Job Description:

The Role

The Vice President, Vendor Strategy position is a critical role reporting to the Head of Vendor Management. This role is instrumental in setting strategic direction for how we engage with our vendors from on-boarding through the length of the relationships and involves developing vendor segmentation, reporting and establishing governance routines to support vendor decision making across the enterprise. This leader will play an important role in driving both strategic & tactical efforts including supporting regular L1 executive touchpoints and preparing executive level updates. Underpinning all key activities is the ability to bring critical thinking and analysis to provide insight, prioritization, and focus.

This role is a highly collaborative position that interfaces with multiple central and Business Units teams including Procurement, Vendor Risk, Vendor management groups within business units and others to achieve desired outcomes.

The Ideal candidate should have the ability to partner, execute, and influence with strong organizational and communication skills.

The Expertise You have

The position requires significant strategy & consulting experience with multiple years in the project manager role and experience counseling clients/partners, preferably with a top tier consulting firm.
Interest or experience in the financial services industry.
Experience with several business units at Fidelity is a plus
You must have outstanding analytical, communication, conceptual thinking, project management and problem-solving capabilities.
You have both the flexibility and the skill to lead and contribute to teams.
Experience in the areas of vendor management, strategic sourcing, vendor risk is a plus

The Skills You Bring

Self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, able to bring together diverse perspectives and drive to action and desired outcomes
Experience with strategy development, change management and business transformation
Ability to synthesize analysis and research into strategic insights and practical recommendations, including strategic analysis, financial analysis, operational analysis and primary/secondary research
Capable of influencing senior management, through both personal interactions as well as the creation and delivery of presentations
Ability to assess risk and operationalize findings - turning research into actions
Proficient in quantifying challenges and requirements related to execution
Driver of decisions in complex environments with multiple partners
Skilled in building relationships with peers and executives in a variety of capacities

The Value You Deliver

Develop dynamic vendor segmentation to drive appropriate degree of rigor over vendor decisions
Develop standards and guidelines for new vendor engagements and managing ongoing vendor relationships
Develop a view of vendor "strategic fit" to include in vendor evaluation process
Revisit roles & responsibilities, engagement routines and escalation paths
Develop, maintain and operationalize holistic and evolving executive level vendor reporting

Prepare for executive discussions on vendor strategy
Develop materials for executive meetings
Enable and lead communications with key business leaders across the enterprise on relevant vendor topics

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.

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 hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

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, detailed in this document, 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.

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.