Northwestern Mutual
Assistant Director, Curriculum, Program, and Delivery Management
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Lead curriculum strategy, roadmap, and delivery for enterprise learning. Advise SMEs and senior leaders, define OKRs/KPIs, integrate AI-driven solutions, manage vendors, establish measurement and governance, and coach a team to deliver multi-year learning initiatives and continuous improvement.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Qualifications
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00
Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USD
Structure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
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.
- Serve as strategic advisor to SME leaders and stakeholders, consulting on performance, and learning and development design and needs
- Drive annual business planning, on behalf of advisor development experience, including development and measurement of OKRs and KPIs.
- Develop, monitor, and adjust multi-year delivery and innovative roadmap
- Establish a measurement strategy, anchored to enterprise priorities and business objectives
- Gather NM data and NM/External insights to inform approach and demonstrate value
- Establish and monitor standards, frameworks, and methodologies to ensure curriculum programs maintain high quality, consistency and alignment with NMU vision
- Integrate and embed AI-driven solutions in both curriculum delivery and management
- Stay current, source and evaluate vendor relationships to inform buy/build/rent strategy (industry and discipline), and ongoing management
- Contribute curriculum architecture and standards to governance processes and systems
- Monitor and evaluate emerging and modernized innovations in curriculum design, learning experiences, and deliver models that improve learner experience
- Apply adult and modern learner theory and principles to learner experience architecture and design
- Deliver and lead principles for curriculum co-creation and performance consulting, enabling team to consult effectively with business and field partners
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of learning, curriculum, and performance consulting professionals
- Assess team capabilities and skill gaps; create targeted development plans to build future-ready skills
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation (AI), accountability, and psychological safety
Qualifications
- Degree/background/certifications in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, Education, Business, AI in learning, workflow learning
- Experience in learning strategy, performance consulting
- Experience managing large contract vendors, including sourcing, negotiating, and ongoing relationship management
- 10+ years of experience in learning strategy, curriculum design, and/or performance consulting
- Creating operating models, in which the team can deliver value and operate
- Experience leading teams of learning, curriculum, or performance consulting professionals
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and SMEs to design enterprise learning solutions
- Demonstrated success leading/delivering multi-year learning roadmaps and enterprise-level initiatives
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00
Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USD
Structure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
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
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