Senior Manager - Corporate Development

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Edward Jones is seeking a highly skilled individual to serve as an Senior Manager for the newly created Edward Jones Ventures Innovation team. This individual will be a critical member of a small, nimble team that supports execution against the firm's strategic goals by developing and managing the inorganic strategy, pipeline, and portfolio of work (e.g., mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, venture investments, business incubations, and other strategic initiatives that have a transformative impact on the firm). Key responsibilities include the following:

What you will do

Portfolio Strategy

• Lead the definition of the portfolio's strategy and guiding principles (in partnership with relevant stakeholders) to ensure optimal innovation ambition within the context of Edward Jones' strategic goals and capabilities.

• Assess and identify the strategic opportunities for inorganic capabilities, products, solutions, and services to address firm strategic goals (e.g., Firm Leader priorities, Apollo 30 priorities, etc.)

• Establish appropriate portfolio allocation of solutions across established growth lanes, efficient capital allocation, risk diversification, etc.

• Develop portfolio health/risk strategy, measurement framework/system, and proactively realign portfolio within risk appetite.

• Lead associates / analysts in the strategic execution of the pipeline and portfolio strategy

Pipeline Framework

• Lead the development of strategic frameworks to evaluate pipeline ideas (including setting guardrails for business cases and financial return expectations) and analyzing recommendations to ensure firm strategy alignment

• Develop input curation approach (e.g., sources, prioritization, channels, etc.), develop an efficient system / process to strategically collect pipeline inputs from internal and external sources, and synthesize a complex multitude of factors on a continuing basis

Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop and execute consistent and effective stakeholder strategy to ensure innovation alignment with senior business leaders to support inorganic growth opportunities and ongoing collaboration, engagement to ensure sustained support.

• Interface closely with business leaders to fully understand and support inorganic growth opportunities for Edward Jones - from idea to business case.

• Build partnerships with functional capabilities to build shared accountability for successful use/integration of new capabilities, products, solutions and service.

• Develop internal and external PR communication strategies to create advocacy and excitement for portfolio, and enthusiasm for continued investment

• Cultivate a broad network of internal and external relationships to enhance effectiveness and influence.

Functional Excellence

• Provide strategic thought leadership in developing and maturing the function in addition to an ability to execute.

• Support the management of a portfolio of innovative investments and incubations throughout their lifecycle

• Assist in Training/Mentoring more junior EJV Analysts.

What you'll need

Education / Certification

• Bachelor's degree is required with an emphasis in Accounting, Finance, or Economics preferred. Advanced Degree(s) or Certification(s) in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Analytics are preferred.

Minimum Years of Experience

• 10+ Years general Fin Services experience, or 7+ year Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Innovation, or Digital Product Development required.

Functional Knowledge

• Advanced skills in some of the following areas: innovation management, systems thinking, planning and organizing, relationship building, collaboration, critical thinking, project management.

• Strong analytical, strategic planning and execution skills to drive the continued evolution of a functional capability

• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation communication skills with the ability to provide concise, relevant market commentary and periodically explain complex EJV and corporate development terms/concepts directly to key stakeholders.

• Demonstrated entrepreneurial openness and ability to explore new possibilities and to approach issues differently; a visionary; intellectually agile

• People leadership a plus

Span of Influence:

The span of influence includes strategic items impacting the entire firm:

• The EJV Director will be responsible to collaborate with senior firm leaders and synthesize disparate sources of information to recommend strategy and facilitate innovation portfolio management activities.

• The EJV Director will be responsible to build partnership with, and advocacy and accountability of firm leaders for the use and integration of new capabilities, products, solutions and services.

• The EJV Director will use rigorous, fact based, quantitative and qualitative analysis to support strategic recommendations on the most complex initiatives at the firm.

• The scope of work will be broad (firm-wide) by nature and therefore span various domains across the firm.

• Candidates that live within in a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.

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