Vice President, Planning & Execution Details

Vice President, Planning & Execution

Fidelity Investments - Smithfield, RI

Employment Type : Full-Time

Job Description:

This position is responsible for supporting the PI senior executive business routines, driving alignment across PI on priorities and execution plans, actively manage the business routines’ backlog with the senior team, and providing coordination of logistics with all relevant parties as needed. This role is critical in continuing to focus on business priorities of most value to attaining the business strategic objectives.

• Develop, working with SLT members, a clear strategic agenda of topics driven by strategic business objectives
• Continue to shift the discussion to focus on work and customer value by reviewing on roadmaps and execution
• Establish clear outcomes for various topics, bringing the right topics to right forums with the relevant members of the SLT
• Instill further accountability by constantly reviewing planned action items with dependences and share consistently for transparency
• Follow-through, prepare for, and manage SLT forums in more planful, disciplined way
• Play an active role in communication / change management needed to explain senior team decision to the organization
• Drive digitizing business routines & focus on high value activities
• Coordinate logistics needed for business routines
• Provide synthesis write up for all decisions & action items
• Routinely refresh the purpose of each forum and how they fit together

• Demonstrated influencing and leadership across large groups
• Execution-driven professional with a successful track record of working in large, complex organizations with senior leadership to create alignment and drive execution
• Successful track record collaborating across multiple organizations to create alignment and drive execution prioritization
• Experience with Agile practices and tools
• Bachelor's degree, plus MBA preferred
• 12-15+ Years of Experience
• Strong strategic skills and proven ability to translate a strategic vision into actionable plans
• Strong organizational & interpersonal skills including the ability to manage by influence and build strong relationships at all organization levels.
• Project /Program management skills
• Ability to understand complex business problems and synthesize analysis and research into strategic insights and practical solutions recommendations
• Skilled at working with senior executive leadership team with challenging priorities and key dependencies.
• Strong analytical, written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to effectively handle multiple priorities simultaneously and prioritize appropriately
• Must be an outstanding communicator - both written and verbal - have a sense of humor and a balanced perspective
• Ability to oversee and prepare executive-quality meeting materials
• Demonstrated management experience with strong people development skills

This role will report to the Head of Agile Acceleration & Digital Business Practices.

At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: 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.

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. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning and growth so you can build the career you’ve always imagined. We welcome associates from different backgrounds and with different perspectives to help us innovate and make a difference for our customers and our communities.

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 Leave of Absence/Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2.