Project Director, Administration (Remote/Hybrid)

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The Individual Life Insurance (ILI) business provisions, manages and services a full range of life insurance products in the U.S. to clients, life insurance professionals and various companies to provide life insurance protection to ensure a clients’ financial security plans and needs are met.

To accomplish meeting a broad range of needs, Individual Life Insurance offers various forms of term life insurance, universal life insurance and variable universal insurance products, along with supplemental coverages (i.e., riders) that further protect individuals from unexpected life events.

Prudential is one of the leading providers of individual life insurance in the United States. Our resources, financial strength and stability allow us to honor long-term commitments to those customers seeking protection from dying too soon.

ILI has embarked on an initiative to ensure more Americans, especially under-served segments, are protected with affordable and portable life insurance protection while continuing to serve mass affluent and affluent clients well and those producers who advise them. ILI is obsessed in making it easy for customers to do business with ILI and delivering on our financial commitments to ensure long-term success enables us to meet our commitments to policyholders and shareholders alike.

The Vice President of ILI Product seeks a Project Director, Administration ready to coordinate and enhance the business’ strategic and tactical initiatives, accelerate change through effective internal communication and manage projects and priorities to ensure quality results are consistently achieved. 

The successful incumbent will:

• Plan, coordinate, and partner with ILI’s Vice President of Product on the coordination, execution and implementation of business goals; influence internal leaders and stakeholders across Prudential’s complex business landscape
• Synthesize information and coordinate decision making to enable faster executive decision-making
• Provide consultation and direction on ILI’s and Product’s initiatives while ensuring accountability resides with the right individuals and areas
• Creates necessary linkage between ILI’s product executive’s leadership team and broader organization; works with functional partners to ensure seamless delivery in support of organizational priorities
• Develops and executes internal communication to increase teammates’ able to embrace and lead through change, thereby increasing the organization’s change resiliency and engagement
• Understands organizational matrices and appropriately coordinates with and leverages centralized functions in the business or corporate functions

Functions as a capacity expander and strategic gatekeeper

• Focuses on making time, information, and decision making more effective to expand the executive’s capacity to deliver results, maximizing productivity and impact
• Acts as trusted advisor for ILI’s product executive team; propels team cohesion and engagement
• Proactively manages governance, management routines and limits executive involvement by empowering the right level of decision making
• Connected to the pulse of the organization and ensures the right voices (including their own), at all levels in the organization, are being heard on topics of critical importance
• Recognizes and facilitates relationships most important to the success of ILI’s agenda; manages and strengthens those relationships
• Leads organizational administration and overseas governance practices by managing vendor contracts, privacy management, business resiliency and division security

Qualifications:

• 10 years of functional and leadership experience in a fast-paced highly matrixed business environment, with significant experience in a leadership position(s) at a Fortune 500 company and/or global business
• Experience in the Financial Services industry preferred

Competencies – Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Relationship Building and Interpersonal Skills: builds solid and constructive business relationships with key stakeholders at all levels across the organization, including senior executives, peers and colleagues; successfully operates across cultures, complex organizational structures and multi-functional teams to drive alignment and achieve business goals; demonstrates strong executive presence with excellent consultative skills
• Business and Financial Acumen: understands the strategic business and financial needs of the company including knowledge of current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting the business and organization; understands the needs of customers, the broader marketplace and how to leverage business insights to drive outcomes 
• Focuses Externally: Seeks to understand the trends impacting our customers, competition, and marketplace. Is personally and emotionally invested in understanding the customers' needs and feelings. Takes a broad view of the environment to identify opportunities. Is recognized as a thought leader.
• Strategic Thought Leadership and Execution Mindset: possesses an innovative, insightful mindset with a willingness to learn as well as challenge the status quo; proven ability to proactively and successfully prioritize, adapt and execute
• Problem Solving: uses rigorous logic to analyze and understand why problems occur; leverages innovative thinking to generate and implement creative, cost effective and realistic solutions that create business impact
• Communication and Influencing: leverages a combination of impeccable verbal and written communication skills, highly developed emotional intelligence, savvy navigation of complex business structures, well developed executive presence and data fluency to drive decision-making; gains support and commitment from others; mobilizes people to action
• Inclusion and Diversity: focuses on creating an environment of honesty, inclusion and respect for others; openness to and champions differing ideas and perspectives; collaborates in a fully inclusive manner
• Change Management: consciously works to understand change and people impact; embraces and leads through transformational change; desires to ensure associate engagement and stability in teams