Centralized Supervision Manager

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About the Job:

Responsible for supervising and leading the Centralized Supervision Team: a team of skilled professionals in specific compliance division. This role will build relationships, manage projects, hire new team members, as well as continuously coach and develop staff. Will assist and support the development of overall strategy for division to ensure effectiveness and program development. This role will partner with department leaders, business owners, and key stakeholders to advance divisional, departmental, and enterprise objectives.

What You'll Do:

• Assist in the development and execution of overall strategy to ensure program effectiveness

• Demonstrate to partners and stakeholders the value proposition of specialty division

• Recruits, hires and onboards talent ensuring the right mix of talent within team. Builds an inclusive, engaging environment that encourages accountability, productivity, and development.

• Builds effective teams by selecting talent, coaching, developing, and motivating divisional personnel

• Ensure team has the technical, business and procedural knowledge as well as the interpersonal skills to perform successfully in evolving compliance environments

• Builds and maintains relationships across department and with business partners to understand enterprise compliance support needs. Collaborates with business partners and leadership to identify business challenges and gaps that impact current and future performance and guides team to develop capabilities and processes to meet these needs.

• Assist in developing department divisional plans, including business, production and/or organizational priorities in support of department business objectives.

• Directs work distribution, and assist in the creation and refinement of workflows and processes

• May assists with divisional budget management.

What You'll Bring to the Role:

• FINRA series 7 & 24 required or can be acquired within 6 months

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, marketing, pre-law, etc. preferred

• Minimum of 6 years of proven experience. Preferably 2 years of leadership experience, formal or informal. Experience in the financial services/securities industry preferred.

• Ability to lead, mentor, and develop direct reports.

• Ability to lead others to tackle complex problems using sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.

• Guided by policies and divisional plan, ability to impact the team's ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives.

• Ability to explain information, convey performance expectations and handle sensitive issues.

Skills You'll Have:

• Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.

  Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.

• Compliance Metrics, Monitoring & Reporting: Establishes, analyzes and interprets compliance metrics. Defines and implements monitoring controls in order to communicate compliance status, risks, trends and monitors results to stakeholders.

  Compliance Metrics, Monitoring & Reporting: Establishes, analyzes and interprets compliance metrics. Defines and implements monitoring controls in order to communicate compliance status, risks, trends and monitors results to stakeholders.

• Decision Making: Makes timely, data-driven decisions by understanding the probability of success, identifying risks, gathering business requirements, and developing value statements.

  Decision Making: Makes timely, data-driven decisions by understanding the probability of success, identifying risks, gathering business requirements, and developing value statements.

• Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates extensive knowledge of common practices, regulatory considerations, market trends and the competitive landscape within a particular industry / sector to better understand and address unique client requirements, challenges, and context.

  Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates extensive knowledge of common practices, regulatory considerations, market trends and the competitive landscape within a particular industry / sector to better understand and address unique client requirements, challenges, and context.

• Risk Assessment & Identification: Leverages industry knowledge to determine and seek hazards that could potentially prevent the program, enterprise, or investment from achieving their objectives; designs systematic processes of identifying severity of hazards and evaluating the scale and impacts of any associated risk on the business.

  Risk Assessment & Identification: Leverages industry knowledge to determine and seek hazards that could potentially prevent the program, enterprise, or investment from achieving their objectives; designs systematic processes of identifying severity of hazards and evaluating the scale and impacts of any associated risk on the business.

• Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.

  Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.

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We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups