Strategic Portfolio Manager

What You'll DoPrincipal is looking for a Strategic Portfolio Manager to partner with senior business leaders in Asset Management and enterprise partners to influence and ensure portfolio alignment with enterprise strategy. This includes influencing to establish clear priorities, creating visibility and transparency on progress towards outcomes, and facilitating trade-off decisions to optimize business outcomes within resource constraints. You will serve as a trusted collaborator and advisor to the Asset Management leadership and strategy teams. In addition, you will promote the portfolio vision to strengthen partnership across the enterprise. You will inspire change leadership to continuously improve business outcomes. You will also leverage effective portfolio management tools and techniques to help advance the portfolio. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to make an impact!Examples of the kind of work include:

Execution of Strategy - Ensure alignment to Business and Enterprise strategic priorities and objectives and the achievement of strategic outcomes. Improve use of data and analytics to advise decision making towards building the right things. Partner with portfolio stakeholders to deliver results that advance strategic outcomes.

Communication & Visibility - Lead and proactively communicate results, progress, risks, roadblocks, financial aspects, and data to teams, sponsors and partners ensuring collaboration, decision making, and direction.

Inspire Change – Lead continuous improvement, partnering with leaders and team members to cultivate discovery and innovation, improve delivery speed, increase transparency, and achieve strategic outcomes. Advocate, influence, and lead change.

Organizational Management - Effectively drive the portfolio to deliver on customer needs and business objectives through coordinating, communicating clearly, aligning and collaborating, and managing dependency and risk. Work across teams and vendors to remove impediments and ensure decision making leverages data where possible.

Who You Are

You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 8+ years of responsibility for strategic integration, partner alignment, complex decision making, analysis, and informal leadership or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education with at least 4 of those years listed above, having direct responsibility for management of sophisticated, cross-functional initiatives

You have a strong intuition for business and an understanding of the capabilities of information technology and applications to find opportunities for process improvement

You are able tooperate in ambiguous environments and enjoy assessing organizational culture and operating model needs; and appropriately adapting to deliver required results

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

Experience working in a global organization and working with global audiences

Salary Range InformationSalary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)$123000 - $167000 / yearTime Off ProgramFlexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.Pension EligibleYesAdditional InformationWork EnvironmentsThis role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) in our Des Moines, IA headquarters.Job LevelWe’ll consider talent at the next level with the right experience and skills.Work Authorization/SponsorshipAt this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based ImmigrantsInvestment Code of EthicsFor Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.Experience PrincipalAt Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.Principal is an Equal Opportunity EmployerAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.Posting WindowWe will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.Original Posting Date7/3/2024Most Recently Posted Date7/3/2024LinkedIn Hashtag#LI-EW1