Corporate Vice President - Planning Lead

Location Designation: Hybrid 

 

 

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

 

 

Location: Clinton, NJ with frequent travel to NYC or NYC with travel to CNJ

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

Role Summary
The Planning Lead for the Service Experience Value Stream will play a pivotal leadership role in establishing the overarching strategies and identifying key outcomes for financial, resource and execution elements.  They will need to be experienced in the business of IT and focus internally and externally to establish benchmarks for comparison.  With oversight responsibility of our Release Train Engineers, the Planning Lead will be connected to the Delivery function within IT.  They will also ensure consistency in process, reporting, communication, etc. with our business and corporate partners pertaining to execution, status, budget, forecast, resourcing, etc.

Key Responsibilities

• Assists in establishing a multi-year, outcome-based roadmap at the Value Stream level across both the business and technology and facilitates a refresh process, based on outcomes achieve and planned
• Aggregates, analyzes and enables multi-year capacity planning (internal and external resources) for the Value Stream
• Owns labor and non-labor contract management on behalf of the Value Stream
  • • Understands Technology and related sourcing, vendor management, third party risk and contracting
    • Collaborates cross-functionally with the Head of various corporate services, e.g. Procurement, Legal, Risk, etc. as well as Architects, Release Train Engineers and Technology Delivery Leads within their Value Stream
    • Develops a contract pipeline for the Value Stream with long term and shorter-term objectives, and socializes those objectives with key partners (Procurement, Legal, Risk, etc.) on regular cadence
    • Ensures new Technology fits within the future state ecosystem of the Value Stream, and understands the competitive landscape
    • Facilitate required approvals (as applicable) from Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, and Finance
    • Facilitates required approvals from senior leadership during regularly scheduled and ad-hoc reviews
    • Ability to review, negotiate and edit Descriptions of Services and Products to ensure completeness and accuracy
    • Ability to review, negotiate and edit SLAs to ensure appropriate and meaningful with respect to the Services and Products, and that they are appropriately linked to the financials
    • Knowledgeable and able to negotiate pricing constructs internally and externally for products and services

• • • Ensure Deliverable Milestones with appropriate Acceptance is addressed as applicable, and fees are tied to Deliverable Milestones
• Presents to Manage certain key Technology contracts post-execution
• Oversees financial management in alignment with enterprise guardrails; maintains stakeholder awareness related to Value Stream actual costs, run rate and budget; coordinates with budget coordinators to identify and self-manage financial risk and opportunity variances  
• Leads the dynamic, collaborative processes for in-year lean portfolio management calibration and Value Stream budget planning
• Directly manages Release Train Engineers within the Value Stream
• Active participant in community of practice to maintain awareness and alignment between Value Stream leaders and Strategy & Planning C4E, Workforce Management C4E regarding plan and process decisions, deadlines, needs, and metrics; ensuring consistency and continuous improvement

 

Education / Training

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, finance, computer science or a related field of study would be ideal but not required.
• Certifications in delivery methodologies such as Scaled Agile are a plus
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