
Support the development and continuous improvement of compliance approaches by contributing insights related to business strategy, team dynamics, client focus, and operational effectiveness.
Facilitate communication across compliance teams, business partners, and field stakeholders to support alignment on compliance priorities and risk considerations.
Support the design and delivery of targeted training and guidance in response to data trends, industry changes, and evolving risks.
Support core compliance initiatives, including annual training and attestation monitoring, contracting workflow processes, staff compensation processes, and transaction reviews.
Contribute to process, policy, and operational improvements through close partnership with field and business stakeholders.
3+ years of experience in financial services compliance, supervision, risk management, or a related field.
Working knowledge of compliance regulations, supervision practices, and risk management processes.
Understanding field structure, business operations, and stakeholder roles.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify practical solutions to complex issues.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across functions.
Ability to support compliance initiatives aligned with broader business objectives.
Experience supporting training, guidance, or process documentation preferred.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 are required.
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This position has been classified as a Registered Representative under NMIS guidelines and requires fingerprinting.Series 24 - FINRA, Series 7 - FINRACompensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$89,440.00 USD - $134,160.00 USDStructure 115:
$93,440.00 USD - $140,160.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
This role is part of the centralized IAM Operations team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable identity and access management services across the enterprise. The team focuses on operational excellence, automation, service optimization, and rapid problem resolution to support IAM platforms, integrations, and end-user access needs.
The role combines hands-on operational support, engineering mindset, and process improvement, ensuring IAM services are secure, efficient, and continuously improving. This includes proactive monitoring, automation development, incident and request management, and collaboration with engineering, security, and business teams.
What You'll Do:
Core Operations
Provide centralized tier 2/3 operational support for IAM platforms (e.g., identity governance, authentication, directory services, PAM)
Handle incidents, service requests, and escalations in accordance with SLA/OLA commitments
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive resolution of recurring issues
Automation & Tooling
Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts and workflows to reduce manual effort
Improve operational efficiency through scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python) and orchestration tools
Identify repetitive tasks and implement automation or self-service solutions
Contribute to DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, Terraform code)
Continuous Improvement
Identify process inefficiencies and implement improvements
Maintain and enhance operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles
Partner with IAM engineering to transition new capabilities into operations (run/support model)
Drive standardization across IAM workflows and support processes
Security & Compliance
Ensure IAM operations comply with security policies, audit requirements, and regulatory standards
Support audit requests, access reviews, and evidence collection
Assist in remediation of audit findings related to IAM controls
Collaboration & Stakeholder Support
Provide guidance and support to application teams integrating with IAM services
Participate in incident bridges and cross-functional troubleshooting efforts
Metrics & Reporting
Track and report on operational KPIs (incident volume, MTTR, automation adoption, etc.)
Use data to identify trends and drive improvements
What You'll Bring:
Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information systems or equivalent work experience in the IT field, with at least a portion of that time in Security related position
4-5 years of professional experience required
Expertise in one of the following domains: Directory Services (SSO/Federation, Active Directory, Azure), Identity Governance & Administration (Sailpoint IIQ, Access Certifications), Privileged Access, Client Identity and Access Management, Cloud IAM
General experience in the following domains: Directory Services (SSO/Federation, Active Directory, Azure), Identity Governance & Administration (Sailpoint IIQ, Access Certifications), Privileged Access, Client Identity and Access Management, Cloud IAM
Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or similar certifications are highly desirable
Experience with engineering best practices to include analyzing, designing, developing, and deploying and supporting software solutions and/or infrastructure implementations/upgrades.
Leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with individuals at all levels of the organization.
Proven experience in designing and implementing IAM solutions, including integration with various systems and platforms.
Competency with one or more scripting/programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Go, PowerShell, Bash, C#, C/C++, etc.
Strong ability to align and mature to security practices.
Strong ability to explain technical solutions to technical teams and non-technical teams.
Strong documentation, testing and automation skills.
Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements.
Strong ability to align technical needs to business processes.
Strong ability to prioritize work based on business objectives.
Strong ability to breakdown work to deliver value incrementally.
Experience preferred with Agile methodologies/DevOps environment.
Skills You Have:
Business Automation - Applies knowledge and utilizes systems that facilitate or automate one or more business application solutions, including linking rules to workflow management and requirements acquisition.
Continuous Improvement - Utilizes available methods to identify opportunities, executes solutions and measures impact to improve existing practices and processes. Implements feedback and lessons learned. Leverages the ability to identify and experiment assumptions and hypothesis for products to be able to refine and improve them at any stage of the life cycle.
Identity & Access Management Industry Standards - Utilizes IAM industry standards, reference architectures and patterns. Demonstrates and applies AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) identity management protocols and access management infrastructure.
Identity Protocols - Utilizes identity protocols such as, SAML, OAuth, OpenID, LDAP, and Kerberos to provide strong authentication for network resources, including devices, applications and databases.
Security Practices - Undertakes best practices of technologies, policies, and processes designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access.
Technical Problem Solving - Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope, applies best practice based on experience and expertise, explores the “art of possible”. Solves problems effectively and gains alignment on the path forward. Defines, understands, and documents what is being solved for.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USDStructure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Compliance (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Security Practices (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Cloud Deployment Models (NM) - Advanced, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Business Automation (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Advanced, Identity Protocols (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Identity & Access Management Industry Standards (NM) - Advanced, DevSecOps (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Access Management Tools & Technologies (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
This role serves as a finance enablement leader, responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving financial processes, tools, and operating rhythms that elevate Business Finance’s ability to consult, advise, and influence business partners. By strengthening planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support capabilities, this role enables Business Finance teams to deliver clearer insights, more forward-looking guidance, and stronger strategic partnership across the enterprise.
The role is highly visible and partners closely with executives, business leaders, and finance leadership. Success requires strong process leadership, deep FP&A expertise, and the ability to influence senior leaders to adopt more standardized, scalable, and insight‑driven ways of working.
What You'll Do:
Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Business Finance planning, forecasting, and reporting processes to enable more consistent, efficient, and consultative support for business partners.
Champion adoption of new processes and tools, leading change management efforts that ensure Business Finance teams are equipped, trained, and engaged in new ways of working.
Support the standardization and continuous improvement of FP&A processes, including forecasting, close cadence, reporting, and investment prioritization, to improve transparency, efficiency, and comparability across the enterprise.
Establish and scale standardized finance processes, tools, and operating rhythms to improve efficiency, consistency, and insight quality.
