Operational Strategy Leader

2 days ago

Saint Louis, United States Edward Jones Full time
Want a meaningful career where you can make a difference? Edward Jones sounds perfect for you.

Collaboration. Autonomy. Opportunity. Words our headquarters associates use when talking about working at Edward Jones. Words that describe what it's like being part of a firm where everyone is aligned toward a singular focus: serving the client. And everyone is working to make the firm better together - as they grow as individuals. If these words resonate with you, we should talk.

Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

Your acumen, influence and resilience will deliver meaningful outcomes. If you have a passion for working with senior leaders, leveraging data to derive insights, problem-solving, and driving results at an enterprise level, this role at Edward Jones may be your next career choice.

Enterprise Operational Excellence (OE) is seeking a highly skilled and motivated professional with experience influencing and optimizing at an enterprise-level and effectively navigating ambiguity. Our team is responsible for driving sustainable, firm-wide efficiency and effectiveness, identifying opportunities and building an enterprise multi-year roadmap that can be integrated into financial plans, and improving speed to value. This role will be part of a team that supports business areas in developing plans to achieve Operational Efficiency targets and financial/resource restraints and collaborates across the firm to support strategies to reach short and long-term objectives. A successful candidate will be a self-starter with strong business and financial acumen, ability to analyze data, derive insights, translate and make recommendations to stakeholders and exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence leaders.

What You'll Do:
  • Using business area plans, evaluate opportunities and progress on achieving OE targets and creation of a multi-year roadmap of OE plans and impact measures
  • Work with Senior Leaders in business areas to establish output measurement and functional ROI reporting
  • Serve as a thought partner in identifying and guiding execution towards large, multi-year Enterprise-wide efficiency projects, collaborating across business areas to deliver KPIs and ROI.
  • Provide executive leadership support for multi-year plans and strategic initiatives
  • Provide thought leadership, influence, and accountability to a range of stakeholders including executives, business unit leaders, and planning leads; navigate through ambiguity to effectively deliver results
  • Partner with support teams (including Finance, Human Capital & Technology) to develop and implement strategies to enable functions to achieve productivity improvements
  • Collaborate with Finance to define future year OE targets based on strategies and financial plans
  • Improve enterprise OE maturity to leverage sustainable OE efforts beyond just cost reductions


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: $96471
Hiring Maximum: $164262

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Skills/Requirements

What You'll Need:
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
  • Master's Degree/MBA preferred
  • At least 10 years experience in a people and/or project leader role
  • Demonstrated experience influencing leaders, dealing with conflict, and driving enterprise change strategies and results; Experience driving results on organization-wide strategies
  • Strong business and financial acumen; Experience using quantitative data to make decisions, including financial cost benefit analysis
  • Excellent interpersonal, written communication and presentation skills at all levels of the organization
  • Proven ability to effectively lead change initiatives and exercise influence without authority
  • Significant experience evaluating and documenting cost / benefit justification

Preferred:
  • 3+ years in an enterprise-level role
  • At least 5 years experience with one or more of the following: Quality / Process Improvement, Operational Excellence, Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Financial Planning & Analysis, Business Consulting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sourcing (with relevant certification preferred)

*Candidates that live within in a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.

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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 8 million clients and 19,000 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 2023, data as of December 2022. 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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