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Prudential Financial

Vice President, Strategy - US Businesses

Prudential Financial, Newark, NJ


Job Classification:
Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy - Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy

Your Team: US Businesses Strategy

Prudential's US Businesses include our Retirement Strategies, Individual Life Insurance, Group Insurance, and Retail Advice & Solutions businesses. Together, these businesses serve over six million retail and 20 million worksite customers across all demographic segments. We also partner with three thousand institutional clients and one hundred thousand third-party financial professionals.

The USB Strategy team serves as a key partner to the Head of US Businesses, as well as the various Business Unit Presidents and their senior leadership teams. The Strategy team collaborates across the businesses to lead the development, prioritization, and implementation of a range of strategies and initiatives to drive profitable growth within each business.

Your Role: Vice President, Strategy

We are seeking a dynamic leader and strategist for the role of VP, Strategy. In this role, you will lead the strategy work and teams for our Group Insurance and Individual Life Insurance businesses, reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer for US Businesses. You will be expected to lead the development, prioritization, and implementation of a range of strategies and initiatives to drive profitable growth across your assigned businesses. You will also serve as a member of the Senior Leadership Team for one or both of these businesses.

Success in this role will be built on your ability to deliver differentiated strategies to drive growth, form trusting relationships with senior executives while collaborating with partners across Prudential's other businesses and functions, as well as the ability operate in a fast-paced, forward-looking business environment.

Your Day-to-Day: Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the creation and ongoing refinement of the overall strategy and strategic priorities for Group Insurance and Individual Life Insurance.
  • Drive the strategic initiative development and prioritization process towards execution. Partner with the business senior leadership teams (SLT) to develop and assess the strategic initiatives that will have greatest impact on each business and its customers, resulting in a strategic initiative backlog that is well understood and supported by the SLT.
  • Lead the development of strategy documents and communication materials, including business and strategic reviews to senior leaders, including Executive Leadership Team (ELT), US Operating Committee, the Board of Directors and other key constituencies
  • Serve as a member of the Senior Leadership Team for at least one of the assigned businesses.
  • Manage a team of 5-6 business strategists across the two assigned businesses.
  • Build a project-based strategic capability to identify and analyze strategic opportunities.
  • Build collaborative and trusted relationships across Prudential's strategy, business development, and finance teams to ensure Prudential realizes its full potential by helping enable business outcomes.
  • Identify new breakthrough business models (e.g., FinTech/Insurtech,) that present potential disruption and growth opportunities for US Insurance and Retirement.
  • Partner with Corporate Development (M&A) and Finance to develop and assess potential acquisitions.
  • Build an external profile and network with leaders at other institutions.
  • Act as an internal and external partner advisor who creates relevance with our partners, anticipates needs and opportunities, makes connections, solves problems, and finds creative ways to connect the dots for the business.


Your Background: Qualifications

Ideal candidates will possess many of the following qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred
  • Minimum 10-15 years of experience in corporate strategy or management consulting strategy roles, including experience in financial service
  • Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust
  • Not afraid to 'roll up the sleeves' and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn - pushes the team to do the same
  • Strong industry knowledge, including Group Insurance and Individual Life Insurance
  • Proven strength in creating positive working relationships and leading projects with heavy cross-business/cross-functional collaboration
  • Successful track record of leading teams, with a demonstrated ability to flex between strategy and tactics
  • Exceptionally strong analytic, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
  • Proven verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and drive change


Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

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