Partner closely with internal technology partners and external vendors to translate FP&A requirements into scalable tools, reports, and workflows that enhance planning, analysis, and reporting capabilities.
Participate in cross‑functional initiatives related to financial systems, data, and reporting, providing FP&A subject matter expertise and ensuring alignment with finance and business needs.
Applies a deep understanding of the Department/Function’s strategic initiatives, including participation in business case development and leveraging financial expertise to develop innovative solutions to broad, complex issues.
Leverages expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting to track performance and influence decisions aligned with company financial and strategic targets.
Applies broad industry and enterprise knowledge to drive financial performance, anticipating and identifying issues that may impact enterprise-wide results.
Drives accountability by setting, monitoring and reporting targets/outcomes related to key performance indicators, which may include revenue, expense, or other metrics aligned with the company’s financial and strategic goals.
Lead strategic modeling, scenario planning, and performs analysis to support data-driven decisions, and brings new approaches or techniques to solve problems that have a broad impact on the business.
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing finance enablement team, setting clear priorities and expectations, building required capabilities, and driving accountability to deliver enterprise FP&A process, tools, and reporting outcomes.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or other business required
Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in positions with increasing financial management responsibilities
Exceptional people leadership capabilities to create an engaging work environment
Intellectual agility, analytical and problem-solving abilities and well-developed presentation skills.
Ability to develop rapport and maintain effective relationships throughout the Company and influence decision making without authority
Strong business acumen with an ability to understand and synthesize company-wide results.
Demonstrated ability to overcome obstacles and lead through change.
Skills You Will Have:
Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Business Automation: Applies knowledge and utilizes systems that facilitate or automate one or more business application solutions, including linking rules to workflow management and requirements acquisition.
Consulting: Connects with stakeholders to understand and gain specific information to help resolve customer problems in a given domain. Communicates effectively intent to customers, solicits customer requirements, utilizes domain knowledge and collaborates with the right stakeholders.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Financial Forecasting: Predicts and estimates future financial outcomes based on historical data, current trends, and informed assumptions. Utilizes various forecasting methods and techniques to select the most appropriate approach for different scenarios.
Process Mindset: Demonstrates ability to define processes to organize people, activities, and milestones. Understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work-flow; creates metrics to measure success. Identifies opportunities for synergy and integration where others can't. Simplifies complex processes and produces more out of fewer resources.#LI-HYBRID
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$144,000.00Pay Range - End:
$216,000.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$158,400.00 USD - $237,600.00 USDStructure 115:
$165,600.00 USD - $248,400.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Expense Reporting Management (NM) - Expert, Business Acumen (NM) - Expert, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Expert, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Expert, Financial Forecasting (NM) - Expert, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Expert, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Acumen (NM) - Expert, Business Automation (NM) - Advanced, Resource Management (NM) - Expert, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Accountability (NM) - Advanced, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Intermediate, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Expert, Process Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Process Mindset (NM) - Advanced, Financial Analysis (NM) - Expert, Consulting (NM) - Expert
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Field domain data team build and manage data pipelines, create pipelines to collect data from multiple sources (databases, APIs, files), transform, and move data into storage systems (Data Mesh/data lakes / warehouses), Automate ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows. Design scalable data architecture, systems that can handle large-scale data reliably and efficiently. Ensure data quality, governance & security, validate and clean incoming data, apply governance policies (who can access what), maintain compliance and security controls.We work with other teams across organization, collaborate with Product/ business teams (to understand data needs), Data scientists (to support ML/AI use cases), DevOps / platform teams.
What You'll do- Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end data platforms and pipelines (batch and streaming) using AWS services to support analytics, reporting, ML, and operational use cases.- Define and own data architecture decisions, standards, and best practices. Produce and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), runbooks, and high-quality diagrams.- Architect and implement data lake and/or data warehouse solutions (ingestion, storage, transformation, serving) using S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, and related services.- Build and optimize ETL/ELT workflows with Spark, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster).- Design and operate streaming ingestion and processing using Kinesis, MSK, and Kafka ecosystems; collaborate on re-architecture efforts to reduce cost and improve resilience.- Drive data modeling, schema design, partitioning, and query optimization for large data sets to meet performance and cost targets.- Establish and operationalize data quality, validation, observability, lineage, and metadata practices (Glue Data Catalog, Data Hub/Amundsen or equivalent).- Implement robust security, governance, and compliance controls (IAM, Lake Formation, KMS, VPC, data masking/security scanning) and collaborate with security and privacy teams.- Champion cost optimization across the data stack (serverless architectures, right-sizing, Graviton/spot/commitment strategies) and provide continuous cost governance.- Own production reliability: monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvements.- Lead and mentor engineers, run design reviews, and promote cross-team collaboration with product, analytics, ML, and platform teams.- Influence roadmap, capacity planning, and hiring for the data engineering function; represent the team in senior technical forums.What You'll bring to the role- 7+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, architecting and operating data platforms at scale.- Demonstrated leadership on large, complex data projects and strong ability to influence technical and product stakeholders.- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS data services: S3, Glue, Redshift (Spectrum/RA3), Athena, EMR, Lambda, Kinesis/MSK, DMS.- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Scala (or Java); proven track record writing production-quality, testable code.- Deep expertise in SQL with experience designing and optimizing queries for high-volume data.- Experience with distributed processing frameworks (Spark) and modern ETL/ELT patterns.- Proficiency with orchestration and workflow tools (Airflow, Step Functions, Dagster) and CI/CD for data pipelines.- Strong skills in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK) and GitOps practices.- Experience implementing data security, governance, and access controls at scale.- Expertise in observability, monitoring, and incident management (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, tracing).- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to mentor and lead engineers.Preferred Qualifications- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) or equivalent.- Experience with data lakehouse technologies (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Databricks Unity Catalog), and large-scale performance troubleshooting.- Familiarity with metadata and lineage tooling (Amundsen, DataHub, OpenLineage).- Prior experience with cost-optimization programs (Graviton, serverless, spot instances) and demonstrable results.- Contributions to open-source projects, publications, or conference presentations on data engineering topics.- Experience working in regulated industries (finance, healthcare) and implementing compliance controls.
