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Assistant Director - Enterprise Risk Management & Response

Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC
California, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 2/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/8/2025

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

Summary :

The Assistant Director – Enterprise Risk Management will support the enterprise risk management program, with a specific focus on enhancing risk response strategies and integrating risk considerations into investable structures. Reporting to the Senior Director – Enterprise Risk Management & Integration, the Assistant Director will play a crucial role in driving effective risk responses, collaborating with the Transformation team, and fostering strong relationships with business partners across the company to ensure holistic risk management.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities :

  • Assist in driving effective risk response strategies, including providing guidance on incorporating risk considerations into the design and maturation of investable structures. This may include support of risk response efforts to reduce “people, process, technology” risks identified through the enterprise risk assessment.
  • Collaborate with the Transformation team to aggregate risk information and support periodic reporting to the Enterprise Risk Executive Committee, quarterly business reviews and other senior leadership and the Board.
  • Utilize analytics capabilities to draw data insights from the incorporation of risk in investable structures, contributing to consistent metrics on risk status and informing strategic decision-making.
  • Contribute to the preparation and delivery of presentations to executive committees and senior leadership, providing data-driven insights and recommendations.
  • Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior executives, business leaders, and risk management teams, to ensure alignment on risk-related objectives and the integration of risk into business planning processes.
  • Support the development of strategic initiatives related to risk management, including the enhancement of the company’s risk appetite framework, risk policies, risk governance structures, while also supporting enterprise risk education and skill strategy advancement.
  • Support other Enterprise Risk Management & Resiliency (ERMR) initiatives in coordination with the ERMR leadership team.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities :

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Risk Management, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 7 years’ progressive experience in risk management, audit, compliance, or privacy.
  • Required competencies include :

  • Strategic Thinking : Ability to understand the Company's strategic direction and the connection between strategy and risk management.
  • Innovation / Transformation : Must be able to operate effectively within, and contribute to, a culture of innovation. Ability to think creatively and identify opportunities to redesign existing processes and / or develop new processes to facilitate transformation within ERMR and the Company.
  • Data & Analysis : Established ability to gather, analyze, use, draw conclusions from, and report information collected via quantitative or qualitative methods, and to measure levels of risk over time and against risk appetite, tolerances, and limits, including establishing meaningful metrics.
  • Leadership & Communications : Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, including effective decision making, consultation, and communication (written and oral, with ability to present effectively to a variety of audiences), and NM enterprise savvy to navigate, influence and inform multiple key internal stakeholders.
  • Advisor : Trusted advisor and builder of strong, collaborative relationships with key business and risk partners to align and deliver on cross-functional, enterprise solutions.
  • Enterprise Acumen : Strong finance, planning, strategy, and operations skills, including the ability to understand how initiatives drive business outcomes and drive work through the processes and procedures within NM to ensure leadership buy-in and execution quality.
  • Compensation Range : Pay Range - Start :

    92,750.00

    Pay Range - End : 172,250.00

    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.

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    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.

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    Salary : $172,250

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