Head of Strategic Planning

4 weeks ago

Auckland City, New Zealand TOWER Insurance Full time

**Why You'll Love Working with Tower**

At Tower, our values are the heartbeat of every interaction. We prioritize our people, fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, representing the vibrant communities we serve. We celebrate all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, and everything else that makes our culture unique. Proud holders of the Rainbow and DV Free Ticks, we are committed to inclusivity and safety.

We are on a mission to lead our industry into a customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking. As a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider with over 150 years of history, our roots trace back to Dunedin.

**What you will be doing**

The Head of Strategic Portfolio & Planning is a key leadership role at Tower, responsible for shaping the future of Tower and its Transformation Office.

Reporting to the Head of Process Excellence & Transformation, this position oversees the prioritisation, alignment, and governance of Tower's portfolio of work, ensuring all projects and initiatives are strategically aligned with Tower's vision and strategy. The role involves close collaboration with senior leadership and various teams to drive strategic outcomes and optimise the portfolio for maximum value.

**Dive into the Heart of Your Responsibilities**:

- Own and maintain Tower's strategic delivery portfolio, ensuring alignment with vision and strategy.
- Drive best practice portfolio management across Tower and support continuous improvement activities.
- Actively participate in and coordinate strategic planning discussions, collaborating with senior leadership to define portfolio priorities and align outputs with overarching strategic goals.
- Lead and coordinate ongoing portfolio prioritisation activities, including annual portfolio planning, quarterly planning and ongoing out-of-cycle approvals and changes to prioritisation.
- Lead, facilitate, and drive Tower's Quarterly Planning, including preparation activities and post-planning follow-ups.
- Oversee portfolio performance, highlighting risks, issues, and opportunities in portfolio composition and performance, and supporting portfolio, programme, and project governance.
- ensuring adequate resolution with designed and executed mitigation strategies.
- Lead and manage the Portfolio team members, supporting their professional development.
- Advise initiative owners and executive sponsors, ensuring ongoing alignment with planning and prioritisation processes and frameworks, and maintaining consistency across the wider Tower portfolio.
- Monitor and evaluate portfolio effectiveness, implementing continuous improvement processes to enhance portfolio outcomes.
- Establish and maintain portfolio governance structures, including processes and procedures to ensure consistency and accountability.

**What You'll Need**

To be successful in this role, you will also demonstrate the following:

- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, programme management, or similar roles, preferably within the financial services industry.
- Extensive experience in developing, executing, and tracking strategic plans and initiatives.
- Deep knowledge of portfolio management frameworks (e.g., P3M), with relevant certifications.
- Experience using Project Portfolio Management tooling (e.g., Planview, Jira Align) to inform portfolio performance and planning discussions.
- Proven ability to use data analytics and performance metrics (including financial data) to drive strategic decisions.
- Exceptional leadership capabilities, with a history of leading high-performing teams, developing talent, and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- In-depth knowledge of the software delivery lifecycle and Agile methodologies, with the ability to integrate portfolio management practices seamlessly into these frameworks.

**Our Commitment**

We pride ourselves on encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, embracing diverse opinions, experiences, and backgrounds. Our commitment is to create an inclusive workplace where our people come first, feel valued, safe, and respected. If you feel comfortable doing so, please let us know early in the process.

**What we'll bring to the table**

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.

**Highlights include**:

- Our people come first as we offer 16 weeks of paid leave for the primary carer and 4 weeks of paid leave partner's leave.
- A paid day off on your birthday, as well as two extra annual leave days every year and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off
- Annual Performance Review where you get to showcase your progression.
- Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; we also hav

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