-AI usage for building Data Pipelines.Skills You'll have- Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving and architectural judgment.- Ability to manage multiple complex priorities and deliver high-quality work under deadlines.- Strong mentoring and team leadership skills; fosters a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.- Customer-focused: translates business needs into pragmatic, maintainable technical solutions.- Strong attention to detail, excellent documentation habits, and commitment to operational excellence.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USDStructure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Application Security (NM) - Advanced, Talent Development & Planning (NM) - Beginner, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Release Management (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Cloud Technology (NM) - Intermediate, DevOps (NM) - Advanced, Accountability (NM) - Beginner, Software Problem Solving (NM) - Advanced, Business Application (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Advanced, Coaching & Mentoring (NM) - Intermediate, IT Strategy (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Software Development (NM) - Advanced, Data Literacy (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Application Performance Management (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Senior Director, Employee Relations is the senior leader accountable for enterprise-wide employee relations strategy, governance, and outcomes. This role sets the direction for ER risk management, investigation standards, and decision quality across the organization, ensuring consistent, fair, and legally defensible practices at scale. The Sr Director leads the Employee Relations function, serving as a primary advisor to executive leaders, HR leadership, and Legal on high risk ER issues and systemic risk. The role provides leadership for complex matters and escalations, builds team capability, and drives continuous improvement of ER operating models, tools, and standards in partnership with key stakeholders.
What You'll Do:
Enterprise ER Strategy, Governance & Risk Leadership
Set enterprise ER strategy and governance, including standards for investigations, case management, escalation thresholds, and risk controls.
Accountable for the organization’s ER risk posture and precedent framework, ensuring consistent decision-making and defensibility across teams, functions, and geographies.
Advise executive and senior business leaders on complex, high-stakes workforce decisions; align with HR and Legal on options, implications, and risk mitigation.
Oversight, Escalations & Advisory
Provide oversight for the most sensitive investigations and ER matters, ensuring rigor, defensibility, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Translate complex risk scenarios into clear executive options and recommendations, driving timely, principled, and consistent outcomes.
Partner with ER and HR leadership and Legal to identify emerging ER risks and trends, and drive enterprise actions to address systemic issues.
Functional Leadership, Capability & Operating Model
Lead and develop the ER team, setting expectations for quality, consistency, and service delivery; establish operating rhythms and performance standards.
Provide coaching to ER leaders, HRBPs, and managers on complex or escalated matters; ensure appropriate escalation pathways and consistent application of precedent.
Drive continuous improvement of ER operating models, tools, guidance, and analytics; partner cross-functionally to strengthen prevention, early intervention, and risk reduction.
Enterprise Change, Workforce Actions & Stakeholder Leadership
Lead ER strategy and governance for enterprise-wide change, restructures, reductions in force, or other high-impact workforce actions.
Advise executives on decision sequencing, communications, and mitigation strategies to protect trust, employee experience, and risk posture.
Represent ER in enterprise governance forums and high-visibility discussions, influencing outcomes and ensuring alignment across HR, Legal, and business leadership.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Law or related field.
12+ years of progressive experience in employee relations, investigations, and/or HR risk leadership, including people and/or functional leadership.
Demonstrated success leading enterprise-level, executive-impact ER strategy, escalations, and complex workforce actions.
Exceptional judgment, executive presence, and ability to influence senior leaders across HR, Legal, and the business.
Proven ability to think systemically about risk, precedent, and organizational impact.
Advanced written and verbal communication skills, including executive‑level advisory materials.
Strategic ER Advisory & Risk Management
Integrates investigation acumen, dispute resolution, statutes & regulation, and risk management
Anticipates, assesses, and mitigates enterprise workforce risk
Guides senior leaders through high-stakes, sensitive ER matters with clear recommendations
Organizational Savvy & Influence
Combines organizational savvy + cross-functional partnering & negotiation
Navigates complexity, aligns stakeholders, and drives outcomes without direct authority
Operates effectively across leadership layers, including SLT-facing situations
Executive Communication & Narrative Building
Synthesizes adaptive + technical communication
Translates complex ER issues into clear, concise, executive-ready messaging
Influences decisions through credible, calm, and structured communication
ER Practice Leadership & Continuous Improvement
Draws from policy & procedure, project management, prioritization, professional curiosity
Evolves ER approaches, modernizes processes, and scales best practices
Balances day-to-day execution with forward-looking design
Workforce Insight & Organizational Dynamics
Combines organizational dynamics + customer centricity
Applies behavioral insight to diagnose issues, shape culture, and improve leader effectiveness
Drives solutions that are practical, human-centered, and business-aligned
Integrity, Judgment & HR Ethics
Anchored in HR ethics + crisis management
Exercises sound judgment under pressure, especially in ambiguous or high-risk scenarios
Builds trust through transparency, discretion, and consistency
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#LI-Onsite, #LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$130,800.00Pay Range - End:
$196,200.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$143,920.00 USD - $215,880.00 USDStructure 115:
$150,400.00 USD - $225,600.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
Risk Management (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational Dynamics (NM) - Expert, Dispute Resolution (NM) - Expert, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Expert, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Expert, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Expert, Project Management (NM) - Expert, Customer Centricity (NM) - Expert, Investigation Acumen (NM) - Expert, Prioritization (NM) - Expert, Accountability (NM) - Advanced, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Expert, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Expert, HR Ethics (NM) - Expert, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, Crisis Management (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Expert, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Expert, Statutes & Regulation (NM) - Advanced, Data Collection & Analysis (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Employee Relations Consultant serves as an enterprise‑level advisor and subject matter expert, providing independent, consultative guidance on complex and high‑risk employee relations matters. This role operates with significant autonomy and judgment, advising leaders, HR partners, and cross‑functional stakeholders on sensitive workforce issues that require a balance of legal risk mitigation, business outcomes, and employee experience. The ER consultant is accountable for end-to-end leadership of employee relations investigations.
The ER Consultant leads and influences outcomes in situations involving elevated complexity, ambiguity, or reputational risk, and plays a key role in building organizational and HR capability through coaching, consultation, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do:
Enterprise ER Consulting & Risk Management
Serve as a trusted consultant on medium‑ to high‑risk employee relations matters, including allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, workplace misconduct, and complex performance or behavioral concerns.
Provide strategic, defensible guidance to leaders and HR partners on risk mitigation, corrective action, and disciplinary decisions, ensuring alignment with employment law, company policy, and enterprise values.
Exercise independent judgment in navigating situations where legal exposure, business priorities, and employee experience intersect.
Labor Relations
Participates in formulating labor relations strategies, policies, and practices to support employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
Represents the Company during contract negotiations as part of the team; helps shape negotiation strategy, prioritize issues, and draft proposals/counterproposals that advance business objectives.
