Asset & Wealth Managemnet - Project & Change Management Associate - London

WeAreTechWomen; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment manager seeks a Global Change Manager to oversee high-impact initiatives within the Asset & Wealth Management division. The role requires a strategic thinker with strong change management skills and a proven track record in delivering business benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in a comparable role.
• Proven track record of driving solutions and benefits delivery.
• Hands-on approach with capability to coach team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic cross-divisional initiatives to ensure timely implementation.
• Mitigate and manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Influence stakeholders to deliver optimal solutions.

Skills

Change management skills

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Goldman Sachs’ Asset & Wealth Management Division (AWM) is one of the world’s leading investment managers. AWM provides institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning public and private asset classes, industries, and geographies. AWM helps it’s clients navigate today’s dynamic markets and identify the opportunities that shape their portfolios and long-term investment goals. These global capabilities are extended to the world’s leading corporates, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, financial institutions, pension plans, endowments, foundations, individuals and family offices.

Asset & Wealth Management: Change Management

Global Change Managers lead high priority initiatives within Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), supporting the global AWM businesses. You will work alongside Deal Execution teams, Sales, Product Managers, Operations and Engineers to ensure solutions are delivered and benefits realized.

HOW YOU WILL FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Be comfortable with ambiguity and “working in the grey” to understand complex business challenges and technical issues to structure and deliver tangible business benefits
• Lead strategic cross divisional initiatives, deploying appropriate methodologies and governance tools, to drive the timely delivery of implementations, on budget and to a high quality
• Mitigate and manage risks, issues and dependencies across the lifecycle, working to ensure practical resolutions,
• Exert influence and impact, to drive delivery, manage stakeholders and ensure the optimal solution

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Minimum 3+ years’ relevant experience, in a comparable role
• Be a strategic and analytical thinker, possessing strong problem-solving and data gathering skills, and able to provide creative & innovative solutions
• Change management skills including definition of business case & scope, articulation of issues, challenges, risks, dependencies & solutions, status reporting and test execution
• A proven track record of driving solutions and benefits delivery
• Significant experience demonstrated through empowerment, situational awareness, increasing transparency and conflict resolution on a large-scale program
• Hands-on, able and willing to work with team members while coaching them to reach efficient and effective performance levels
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral; confident in interaction with stakeholders