Company Description
As a leading global investment management firm, AB fosters diverse perspectives and embraces innovation to help our clients navigate the uncertainty of capital markets. Through high-quality research and diversified investment services, we serve institutions, individuals, and private wealth clients in major markets worldwide. Our ambition is simple: to be our clients’ most valued asset-management partner.
With over 4,400 employees across 51 locations in 25 countries, our people are our advantage. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration to create an environment where everyone can thrive and do their best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business, or providing thoughtful advice to clients, we’re looking for unique voices to help lead us forward. If you’re ready to challenge your limits and build your future, join us.
Job Description Summary
We are seeking aNashvillebased Program Manager to join our Program Management team within the Client Group.
Team/Group Description
The Client Infrastructure PMO team works closely with AB's Client Group which is composed of Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Product Development for the global Retail and Institutional business units. PMO partners with the Client Group and Technology teams to deliver strategic technology initiatives including custom web, data, and business intelligence solutions.
Role Description
In this role, the Program Manager will manage a team of Business Analysts to deliver critical, client facing, enterprise software development projects. S(he) will be responsible for hiring top talent and keeping the organization highly engaged and motivated, delivering exceptional results. S(he) will lead efforts to improve our processes, making our teams highly productive and champion the adoption of agile and iterative development practices.
Applications and business or enterprise functions the role supports
This role will support our data initiatives across the retail and institutional channels, giving a greater accuracy and abilities for the advisors and associates to drive investment.
Key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to
- Oversight of projects within the programs and reviewing resource planning for their program
- Owning the strategic roadmap
- Coordinating the planning of the team deliveries across quarters and communicating that to various teams and stakeholders
- Alignment with Product Owners to outline dependencies and risks for project work
- Identify cross program dependencies or opportunities to refine and determine value
- Continued education for business analysts within their org
- Spanning tactical and strategic outputs
- Technical partnership with development managers1
Job Qualifications
Qualifications, Experience, Education
- Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance or related field. Masters level preferred
- 10+ years at a leadership level in business analysis and/or project management. Knowledge in asset management, business intelligence, or digital preferred
- Experience in working in a data driven environment is preferred, focusing on shared data components across multiple business units
- Superior project management and analysis skills, experience working in an agile environment
- Demonstrated leadership in managing people, setting strategy and execution
- Excellent communication skills, including strong verbal/written/presentation skills
- Proven ability to work across departments, influence others at senior levels and build strong relationships
- Client focused with strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Experience with JIRA, Microsoft Office
Skills
- Excellent planning, organizational and time management skills
- Strong and concise communication skills (written, verbal and presentation)
- Ability to structure ambiguous business problems and partner with IT to recommend technology solutions
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
- Excellent documentation skills
- Skilled in building and managing relationships with key stakeholders and business partners
- Client focused with a strong sense of ownership and follow-through
- Highly motivated with the ability to work effectively independently and within a team
- Extremely detail-oriented and deadline driven with proven ability to multi-task across projects
- Propensity to learn new areas of the business, processes and applications quickly
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel and Outlook.
Nashville, Tennessee