Serves as day-to-day liaison with the Union to administer and interpret the CBA consistently; monitors trends, practices, and internal policies to ensure aligned application.
Leads cross-functional teams to design or improve labor-related programs, policies, and processes in alignment with our employee experience.
Acts as a labor relations subject-matter expert (SME); partners with HR leadership, legal, and other key stakeholders to assess risk and determine approaches for complex labor matters.
Investigations & Issue Resolution
Lead or contribute to end‑to‑end, complex workplace investigations, including matters involving senior leaders, sensitive allegations, or potential legal, financial, or reputational risk.
Conduct advanced interviews, assess credibility, analyze evidence, and produce clear, well‑reasoned findings and recommendations suitable for executive and legal review.
Consultative Enablement & Capability Building
Coach, guide, and influence HR Advisors and less‑experienced ER team members, strengthening ER capability and decision quality across the HR ecosystem.
Strategic Projects & Continuous Improvement
Lead or participate in employee relations projects and enterprise priorities, including policy development, training design, and process improvements.
Identify emerging ER trends and risks, translating insights into proactive recommendations that improve leader effectiveness, employee experience, and organizational resilience.
Enterprise Partnership & Change Support
Provide ER expertise during organizational change, reductions in force, or other high‑impact employee events, partnering closely with Business HR, Legal, Compliance, and HR leadership.
Act as a key advisor on high‑visibility or escalated matters, influencing outcomes without direct authority.
Review and provide oversight on ER recommendations developed by others for higher‑risk or escalated cases, ensuring consistency, quality, and sound risk judgment.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
5+ years of progressive experience in employee relations, HR consulting and conducting workplace investigations, including regular exposure to high‑risk or complex matters.
Demonstrated labor relations experience, including experience leading or participating in negotiations of Collective Bargaining Agreements, handling grievances, and/or resolving unfair labor practice claims.
Strong working knowledge of employment laws and regulations (e.g., Title VII, NLRA, ADA, FMLA, FLSA, OSHA and applicable state and local laws).
Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex cases and investigations with minimal oversight.
Proven success operating in ambiguous environments where judgment, influence, and enterprise perspective are critical.
Ability to influence leaders and stakeholders without direct authority, using sound reasoning and credibility.
Strong analytical, decision‑making, and risk‑assessment skills.
Advanced written communication skills, including drafting investigation reports, executive‑level summaries, and risk assessments.
High level of discretion, confidentiality, emotional intelligence, and resilience when handling sensitive or contentious matters.
Strong prioritization and case‑management capability in a fast‑paced environment.
Proactive, consultative mindset with the ability to identify and assess any emerging risks or trends
PHR, SPHR strongly preferred
Master's degree in Human Resources or Labor Relations preferred
Skills:
Customer Centricity
Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.
HR Ethics
Demonstrates commitment to ethical practice of HR by navigating situations ranging from managing private employee information to protecting the organization reputation and fostering a culture of trust and loyalty. Practices transparency, accountability, and empathy in decision-making processes.
Dispute Resolution
Resolves conflicts or disagreements between parties. Identifies the issues at hand, understands the perspectives of all parties involved, and uses effective communication and negotiation skills to find a mutually acceptable solution.
Organizational Dynamics
Understands human behavior, motivations, and cognition to effectively manage employee relations, recruitment, and training and development. Applies psychological principles in areas such as performance management, conflict resolution, and organizational culture to foster a positive and productive work environment.
Policy & Procedure
Analyzes current policies and procedures, identifies gaps or areas for improvement, and develops and implements new policies and procedures to address those gaps. Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, as well as effectively communicates policies and procedures to employees and stakeholders. Understands the various components of a workflow, identifies bottlenecks, and implements improvements to increase productivity, reduce costs, and streamline operations.
Risk Management
Identifies risks and conducts risk analysis, prioritizes risks based on level of severity, ensures appropriate reporting, monitoring and control of risks. Drives recommendations and consulting to work towards a resolution. Provides transparency around risks and communicates status and outcomes to appropriate stakeholders.
#LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$89,440.00 USD - $134,160.00 USDStructure 115:
$93,440.00 USD - $140,160.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Dispute Resolution (NM) - Advanced, Risk Management (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Investigation Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Emotional Intelligence (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Beginner, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Advanced, Project Management (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, HR Ethics (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Crisis Management (NM) - Intermediate, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Intermediate, Statutes & Regulation (NM) - Intermediate, Data Collection & Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational Dynamics (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Supports the development and administration of all aspects of the regulatory compliance programs as assigned, including compliance policies and procedures, portfolio compliance, compliance training, testing and risk management, vendor due diligence and oversight, violations management, regulatory filings and reporting. Focused on compliance support of Northwestern Mutual’s registered investment adviser and private fund products. May also work in support of other department and team compliance responsibilities, including compliance services to the company’s registered mutual fund family.
What You'll Do:
Assist in all aspects of the administration of Rule 206(4)-7 compliance programs, as needed.
Assist in the preparation of regulatory filings, including but not limited to Forms ADV and PF.
Assist in the preparation and review of regulatory disclosures, marketing and advertising materials, and responses to investor and other due diligence requests.
Support the periodic distribution and review of compliance policies and procedures.
Prepare compliance reports and related materials for boards and committees.
Serve as compliance staff on various governance committees and working groups.
Assist in core compliance monitoring practices, including account guidelines monitoring, compliance with regulatory rules and electronic communications monitoring.
Coordinate and assess compliance related reports and other information from internal and external sources with the overall design and purpose of the compliance program in mind and assist in the identification and design of program enhancements as a result.
Interact with key stakeholders to provide compliance support, including portfolio management and other business partners, investment operations, administration, accounting, legal, and internal audit.
Support the design and administration of compliance testing programs, including the transactional testing environment within the portfolio compliance system and the forensic testing schedule.
Support compliance oversight of sub-advisers and other service providers, including frequent communication with compliance staff, distribution and review of annual and quarterly questionnaires, participation in virtual and on-site (as practicable) due diligence calls, and documentation of findings.
Support the administration of the code of ethics and personal trading policies, including training, addressing inquiries, managing periodic certifications, brokerage statement reviews, violations reporting, and preparation and review of statistical trend reporting.
Administrative support of compliance team daily operations, including preparation and maintenance of internal compliance calendars and timelines, working group agendas, statistical reports and other administrative tasks and projects, as needed.
Participate in various compliance group projects and initiatives.
