Director, GT&O Strategic and Operational Planning

Job Classification:

Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role

As a Director, Strategic and Operational Planning in the Global Technology and Operations (GT&O) Strategic Portfolio Management team, you will collaborate across the enterprise on the development, prioritization, and implementation of a range of strategies and initiatives to drive profitable growth across your assigned businesses and to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to significant portfolio management expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Lead the development of integrated GT&O strategic plans that align with enterprise goals and technology roadmaps.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to identify priority initiatives, resource needs, and success metrics.

• Support the strategic initiatives advancement and prioritization process to develop and assess the initiatives that will have greatest impact on the business and its customers.

• Translate strategic objectives into actionable programs, projects, and portfolio epics with clear timelines and ownership.

• Support the development and ongoing refinement of the overall strategy and strategic priorities for the GT&O.

• Drive capability mapping, assessment, and planning in partnership with Enterprise Architecture.

• Support initiative work with existing forecasts, identifying incremental needs or savings based on program priorities, and gaining buy in as needed.  Manage overall budgets for initiatives and escalate needed changes to leadership.

• Implement innovation by identifying and promoting opportunities for improvement or efficiencies through process enhancements or new technologies, resulting in benefit realization.

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver impactful outcomes on key strategic initiatives, driving results that benefit multiple organizations through effective collaboration and execution.

• Work on significant and unique issues in which analysis of situations or data requires the evaluation of intangible variables and may impact future concepts, products or technologies. Exercise latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.

• Drive the development of insights on trends and market intelligence to inform decision-making.

• Create strategy documents and communication materials, including business and strategic reviews to senior leaders, including the GT&O Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Executive Leadership Team (ELT), US Management Committee (USMC) and the Board of Directors.

• Partner with Corporate Development (M&A) and Finance to develop and assess potential acquisitions, as needed.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Demonstrated expertise in portfolio and program management for large initiatives. 

• Experience with agile development methodologies.

• Strong understanding of business concepts, tools and processes essential for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.

• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to optimally leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.

• Ability to learn new skills and expand knowledge on a continuous basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.

• Bachelor’s degree (technical, business management, or finance degrees, preferred) or experience in related fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial/Insurance industry experience, a plus.

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your tech