Corporate Services
Vice President, Contracts
- Westlake, TX
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Job Description:
Vice President of Contracts
In this role you will provide counsel within Fidelity’s Large/Select market, while managing a team of professionals that negotiate diverse types of service and transactional documents with our employee benefit prospects and clients. You will be a highly visible leader on the Workplace Investing (WI) Contracts Team. You will deliver a best-in-class experience as you partner with a dynamic and collaborative team of highly skilled colleagues in Sales, Relationship Management, Operations, Finance, Product Management, Compliance, Finance and Corporate Legal to reach desired business goals of Fidelity, while mitigating risk.
The Team
We are an organization of professionals located across the United States who own the contractual framework for client trust and recordkeeping service agreements with large/select plan sponsors. We are client-facing associates who collaborate with internal business partners in all phases of the contracting process. We strive to build strong client relationships both internally and externally and provide best in class service throughout the contracting experience.
The Expertise You Have
- Excellent leadership skills with a focus on hiring, developing and mentoring to enable a highly successful and engaged contracts team
- Expertise in drafting, reviewing and negotiating sophisticated, non-standard agreements and handling of pre-sale, competitive negotiations in support of sales and client experience goals
- Keen knowledge of retirement and health plan products, services and the laws and regulations that apply to them (ERISA, Internal Revenue Code, HIPPA, data privacy laws etc.)
- Identification of legal, regulatory and business risk, in concert with business partners, and proactive outreach and education regarding process efficiencies
- Key contributor to the Contracts management team and a vocal representative on initiatives that improve Fidelity's ability to formalize its client relationships
- Top-quality presentation, interpersonal and diplomacy skills, including ability to simplify complicated issues and build consensus among competing interests
- Minimum of 10+ years of shown experience
- Requires a four (4) year college degree, JD strongly preferred
The Skills You Bring
- Excellent strategic, tactical thinking, judgment, and decision-making skills, which you will readily use to simplify sophisticated contract and business issues for straightforward, practical analysis and resolution.
- Executive-level confidence, presence, initiative and influencing skills
- Sharp oral and written communication skills
- Positive and collaborative approach forging pragmatic and creative solutions across a variety of contract issues in a dynamic environment
The Value You Deliver
- Support Existing and New Business Growth: You enjoy serving as the face of Fidelity in client negotiations, providing an outstanding customer experience for existing and prospective clients. As manager of the Large/Select Contracts Team, you own the successful drafting, negotiation and execution of agreements that address client needs and help drive business growth, while protecting Fidelity's interests.
- Leadership: You serve as a contracts subject matter authority. You have the passion to keep informed and resolve legal, risk and compliance contract issues. You have the confidence to deliver informed counsel to your team and business partners. You empower and strengthen the team by easily sharing your knowledge and perspective. You actively seek to improve the quality of services offered by our team. You possess integrity with strength of character to express opinions and challenge existing practices.
- Communication and Counsel: You are a trusted advisor to business colleagues on legal and regulatory changes that impact Fidelity's provision of administrative services to plan sponsors. You use your verbal, written, analytical and creativity skills to find compromise in opposing perspectives that satisfy the clients’ needs while protecting Fidelity. You build strong cross-company relationships and easily collaborate with fellow colleagues to deliver outstanding service to our clients
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Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.
Fidelity’s working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.
Company overview
At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.
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This is my Fidelity
Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way
401(k) with company match
Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave
Student loan assistance
Fidelity is invested in you
Committed to Professional Development
At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.
We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.
Continuing Education & Training
- Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
- Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
- Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
- Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
- A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.
Mentoring
- Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
- Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
- An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
"Fidelity believes in, and is committed to, fair and equitable treatment for every associate and customer, and to creating a safe and respectful environment, in which everyone is treated with kindness, compassion and respect." Abby Johnson | Chairman and CEO Fidelity Investments
At Fidelity, we are committed to building an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging that will attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.
Fidelity’s ten affinity groups are self-organized groups of employees with common interests in areas such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, or who share similar interests based on similar sets of experiences.
These Employee Resource Groups and Special Interest Groups are models of inclusion for Fidelity. They’re also a powerful form of engagement and development and can provide a pathway to visible leadership roles. Our affinity groups make a large contribution on the business, helping to ensure our products and services are delivered in a welcoming and equitable environment.
- Over 22K employees participate in an affinity group.
- Over 1,400 affinity group members volunteered for Fidelity Cares in 2020.
- 74% increase in affinity group memberships over the last three years.
Giving Back to Our Communities
Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.
Fidelity Cares
- Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
- Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
- Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
- More than 12,000 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
- Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.
Fidelity Charitable®
- Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
- Helped deliver $7.3 billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2019.
- Supported more than 300,000 unique charities around the world.
- Since its inception, more than $42 billion has been given to public charities.
