Vice President, Strategic Initiatives - Hartford, United States - Prudential Financial

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Prudential's U.S. Businesses (USB) include our Retirement Strategies, Individual Life Insurance, Group Insurance, and Retail Advice & Solutions businesses. Together, these businesses serve over six million retail and 20 million worksite customers across all demographic segments. We also partner with over three thousand institutional clients and one hundred thousand third-party financial professionals.

The USB Strategy team serves as a key partner to the Head of U.S. Businesses, as well as the various Business Unit Presidents and their senior leadership teams. The Strategy team collaborates across the businesses to lead the development, prioritization, and implementation of a range of strategies and initiatives to drive profitable growth within each business.

Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

We are seeking a dynamic leader and strategist for the role of VP, Strategic Initiatives.

You will support the development, prioritization, and implementation of a range of strategies and initiatives to drive profitable growth across our Group Insurance and/or Individual Life Insurance businesses, reporting to the Head of Strategy for these assigned businesses.

Success in this role will be built on your ability to provide structure insights into differentiated strategies to drive growth, form trusting relationships with senior executives while collaborating with partners across Prudential's other businesses and functions, as well as the ability operate in a fast-paced, forward-looking business environment.

Location for this role is flexible, but travel to Newark as needed is required.

What you can expect:

• Support the creation and ongoing refinement of the overall strategy and strategic priorities for Group Insurance and/or Individual Life Insurance.
• Drive the strategic initiative development and prioritization process towards execution. Partner with the business senior leadership teams (SLT) to develop and assess the strategic initiatives that will have greatest impact on each business and its customers, resulting in a strategic initiative backlog that is well understood and supported.
• Lead the development of strategy documents and communication materials, including business and strategic reviews to senior leaders, including Executive Leadership Team (ELT), US Operating Committee, the Board of Directors and other key constituencies
• Bring a project-based strategic capability to identify and analyze strategic opportunities.
• Build collaborative and trusted relationships across Prudential's strategy, business development, and finance teams to ensure Prudential realizes its full potential by helping enable business outcomes.
• Identify new breakthrough business models (e.g., FinTech/Insurtech,) that present potential disruption and growth opportunities.
• Partner with Corporate Development (M&A) and Finance to develop and assess potential acquisitions.

What you'll need:

• Bachelors degree required, Masters preferred
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in business strategy, finance or other leadership roles, including experience in financial services
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust
• Not afraid to 'roll up the sleeves' and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes the team to do the same
• Industry knowledge, including Retirement Strategies, Group Insurance, Individual Life Insurance, and Retail Advice / Wealth Management
• Proven strength in creating positive working relationships and leading projects with heavy cross-business/cross-functional collaboration
• Analytic, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills

It'd be a plus if you had:

• Demonstrated ability to influence and motivate change

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

At Prudential, you can:

We equip and empower our employees to expand their skills and experience by using powerful learning, gigs, and job opportunities. We offer a suite of services including 1:1 Career advice, on demand resources and networking to propel your career forward.

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

What we offer you:

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