Program Manager, Retirement & Income Solutions

Principal Financial Group is a trusted leader in financial services, committed to making financial security accessible to all. They are seeking a Program Manager to drive complex business initiatives within their Retirement and Income Solutions team, focusing on collaboration across multiple functional areas and ensuring successful project completion.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple complex, high-risk, high-visibility RIS initiatives to successful completion, using appropriate methodologies and influencing partners. Lead with organizational awareness and collaboration to meet or exceed expectations. Track achievements and results to ensure progress aligns with objectives
• Communicate clearly with internal teams, department leadership, business partners, and vendors, providing updates, ensuring visibility, and driving accountability
• Build relationships by promoting motivation and collaboration. Facilitate change and drive improvements, using change management principles
• Identify and mitigate risks impacting cross functional teams. Communicate and manage organizational changes, balancing competing demands
• Make cost-effective decisions, aligning financial and operational strategies. Oversee vendor activities to ensure delivery and expected outcomes. Manage relationships, negotiations, and support procurement

Requirements:

• 8+ years project, program, initiative management experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or combination of the following: work experience, military experience, or education
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, facilitation, planning, and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated capability to build and sustain relationships with individuals at all levels, including external consultants and vendors, fostering collaboration and communication, while effectively leading and influencing without direct authority
• Performance driven and able to adapt and deal with ambiguous situations, managing expectations effectively while executing in a matrix management environment
• Understanding of the capabilities of information technology and applications to find opportunities for process improvement
• Strong knowledge of PC, Microsoft Suite and project planning oriented software
• Strong understanding of negotiation and procurement processes for purchase of professional services and/or products
• Experience and/or ability to assess organizational culture and appropriately adapt work efforts to deliver required results
• Retirement services experience
• Financial services experience
• Expert program manager with the application of project scope, cost, and time management as well as other project management fields such as quality and risk control, communication, and HR management and integration
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation
• Experience working with product managers and business operations stakeholders