Strategic Business Planning Manager

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

Work in alignment with senior leadership to ensure strategic business priorities are identified, prioritized and executed.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Define and establish strategic planning processes, plans, priorities, capabilities, measures of success, etc.

• Develop and/or maintain strategic roadmap and assigned strategic dashboards/tracking mechanisms.

• Manage the timing of inputs/outputs that drive strategic project prioritization.

• Identify integrations across the organization that impact the group.

• Coordinate with strategic planning contacts across the organization (including the PMO as a key stakeholder) to develop and execute a holistic strategic planning process.

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with supported groups and project teams.

• Serve as the escalation point to resolve conflicts on priorities, goals, strategies, resources and key initiatives.

• Create and deliver strategic presentations, story boards, etc. tailored for specific audiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or equivalent experience.

• Eight years of strategic planning experience in a similar environment or in a planning/consultant role.

• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization to guide in strategic planning fundamentals and plan execution.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills to plan strategy, tactics and perform root cause analysis.

• Presentation skills to create and deliver information to a wide audience.

• Familiarity with project management tools, lifecycles, etc.

• Proficiency using MS Office tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Quality Assurance Program Development.

• Quantitative experience.

• Insurance/financial services experience.

• Supervisory/management experience.

• Understanding of LEAN Six Sigma methodology.

Working Conditions

• Remote/Work from Home

Compensation 

**Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimate