Sales & Relationship Management
VP, Solution Architect-Retirement Services
- Covington, KY
- Greenwood Village, CO
- Jacksonville, FL
- Boston, MA
- Merrimack, NH
- Albuquerque, NM
- Smithfield, RI
- Westlake, TX
- Salt Lake City, UT
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Job Description:
This dynamic role is well-suited for someone who enjoys solving Workplace Investing clients’ and prospective clients’ most complicated requirements in a fast-paced, unexpected environment. If you are motivated by being part of a hard-working, creative, and collaborative team that loves to win, this role is for you!
The Role
This role works closely with Account Executives, Retention Executives, and Managing Directors to win and retain our largest corporate and TEM (Tax Exempt Markets) clients in support of Workplace Investing sales and client retention goals. As a Solution Architect, you are responsible for performing a comprehensive analysis of client requirements, comparing plan document provisions against our product and services, problem solving for unique plan features, and representing the Fidelity solution during the sales or rebid process.
This role relies heavily on your knowledge of Fidelity’s products, services and processes and your ability to think strategically, coordinate with clients and their consultants, and collaborate with internal business partners.
The Expertise You Have
- Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit expertise required
- Health & Welfare expertise desirable
- Bachelor’s degree, minimum; Master's degree preferred
- Minimum 10 years related product/ industry experience; 5+ years of Fidelity experience desirable
- Series 7 and 63 required (can be acquired in role)
- Approximately 30-45% travel requirement
The Skills You Bring
- Leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, displaying Fidelity’s core values in all situations
- Internal influence skills including organizational navigation and perspective, firmly established internal network, knowledge of exception processing and ability to articulate value versus risk of solutions
- Client-facing consultation skill to understand needs, influence, and articulate value vs. risk/reward
- Presentation skills at all levels (e.g., administrative, peers, executives), verbal and non-verbal, internal, and external including excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Industry/competitor knowledge and ongoing 'student of the business'
The Value You Deliver
- Strategic analysis of clients and prospects to identify potential administrative concerns which may require custom solutions and/or exception management
- Reviewing plan design, underwriting of legal plan documents, identifying non-standard product and service requirements
- Developing creative solutions, understanding the financial and operational impacts, owning internal exception approval process steps
- Providing subject matter expertise on retirement and benefit issues during the sales and rebid process.
- Presenting Fidelity’s differentiation in the employer benefits community through thoughtful proposal responses, high impact presentations, and coaching team members for presentations.
- Collaborating with prospective clients and representing the Fidelity value proposition as part of the broader solution offering.
- Catalyzing change within the team and business unit with an eye for customer needs.
- Providing real time market feedback to product, systems, and marketing organizations
The Team
Our team within Workplace Investing (WI) Sales strives to win and retain WI clients through outstanding solutions while mitigating risk to the firm. Keeping and growing our client base helps maintain our position as the top-tier benefits outsourcing provider.
Certifications:
Series 07 – FINRA, Series 63 – FINRA
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. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.
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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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.
Licenses & Certifications
- Pursue your FINRA Series 7 and/or Series 63/66 licenses to take your career to the next level as a licensed financial broker.
- Tuition reimbursement for online or in-person course work in pursuit of new certifications.
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.
- Hone your client relationship 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.
