Product Delivery Manager - Branch Planning and Performance Tools

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Waterloo
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
Edward Jones is looking for an individual to help lead innovation in the Branch and Region Planning & Performance Technology area for supporting and enhancing our goal setting, business planning and performance measures systems for our financial advisors. This person will be responsible for product delivery management over durable product delivery teams focused on the branch and financial advisor experience as well as people leadership for the software engineers within the teams.

What you'll do

As a Product Delivery Manager, you will lead change to implement, configure, enhance and support the Branch and Region Planning & Performance products and modules using leading-edge technologies. In this role, you will work closely with members of the teams, enterprise architects, business leaders, product owners, and scrum masters including continual strategy setting and evaluation of delivery team structure in alignment with firm needs and direction.

You will:

• Work with teams to remove impediments and obstacles for improvement of product delivery and cycle time
• Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across development teams, system architects, business departments, vendors, and other divisions
• Contribute to the product technology roadmap as a stakeholder by advocating for tech modernization
• Coach and mentor team members and identify skill gaps What Experience You Need :
  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Information systems is preferred.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience directly related to Information Systems technology with at least 1 year in a leadership role (mentoring associates, lead analyst, project leaders, etc.).
  • Understanding of Product Teams and Agile methodology and practices.
  • Good communication and presentation skills to be able to interact with business stakeholders What Could Set You Apart :
    • Financial Services experience and/or industry license(s)
      • Knowledge and Experience with large volume data analysis and processing
        • 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2022, published Fortune July 2022, Great Places to Work data as of March 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
          • Edward Jones was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Millennials by Great Places to Work and Fortune magazine. The privately held firm ranked No. 2 overall, in its fourth appearance on the list.
          • 2022 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, published September 2022, research by Great Places to Work , data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
            • Edward Jones has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work and Fortune magazine, ranking No. 45.
            • 2022 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, published April 2022, research by Great Place to Work , data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
              • For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ranking by Great Places to Work and Fortune magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.
              • 2022 Best Places to Work For LGBTQ+ Equality, Great Place to Work in partnership with Human Rights Campaign Foundation, published Equity Magazine January 2022, data as of July 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
                • Edward Jones scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. The ranking designated Jones as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+Equality. Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
                  At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:
                  
                  Salary: $109696 - $186781
                  Category: Headquarters

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