Director, Enterprise Strategy Analytics

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and advise on large, complex strategy and analytics engagements, answering the enterprise’s most important strategic questions, spanning multiple business areas, functions, products, and channels, 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 team of dedicated analysts with specialized knowledge and business acumen working on the most important strategic and business questions for the Enterprise. Establish engagement priorities and direct Enterprise Analytics resources toward the organization's highest-value strategic opportunities.

• 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.

• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes. ​

• Support and/or develop an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our 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.

Describe below the audience this role will interact with and level of influence they will have on those roles.

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, VP/SVP level audience across divisions to frame enterprise questions, , evaluate strategic opportunities, and deliver decision-ready recommendations. The role will require high levels of influencing, dealing with ambiguity, and strong communication skills to be effective. The role also provides direct leadership to a team of analytics professionals and plays a key role in shaping enterprise strategy execution, performance measurement, and analytics capability development.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Required:

• 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.

Preferred:

• 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.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.

About Us

At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given. At our heart, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our customers. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow.

For over 100 years, Thrivent has been helping people build their financial futures and live more generous lives. Today, it’s a Fortune 500 company that offers a full range of expert financial solutions, serving more than 2 million customers, as well as the communities in which they live and work.

Thrivent fosters a diverse workforce to serve our diverse clientele, reflecting a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. If you’re intrigued about our work and the possibility of becoming part of it, we invite you to visit Thrivent.com to learn more. You won’t just build a career; you’ll be part of an organization focused on growing, innovating, and serving.