Senior Business Program Manager

Home Office Leader Development Program Manager

Accountable for the design, development and implementation of home office leader development programming and experiences from new leader to executive leadership, including development of high potential talent, to enable leaders to achieve success in their current leadership role and prepare them for advancement to higher levels of leadership in the future.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities :

• Designing, development and testing of leadership program initiatives in support of broader field leadership strategy. Programs to include live, virtual and self-paced learning.
• Ensures coordination of large-scale leader development programs including partnering with field learning and development and events to ensure programming, logistics and coordination are aligned with program objectives as defined by role.
• Ensures all leadership programs support and align to our NM strategy and leadership behavior model.
• Maintain, evolve and teach NM's leadership model, enlisting leaders to develop and then coach / role model the needed capabilities to realize vision.
• Facilitates collaborative process with home office stakeholders, subject matter experts, target audience members, and leaders to identify critical outcomes and measurement strategy.
• Conceptualizes, storyboards and gains agreement on the big picture of the program and how leaders will benefit personally, professionally as well as their businesses.
• Documents instructional strategy and curriculum components required to achieve desired outcomes, including performance support strategies.
• Develops and / or sources content and facilitates reuse between formal learning and performance support on-the-job.
• Works across Career Distribution to ensure effective implementation of leader development programs. Advance leadership programs to align to competencies and growth goals.
• Establishes leadership metrics and leverages them to report business results and secure support to further develop and evolve leadership programs to ensure relevance and contemporary learning experiences.
• Leverages retention tools to further support leadership development.
• Keeps abreast of industry-wide innovations and thought leaders.
• Mentors, advises, informs and consults members of Distribution Performance teams on expectations of leadership development programming including their roles in reinforcing content and programming. Manage vendor relationships with outside vendors supporting field leadership development.

Qualifications :

Pay Range - Start : $84,350.00

Pay Range - End : $156,650.00

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