Senior Manager - Corporate Development
Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Columbia
Posted on: May 4, 2024
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Job Description:
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are
valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 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 .
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Edward Jones is seeking a highly skilled individual to serve as an
Senior Manager for the newly created Edward Jones Ventures
Innovation team. This individual will be a critical member of a
small, nimble team that supports execution against the firm's
strategic goals by developing and managing the inorganic strategy,
pipeline, and portfolio of work (e.g., mergers & acquisitions,
joint ventures, venture investments, business incubations, and
other strategic initiatives that have a transformative impact on
the firm). Key responsibilities include the following:
What you will do
Portfolio Strategy
--- Lead the definition of the portfolio's strategy and guiding
principles (in partnership with relevant stakeholders) to ensure
optimal innovation ambition within the context of Edward Jones'
strategic goals and capabilities.
--- Assess and identify the strategic opportunities for inorganic
capabilities, products, solutions, and services to address firm
strategic goals (e.g., Firm Leader priorities, Apollo 30
priorities, etc.)
--- Establish appropriate portfolio allocation of solutions across
established growth lanes, efficient capital allocation, risk
diversification, etc.
--- Develop portfolio health/risk strategy, measurement
framework/system, and proactively realign portfolio within risk
appetite.
--- Lead associates / analysts in the strategic execution of the
pipeline and portfolio strategy
Pipeline Framework
--- Lead the development of strategic frameworks to evaluate
pipeline ideas (including setting guardrails for business cases and
financial return expectations) and analyzing recommendations to
ensure firm strategy alignment
--- Develop input curation approach (e.g., sources, prioritization,
channels, etc.), develop an efficient system / process to
strategically collect pipeline inputs from internal and external
sources, and synthesize a complex multitude of factors on a
continuing basis
Stakeholder Engagement
--- Develop and execute consistent and effective stakeholder
strategy to ensure innovation alignment with senior business
leaders to support inorganic growth opportunities and ongoing
collaboration, engagement to ensure sustained support.
--- Interface closely with business leaders to fully understand and
support inorganic growth opportunities for Edward Jones - from idea
to business case.
--- Build partnerships with functional capabilities to build shared
accountability for successful use/integration of new capabilities,
products, solutions and service.
--- Develop internal and external PR communication strategies to
create advocacy and excitement for portfolio, and enthusiasm for
continued investment
--- Cultivate a broad network of internal and external
relationships to enhance effectiveness and influence.
Functional Excellence
--- Provide strategic thought leadership in developing and maturing
the function in addition to an ability to execute.
--- Support the management of a portfolio of innovative investments
and incubations throughout their lifecycle
--- Assist in Training/Mentoring more junior EJV Analysts. What
you'll need
Education / Certification
--- Bachelor's degree is required with an emphasis in Accounting,
Finance, or Economics preferred. Advanced Degree(s) or
Certification(s) in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or
Analytics are preferred.
Minimum Years of Experience
--- 10+ Years general Fin Services experience, or 7+ year Corporate
Development, Corporate Strategy, Investment Banking, Private
Equity, Venture Capital, Innovation, or Digital Product Development
required.
Functional Knowledge
--- Advanced skills in some of the following areas: innovation
management, systems thinking, planning and organizing, relationship
building, collaboration, critical thinking, project management.
--- Strong analytical, strategic planning and execution skills to
drive the continued evolution of a functional capability
--- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation communication
skills with the ability to provide concise, relevant market
commentary and periodically explain complex EJV and corporate
development terms/concepts directly to key stakeholders.
--- Demonstrated entrepreneurial openness and ability to explore
new possibilities and to approach issues differently; a visionary;
intellectually agile
--- People leadership a plus
Span of Influence:
The span of influence includes strategic items impacting the entire
firm:
--- The EJV Director will be responsible to collaborate with senior
firm leaders and synthesize disparate sources of information to
recommend strategy and facilitate innovation portfolio management
activities.
--- The EJV Director will be responsible to build partnership with,
and advocacy and accountability of firm leaders for the use and
integration of new capabilities, products, solutions and
services.
--- The EJV Director will use rigorous, fact based, quantitative
and qualitative analysis to support strategic recommendations on
the most complex initiatives at the firm.
--- The scope of work will be broad (firm-wide) by nature and
therefore span various domains across the firm.
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. At Edward Jones, w e 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 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. 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. The salary
range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is
based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors
for a potential new associate:
Salary: $136571 - $232541
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