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Total Portfolio Analytics & Investment AI Strategy Lead at Northwestern Mutual | LAYIQ

Lead total portfolio analytics strategy: Build and maintain the analytical frameworks that support strategic and tactical asset allocation, portfolio construction, liquidity planning, risk budgeting, rebalancing, and scenario analysis across public and private assets.
Drive Institutional Investments AI strategy and adoption: Identify, prioritize, and lead AI-enabled opportunities that improve investment decision-making, automate repeatable workflows, and create scalable capabilities for the broader investment organization.
Partner with engineering and enterprise teams: Work closely with engineering, data, technology, risk, compliance, and enterprise AI partners to translate investment needs into technical requirements, align delivery priorities, and move capabilities from concept to production.
Build and maintain data models: Collaborate with data engineers to onboard total portfolio data sources, integrate public and private market data, design repeatable data models, and establish data quality checks, lineage, and documentation.
Develop interactive data visualizations: Create dashboards, applications, and portfolio views using Power BI, Streamlit, or similar tools to help investment leaders and portfolio teams understand exposures, performance, risk, liquidity, and capital allocation decisions.
Apply quantitative methods: Define and execute the analytics strategy and roadmap for portfolio models and decision-support tooling; examples include developing portfolio construction and optimization models for strategic and tactical asset allocation, risk budgeting, optimization under constraints, and rebalancing; build scenario and stress-testing frameworks for macro and market scenarios, liquidity stress, and commitment pacing across public and private assets; and implement performance and attribution methodologies for multi-asset attribution, exposures, factor analytics, and benchmark alignment.
Improve existing systems and workflows: Identify gaps in current investment data, analytics, AI, and reporting processes; help prioritize improvements that reduce manual work, improve controls, and speed time to decision.
Manage and develop talent: Serve as a people leader for a small team of analysts, data professionals, or associates by setting priorities, coaching team members, creating clear accountability, and helping the team deliver against department objectives.
Collaborate effectively: Work closely with portfolio managers, investment strategy leaders, traders, operations, risk, data, engineering, and enterprise partners to advance total portfolio capabilities and enable better investment decisions.

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field, such as Finance, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, or Engineering, is required; advanced degree, such as an MS or PhD, or progress toward the CFA designation is a plus.
7-10+ years of relevant experience in multi-asset or total portfolio analytics within asset management, an allocator, or consulting, with exposure to both public and private markets.
Experience leading, managing, or mentoring a small team, with the ability to set priorities, coach team members, and create accountability for delivery.
Strong understanding of asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk management, liquidity management, performance measurement, and attribution across asset classes.
Proficiency in SQL and Python, or R, with experience working with modern data warehousing platforms such as Snowflake or Redshift.
Experience building dashboards, analytical tools, and decision-support applications using BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Streamlit.
Familiarity with investment platforms such as Aladdin, Bloomberg, eFront, Yardi, or other investment data, risk, performance, and portfolio management systems.
Familiarity with machine learning, AI-enabled workflows, model governance, prompt-based tooling, agents, or production analytics environments.
Ability to partner with engineering, technology, risk, compliance, data governance, and enterprise AI teams to move new capabilities through intake, approval, delivery, and adoption.
Ability to distill complex analysis into clear narratives and recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Structured thinker with strong analytical rigor; comfortable operating in ambiguity and balancing strategic and tactical priorities.
High ownership, curiosity, and bias for action; collaborative and adaptable with a strong commitment to quality and controls.
Skills You Will 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.
Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
Financial Market Monitoring: Consistently tracks and analyzes financial market data and news, evaluates trends and events that may impact investment portfolios or financial decisions, and makes informed decisions based on this information. Stays up to date on economic indicators, market news, and global events, and understands how they relate to investment opportunities and risks.
Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates extensive knowledge of common practices, regulatory considerations, market trends and the competitive landscape within a particular industry / sector to better understand and address unique client requirements, challenges, and context.
Risk Evaluation: Assesses the significance of identified risks, makes judgments about the significance of the risk in relation to the organization's objectives and assesses whether the risk is acceptable or not. Considers factors such as the organization's risk appetite, risk tolerance, and risk management resources to help decision-makers determine which risks require further action and which can be accepted or tolerated.

Total Portfolio Analytics & Investment AI Strategy Lead

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