Advice Strategy Program Manager

The Advice Strategy Program manager leads and influences the team according to their needs.

 

The program manager partners effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of strategic priorities, manages the development and execution of those priorities and programs which could include executing on tasks and driving for results through both business team members and stakeholders.

 

They ensure accountability, transparency, and regularity in Advice strategy and experience status updates.

 This can be a remote position within the US.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provides consulting to the Advice & Planning team in building and maintaining the roadmap, release plan and strategic roadmap based on the priorities set by the VP of Advice & Planning and input from the Team. 
• Facilitate meetings for assigned programs with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal and drive cross functional partnerships to achieve shared goals. 
• Foster self-organization and cross team collaboration. Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible.  Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. 
• Identify areas for process improvement and establishes effective and efficient processes. 
• Help the team monitor progress daily.  Identify opportunities for the team to improve incrementally.  Maintain relevant metrics to show progress. 
• Manage and communicate relevant metrics to team on progress against team objectives. 
• Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs. 
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance. 
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.  Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.   
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.
  
  

Describe below the audience this role will interact with and level of influence they will have on those roles.

Individual contributors within Thrivent

Field organization

External vendors, contractors and/or consultants

Managers and/or Directors within Thrivent

VP

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS: 

 Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management or other related field or equivalent work experience 
• 2-4 years in a lead role on projects, scrum teams, and/or business led initiatives 
• Familiarity with common Product Management practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices 
• High level of organization and attention to detail 
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends 
• Strong communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills. 
• Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities 
  
  

Preferred:

• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships. 
• Experience developing and implementing initiative and product level performance metrics 
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives 
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel 
  
  

 

Pay Transparency

Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $88,132.00 - $119,236.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.