Continuously enhance internal processes, project workflows and other procedures
Other compliance-related duties as assigned.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
BA/BS is required.
Minimum of 6 years professional experience, preferably with regulatory background in compliance, legal, audit or risk management.
Demonstrated competency with compliance, reporting, and data systems and tools (e.g., Bloomberg, FIS Employee Compliance Manager (formerly, FIS PTA), Portfolio Tracker, Micro Focus, truView, etc.).
Highly proficient with Microsoft Office products: Word, Excel, Access, Power BI, and PowerPoint
Self-motivated with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment is also required.
Ability to balance multiple tasks and effectively manage completing and changing priorities and deadlines.
Ability to build consensus around compliance related policies, decisions and diplomacy.
Demonstrated attention to detail.
Seeks opportunities to learn and volunteers for and shows initiative on tasks and projects.
Excellent organizational, problem-solving, decision-making and time management skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
High level of integrity.
Skills You Will Have:
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$89,360.00Pay Range - End:
$134,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Decision Making (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Assessment & Identification (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Project Management (NM) - Advanced, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Provide professional actuarial advice/services critical to development, implementation and maintenance of the Company's insurance, disability, annuity, and long-term care products. The Actuarial Department develops appropriate premiums, dividends, reserves, and surplus requirements by analyzing mortality, morbidity, persistency, investment and expense experience, striving to maintain equity and consistency among all policy owner underwriting classes, while safeguarding the Company's long term financial strength. Perform/supervise actuarial work required to advise on matters related to product pricing, dividend setting, reserve levels, mortality/morbidity issues, and field compensation. Additionally, strive to keep current on actuarial techniques, and on laws and regulations pertinent to your area of expertise; provide guidance to others within your assigned field of expertise.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The following areas are examples of teams that could have roles available for the right candidate. While each role has its own various duties and responsibilities, each would provide opportunities for candidates to stretch into new areas and fields of expertise based on interests and long-term development objectives.
Life Insurance Pricing: Uphold Northwestern Mutual’s industry-leading life insurance product line. This role includes new product design and pricing, implementation of evolving regulations, and management of inforce policies, all while ensuring equity across all life insurance policyowners.
Long-Term Care Insurance Pricing: Implement and maintain products that offer a long-term care insurance benefit. This role works with innovations in the long-term care product suite, including death benefit acceleration riders and our new life/long-term care hybrid insurance product, Long-Term Advantage.
Valuation: Perform Principle Based Reserve (PBR) calculations, analysis, and reporting. Investigate assumptions used; work with model development team to implement regulatory changes in modeled reserves; present results to senior management. As new products fall under a principle based framework, work with team to develop new process and calculations.
Modeling: Design enhancements or new features for Northwestern Mutual’s in-house models used for pricing, cashflow testing, reserving, and corporate projections while working closely with model users. This role offers candidates a variety of experiences with our product suite and company financials and a high degree of flexibility to direct which projects best suit their interests.
Qualifications
Attainment of Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) designation.
A minimum of five years proven actuarial experience.
Strong communication skills.
A high degree of expertise in one or more areas of Department activities.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$130,800.00Pay Range - End:
$196,200.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Risk Management (NM) - Advanced, Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Risk Evaluation (NM) - Advanced, Data Analytics (NM) - Expert, Scenario Planning (NM) - Advanced, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Finance & Actuarial Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Products (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Expert, Process Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Statutes & Regulation (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Actuarial Modeling (NM) - Expert
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Completes accurate financial reporting for public and private fixed income and equity securities for Northwestern Mutual and related entities. Completes processes to ensure accurate monthly, quarterly and annual reporting to internal management as well as external agencies and auditors. Assists in the monthly data integrity process to ensure the accuracy of the securities system and its associated financial processing routines in recording the assets, income, and gains and losses of securities investments held by Northwestern Mutual and related entities.
What You'll Do:
Preparation of the investment portion of the quarterly and annual statement filings with state insurance regulators and Statutory audited financials.
Complete monthly closing of the Peoplesoft accounting system and its associated financial processing routines of recording the assets, income, and gains and losses of Northwestern Mutual and related entities to ensure that proper Statutory and U.S. GAAP principles are applied, including monthly reconciliations of the system.
The ability to effectively maintain relations within subgroups in Investment Accounting, divisions within Controllers, Treasury and Investments Operations, Securities, Legal and other company departments as needed.
Prepares additional periodic reporting as requested.
Researches and recommends appropriate actions regarding Statutory and U.S. GAAP regulatory changes impacting the accounting for securities investments.
Represents Investment Accounting (where needed) during system upgrade projects, including evaluating new system functionality and its impact on Investment Accounting and identifying problems and improvement opportunities related to the reporting and financial processing components.
Maintains Model Audit Rule documentation.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Bachelor's degree in accounting, or related field or equivalent education plus experience required.
Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional accounting experience.
Public accounting experience preferred.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation preferred.
A strong working knowledge of accounting principles and practices related to investment products, demonstrated decision making and analytical skills.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Ability to effectively maintain relations within subgroups in Investment, accounting, divisions within Controllers, Treasury and Investments Operations, Securities, Legal and other company departments as needed.
A high degree of personal initiative and self-motivation is required.
Proficiency in Microsoft applications, specifically Excel, and PeopleSoft applications.
Ability to work independently to find solutions to issues and to train and review colleagues work.
Ability to identify and drive forward efficiency opportunities.
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Financial Acumen: Applies the knowledge of financial statements, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling to ensure decisions are fiscally sound and responsible.
Financial Securities: Demonstrates knowledge of various types of financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, derivatives, structured securities, and alternative investments to effectively engage with stakeholders involved in the investment process.
Learning Agility & Critical Thinking: Pursues learning and obtains knowledge continuously in relevant fields, methods, or technologies in current and future practices; continuously utilizes critical thinking to identify opportunities, execute solutions, and measure impact to constantly improve existing practices and processes based on feedback, lessons learned, and market trends.
Process Improvement: Assesses the current processes and impact to analyze, design, and manage potential improvement areas for more efficient, effective workflow.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Statutory Accounting (NM) - Advanced, Audits (NM) - Advanced, Financial Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Business Automation (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Reporting (NM) - Advanced, Internal Controls (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Accounting Principles (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Advanced, Financial Securities (NM) - Advanced, Process Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Support the Company's overall expense management process, focusing on ensuring optimal use of Company resources and ultimately protecting or maintaining product value and financial strength either at the corporate level or for an assigned function/department. Develop timely and accurate expense reporting and provide value-added expense management consultation and analysis. This includes consulting with business partners and building financial models to evaluate strategic decisions, providing complex financial analysis, developing forecasts and budgets, comparing expectations to peers and/or internal expectations, evaluating and presenting options and prioritizing solutions across the company.
