Strategic Business Optimization Specialist

9 hours ago


St Louis, Missouri, United States Edward Jones Full time
Unlock Your Potential as a Business Optimization Strategist

Are you a results-driven professional with a passion for driving enterprise-wide efficiency and effectiveness? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where innovation and creativity are encouraged? If so, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity at Edward Jones.

About the Role

As a Business Optimization Strategist, you will play a critical role in driving sustainable, firm-wide efficiency and effectiveness. You will work closely with senior leaders to establish output measurement and functional ROI reporting, and serve as a thought partner in identifying and guiding execution towards large, multi-year Enterprise-wide efficiency projects. Your expertise will be invaluable in developing and implementing strategies to enable functions to achieve productivity improvements, and collaborating with Finance to define future year OE targets based on strategies and financial plans.

Key Responsibilities
  • 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
What We Offer

At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing.

Requirements
  • 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 Qualifications
  • 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)


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