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Job Overview
Position Schedule: Full-Time
This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 30-Apr-2025. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
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The Director, Enterprise Strategy leads the team responsible for supporting senior leadership in the development and monitoring of the firm's Enterprise Strategy. This includes strategic planning for the firm across multiple time horizons, leadership of the firm's quarterly strategy review to ensure the firm is appropriately positioned to address internal and external trends & opportunities, leadership of periodic strategic firm efforts, and partnering with business and functional stakeholders to activate the firm's strategy.
What you'll do:
- Lead and facilitate development of the firm's enterprise strategy with the Enterprise Leadership Team; and engage & influence senior stakeholders of the firm in the development of and activation of enterprise, business, and functional strategies.
- Lead ongoing facilitation of the firm's quarterly strategy review with ELT and OC, ensuring the firm is appropriately addressing external and internal threats & opportunities to maintain the health of the firm's enterprise strategy.
- Lead cross-functional teams in helping frame, design and execute strategic solutions, including the development of hypotheses, gathering data, analyzing results, and presenting findings to executive audiences.
- Oversee firm strategy team responsible for high impact core work and periodic strategic initiatives.
- Lead the synthesis and distribution of industry, customer, and competitive information for internal firm stakeholders.
- Lead the formulation of enterprise strategies across multiple time horizons, integrating findings from internal research, external developments, and leadership's priorities.
- Lead analysis using both qualitative and quantitative (e.g., financial modeling, analysis) methods, engaging relevant subject matter experts inside and outside the firm where appropriate, to generate insights and recommendations that advance strategic thinking of the enterprise over multiple time horizons.
- Facilitate alignment sessions, working sessions, and workshops with key stakeholders and senior executives, incorporating novel/outside-the-box engagement tactics and methods, resulting in aligned decisions/recommendations and high participant engagement.
- Lead periodic strategic initiatives including program management and matrix leadership.
- Design and facilitate leadership programs and learning experiences for firm stakeholders to develop strategic & industry acumen across the firm.
- Development and execution of periodic strategic planning processes.
Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.
Hiring Minimum: $168500
Hiring Maximum: $286900
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Skills/Requirements
What you'll need:
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA or CFA preferred
- Licenses/Certifications: SIE, Series 7 top off and Series 66 - all preferred but not required
- 11+ years' experience in financial services, management consulting, or corporate strategy
- Problem solving & strategic thinking skills
- Industry knowledge & competitive analysis skills
- Analytical skills (incl. financial modeling and visualization)
- Executive communication skills
- Corporate strategy best practices knowledge
- Team leadership knowledge
- Project & change management leadership knowledge
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Awards & Accolades
At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.
Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
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About Us
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.
¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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