Product Delivery Manager - CRM - US Remote Eligible

Edward Jones is looking for an individual to help lead innovation in Branch Business Segments responsible for supporting and enhancing branch client relationship management systems. This person will have the dual responsibilities of product delivery management over a durable product delivery team focused on branch associate CRM systems and people leadership for the software development associates within the team.

What you'll do...

As a Product Delivery Management, you will lead change to implement, configure, enhance and support Branch Business Segments tools and modules using the leading-edge technologies on cloud platforms. In this role, you will work closely with members of the team, enterprise architects, business leaders and product owners including continual strategy setting and evaluation of delivery team structure in alignment with firm needs and direction.

Essential Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships and relationships with Products, QA, UX, PMO and Enterprise Architecture

• Removing obstacles and coordinating resources to continually increase team throughput, predictability, and quality

• Reducing cycle times and improving usability scores by driving improvement of all things related to the SDLC for teams in their remit

• Working with Tech shared services teams to remove impediments and obstacles for improvement of product delivery and cycle time

• Setting of product team success measures to deliver the right value to our clients

• Contribution and maintenance of a product technology roadmap and backlog and the application of architectural standards in the team’s deliverables

• Develop and execute on-going improvements for processes related to the team (e.g. incident management escalations)

• Deep understanding of the product team’s systems, processes, priorities, and technologies while representing these aspects to all levels of IS leadership

• Guide teams to do their work in a way that minimizes key-person dependencies and knowledge silos

• Representation to ensure firm and division processes are followed and risk is reduced by the product team (e.g. compliance change management, information security, etc.)

• Ability to hold teams accountable for setting and achieving Service Level Objectives

In the people leadership portion of this role, this leader will be responsible for:

• Coaching and mentoring of each team member through observation and timely feedback

• Identification of key team positions and develop ready-now successors

• Develop and execute on-going improvements for processes related to the team (e.g. resource management and support processes).

• Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across development teams, system architects, business departments, vendors, and other divisions

• Must be able to establish and maintain effective relationships with vendors while aligning to the firm's objectives

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or related degrees preferred

• Minimum of 6 years of experience directly related to Information Systems technology with at least 3 years in a leadership role (mentoring associates, lead analyst, project leaders, etc.).

• Experience with building out CRM and marketing tools strongly preferred; either home – grown CRM system or vendor tools such as Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce Financial Service cloud, Sales Cloud, Pivotal, Hubspot, or any other vendor tool in the space

• Prior experience of leading implementations in Capital Markets / Wealth Management / Asset Management preferred. Execution experience as part of an ongoing transformation initiative preferred

• Experience in managing Product Teams with Agile methodology

• Good knowledge of system design process and cloud-based system architecture

• Ability to provide technical leadership and oversight to the development team: participate in design discussions, drive technical decisions within and across the organization

• Good communication and presentation skills to be able to interact with business stakeholders

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