Investment Client Services Manager

Company: Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Location: Franklin
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

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

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages team and employee development. Includes identifying staffing needs, mentoring and performance management. Communicates purpose, clarifies roles, tasks, milestones, and measures of success.
• Takes a leadership role and is responsible for identifying proactive solutions. Reviews, prioritizes and handles requests. Explores potential solutions and recommends the most appropriate course of action or solution.
• Ensures the delivery of high quality service in a cost effective manner by managing operating plan, staff, budget and unit costs, consistently meeting service level goals, and ensures timely quality call reviews and processing audits.
• Handles escalated issues related to staff, cases, process, and/or systems from both home office and field operations areas. Collaborates with internal customer, external vendors, and across divisional/department lines to resolve problems when necessary.
• Ownership of investment program procedures, ensures investment program accounts are managed according to program and regulatory requirements. Provides ongoing home office supervision/oversight function of investment advisory accounts to ensure supervisory integrity and compliance to ensure core fiduciary responsibilities are being met.
• Acts as division project owner, contributor, SME and/or lead and manages a variety of projects/enhancements from concept to completion including scope, time and budget. Ensures that all documentation requirements are satisfied as well as compliance with company and regulatory procedures.
• Ability to lead change management across the organization. This role interfaces directly with business clients, the field, other NM areas, strategic vendors and business system teams.
• Responsible for communicating on various levels, salary administration, conflict resolution, dealing with ambiguity and independently making quality decisions.
• Enhances field productivity, growth and retains customer assets by identifying system enhancements, operational efficiencies and collaborating with various service providers.
• Identifies improvement opportunities that will lower unit costs; implements process or technology improvements in an effort to improve the customer's experience and interactions with the company.
• Assists senior management with succession planning by identifying future leaders and develop all individuals to their highest potential.
• Incumbent will keep abreast of developments in the industry and anticipates the need for communicating with various internal teams and network offices.
• Other responsibilities may be assigned as necessary.
  
  Qualifications
  
  • Bachelor's degree with an emphasis in business, operations management or related field or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of seven years of related experience to include in depth knowledge and design/implementation of operational procedures and policies.
  • Includes a minimum of two years in an operational management leadership position with proven management, human relations and interpersonal skills necessary to manage a group of people.
  • Technical knowledge of the operational aspects related to financial services and products.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge across complex business areas and manage projects and teams.
  • Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to learn new business concepts and procedures.
  • Proven ability to be responsive to changing business needs, manage and prioritize concurrent assignments and handle ambiguity.
  • Ability to focus and deliver proactively in a dynamic, multi-tasking, fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate future business consequences and trends.
  • Experience working with internal and external customers towards meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
  • Requires FINRA series 7 and 24.
    
    This position has been classified as a Registered Representative under NMIS guidelines and requires fingerprinting.
    
    Required Certifications:
    Series 24 - FINRA, Series 7 - FINRA, SIE - FINRA
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