Strategic Initiative Delivery Lead

Pacific Asset Management, LLC

Omaha (NE)

On-site

USD 119,000 - 145,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid time off

Parental leave

401k match

Job summary

Pacific Life Insurance Company is seeking a Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager to join the Portfolio & Delivery team in Omaha, NE or Newport Beach, CA. You will lead planning, execution, and closure of strategic initiatives, defining outcomes and maintaining delivery artifacts.

The role requires at least 5+ years in delivery management, strong communication and stakeholder skills, and a track record of delivering complex cross-functional work in a regulated industry. Competitive benefits included.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in an analytical field, business, computer science, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 5+ years of project management, program management, delivery management, business analysis, or related experience.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives using traditional, agile, hybrid, or right-sized delivery approaches.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex work independently, solve problems, elevate appropriately, and operate with minimal guidance.
Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to translate complex information into clear business language and tailor messages for different audiences.
Project management certification or equivalent delivery discipline preferred.
Financial services, insurance, product development, operations, technology, or regulated-industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of strategic, operational, and cross-functional initiatives.
Define, track, and measure expected business outcomes, benefits, and success metrics throughout the initiative lifecycle.
Create and maintain core delivery artifacts, including project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, decision logs, resource plans, charters, status updates, and dependency maps.
Drive clarity around scope, success criteria, ownership, roles, decision rights, dependencies, capacity, budget considerations, and escalation paths.
Coordinate work across business, technology, operations, product, finance, risk, legal, compliance, actuarial, vendor, and other stakeholder groups.
Drive alignment and decision-making through credibility, influence, stakeholder partnership, and data-driven recommendations.
Monitor initiative budgets, forecasts, and financial assumptions to identify risks, trade-off opportunities, and decision points that may impact scope, timing, value, or capacity.
Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and delivery health concerns.
Frame escalations as clear decision requests with context, impact, options, recommendation, owner, and timing.
Support governance and stage gate readiness, including sponsor engagement, SteerCo discipline, SLT/DRMC preparation, operational readiness, and value realization activities.
Provide concise, transparent, decision-oriented communications tailored to project teams, sponsors, senior leaders, and enterprise partners.
Promote accountability, urgency, collaboration, and respectful challenge while maintaining trust and partnership across teams.
Contribute to delivery practice maturity through use of playbooks, templates, retrospectives, process improvements, and repeatable ways of working.