Remote Business Strategist bei Principal Financial Group

What You'll Do:

As a Business Strategist, you’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams and senior leaders to drive strategy, optimize operations, and deliver data-driven insights. You’ll play a key role in the annual strategic planning process, lead critical business initiatives, and influence how we grow, serve customers, and work smarter.

 

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Initiative Development

• Collaborate across the business to define long-term goals and translate them into actionable strategies.
• Convert economic insights into operational plans that align with business priorities.
• Identify growth opportunities and performance trends to improve prioritization, streamline workflows, and guide business decision-making.
• Evaluate the financial and economic impact of strategic initiatives, including workforce planning, resource allocation, opportunity modeling, and incentive structures.

Operational Optimization

• Identify and analyze bottlenecks across sales, service, and operations to support more effective execution.
• Use data and performance metrics to assess the impact of implemented strategies.
• Deliver actionable insights that improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.

Communication & Strategic Advising

• Present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders, including executives and cross-functional teams.
• Influence directional decisions by clearly communicating complex data in a way that drives understanding and action.
• Support high-priority initiatives that promote profitable growth and competitive advantage.

Who You Are:

• A strategic thinker with a deep understanding of business economics and operational performance.
• Comfortable analyzing complex data and translating it into clear, actionable insights.
• A skilled collaborator and communicator who can influence across levels and functions.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics or a related quantitative field.
• 7+ years of experience in strategy, economic modeling, or a similar field.
• Proficiency in data tools such as Tableau, Python, R, Stata, or SAS.
• Strong skills in Excel and experience with SQL or other database management tools.
• Demonstrated expertise in econometric analysis, statistical modeling, and forecasting.
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and presentation skills.

 

Why Join Us

At Principal, your insights and ideas will directly shape how we grow, serve our clients, and improve as an organization. You’ll work on diverse, high-impact projects alongside collaborative teams and visionary leaders. If you’re passionate about turning strategy into action and helping a leading organization stay ahead of the curve—we want to hear from you.

 

Ready to make a measurable impact?
Apply now and bring your strategic mindset to Principal Financial Group.

Salary Range Information:Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.Salary Range:$100800 - $140000 / yearTime Off Program:Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.Pension Eligible:YesAdditional Information:

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Posting Window:We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.Date First Posted (TTF):8/8/2025Latest Post Date: Careers - US:8/8/2025

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