VP, Business Strategy - WLF

Wintrust Financial Corporation•Rosemont, IL

2d•$98,000 - $132,000•Onsite

About The Position

As the largest life insurance premium finance company in the country, Wintrust Life Finance (WLF) provides customized financing solutions to qualified borrowers seeking to finance their life insurance premiums. Our financing solutions have supported numerous planning structures, including traditional wealth transfer, key-man insurance, buy-sell arrangements, split dollar arrangements, term alternatives, charitable giving, income replacement strategies, and more. Wintrust Life Finance is a subsidiary of Wintrust, a financial services company with more than $66 billion in assets. The WLF VP, Business Strategy, is responsible for collaborating with key stakeholders in the analysis, formulation and execution of WLF’s strategic plan. Key aspects of this position focus on completing life premium finance market research, analysis, reporting, strategic initiative development, project & product management, and delivering regularly scheduled reports and presentations in collaboration with department EVP.

Requirements

10-15 years of experience in the Financial Industry
Bachelor's Degree required

Nice To Haves

Premium Financial experience preferred
Experience owning a strategic initiative from concept to completion
MBA Preferred

Responsibilities

Manage WLFs process efficiency and strategy administration team
Collect and analyze premium finance data related to strategic plan and generate insights to initiate strategic development activities
Complete regularly scheduled market research in support of strategic plan
Collaborate with departments to evaluate operations to identify growth and development opportunities
Monitor and evaluate the performance of the company’s strategies, initiatives, and objectives and report findings to executive leaders
Help drive decision making resulting in medium- and long-term process improvements
Proactively present business findings, projections and make recommendations to department EVP and other leaders as appropriate
Support EVP in developing and communicating WLFs strategic initiatives, including but not limited to presentations, financial reports, and models in both written and verbal formats
Lead effective, efficient meetings with clients, prospects, and WLFs Strategic Initiative Owners to drive strategic plan efforts
In conjunctions with department EVP, act as an internal dot connector, working with project managers to ensure internal resources are collaborative and projects/work streams are on time and in line with expectations
Partner with WLFs Strategic Initiative Owners, Wintrust’s ePMO and Wintrust Oversight teams (ePMO, TPRM, IC, CC, IPA, ASRB and InfoSec) to drive strategic level project approval and implementation
Drive internal understanding of key customer personas and engage with clients/prospects to better understand workflows. Synthesize learnings to internal stakeholders to drive and facilitate loan growth
Partner with Sales, Sales Leadership and Client Success teams to define, enhance, track and drive product adoption
Through the lens of the Strategic Plan build Product Level KPIs to define, monitor and manage success
Support optimization modeling and process planning in collaboration with team level management, outside sales and internal stakeholders. Evaluate premium tiers for client/prospects, calculate quote conversation ratios, average down payments, installments, and price to deliver actionable recommendations in identifying growth opportunities
Look for opportunities, identify gaps and scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments
Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships with other departments and vendors
Source data to make compelling and tangible recommendations of a future state for the organization
Leverage relationships and organizational values to prioritize outcomes effectively
Employ practical methods and action steps to move the organization toward the strategic vision
Help Identify obstacles to transformation and challenge conventional thinking