[Remote] Sr Product Portfolio Consultant

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is seeking a Sr Product Portfolio Consultant to drive the adoption of their Product Operating Model. This role focuses on financial, capacity, and asset management, partnering with various teams to ensure transparency in investments and optimize outcomes for the organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain labor and expense plans for assigned products and portfolio(s)
• Develop reporting as needed to help leaders understand their performance against current capacity constraints
• Maintain financial data to provide visibility to total investment being made in products and portfolios
• Provide financial data to help product and portfolio leaders understand risks and opportunities within their portfolios
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of product and portfolio level financial management
• Interact with leaders up to COO level; build views and reporting appropriate for level of leadership to drive decision making
• Make recommendations to leadership regarding potential areas to invest or to constrain in order to optimize value realization for Thrivent
• Provide financial reporting as requested to drive decision making (i.e. run rate analysis, cost to run, etc)
• Support leaders through governance routines as needed to ensure visibility to work and to drive a perpetual planning mindset
• Partner with Finance as needed to support financial forecasting and long range financial planning
• Lead efforts to improve existing processes in order to gain efficiencies and reduce complexity
• Serve as subject matter expert regarding processes related to capacity, financial, and asset management
• Partner with product coaches and portfolio leaders to identify opportunities to mature portfolio practices
• Provide guidance, support, and data to leaders, to enable decision making at all levels of governance
• Serves as a key partner to Product Portfolio leadership with regard to capacity and asset management. Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable
• 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

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Finance, or related field
• 8+ years of professional experience working closely with, or in IT
• Experience working in the product/agile operating model
• Financial Management experience (understanding of basic functions of financial forecasting and budgeting)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, especially Excel
• Experience successfully communicating between technology, finance, and HR leaders
• Ability to handle ambiguity and lead change
• Intellectual curiosity - Desire to learn and improve
• Customer focus - strong sense of urgency, thrives on getting things done
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Ability to communicate clearly with executive level leadership
• Critical thinker
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Self-starter - thrives in an ambitious environment
• Executive level influencer
• Demonstrates courage

Benefits

• 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
• Other employee benefits

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