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OneMain is seeking an Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Business Analytics to play a pivotal role in shaping the company's growth plans, managing production performance, and driving data-informed business decisions.
This is a highly visible, cross-functional role at the center of the company's growth planning, production management, and performance analytics, with regular exposure to senior leaders, from Managing Directors to Executive Vice Presidents.
The role owns several business-critical processes that help the company establish growth expectations, monitor performance against plan, anticipate emerging risks and opportunities, and drive timely corrective actions. It also offers significant opportunities to modernize existing capabilities through AI, automation, and advanced analytics.
Responsibilities
1. Lead Monthly Production Planning & Performance Management
- Establish monthly production targets for Applications, Loans, and New Money, incorporating seasonality estimates, recent business trends, planned initiatives, and management overlays. Communicate and cascade aligned targets and assumptions to stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Credit.
- Monitor intra-month production performance, diagnose key drivers of variance, and partner across functions to identify emerging risks, opportunities, and potential corrective actions.
- Lead mid-month and month-end performance reviews, providing senior management with clear insights into results, underlying drivers, changes in outlook, and performance against targets.
2. Lead Annual Budgeting & Quarterly Reforecasting
- Develop annual budgets and quarterly production forecasts for Applications, Loans, Average Loan Size, and New Money, incorporating seasonality, recent trends, strategic initiatives, and evolving business conditions.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Credit, Operations, and Finance to align assumptions, critically evaluate inputs, and translate business strategies into credible, actionable production forecasts.
- Build New Money walks and driver-based analyses that explain changes in the production outlook, quantify the impact of key assumptions, and deliver a clear, compelling narrative to senior leadership.
3. Executive Reporting & Business Intelligence
- Lead the Competitive Intelligence reporting package, synthesizing affiliate performance, market data, competitor earnings, industry trends, and relevant developments into actionable insights for senior management.
- Track and analyze marketing unit economics and customer acquisition costs, identifying meaningful changes, emerging trends, and opportunities to improve marketing efficiency and business performance.
- Develop executive-ready reporting and ad hoc analyses, translating complex data into clear insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions.
4. Continuously Modernize & Improve the Function
- Build and deploy AI-enabled tools and agents to automate recurring workflows, accelerate diagnostics, and improve the speed and quality of business decision-making.
- Drive continuous process improvement through automation, stronger controls, and more effective analytical methods, enhancing efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and reliability.
- Develop new analytical capabilities and monitoring tools that enable the organization to detect emerging trends earlier, diagnose performance issues faster, and respond more effectively.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Business Analytics, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science.
8+ years of experience in analytics, business performance management, forecasting, or complex data-driven problem-solving.
Strong analytical instincts, intellectual curiosity, and a demonstrated ability to develop innovative, data-driven solutions to complex business problems.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into compelling insights and effectively engage senior executives.
- Self-starter with strong business judgment, the ability to work independently, challenge conventional thinking, and provide sound, fact-based recommendations.
Strong SQL and/or Python skills, with hands-on experience working with complex structured and unstructured datasets.
Location: hybrid schedule (3 days/week: Tues. - Thurs) // Wilmington, DE
Who we Are
OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future.
Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain.
Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:
- Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
- Up to 4% matching 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, prorated based on start date)
- Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance (prorated based on start date)
- 11 Paid holidays (4 floating holidays, prorated based on start date)
- Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start
- date)
OneMain Holdings, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information or history, marital status, military status, national origin, nationality, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, transgender or on any other basis protected by law.
OneMain is seeking an Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Business Analytics to play a pivotal role in shaping the company's growth plans, managing production performance, and driving data-informed business decisions.
This is a highly visible, cross-functional role at the center of the company's growth planning, production management, and performance analytics, with regular exposure to senior leaders, from Managing Directors to Executive Vice Presidents.
The role owns several business-critical processes that help the company establish growth expectations, monitor performance against plan, anticipate emerging risks and opportunities, and drive timely corrective actions. It also offers significant opportunities to modernize existing capabilities through AI, automation, and advanced analytics.
Responsibilities
1. Lead Monthly Production Planning & Performance Management
- Establish monthly production targets for Applications, Loans, and New Money, incorporating seasonality estimates, recent business trends, planned initiatives, and management overlays. Communicate and cascade aligned targets and assumptions to stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Credit.
- Monitor intra-month production performance, diagnose key drivers of variance, and partner across functions to identify emerging risks, opportunities, and potential corrective actions.
- Lead mid-month and month-end performance reviews, providing senior management with clear insights into results, underlying drivers, changes in outlook, and performance against targets.
2. Lead Annual Budgeting & Quarterly Reforecasting
- Develop annual budgets and quarterly production forecasts for Applications, Loans, Average Loan Size, and New Money, incorporating seasonality, recent trends, strategic initiatives, and evolving business conditions.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Credit, Operations, and Finance to align assumptions, critically evaluate inputs, and translate business strategies into credible, actionable production forecasts.
- Build New Money walks and driver-based analyses that explain changes in the production outlook, quantify the impact of key assumptions, and deliver a clear, compelling narrative to senior leadership.
