Sr. Engagement Lead, Asset Management Platform Innovation

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.  

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) is an over trillion-dollar investment management firm entrusted by investors around the globe to help them navigate changing market environments, so they can confidently realize their long-term objectives.

The Sr. Engagement Lead is responsible for driving NTAM’s most strategic, complex, and highly valued initiatives from inception to execution to accelerate the firm’s right to win. This role reports into the NTAM Head of NTAM Platform Innovation under the COO organization and closely partners with NTAM’s leadership. The right candidate is a versatile, multi-faceted leader who enjoys adopting a consultative approach to planning to execution and is comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Be part of the Platform Innovation team stood up to enable NTAM’s most pressing strategic initiatives. Responsibilities include:

• Lead the execution of strategic business transformation initiatives to deliver growth, scale, and/or resiliency in the business using a consultative and disciplined approach. Engagements range from global or regional initiatives to build new capabilities, remediate risk, assess/evolve operating model, amongst others.
• Partner with global NTAM leadership, Digital Product, Technology, Risk, Legal and/or Compliance to understand strategic business and functional priorities and considerations that inform approach and plan.
• Facilitate workshops with key stakeholders to discover and prioritize needs, solution, and/or plan.
• Engage with cross-functional leaders to define project objectives, scope, build roadmaps and plans with clear milestones and OKRs, identify dependencies, and establish governance and communication protocols.
• Communicate delivery roadmap and dependencies in terms meaningful to both business and technical terms to influence, educate and support the implementation of desired outcomes.
• Own program reporting and Steering Committee updates.
• Influence key stakeholders and decision makers using fact-based approach to help teams navigate through ambiguity and complexity.
• Anticipate risks, issues and jointly identify action or mitigation plans to drive decisions or course correction.
• Identify applicability and shepherd engagements through relevant Change, Architecture, and other governance forums.
• Partner with Digital Product, Automation, Data and Technology Teams to develop and recommend technology and automated solutions, if required for the program, to achieve program objectives.

Necessary Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong consultative skillset of driving programs from initiation to execution building compelling fact base and bringing in diverse points of view to drive scoping, planning and decisioning
• Strong program management expertise with ability to structure complex cross-functional initiatives to enable clarity, completeness, and speed of execution.
• Dynamic relationship building and partnership skills across distinct levels of the organization.
• Excellent written and presentation skills with ability to flex messaging based on audience.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and influencing skills are required
• Ability to lead, prioritize, and deliver multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Results-driven and resourceful leader with proactive and independent problem-solving skills
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences
• Strong situational awareness and decision-making capabilities

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Necessary Experience and Education:

• 10+ years of overall experience with at least 4+ years of experience in independently leading and managing teams to deliver diverse range of transformation initiatives.
• Management Consulting experience with exposure to Asset Management, Wealth Management or Asset Servicing industries is highly desired.
• Experience in driving end to end program management, change and value delivery in matrixed organizations
• Experience in interviewing and facilitating discovery/design/planning workshops is required.<