Sr Product Manager
Company: Northwestern Mutual
Location: Franklin
Posted on: February 22, 2025
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Job Description:
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing.
We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. At
Northwestern Mutual, we're changing the way people think about
financial planning with the scale of a Fortune 100 company. We're
redefining and disrupting the industry while changing people's
financial lives with better experiences and better technology. We
believe in building inclusive and diverse workplaces, where every
voice is heard. Come help us build for the future. As our Field and
Client Services area transforms how they provide service to our
Financial Reps, their staff and our Clients, the tools they use
must also be transformed. - Seeking an experienced Business Analyst
to help build the new desktop/experience for our Customer Service
Reps who is highly-motivated and skilled to help shape and execute
on Field and Client Service Strategies. - You will work across a
talented team of product managers, engineers, designers, other
business analysts, and subject matter experts to discover, build,
and launch features in an agile methodology focused on delivering
outcomes. - A strong foundation of business and technical
fundamentals should be complimented by soft skills in building
relationships, effectively eliciting and documenting requirements,
critical problem-solving skills, and working toward shared goals.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities *Business Expertise: Use
knowledge and experience to provide some expertise in at least one
business area or domain while working to gain a broader
understanding of business and domains surrounding the main focus.
Articulate recommendations based on analytics and collaborate with
Sr Business Analyst.
*Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Begin to assess,
exercise judgement, and document current state across moderately
complex processes and business areas and domains while partnering
with Sr Business Analyst and peers. Use analytics and experience to
resolve issues and to provide solutions.
*Gather Requirements: Responsible for fact-based requirement
gathering and be able to analyze across business domains.
*Author User Stories and/or Features: Author user stories and/or
features independently with medium complexity while participating
and collaborating in some higher complexity situations. Support and
provide thoughts and ideas throughout the development process as
needs arise.
*Test Plan Review: Assist with coordinating and solution delivery
test plans for medium complex efforts by participating in, and
ensuring business sign-off of testing processes for medium and
large efforts.
*Project Management: Use project management skills to successfully
complete and advance work. *Stakeholders: Articulate the features
and user stories with business stakeholders. - Build and maintain
relationships with business partners and knowledge share as needed.
Qualifications *Bachelor's degree.
*2+ Years Prior Experience with at least 2 working in a Business
Analyst level role.
*Ability to leverage strong communication skills and relationships
to influence outcomes while navigating conflict and decision
making.
*Domain expertise via previous internships or similar roles in the
past.
*Certifications demonstrating mastery of role specific
competencies. -
*Deep familiarity of agile & scrum development environments.
*Proven experience translating product requirements into technical
requirements and work through ambiguity *Solves moderately complex
problems; analyzes and recommends possible solutions using
experience, evaluation, judgment and precedents. *Ability to work
in a highly matrixed organization Compensation Range: Pay Range -
Start: $69,720.00 Pay Range - End: $129,480.00 Northwestern Mutual
pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the
salary range for this position will be determined by a number of
factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and
experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the
cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At
Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be
hired at or near the top of the range for their role and
compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances
of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the
posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain
locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the
standard pay structure based on the location. Please c lick for
additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our
client's interests at the center of all we do. Get started now! We
are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or
status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic
protected by law. If you work or would be working in California,
Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate
location, please click for information pertaining to compensation
and benefits.
FIND YOUR FUTUREWe're excited about the potential people bring to
Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying
first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and
inclusion. -
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