The Opportunity: The Program Vice President - FIE PMG Strategic Initiatives is responsible for driving enhancements to existing processes leveraging optimization and risk model technology while aiming to seek additional use cases and processes that would benefit from solution use. They will work with other leaders across PMG, PCG, PCGI, and FIIG to identify opportunities and compare and contrast methodology considerations for production implementation. This may include identifying gaps and opportunities in current state operation and formulating recommendations for new capabilities and processes in close alignment with business leadership. Responsibilities include collaborating across multiple functional groups including Strategic Initiatives, PMG level groups, and EVP level verticals across the firm. Expectations include realizing measurable outcomes, utilizing critical thinking, independent action, and proactively aligning efforts amongst peers, third party consultants, and leaders across all involved functions. They will lead the incubation and initiation of projects and will mentor and coach other team members to carry out testing and support of analysis and recommendations. The Day-to-Day:

• Provides strategic leadership and subject matter expertise for highly complex programs that cross multiple business units / functional areas in the areas of risk and portfolio construction.
• Manages large and complex programs (or multiple smaller projects) end-to-end and is responsible for successful delivery of the intended measurable outcomes and value proposition
• Thinks strategically and drives innovation to assess business needs, determine solutions, and implement new programs to solve, improve, or create significant benefits or opportunities for the Firm
• Develops best practices and tools for program execution and management
• Owns relationships with key stakeholders representing all departments impacted by the program which may include IT, LCD, Human Capital, Third Party Vendors, and Business Units
• Creates and/or oversees training materials development for functional areas and/or other business units
• Coaches, mentors, and trains program team members on program-specific knowledge and products
• Creates, implements and oversees initiatives to ensure compliance with policies and procedures
• Identifies, builds and tracks applicable metrics to evaluate success and determine areas for improvement and areas of opportunity
• Regularly interacts with other senior leaders and staff regarding matters of significance to the area of responsibility

Additional responsibilities may include:

• Analyse what is achievable in production solutions at scale and ensure research and testing is designed to make the best use of available capabilities
• Prioritize and communicate to partner vendors the importance of new feature enhancements that have significant impact on the quality of solutions provided
• Organize adequate research and testing, communicating the results to guide production rollout and continued strategy optimization settings for ongoing production
• Contribute to training and education of Fisher employees on the solutions recommended during roll out and ongoing production use.

Your Qualifications:

• University Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• Minimum of 10 years of experience leading and/or developing investment/portfolio related programs
• Minimum of 10 years of experience working with optimization and/or risk model technology
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources including senior management, internal clients, and other departments paired with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to identify needs and design effective solutions
• Ability to set policies/procedures on a group level
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Comfortable and experienced in working in an environment of shifting priorities, demands, and timelines
• Highly-developed analytical and problem-solving ability
• Exceptional time management and organizational skills

Why Fisher Investments Europe: The global Fisher organisation distinguishes itself by putting clients first, providing unmatched service, and taking a personalised approach to investing. You can feel confident knowing that we align with our clients' best interests by using a simple and transparent fee structure and recognised European custodians. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and to help our employees meet their long-term goals, we offer an array of benefits, including:

• 100% paid premiums for our top-tier supplemental medical, dental and annual health screening plans for employees and their qualified dependents
• 28 days annual leave, with the ability to purchase up to 3 additional days per year, plus up to 8 paid holidays
• Enhanced maternity pay package with 16 weeks' top up to full base pay for eligible employees
• $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefit
• A retirement pension plan, featuring a 9% company contribution of base pay with an additional company match of up to 5% of base pay on personal contributions
• Gym subsidy of up to £50 per month
• Employee Assistance Program and other emotional wellbeing services
• A collaborative working environment that practises ongoing training, educational support and employee appreciation events
• This is an in-office role. Based on your role, tenure, and performance eligibility you may have the opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change.

Employees residing outside of the US will be eligible for the $10,000 equivalent in their local currency. FISHER INVESTMENTS EUROPE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER