Sr. Director, Project Management

Nationallifeinsurancecompany; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits starting day one

401(k) eligibility

Paid time off benefits

Job summary

The Nationallifeinsurancecompany seeks a Project Management Practice Lead to enhance its enterprise delivery system. This role requires extensive experience in the Life and Annuity industry and involves collaborating across functions to drive alignment and improve delivery practices.

Applicants should possess a minimum of 15 years of leading enterprise initiatives and a PMP certification. The position offers a salary range of $150,000 — $220,000 USD, reflecting the company’s commitment to rewarding talent and experience.

Qualifications

• 15+ years leading enterprise delivery or transformation initiatives.
• 10 years in the Life and Annuity industry with product understanding.
• Experience leading and scaling Project Management teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and enable the enterprise delivery system.
• Ensure initiatives align with strategy and value outcomes.
• Establish decision frameworks and governance models.

Skills

Life and Annuity industry experience

Project Management

Enterprise delivery systems design

Executive-level influencing capability

Systems thinking

Education

PMP or equivalent experience

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Come join one of America’s fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Project Management Practice Lead is accountable for designing, evolving, and enabling the enterprise delivery system as a value delivery engine. This role establishes principles, capabilities, and practices that allow the organization to translate strategy into outcomes effectively. The Practice Lead drives alignment across functions, reduces friction in decision-making, and builds a high-performing PM capability focused on value, flow, and adaptability.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

This role requires a minimum of 10 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Initiation & Value Alignment

• Ensure enterprise initiatives align to strategy and value outcomes
• Define principles and guardrails for value-based delivery and prioritization
• Partner with strategy and portfolio functions to reinforce outcome alignment

Adaptive Planning & Flow Management

• Design systems that enable flow across the enterprise
• Partner with Portfolio to optimize sequencing, capacity and prioritization
• Remove systemic barriers to flow and improve speed to value

Risk, Uncertainty & Decision Enablement

• Establish decision frameworks and governance models
• Reduce decision latency and organizational ambiguity
• Enable consistent, transparent tradeoff management across the enterprise

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Align Strategy, Portfolio, Business, and Technology functions
• Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and collaboration
• Influence executive leadership to support value-based delivery practices

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading enterprise delivery or transformation initiatives
• Minimum of 10 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry, with demonstrated understanding of products, operations, and regulatory environment
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and scaling Project Management teams in a complex, enterprise environment
• Demonstrated success evolving organizations from process-driven to value-driven delivery
• Deep expertise with enterprise prioritization, portfolio management, and decision frameworks
• Proven ability to design and optimize enterprise delivery systems
• Strong systems thinking and ability to operate in complex environments
• Executive-level influencing capability across business and technology leadership
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing PM capabilities
• Strong financial, strategic, and operational acumen
• PMP or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Base Pay Range. The base pay range for this position is the range National Life reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors, including: prior experience and job-related knowledge; education, training and certificates; current business needs; and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances.

Additional Compensation and Benefits. The total compensation package for this position may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in National Life’s discretionary annual incentive programs, subject to the rules governing such programs. If hired, the employee will be in an "at-will" position and National Life reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

$150,000 — $220,000 USD