What You'll Do:
Interacts with executive officers, department heads, and other members of senior management to provide meaningful expense management consultation and analysis and presents recommendations to aid in decision-making.
Proactively identifies issues and facilitates discussions to resolve those issues across functions and departments.
Independently meets with managers and directors to understand department operations and resulting cost structure.
Coordinates monthly reporting of all expenses to meet financial reporting needs of the department.
Monitors spend, develops forecasts and budgets and analyzes expense results.
Applies creativity and innovation in identifying process improvements and other opportunities for the function/departments to better manage expenses or reduce spend.
Responsible for building complex financial models to predict and understand the business as well as actual results. Understand cost drivers, internal metrics, unit costs and benchmarking for tracking and comparing results.
Challenge assumptions made in forecasts and projections.
Make connections to understand and integrate internal best practices to best support overall business objectives.
Assures that all expense activity follows the appropriate accounting controls, policies and procedures and is appropriately accounted for on the general ledger in compliance with statutory and/or GAAP accounting standards.
May be responsible for developing strategies to best utilize systems and maintaining expertise over financial reporting systems (Such as PeopleSoft, IBM TM1 system, Apptio, or Project Portfolio Management).
May be responsible for corporate expense projections, metrics, accounting for payroll, fixed assets and intercompany charges between NM and its subsidiaries, procure to pay process or other corporate processes.
Leads special projects and assignments related to expense management, product line allocations, financial reporting, process improvements, or other projects as requested by division leaders.
Collaborates with other enterprise resources in Human Resources, Corporate Strategy or Planning Coordinators.
What Experience You'll Bring:
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related degree with accounting emphasis preferred.
Typically, 5 or more years of financial management experience and/or financial planning and analysis experience.
Strong analytical, planning, organization, budgeting, problem solving, negotiation, oral and written communication skills are essential to this role.
Ability to develop and interpret financial models for complex analysis.
Demonstrated ability to make effective decisions and influence without authority at all levels of leadership.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage multiple assignments concurrently while effectively prioritizing.
Ability to develop and present recommendations to management.
Ability to build rapport and acceptance at different levels of management and across various departments.
#LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$89,440.00 USD - $134,160.00 USDStructure 115:
$93,440.00 USD - $140,160.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Resource Management (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Process Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Business Automation (NM) - Intermediate, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Forecasting (NM) - Advanced, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Expense Reporting Management (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Conducts assessments of the Company’s risk management processes and systems of internal control. These assessments add value to the organization by improving Company operations and compliance which positively impacts our product value and financial strength. Focuses on audits of the Company’s public, private, and real estate investment operations, retail brokerage operations, as well as shared services such as Human Resources, Actuarial, and Third Party Risk Management.
What You'll Do:
Acts as team member on assigned audits, working under the direction of a lead auditor.
Assesses the efficiency and effectiveness of management’s controls to manage risk.
Communicates effectively with business to identify control enhancements and advise management in designing effective controls or changes to business processes.
Utilizes data analytics (ACL, Excel, Power BI, etc.) to perform audit testing and to evaluate, validate, and profile data.
Prepares clear, logical workpapers and drafts language for control enhancements identified.
Utilizes time effectively to support multiple audits or projects concurrently.
Demonstrates or develops an appropriate level of organizational, regulatory, and business knowledge.
Establishes and maintains strong, collaborative relationships within the department and with our business contacts.
Contributes to continuous improvement efforts in the department.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Undergraduate degree (accounting, economics, business, or other relevant)
Three or more years experience in audit, investment, data analysis, or related business operations.
General background of IT controls.
Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills.
Basic skills in data analysis to identify data analytic opportunities and to obtain, load, validate, and analyze data.
Demonstrated interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
Familiarity with project/time management and working in a team environment.
Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and respond to changing business needs.
Ability to build rapport and understand internal businesses clients.
Knowledge of industry and regulatory practices and procedures within core focus area, including relevant specialty designations. (e.g. CIDA, Series 7 or Series 6, CLU, CFE, CIFRS)
CPA, CIA, CIDA, CFE preferred or willingness to obtain.
Skills You'll Have:
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Audits: Demonstrates the ability to interact with others in the audit process, including working with other auditors, commenting on audit reports, and developing corrective action plan.
Business Acumen: Applies knowledge of both general and organization-specific business issues/financial implications for the organization to problem solve.
Control Analysis: Monitors controls to ensure they are in place, operating as intended, and effective, and then identifies gaps and weaknesses that could result in risks.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Data Collection & Analysis: Gathers, stores, accesses, and uses information collected via quantitative (e.g., surveys or usage data) or qualitative methods (e.g., interviews, focus groups, document analysis). Analyzes data to uncover patters and insights to inform business decisions.
IT Audit & Control: Uses tools, controls, techniques, established principals and standards to ascertain the quality, effectiveness, security and accuracy of information systems.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$65,440.00Pay Range - End:
$98,160.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$72,000.00 USD - $108,000.00 USDStructure 115:
$75,280.00 USD - $112,920.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Facilitation (NM) - Intermediate, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Control Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Assessment & Identification (NM) - Intermediate, Data Security (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Beginner, Documentation (NM) - Intermediate, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Beginner, Project Management (NM) - Intermediate, Decision Making (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Beginner, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Beginner, Research Communication (NM) - Intermediate, AI Risk Modeling (NM) - Intermediate, Audits (NM) - Intermediate, IT Audit & Control (NM) - Beginner, Internal Controls (NM) - Intermediate, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Beginner, Data Collection & Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Evaluation (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Consulting (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
This role is part of the Client Services Operations organization and supports the day-to-day servicing needs of clients and Financial Representatives. The position is responsible for delivering high-quality client service through accurate transaction processing, issue resolution, and clear communication across a range of investment-related inquiries. Associates in this role handle phone-based and transactional work, navigate multiple systems, and follow established processes while applying sound judgment to resolve more complex scenarios. The focus is on operational excellence, risk awareness, and providing a consistent, professional client experience.
Delivers a personalized and exceptional experience for clients by answering questions, providing servicing options, and supporting products or services in a call center environment.
