Director, Strategic Business Planning (Life / Annuity) - Work From Home

Job Family

Corporate Development, Strategy and Sustainability

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Provides overall business and strategic guidance in alignment with company-wide objectives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Champion organizational change and promote a culture of accountability, collaboration and customer service excellence.
• Coordinate strategic business initiatives across functional groups and teams.
• Facilitate the production support process in partnership with business, IT teams and ensure work is prioritized, resources are planned, and the team successfully resolves issues
• Manage dashboard of production support tickets for Life, Annuity and World Financial Group (WFG) ensure the backlog of production support tickets is being addressed/completed timely.
• Manage dashboard of strategic initiatives and process improvements.
• Continually seek program process improvements.
• Define and direct formal communication methods and establish open and consistent communication with all levels within the organization. Provide program status reports and facilitate inter-program communication.
• Provide direction and ensure team is following defined governance process and procedures.
• Hold teams accountable for meeting goals and objectives.
• Direct/support problem resolution for system outages the team is engaged in and facilitating using a pro-active and constructive approach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business related field or equivalent experience.
• Ten years of strategic planning experience, including five years managing complex multisystem and/or multiple department projects.
• Experience utilizing interviewing/negotiation skills; coordinating and facilitating small and large group meetings; utilizing planning/organization skills and techniques; managing multiple priorities and project staff; and utilizing analysis and problem solving skills.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization to guide in strategic planning fundamentals and plan execution.
• Proficiency using MS Office and project development/management tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Expert level skills relating to project management theory, tools and practice.
• Change management and training experience.

Working Conditions

• Work From Home
• Occasional travel to attend strategic planning sessions.

*Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position