Strategy Director

POSITION OBJECTIVE:Through the lens of Northern’s leadership Principles, the Strategy Director is primarily responsible for inspiring, developing, and leading the Strategy Team while also partnering with leaders across the organization to research, plan, and execute key strategies; identify and improve efficiencies; gain productivity; and establish greater transparency and accountability in the accomplishment of our overall objectives. The Strategy Director helps to strengthen Northern’s culture through partnerships, education, and the alignment of resources in support of Northern’s mission, vision, and strategic direction.ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:Proactively serves as the role model and demonstrates individual commitment to Northern’s growth by:Elevating leadership through a humble, hungry and people smart approach to coaching and mentoring teams.Exuding and modeling high energy, creativity, and unrelenting passion for member focused solutions.Maintaining an active, positive, professional image and reputation for Northern in the community while spreading the Ownership philosophy internally and externally.Researching, developing, and recommending enhancement plans to further promote our Credit Union Culture and to deliver solutions to become the Standard of Excellence.Advocating and role modeling cross-department communication and collaboration by inviting owner participation on teams, listening to owner ideas, holding meetings, and publishing regular announcements.Effectively encouraging individual and group input, listening to ideas, and recognizing behavior and actions that support Northern’s Core Values, Mission and Vision.Strengthens Northern’s people-first culture by providing integral leadership that leads to an engaged workforce who are humble, hungry and people smart by:Consistently role modeling the leadership principles while providing guidance that progressively builds confidence and inspires team members to challenge boundaries in pursuit of reaching their maximum potential.Engaging team members in establishing department goals and objectives that meet/exceed the needs of our internal owners, members, and the organization.Ensuring team members are well equipped and highly efficient in fulfilling their responsibilities.Establishing and communicating clear performance standards and proactively coaching, counseling, and developing the team.Overseeing the direction and performance of the team including hiring, department scheduling, training, meetings, and projects in order to meet short and long-term goals for the department and the Credit UnionProvides leadership that strengthens interdepartmental partnerships, furthering the advancement of best practices related to research and ideation, project planning, operational efficiencies and productivity by:Partnering:With Marketing and the Career Development & Owner Engagement teams, analyzing market dynamics and product line performance. Make recommendations based on findings and support execution of approved plans.With “Strategy Owners”, team serves as the key resource to help plan, identify action steps, determine measurables, align resources, discover efficiencies, and report progress.With the SVP of HR, Training & Compliance, CFO, CEO & KLT to ensure alignment of Stakeholders to Strategic Initiatives. Partners to educate Internal Owners on what has been established for the year and the role that everyone plays.With the SVP of HR, Training & Compliance, CEO, and KLT to research, present, and execute new strategic initiatives that have a positive impact on Northern, the membership, and communities we serve.Researching and identifying:Establishing effective framework for incoming ideas to be submitted, considered and approved based on short- and long-term needs.Emerging concepts being adopted by other credit unions and/or financial institutions that would be of benefit to Northern.Industry related trends and presenting to CEO, KLT and the board. Learnings will be shared with all internal owners to help generate excitement and engagement with implementing strategies that align with Northern’s visionProject planning:Providing transparency at all levels, including the board through easily accessible, and user- friendly dashboards.Aligning resources, enabling opportunities for internal owners to develop leadership, project management, and process improvement skills.Understanding key milestones, progress, and any obstacles to success.Incorporating best practices for properly planning, managing and executing strategies.Operational efficiencies and productivity:Ensuring leaders revise procedures, training plans, and coaching to align with improvements.Driving changes required with vendors to improve systems/processes.Understanding systems and/or operational barriers that prevent efficiency and limit productivity.Assessing areas within the organization that are not performing at maximum capacity, understands inhibitors, and collaborates with the leader in the development of solutions.OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS:Through Ownership Pride, promotes Northerns Core Values throughout the organization. Promotes teamwork within the Credit Union and actively seeks solutions to issues related to member and internal owner expectations.Actively participates in other Credit Union duties, functions, committees, and events as may be reasonably requested, or on a volunteer basis.Provides informed, prompt, professional and accurate communication, service and support to all members and internal owners.Participates in the future of the credit union by offering