Proficient in resolving basic and intermediate (semi-complex) inquiries and transactions from Financial Representatives and clients within a registered area, while continuing to develop proficiency in more complex work.
Researches and evaluates potential solutions to complex problems, which may require identifying root causes and navigating deviations from standard procedures.
Takes ownership of calls and anticipates future issues to avoid repeat calls and unnecessary transfers.
Effectively de-escalates challenging client situations while guiding clients through complex or unique inquiries.
Serves as a trusted advocate for Financial Representatives and partners with them to meet client needs.
Embraces new technology and promotes website and self-service capabilities by educating clients and field partners, while understanding the risks and impacts transactions may have on clients or policies.
Understands how systems connect to processes and outcomes.
Drives change and supports continuous improvement by helping develop processes and provisions to accommodate evolving business needs.
Fosters professional relationships with clients to enhance brand loyalty.
Handles phone and transactional responsibilities while adhering to strict confidentiality and privacy standards.
Adapts work priorities to meet changing business and customer demands.
Associate degree in business or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of two years of related customer service experience with demonstrated customer service skills.
Advanced understanding of investment or income products or markets (e.g., VA, VL, VUL, Retirement, or Business markets).
Basic understanding of tax implications.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to multitask and manage a high volume of calls or caseloads with a high degree of accuracy.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
Demonstrated desire to continuously learn and improve.
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to provide effective options and solutions.
Demonstrated computer proficiency with solid keyboarding skills and experience using common software applications.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$21.77Pay Range - End:
$32.66Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Intermediate, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Case Management (NM) - Intermediate, Teamwork (NM) - Intermediate, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Field Relations (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Quality Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Client Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Data Security (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Services Industry Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Insurance Products (NM) - Intermediate, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Escalation Management (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Products (NM) - Intermediate, Tax Awareness (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
This position has been classified as an Access Person, which will require the reporting of your personal securities transactions. This position has been classified as an Associated Person under NMIS guidelines and requires fingerprinting and completion of required forms.
FINRA non-registered fingerprinted person
WMC access person
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Resolves a variety of investment operations inquiries and escalations from home office leaders, field staff or other team members. Uses industry knowledge and analytical skills to resolve problems.
Researches and responds to client issues including but is not limited to placing trades, assisting clients with system access and navigation, assisting clients with account maintenance and inquiries, discussing the latest market trends responding to research requests and providing investment education to our clients.
Provides ongoing home office supervision/oversight function of investment advisory accounts to ensure supervisory integrity and compliance to ensure core fiduciary responsibilities are being met.
Promotes client retention and identifies opportunities to build existing relationships through timely and accurate operational processing and service quality. Establishes and maintains strong relationships with customers and team members while providing quality service and support.
Works with other specialists, consultants and managers to handle the day-to-day monitoring of the area including managing service levels for the call center and daily processing work. Developing ability to direct and coordinate the team's service activities and identifying changing service demands.
Assists team members as they work through complex case work or items beyond their knowledge base.
Prioritizes and organizes responsibilities and uses appropriate resources within and outside of immediate work area. Collaborates with internal customers and cross-functional teams to resolve problems as needed.
May review work of office staff team members to ensure quality and accuracy. May contribute input into performance evaluation process.
Participates in and may lead process improvement, product introduction, or system enhancement across the division. Participates in system testing and system maintenance that requires operational expertise.
Keeps informed of developments in the industry and anticipates information needed by others and is responsible for communicating change.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business or related field or equivalent industry experience.
Broad professional knowledge of the investment industry gained through a minimum of three years in an investment service or operations capacity.
Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills
Demonstrated analytical skills and confidence to make judgments and decisions involving ambiguity
Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
Demonstrated ability to positively influence and work cooperatively with employees at all levels
Demonstrated ability to proactively react to change
Self-motivated and self-directed with the ability to manage multiple assignments with minimal guidance or direction
Strong technical knowledge of the operational aspects related to brokerage and advisory services/products.>>Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge across complex business areas and manage projects in a cross functional environment.
Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to learn new business concepts and procedures.
Depending on the specific job responsibilities assigned, this position could either require a minimum of a FINRA Series 6 or FINRA Series 7.
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This position has been classified as an Associated Person under NMIS guidelines and requires fingerprinting and completion of required form.Non-Registered Fingerprinted - FINRACompensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$49,560.00Pay Range - End:
$92,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Industry Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Intermediate, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Field Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Audits (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Services Industry Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Management Systems (NM) - Intermediate, Organization (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Products (NM) - Intermediate, Tax Awareness (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
What You'll Do:
Assist in monitoring investment portfolios by reconciling cash positions, investment holdings, and critical data attributes to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
Respond to internal and external inquiries regarding investment holdings, activities, and portfolio details.
Help prepare internal reports and external regulatory filings using tools like PowerBI, Snowflake, and Microsoft Excel.
Participate in process modernization efforts, incorporating digital tools, automation, and AI-driven analytics to streamline workflows and enhance data governance.
Collaborate with teams across Finance and Risk and Institutional Investments to ensure seamless operations and alignment with company objectives.
Assist in risk management activities, including conducting basic risk assessments and ensuring adherence to risk policies and regulatory standards.
Support enterprise risk management efforts by identifying potential operational risks in investment activities and contributing to resiliency planning.
Assist in data governance activities, including ensuring data quality, implementing governance policies and standards, and supporting data stewardship.
Ensure accurate, efficient, and timely execution of operational activities across asset classes and managed accounts of reoccurring transactions in public, private, and/or real estate asset classes most asset classes in PI, MSA, NMC and NMRE's public and private managed portfolios including domestic fixed income, common stock, foreign, private placements, real estate equity and mortgage loans. Work with front office to settle transactions.
Collaborate with senior staff members to solve more complex issues and work with custodial bank representatives, brokers, traders, and field offices.
Maintain investment data on various systems, conduct reconciliations, and work closely with Investment Accounting, Financial Management, Law and other related investment areas to resolve issues.
Respond to and investigate cash receivable and payable exceptions. Resolve a wide variety of standard problems.
Stay informed of industry and regulatory changes and developments that affect processing procedures.
Assist with testing, system enhancements, upgrades, new initiatives and other projects involving procedural and workflow changes and may make recommendations for process improvements.
Ensure adherence to contractual terms and amendments through interpretation and analysis of basic legal documents.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
Adaptability and a growth mindset
Skills in data literacy
Basic experience in data visualization or automation software
Attention to detail
Ability to handle data intensive tasks in a fast-paced setting
Bachelor's degree in business with emphasis in finance, accounting, management, real estate or information systems or equivalent related experience.
