Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes. Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them.

About the Job

As an Enterprise Product Coach (Forge Transformation), you will help leaders and teams adopt and sustain a large transformational shift, Forge ways of working. You will serve as a trusted coach, advisor, and change partner, helping teams improve alignment, accountability, transparency, and delivery outcomes. Through coaching, facilitation, and enablement, you will support leaders and teams as they build new behaviors, strengthen collaboration, and continuously improve how work gets done.What You’ll Do

• Partner with leaders to develop and execute adoption strategies that advance Forge priorities and business outcomes.

• Coach leaders and teams on Forge ways of working, Agile practices, decision making, prioritization, and team effectiveness.

• Assess organizational readiness, team dynamics, and barriers to adoption, and develop plans to address gaps and accelerate progress.

• Partner across teams and functions to identify delivery dependencies, remove barriers, and proactively address risks that may impact outcomes.

• Design and deliver workshops, facilitation sessions, and learning experiences that improve alignment, role clarity, and delivery effectiveness.

• Identify training and capability-building needs and tailor coaching approaches to support individual, team, and leadership development.

• Establish feedback mechanisms and adoption measurements to evaluate progress, reinforce desired behaviors, and inform continuous improvement efforts.

• Promote a culture of continuous learning by sharing leading practices, lessons learned, and coaching insights across the organization.

• Influence senior leaders and stakeholders through effective communication.

What You’ll Bring to the Role

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience coaching leaders and teams through Agile, delivery, transformation, or operating model changes in complex environments.

• Experience designing and facilitating workshops, training sessions, and adoption-focused enablement programs.

• Experience partnering with diverse stakeholders to align priorities, address barriers, and drive organizational change.

• Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and build trust across all levels of an organization.

• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills. Leads teams to collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills You Have

• Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.

• Agile Leadership: Leads with transparency and encourages feedback and constructive criticism to enable continuous testing of products with a flexible approach. Facilitates self-organization of team members to support critical thinking and decision-making skills.

• Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.

• Business Influence: Collaborates, communicates and influences direct reports, stakeholders, and other business functions based on understanding of the marketplace, organizational needs, and the client as a people manager.

• Consulting: Connects with stakeholders to understand and gain specific information to help resolve customer problems in a given domain. Communicates effectively intent to customers, solicits customer requirements, utilizes domain knowledge and collaborates with the right stakeholders.

• Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them.

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Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$144,000.00

Pay Range - End:

$216,000.00

Geographic Specific Pay Structure:

Structure 110:

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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

Skills

Adaptive Communication (NM) - Expert, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Expert, Agile Leadership (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Expert, Consulting (NM) - Expert

FIND YOUR FUTURE

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