Business Strategy Leader

Your passion. Our purpose. This could be powerful.

Maybe the markets keep you up at night. Trusts are your forte. Or your idea of a perfect day at the office is a deep dive into equity research. Whatever your passion, at Edward Jones it will have purpose. Your work is meaningful - because it has a singular focus: client relationships. What you do every day helps people achieve and protect their financial goals. Impacting lives for the better. And with our remarkable work-life flexibility, one of the lives it could enhance is yours.

Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 26-Nov-2025. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Team Overview:

The Business Segment Team is responsible for developing business strategies, establishing goals, and setting priorities that drive growth (AUC, households, revenue) over defined time horizons. The team identifies changes to existing and new capabilities and leads work in partnership with cross-functional partners to achieve established goals. The team is also responsible for reporting progress against near term goals and objectives, identifying issues, and choosing mitigating strategies.

What You Will Do:

The Business Strategy Leader will be responsible to contribute to / lead high priority projects.

Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Interfacing with colleagues across the firm to drive growth initiatives
• Support the packaging and content of senior leadership presentations and deliverables.
• The Business Strategy Leader will be adept at solving complex problems, partnering with other segments on sharing best practices and issue resolution, and maturing capabilities with a systems-oriented lens.
• The candidate will be expected to apply and promote lean portfolio management principles and guide others on agile ways of working and best practices.
• The candidate will be expected to support business cases of new initiatives to justify investment and prioritization

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Support Segment key deliverables and initiatives
• Support the monthly performance and business review cycle, including reporting, analytics, insights, and summary provided to enterprise leaders
• Support workstream leads and product managers resolve key constraints and ambiguous challenges
• Support the segment's long-term strategy refresh - strengthening partnerships with Firm Strategy, Finance, and Experience Center of Excellence (COE)

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: $99200

Hiring Maximum: $

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Skills/Requirements

What Experience You Need:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experience building strong cross-functional networks and relationships
• Experience operating with a generalist mindset - fungible to support multiple efforts across size and scope to accelerate delivery and execution of the segment's priorities
• Strong organizational and analytical skills - building systems to create capacity and efficiency
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across the firm

What Could Set You Apart:

• Consulting experience
• Experience in strategy training
• Product development experience
• Project management experience in large enterprise settings
• Financial services experience

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.

Current home-based associates please note: Even as a hybrid posted role you are eligible to apply and, if selected, may retain your home-based status. However future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work and some roles may carry a preference for hybrid presence.

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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

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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.

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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

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