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Director, Strategy and Planning

Fidelity

Fidelity

smithfield, ri, usa · Boston, MA, USA · Westlake, TX, USA
Posted on May 9, 2025
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Job Description:

The Role

The Director, Strategy and Planning is a cornerstone role on the Abandoned Property and Legal Operations Team. The Director will collaborate with Abandoned Property and Legal Operations Leadership and our business partners to develop our strategy, identify and track our key initiatives and priorities, and measure our progress. The Director will be responsible for end-to-end data management, including data accuracy, and the creation and maintenance of new and existing reports to support the needs of the business. The Director will use data to build compelling storylines and visuals to inform our team, our leaders, and our business partners, and to promote effective decision-making. This role is strategic and analytical, and it will balance strategic planning and oversight with execution of critical tasks.

Strategy and Planning: As Director, you will lead the strategic planning process to establish team priorities and ensure organizational alignment. You will facilitate KPI development to measure the team’s progress toward goals, provide visibility into the team’s deliverables and outcomes, and drive accountability across the team. You will work across Abandoned Property, Legal Operations, and our business partners to develop and track shared KPIs, and to measure the cross-Fidelity impact of our business. Additionally, you will manage business reviews, capacity planning, budgeting exercises, and all-associates meetings.

Data Analytics and Reporting: You will use data analysis and visualization tools to synthesize data and trends, develop actionable insights, build storylines, and craft presentations that inform key decisions and tackle business problems. You will provide analysis to measure and evaluate the performance of the business and distill results for senior management-level reporting. You will create data management policies and implement best practices to ensure data integrity and to empower a data-driven culture. You will collaborate with partners across the business, analytics, and technology to deliver analytics solutions, including the potential build of a data warehouse.

People Manager: You will manage a small team, providing leadership, coaching and development to your associates.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • 8+ years of proven experience in data analytics, finance, strategy, and/or management consulting

  • Experience directly managing and coaching associates

  • Strong knowledge of financial, reporting, presentation, and data visualization tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, Tableau, PowerBI, and ThinkCell

  • Passion and a sense of purpose that inspires and motivates those with whom you work

  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to represent complex concepts in a clear way and to develop compelling and impactful presentations

  • Confidence, professional maturity, and presence to work independently and to collaborate well across all levels of the organization

  • Solid understanding of data and database concepts, tools, and technologies

  • Ability to break down sophisticated data in well-structured analyses and synthesize key points

  • Unmatched organizational and prioritization skills, and meticulous in detail

  • High degree of ownership and accountability for results, and ability to take initiative, learn quickly, and think independently

  • Desire to seek creative solutions that challenge the conventional approach

  • Ability to build trust and credibility with peers, senior leaders, and business partners

  • Series 7, 24, or 99 a plus

The Team

The Director of Strategy and Planning reports to the Vice President of Abandoned Property and Legal Operations. The Abandoned Property team and the Legal Operations team sit within Fidelity’s Enterprise Services Compliance Team. Both teams directly impact Fidelity’s customers and their experience with our firm. The Abandoned Property team is responsible for firm-wide adherence to abandoned property rules and regulations, managing abandoned property multi-jurisdictional examinations, ensuring the timely reporting of abandoned property for multiple businesses and legal entities, and partnering with the business to find and engage lost or inactive customers. The Legal Operations team responds to legal inquiries for customer accounts, including court orders (e.g., garnishments, guardianships, beneficiary disputes), subpoenas, levies, and class action cases.

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Business Strategy

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

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.

If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at:

accommodations@fmr.com

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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 working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

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, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

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 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.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

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.

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.
  • 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.

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