3. Executive Reporting & Business Intelligence
- Lead the Competitive Intelligence reporting package, synthesizing affiliate performance, market data, competitor earnings, industry trends, and relevant developments into actionable insights for senior management.
- Track and analyze marketing unit economics and customer acquisition costs, identifying meaningful changes, emerging trends, and opportunities to improve marketing efficiency and business performance.
- Develop executive-ready reporting and ad hoc analyses, translating complex data into clear insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions.
4. Continuously Modernize & Improve the Function
- Build and deploy AI-enabled tools and agents to automate recurring workflows, accelerate diagnostics, and improve the speed and quality of business decision-making.
- Drive continuous process improvement through automation, stronger controls, and more effective analytical methods, enhancing efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and reliability.
- Develop new analytical capabilities and monitoring tools that enable the organization to detect emerging trends earlier, diagnose performance issues faster, and respond more effectively.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Business Analytics, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science.
8+ years of experience in analytics, business performance management, forecasting, or complex data-driven problem-solving.
Strong analytical instincts, intellectual curiosity, and a demonstrated ability to develop innovative, data-driven solutions to complex business problems.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into compelling insights and effectively engage senior executives.
- Self-starter with strong business judgment, the ability to work independently, challenge conventional thinking, and provide sound, fact-based recommendations.
Strong SQL and/or Python skills, with hands-on experience working with complex structured and unstructured datasets.
Location: hybrid schedule (3 days/week: Tues. - Thurs) // Wilmington, DE
Who we Are
OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future.
Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain.
Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:
- Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
- Up to 4% matching 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, prorated based on start date)
- Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance (prorated based on start date)
- 11 Paid holidays (4 floating holidays, prorated based on start date)
- Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start
- date)
OneMain Holdings, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information or history, marital status, military status, national origin, nationality, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, transgender or on any other basis protected by law.
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- Consulting & Professional Services210
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal planning officer jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in urban planning, public administration, or a related field
- AICP certification or active progress toward American Institute of Certified Planners certification
- Five or more years of progressively responsible professional planning experience
- Demonstrated experience leading environmental impact reviews under CEQA, NEPA, or equivalent frameworks
- Proficiency in GIS software for spatial analysis, mapping, and planning data visualization
- Experience presenting plans and recommendations to elected officials, boards, or public community meetings
Tips for Your Principal Planning Officer Job Search
Tailor your resume to plan types
Principal planning officer roles differ sharply by domain: land use, transportation, environmental, or housing. Customize your resume for each, leading with the plan type most relevant to that posting and naming the specific regulatory frameworks or codes you've worked under.
Highlight cross-agency coordination experience
Hiring managers for principal planning officer roles weigh your ability to work across departments, jurisdictions, and stakeholder groups. Call out specific instances where you coordinated between municipal, state, or federal bodies on a planning initiative, naming the agencies and the outcome.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists principal planning officer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a planning portfolio with outcomes
Many principal planning officer postings ask for work samples at the interview stage. Compile two or three planning documents you led, complete with adopted outcomes, community feedback responses, or measurable results, so you're not assembling these under time pressure after a callback.
Research the jurisdiction before your interview
Interviewers expect you to know the agency's current general plan cycle, pending zoning amendments, or active environmental review. Review the jurisdiction's planning commission agendas from the last three months and reference a specific current issue during your interview.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the principal level, your ability to shape the role matters as much as pay. When an offer arrives, ask about the planning projects you'd own, budget authority, and staff reporting structure before accepting, since these define whether the role actually matches a principal-level position.
Principal Planning Officer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal planning officers?
Amazon, Arcadis, and Lockheed Martin are hiring the most principal planning officers right now, with openings concentrated in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Municipal governments, regional transportation authorities, and infrastructure consultancies account for the largest share of active postings.
How many principal planning officer jobs are remote?
About 63% of principal planning officer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies significantly by specialization. Policy-focused roles in housing finance, long-range planning research, and grant administration are most likely to offer remote arrangements, while current planning and permitting roles almost always require on-site presence.
How do you become a principal planning officer?
Start with a bachelor's degree in urban planning, public administration, or a closely related field, then pursue a master's degree if you want to accelerate into senior roles. Earn your AICP certification after meeting the required hours of professional planning experience. Build depth in one or two plan types, take on project lead responsibilities, and develop a record of managing public engagement processes and interdepartmental coordination before applying at the principal level.
Can you get a principal planning officer job with limited experience?
Direct entry at the principal level is rare without substantial planning experience, but you can build toward it strategically. Focus first on associate or planner roles within a specialization you want to pursue, volunteer on planning commissions or community advisory boards to gain public-process exposure, and pursue your AICP certification as early as you're eligible, since it signals readiness for senior responsibility to hiring committees.
What does the principal planning officer interview process look like?
Most agencies run a structured panel interview with planning staff, department heads, and sometimes elected officials or community representatives. You'll typically respond to scenario-based questions about managing conflicting stakeholder interests, navigating regulatory constraints, or leading a project through a contested public hearing. Some employers request a work sample or brief presentation before or during the interview, so confirm expectations when you receive your invitation.
Where can I find and apply to principal planning officer jobs?
You can find and apply to principal planning officer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your specialization and experience level, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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