Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Prudential Financial
- Newark, NJ
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to influence and motivate change
- 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.
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