As an Enterprise Product Coach (Forge Transformation), you will help leaders and teams adopt and sustain a large transformational shift, Forge ways of working. You will serve as a trusted coach, advisor, and change partner, helping teams improve alignment, accountability, transparency, and delivery outcomes. Through coaching, facilitation, and enablement, you will support leaders and teams as they build new behaviors, strengthen collaboration, and continuously improve how work gets done.What You'll Do
- Partner with leaders to develop and execute adoption strategies that advance Forge priorities and business outcomes.
- Coach leaders and teams on Forge ways of working, Agile practices, decision making, prioritization, and team effectiveness.
- Assess organizational readiness, team dynamics, and barriers to adoption, and develop plans to address gaps and accelerate progress.
- Partner across teams and functions to identify delivery dependencies, remove barriers, and proactively address risks that may impact outcomes.
- Design and deliver workshops, facilitation sessions, and learning experiences that improve alignment, role clarity, and delivery effectiveness.
- Identify training and capability-building needs and tailor coaching approaches to support individual, team, and leadership development.
- Establish feedback mechanisms and adoption measurements to evaluate progress, reinforce desired behaviors, and inform continuous improvement efforts.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning by sharing leading practices, lessons learned, and coaching insights across the organization.
- Influence senior leaders and stakeholders through effective communication.
What You'll Bring to the Role
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience coaching leaders and teams through Agile, delivery, transformation, or operating model changes in complex environments.
- Experience designing and facilitating workshops, training sessions, and adoption-focused enablement programs.
- Experience partnering with diverse stakeholders to align priorities, address barriers, and drive organizational change.
- Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and build trust across all levels of an organization.
- Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills. Leads teams to collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Skills You Have
- Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
- Agile Leadership: Leads with transparency and encourages feedback and constructive criticism to enable continuous testing of products with a flexible approach. Facilitates self-organization of team members to support critical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
- Business Influence: Collaborates, communicates and influences direct reports, stakeholders, and other business functions based on understanding of the marketplace, organizational needs, and the client as a people manager.
- Consulting: Connects with stakeholders to understand and gain specific information to help resolve customer problems in a given domain. Communicates effectively intent to customers, solicits customer requirements, utilizes domain knowledge and collaborates with the right stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$144,000.00
Pay Range - End:
$216,000.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
Skills
Adaptive Communication (NM) - Expert, Business Influence (NM) - Advanced, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Expert, Agile Leadership (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Expert, Consulting (NM) - Expert
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience coaching leaders and teams through Agile, delivery, transformation, or operating model changes in complex environments
- Experience designing and facilitating workshops, training sessions, and adoption-focused enablement programs
- Experience partnering with diverse stakeholders to align priorities, address barriers, and drive organizational change
- Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills
- Ability to influence without direct authority and build trust across all organizational levels
- Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills
Northwestern Mutual Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs feature both a 401(k) and a company‑funded cash balance plan, with materials noting age+service‑based credits and periods when additional employer funding is directed to the pension‑style plan. Vesting timelines are specified for each plan, signaling a long‑term, security‑oriented design.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, and vision with Lyra mental‑health support, on‑site Mutual Health Centers in select locations, virtual care options, and fitness reimbursement or on‑site gyms. This breadth positions core health benefits as comprehensive for eligible corporate employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Programs include paid parental leave, caregiving leave, and family‑building supports such as fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance. These offerings extend beyond baseline benefits to cover key life stages for families.
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What We Do
You’ll Like It Here At Northwestern Mutual, we believe that our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone. We follow through by designing tech that improves the community and cultivating creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere. These guiding principles have allowed our company to grow for more than 160 years. Here, you’ll be with a team who emphasizes integrity and prioritizes security to design experiences that better everyone. You’ll work in cross functional teams to create optimal solutions that are rooted in innovative strategy and thoughtful execution. And you’re provided development tools and opportunities to become a leader all with the support of a collaborative team. You’ll be surrounded in a culture that values innovation and works to always evolve to stay ahead of trends and client needs. We are intentional in seeking out team members who will challenge us. Our employees choose us for the career opportunities, commitment to philanthropy and desire to have a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients. You have career passions and goals. We have ambition and opportunity for you to grow your future in tech. Discover today: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/
Why Work With Us
We invest in our people. We know careers are about choices, so we provide intentional opportunity. Here you can build creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere and revolutionize traditional processes. As a mutual company, our focus is our people — whether professional development or investments in the community.
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