constructive suggestions that may attract new members and/or enhance product penetration. Keeps management informed of significant problems, provides recommendations for more effective programs as well as, lending needs and suggests related procedural changes as applicable.Stays informed and maintains a working knowledge of state and federal regulations as well as changes to credit union regulations, policies and procedures, products/services, and delivery channels as well as culture and trends within the Credit Union industry.Identifies and participates in educational programs such as Cornerstone online training resources, schools and/or conferences to continually develop greater knowledge and expertise. Takes initiative for personal career development and seeks opportunities to learn new skills.Hybrid work environment and occasional travel is required.Establishes and maintains professional business relationships with internal and external members, partners, association groups, service vendors, and other parties as necessary and appropriate in support of Credit Union programs.QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCEBachelors’ Degree from an accredited college or university is required.Five to ten years of related experience is requiredHas supervisory/managerial responsibilities over a branch or small to medium sized department. Supervises, coordinates and reviews the work of assigned staff, typically with a subordinate group of up to 15 employees. Recommends candidates for employment, conducts performance evaluations and salary reviews for assigned staff, and applies company policy. Can include department heads with no staffA significant level of trust, credibility and diplomacy is required. In-depth dialogue, conversations and explanations with customers, direct and indirect reports and outside vendors can be of a sensitive and/or highly confidential nature. Communications may involve motivating, influencing, educating and/or advising others on matters of significance. Typically includes subject matter experts as well as first level to middle managerA professional level of self-direction and autonomy is expected of this position. Diversified procedures, specialized job standards, and specific policies, as well as agreed upon objectives, deadlines and priorities limit the latitude permitted for independent judgment requiring analytical ability, judgment, and time management skills. The employee prioritizes their work-flow, carries out the successive steps and handles problems and deviations in the work assignment in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, or accepted practices in the occupation. This can be a mid-level manager or a high individual contributorProblems encountered are somewhat complex, and may involve consideration of a variety or breadth of data and information. Frequently requires a mental focus of 1 hour or more per assignment or task. However, problems are generally similar in nature, with previous precedent to draw uponThe position is expected to have a notable impact on current financial or strategic organizational goals and objectives. The effects of the job could impact a segment of customers and/or employees across several functional areas. However, decisions or results that could have an organization wide impact would be preapproved by a more senior level positionVery limited supervision of work. Errors can be very difficult to resolve and/or consequences of potential errors can be of greater significance. OR Under general management, directs the activities of a small department, branch or a functional unit within a larger department. Usually involved in the identification and resolution of problems and errors of others.A full working knowledge and ability to utilize a broad range of PC-based software programs, including Microsoft Office Suite and other internal database programs.Physical Activities and Requirements of this Position:Finger Dexterity: Using primarily just the fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up small objects, or pinching fingers together. Talking: Especially where one must frequently convey detailed or important Instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly. Average Hearing: Able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information. Repetitive Motions: Movements frequently and regularly required using the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. Average Visual Abilities: Average, ordinary, visual acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products or operate office equipment. Physical Strength: Sedentary work; sitting most of the time. Working Conditions: No hazardous or significantly unpleasant conditions.Mental Activities and Requirements of this position:Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions.Able to interpret a variety of technical instructions and can deal with multiple variables. Mathematics Ability: Ability to compute discount, interest, profit, and loss; commission. Markup and selling price; and ratio, proportion, and percentage. Able to Perform very simple algebra. Language Ability: Ability to read periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias. Ability to prepare business letters, proposals, summaries, and reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Ability to conduct training, communicate at panel discussions, and make professional presentations.Compensation:The base pay range for this position is $94,083.81 – $123,485.00 annually. Exact offers will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience

Minimum Salary: 94,083.81
Maximum Salary: 123,485.0
Salary Unit: Yearly