Northwestern Mutual

Northwestern Mutual

Assistant Director Practice Management

Milwaukee, WI Corporate · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Stakeholder ManagementLeadershipCommunicationMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Summary: R esponsible for consulting to field leaders, advisors and teams, with additional complex consulting, communication, escalation, leadership, subject matter expertise, and presentation responsibilities.
  • Subject Matter Expertise (15%): - Content: Coordinating with Practice Management Managers on content development, execution, communication, adoption, and gathering feedback.
  • Includes education and coaching of team members on content, language, consistent usage and updates.

Responsibilities

  • Consulting Level 1- 3 delivery and referral coordination: Triaging, delivering, and referring Practice Management Level 1-3 content and support.
  • Teams and Ensemble Platform: Ability to provide in-depth support for potential and operating teams and ensembles.
  • Proactively brings the voice of the field back and shares with other stakeholders to drive innovation and improvement.
  • External strategic partner coordination: Work with external strategic partners, acting as a main point of contact in content development, coordination and communication.
  • Thought leadership: Developing thought leadership and furthering related strategy, content, resources and social media, incorporating outside financial services industry perspective and trends.
  • Strategy: Participates in strategy development, communication and execution, occasionally representing and acting on senior leadership's behalf. Works within ambiguity to help identify, clarify and create opportunities for strategic improvement.
  • Triaging, delivering, and referring Practice Management Level 1-3 content and support.
  • Proactively leads others in design and delivery of materials related to subject matter expertise, practice management and thematic/topical content.
  • Project leadership: Proactively leads others in design and delivery of materials related to subject matter expertise, practice management and thematic/topical content.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize consulting and project work and make the outputs visible and transparent with both the client and key internal stakeholders.
  • High degree of self-motivation, self-starter, and leadership with initiative in sharing information, contributing towards group goals and accepting responsibility for results.
  • Act as an escalation point within the team for questions and content, coordinating with the Business owners and other areas for resolution, further escalating to others when required.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, finance, marketing, or related. MBA, CFA, CFP, or ChFC preferred.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to lead content design and delivery.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to establish rapport at all levels of the home office and third parties including senior leaders, consultants and external partners.
  • Compensation Range:
  • Pay Range - Start:
  • $118,960.00
  • Pay Range - End:
  • $178,440.00
  • Geographic Specific Pay Structure:

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in business, finance, marketing, or related.
  • MBA, CFA, CFP, or ChFC preferred.
  • Formal coaching or consulting training and/or designation preferred.
  • Seven years of progressively responsible experience in financial services consulting, sales, marketing, or related function, with experience in field-facing business consulting and management, within NM preferred.
  • Three years of experience with industry practice management and/or Ensemble business model program preferred.

Skills

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Compensation

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Benefits

  • Create, lead, and facilitate conference calls, webinars, presentations, study groups and workshops within the home office, in the field, and with all levels of advisors and leadership.
  • Complex consulting quarterbacking and ownership: Quarterback complex consultations with field, field leaders, performance team members and home office, including industry partners when appropriate.
  • Field, field leadership, home office communication and engagement: Educate and communicate with partners regarding practice management tools and resources.
  • Develop cross-functional relationships to create practice management advocates within the home office, the field, and field leadership.
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