Business Analysis & Project Management
Director, Strategy & Planning
- Boston, MA
- Merrimack, NH
- Jersey City, NJ
- Smithfield, RI
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Job Description:
Director, Strategy and Planning
Would you like to play a significant role in helping millions of Fidelity’s customers reach their goals and live the lives they always dreamed of? In Fidelity’s Wealth business, we serve the financial needs of millions of individual investors with a comprehensive range of investment products and services. Our common purpose as an organization is to inspire better futures for our clients, associates, and Fidelity. Across our business we take great pride in building strong and lasting relationships with our clients, providing sound investment guidance, and delivering a best-in-class client experience.
The Team
Opportunity to join the small and robust team that develops and drives Fidelity Wealth’s strategy, competitive insights, and business development efforts. This role is specifically responsible for supporting Wealth’s strategy development and strategic planning processes, packaging and communicating the strategy and further developing the mechanisms that build strategic alignment across the leadership team. This role will also be asked to support the vendor program management for Wealth and on occasion to support and lead other efforts within the team, ranging from business development opportunity sizing, competitive modeling, and special ad hoc projects requested by Wealth’s Senior Leadership Team.
The Expertise You Have
- 3+ years of analytics, finance and/or quantitative management consulting experience; 5+ years working in a professional environment
- Proven impact supporting executive levels of an organization
- Experience in successfully navigating large organizations and getting things done within them
- Financial Services experience and/or knowledge
- BA/BS required, MBA or equivalent master’s degree in quantitative field preferred
The Skills You Bring
- Strong project management skills with a proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Initiative-taking and detail-oriented with a focus on quality and accuracy
- Proficient in developing and delivering impactful presentations to engage senior level audiences
- Demonstrated ability to engage and effectively communicate with senior leaders and team members
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to own the E2E process and ultimately communicating insights
- Ability to simplify complex topics
- Curiosity along with the ability to bring new insights and thinking to the business
- Collaborate and form positive relationships to lead and influence cross-functional teams
- You know how to drive longer term projects forward, sharing progress as you go and bringing team members and senior sponsors along with you
- Ability to work in a dynamic and ambiguous environment while creating alignment, and generating momentum
- A positive demeanor and opportunity mentality
The Value You Deliver
- Support strategic planning process to ensure organizational alignment and progress towards multi-year goals
- Support Wealth SLT meeting agenda and executive touchpoints to make sure the team is focused on the highest priority topics to drive the business forward
- Support vendor program management across the Wealth business and ensure proper alignment with enterprise efforts
- Package and communicate insights to a broad audience (from entry level associates to senior leaders) in an engaging and accessible format
- Own the development of analyses on areas of strategic interest, collaborating where vital with other internal groups (e.g., Wealth Finance, CKSI)
- Act as connection point to other strategic initiatives within Wealth to ensure alignment with broader ecosystem
- Exemplify leadership behaviors for driving initiatives / work while embracing Fidelity’s culture and values
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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 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 all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
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.