1-3 years of related, investment operations experience preferred.
General knowledge of a variety of investment asset types.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Strong problem-solving skills and analytical ability.
Skills You'll Have:
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality
Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success
Customer Service Mindset: Anticipates customer needs and applies understanding of customer needs or perspectives to solve problems and drive outcomes as the basis for decision making. Leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions.
Customer Support: Captures customer information for inquiry and analysis in an organized, clear, and consistent manner; leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions and communicates with the customer and the field. Uses customer intelligence to solve problems, demonstrate patience and understanding, ensure customer satisfaction by knowing the customer and audience and resolve customer complaints efficiently.
Process Improvement: Assesses the current processes and impact to analyze, design, and manage potential improvement areas for more efficient, effective workflow.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$49,560.00Pay Range - End:
$92,040.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$54,530.00 USD - $101,270.00 USDStructure 115:
$56,980.00 USD - $105,820.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Hybrid role in Milwaukee part of Northwestern Mutual's Actuarial Leadership Development Program. In this rotational role, individuals will use their actuarial training and background to carry out in-depth analysis of a wide variety of business issues. Typical activities may include development of complex actuarial models, pricing one of many insurance product lines, forecasting future financial circumstances, analyzing product experience, assessing regulatory issues, consulting on product or other risk management issues, or providing significant assistance on corporate projects. The result of the work will frequently influence management towards action that can have a sizeable impact on products, markets, underwriting, pricing, risk management, and profitability.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Investigate and analyze technical issues of an actuarial nature.
Assess risk by determining the impact and the financial benefit of varied options.
Provide actuarial consultation to internal clients.
Qualifications
Undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Finance, or related field.
Attainment of Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA) designation at a minimum.
Most candidates will have made progress toward attaining the Fellowship (FSA) designation.
A minimum of three years of actuarial experience.
Skilled in using software tools that are used for mathematical and/or financial modeling and analysis.
Strong communication skills.
A strong understanding of the actuarial aspects of NM product lines.
A good grasp of risk management issues tied to our products and finances.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$94,640.00Pay Range - End:
$175,760.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Management (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Actuarial Modeling (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Finance & Actuarial Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Advanced, Insurance Products (NM) - Advanced, Statutes & Regulation (NM) - Intermediate, Process Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Scenario Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Risk Evaluation (NM) - Intermediate, Data Analytics (NM) - Advanced
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Delivers a personalized and remarkable experience for our clients by answering their questions, providing servicing options and helping them with their products or services in a call center environment
Proficient at resolving inquiries and transactions from Financial Reps and clients on basic and intermediate (semi-complex) level calls and transactions in a registered area and is learning to become proficient in complex work.
Researches and evaluates possible solutions to complex problems that requires identifying root cause and some deviations from procedures
Takes ownerships of calls and anticipates future issues to avoid repeat calls and unnecessary call transfers
Ability to de-escalate client experience situations effectively while guiding clients through complex and unique inquiries.
Serves as a trusted advocate for our Financial Representatives and partners with them to meet the needs of our clients.
Embraces new technology and serves as an advocate for website and self-service capabilities by educating clients and field. Understands risks and impacts that the transaction has on the client or policy.
Understands how systems connect to processes and outcomes.
Drives change and embraces continuous improvement by creating processes and provisions to accommodate change.
Fosters a professional relationship with our clients to enhance brand loyalty
Handles phone and transactional responsibilities while adhering to strict confidentiality and privacy standards
Adept at shifting work priorities to meet the needs of the business and customer demand.
Qualifications
Associates degree in business or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
Minimum of 2 years related customer service experience with proven customer service skills
Advanced understanding of Investment or Income markets or products (i.e. VA, VL, VUL Retirement or Business markets)
A basic understanding of tax implications
Advanced written and verbal communication skills
Ability to multi-task and handle high volume of calls/case load with the greatest possible degree of accuracy
Strong organization skills with the ability to prioritize tasks.
A strong desire to continuously learn and improve
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to provide options
Demonstrated computer experience with solid keyboarding skills and proficiency with current software packages
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$21.35Pay Range - End:
$32.02Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
Policy Inquiries & Complaints Management (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Service Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Prioritization (NM) - Intermediate, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Intermediate, Case Management (NM) - Intermediate, Teamwork (NM) - Intermediate, Compliance (NM) - Intermediate, Field Relations (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Quality Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Client Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Data Security (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Financial Services Industry Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Insurance Products (NM) - Intermediate, Change Adaptability (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Support (NM) - Intermediate, Escalation Management (NM) - Intermediate, Tax Awareness (NM) - Intermediate, Investment Products (NM) - Intermediate
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
The Analyst position is a two to three-year assignment, and high performers can expect increasing responsibility.
Analyst Responsibilities:
Analyze and evaluate private equity and private credit investments across a wide range of industries.
Develop investment theses.
Perform detailed financial analysis and modeling.
Assist in the writing of investment memos and contribute to investment committee discussions.
Cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior level executives, legal counsels, investment bankers, and private equity sponsors.
Actively monitor portfolio performance.
Qualifications:
Four-year undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, or mathematics and a track record of academic excellence.
A broad knowledge of investments, an understanding of economic forces affecting a wide range of industries, proficiency in accounting, and strong computer modeling skills, and intellectual curiosity.
Strong interpersonal skills including written / oral communication and relationship building.
0-3 years of prior experience in investment banking, equity research, leveraged finance or other related roles.
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Compensation Range:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for additional information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
Investment Underwriting, Financial Analysis, Financial Writing, Investment Presentations, Investment Valuation, Financial Modeling, Data Integrity
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Associate Responsibilities:
Analyze and evaluate private equity and private credit investments across a wide range of industries.
Develop investment theses.
Perform detailed financial analysis and modeling.
Assist in the writing of investment memos and present opportunities during investment committee discussions.
Cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior level executives, legal counsels, investment bankers, and private equity sponsors.
Actively monitor portfolio performance.
Qualifications:
Four-year undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, or mathematics and a track record of academic excellence.
Two-to-Four years of relevant experience: investment banking, equity research, private equity, corporate development.
A broad knowledge of investments, an understanding of economic forces affecting a wide range of industries, proficiency in accounting, and strong computer modeling skills, and intellectual curiosity.
Strong interpersonal skills including written / oral communication and relationship building.
#LI-Onsite
Compensation Range:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for additional information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.