Senior Business Planning and Strategy Consultant

Description and Requirements
Description and Requirements
The MetLife Marketing organization is evolving as part of our New Frontier strategy. The organization is evolving its strategy and critical to this evolution is the goal of increasingly becoming a customer-centric and data driven growth engine that takes accountability for contributing meaningful enterprise value and building customer equity.
The organization is on a journey to create a high performing team enabled by a set of modern capabilities. This will require us to change the organization's expectation of marketing as well as shift the Marketing focus areas. The expected outcomes of this evolution are 1) growth - marketing as an investment with predictable contribution to enterprise value, 2) efficiency/effectiveness through a data driven DNA, 3) capability maturity leading to sophisticated technical and strategic capabilities and 4) talent alignment to enable a modern, agile marketing organization that nurtures, develops, and attracts top talent.
Reporting to the SVP, CMO, Customer Insights and Regional and Institutional Marketing, this role fosters strategic alignment, optimizes planning and processes and facilitates collaboration and connections to drive impact. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, skilled relationship builder and proactive problem solver interested in helping advance global marketing capabilities and customer insights.
Key responsibilities:

• Delivering opportunities within and across regional markets, institutional businesses and Customer Insights & Analytics teams, including optimizing overall team resource allocation to ensure alignment with strategic goals
• Uncovering and advancing operating model improvements, such as process efficiencies and opportunities to increasingly leverage AI and marketing technology
• Elevating learnings and enabling effective leverage of expertise within and across capabilities deployment, e.g. Demand Generation and Marketing Planning to maximize impact
• Enable improved and more effective ways of working to foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity and high performance
• Facilitate connections and interface with enterprise resources within Global Marketing and Communications, developing and cascading communications for consistent messaging with the Office of the CEO and Global Marketing and Communications to accelerate change

Position Requirements:
* 5+ years of experience defining, communicating, and delivering on strategy and operational initiatives to drive business impact
* Interest in and experience with data-driven, modern marketing and deepening business understanding to drive business outcomes
* Degree in Finance, Business, Marketing, or Economics preferred
* Thinks strategically and has strong execution capabilities
* Uses an analytical approach to problem solving
* Possesses strong program management capabilities with the ability to manage multiple priorities - comfortable with ambiguity
* Demonstrated collaboration skills and the ability to engage multiple functions and business units
* Ability to influence without formal direct authority: consultative in approach and diplomatic
* Uses data-driven storytelling to present insights and drive decision-making while demonstrating advanced PowerPoint skills
* Flexibility to work with different time zones. Minimum travel required
What Will Give You an Edge (Additional Skills)
* Prior insurance or retail financial services experience is a plus but not mandatory
The salary range for applicants for this position is 87,900 - 117,200.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2024 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans
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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
87,900 - 117,200
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