Hybrid Vice President, Program Management Center of Excellence en Fidelity Investments

Job Description:

The Role

As a Vice President, this individual will lead the FFIO Program Management Center of Excellence to develop, grow, and lead the program management practice that focuses on the execution of strategic initiatives.  Additionally, you will have dual responsibilities of running business programs.  While leading business programs, you will be responsible for coordinating the definition and establishing the structure and governance of the Program, its MVP and business case, and when approved, help facilitate the program’s implementation. This individual will work closely with program executive sponsors and Product Area Leaders to ensure that the programs stay on track and deliver outstanding results.  This individual will report into the Head of Business Enablement and Strategy.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or advanced degree a plus

• 10-15+ years of financial services experience

• Deep understanding of the asset management industry as well as knowledge of FFIO’s businesses preferred

• Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships across the organization

• Previous consulting experience a plus

• Flexibility and the skill to both lead and contribute to teams are a must

• Experienced individual with a solid ability to work across an organization at the senior level

• Proven experience leading and delivering results on large programs and projects

• Track record of success managing a practice, client relationships and staff

• Solid organizational skills and a high degree of integrity combined with the ability to readily adapt to rapidly changing environments and deal with competing priorities

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors and recommend solutions

• High leadership potential and a high degree of comfort with ambiguity

• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with specific strengths in communicating with senior internal leadership

• Ability to perform operational and administrative program management responsibilities such as metrics collection, status reporting and financial updates

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with all levels of staff and management

• Strong attention to detail as well as effective time management abilities

• Experience working across organizations to bring disparate teams together

• Strong management, influence, facilitation, and collaboration skills

• Drive the continual design and improvement of Program Management

• Develop and mentor staff to reach their highest potential

• Partner with FFIO business leaders to ensure alignment with and drive execution of business priorities

• Communicate program status updates to senior leadership and key business partners

• Partner with FFIO and cross-Fidelity business units to develop the business case for their key priorities

• Program and/or project manage key FFIO and cross-Fidelity programs

• Facilitate regularly scheduled program status and work stream meetings

• Maintain program-level issues and open questions logs for accurate tracking, reporting, and bringing to closure

• Identify and coordinate cross-Product Area and cross-Fidelity dependencies and interaction points that may be impactful to the overall critical path

• Schedule and run senior executive program meetings

• Liaise with program executive sponsors to ensure continued alignment with program’s objectives, schedule, and budget

The Team

The Fidelity Funds and Investment Operations (FFIO) Program Management team provides program and project management to both FFIO and cross-Fidelity sponsored programs. The team is part of the Business Enablement and Strategy function that provides relationship management support, custody bank oversight, delivery enablement, strategy and planning, and business management for all FFIO. 

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.