[Hiring] Director, Enterprise Strategy Analytics @Thrivent

Role Description

The Director, Enterprise Strategy Analytics, leads a team responsible for transforming enterprise questions into decision-ready insights that enable strategic, client-centered business decisions. Reporting to the Vice President, Enterprise Analytics & Data Management, this role serves as a senior thought partner to executive, business, and functional leaders by connecting strategy, analytics, business acumen, and client insights to evaluate opportunities and solve complex enterprise challenges.

This leader is accountable for:

• Translating ambiguity into clarity.
• Identifying opportunities for enterprise value creation.
• Developing analytics and measurement frameworks.
• Ensuring leaders have the information, context, and recommendations necessary to make informed decisions.

The Director will lead a team focused on enterprise priorities and will partner closely with Enterprise Strategy, Finance, Data, and Divisional Leadership to establish shared measures, create common understanding, and enable enterprise performance.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and advise on large, complex strategy and analytics engagements, ensuring Thrivent's most important strategic decisions are informed by trusted insights, rigorous analysis, and a scalable enterprise analytics capability.
• Partner with senior executive leaders and business stakeholders to frame difficult or undefined business questions, clarify decision needs, identify relevant hypotheses, and establish engagement scope, deliverables, and measures of success.
• Lead a team of dedicated analysts with specialized knowledge and business acumen working on the most important strategic and business questions for the Enterprise.
• Facilitate hypothesis-driven problem solving to support business strategy, growth opportunities, operational effectiveness, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Proactively identify emerging risks, opportunities, and strategic questions where analysis or decision support could improve growth, client or advisor outcomes, investment prioritization, operating effectiveness, or transformation results.
• Identify new ongoing data needs and requirements and champion the establishment of new systems and data sources in partnership with Data Product Leadership and appropriate business areas.
• Define and evolve the Enterprise Analytics methodologies and consulting practices.
• Recruit, develop, and sustain a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.
• Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies – Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.
• Support and/or develop an environment focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to clients.
• Shape and/or support a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise, and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.

The Director, Enterprise Analytics, serves as a senior enterprise advisor and strategic partner who influences decisions across the organization through analytics, business acumen, and consultative leadership. This role works closely with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) members, Enterprise Strategy Leaders, and VP/SVP level audience across divisions to frame enterprise questions, evaluate strategic opportunities, and deliver decision-ready recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in analytics, business strategy, management consulting, enterprise performance management, decision support, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including coaching and developing professional-level talent.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing decisions across multiple business functions.
• Experience partnering with Vice President, Senior Vice President, and executive-level leaders on strategic business challenges.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate data and analysis into actionable business recommendations.
• Experience leading teams responsible for strategic analysis, business performance insights, problem solving, and decision support.
• Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
• Proven ability to influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and structure complex business problems.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Economics, Analytics, Data Science, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years experience in relevant industries - banking, insurance, and wealth management.
• Experience supporting executive strategy development, annual planning, investment prioritization, or business case development.
• Experience operating within a matrixed or hub-and-spoke organizational model.
• Experience leading organizational change, analytics transformation, or operating model redesign initiatives.
• Familiarity with modern analytics, data visualization, and data management platforms.

Benefits

• Various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health savings account.
• Flexible spending account.
• 401k.
• Pension.
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Supplemental protection insurance.
• 20 days of Paid Time Off each year.
• Sick and Safe Time.
• 10 paid company holidays.
• Volunteer Time Off.
• Paid parental leave.
• EAP.
• Well-being benefits.
• Other employee benefits.