Location: Jersey City,NJ, USA
Who we are
At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That's why every day we proudly partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.
The Chief Operating Office plays a critical role in defining and executing on Corebridge Financial's Strategic Agenda, by fostering cross functional collaboration while aligning to strategic priorities.
Reporting into the Chief Operating Officer, the Head of Transformation Management Office will serve as a critical focal point as we develop and implement our overall strategic roadmap to support our organizational agenda, and other enterprise level programs. This role is critical in guiding the organization through the implementation of our strategic agenda to achieve financial results and business outcomes. The Transformation Management Office is a strategic partner to the Executive Leadership Team, workstream leads, and leaders across the company.
About the role
Roles and Responsibilities:
* Strategic Agenda: Partner with ELT to set the strategic agenda, with a clear roadmap to execution and lead the value creation story across workstreams
* Execution: Drive the execution of an achievable strategic agenda in partnership with the Executive Leadership Team, the portfolio and portfolio management team, and leaders to deliver sustainable improvements
* Frameworks: Build a framework and guidance to identify and execute transformational opportunities; track and manage progress
* Thought Leadership: Serve as a thought leader and subject matter expert for the Executive Leadership Team and leaders, to ensure our strategic agenda and supporting initiatives remain the focal point
* Integration: Maintains an integrated view of all initiatives in the change program and ensure projects/workstreams are sequenced and executed properly
* Resource Deployment: Effectively employs resources to organize, plan and execute initiatives within designated timelines
* Measurement: Create a measurement process and feedback mechanism at strategic touch points to facilitate open communication and dialogue on transformational activities, and ensure effective delivery of results
* Value Realization: Partner with finance colleagues to provide financial analysis support, to ensure portfolio delivers measurable business value and tracks benefit realization against projected outcomes
This role will cover essential areas of project management, thought leadership, & collaboration across teams, with a focus on driving our strategic agenda to execution. This includes:
* Portfolio & Program Management:
* Lead the establishing of charters, the defining of programs, and the overall launch of our key priorities
* Oversee the overall portfolio, intake, prioritization, and resource allocation with the ability to manage competing priorities.
* Provide governance reporting, decision facilitation, and ensure transparency across initiatives. Manage strong governance framework to monitor performance and risk across the portfolio.
* Assess programs for interdependencies and phasing to maximize efficiency and impact.
* Ensure programs have a clear scope, allocation of resources (staff, budget, and technology), and objectives, timelines, and deliverables are well defined.
* Communication:
* Partner with Corporate Communications to develop communication strategies that support across priorities.
* Create a holistic narrative for strategic change stories and integrate messages across company initiatives.
* Establish strong relationships across the organization to increase influence.
* Ecosystem:
* Leverage internal and external insights to drive business improvements for Corebridge., which include ecosystem mining, identifying partners, operating models and behaviors that could genuinely make a step change in our business.
* Harness ecosystem capabilities
* Manages across multiple horizons - look beyond what's right in front of us.
For positions based in Houston, TX, Woodland Hills, CA and Jersey City, NJ the base salary range is $280,000 to $340,000 and the position is eligible for a bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan. In addition, we're proud to offer a range of competitive benefits.
What we're looking for
Skills & Capabilities:
* Drive Enterprise Thinking: Industry knowledge, organization knowledge, financial knowledge; lead with industry expertise, a strategic focus, and capacity for calculated decision-making
* Written and Verbal Communication: Ability to communicate in a structured and crisp manner especially with senior leaders i.e., Business unit Presidents, CIOs.
* Make it Happen Ability to breakdown complex issues into smaller addressable solutions; can take a strategic point of view in formulating actions and solutions.
* Project Management: Structured, organized and can create actionable implementation plans and timelines; knows how to deliver on time and manage teams and stakeholders to deliver to the same. Strategic consulting ability.
* Adapt & Innovate: Ability to influence and take stakeholders, partners, and team along in driving the change; knows how to communicate 'what' to avoid surprises or issues with all partners; a continuous improvement mindset.
* Unlock & Amplify Potential: Sets clear direction to the teams and actionable deliverables; data driven and manages through metrics; strong coach and people developer; ability to assess talent consistently and fairly.
* Relationship Management: Collaboration and networking, persuasion, and influence; build trust and respect with business and functional partners - servant leadership.
* Data: Data foundations, data interpretation, data storytelling
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Corebridge Financial, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates are committed to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and its policies and procedures reflect this commitment. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories such as sexual orientation. At Corebridge Financial, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to our future and our mission - creating a foundation for a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability. Through a wide variety of programs and initiatives, we invest in each employee, seeking to ensure that our people are not only respected as individuals, but also truly valued for their unique perspectives.
To learn more please visit: www.corebridgefinancial.com
Corebridge Financial is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with physical or mental disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to complete any part of the application or hiring process, please send an email to ...@corebridgefinancial.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
Functional Area:
OP - Operations
Estimated Travel Percentage (%): Up to 25%
Relocation Provided: Yes
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