Senior Project Leader, Integration Management

Edward Jones; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan

Bonuses & profit sharing

Employee Assistance Program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 financial services firm, seeks a Senior Project Leader in the Integration Management Office. You will direct major integration efforts, partnering with senior leaders to deliver complex initiatives that transform processes and capabilities while managing risk, budget, and timelines.

Located near Tempe, AZ or St. Louis, MO, this role emphasizes leadership, governance, and change management across multiple business areas and external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or related field.
• 10+ years leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong governance, risk, readiness planning, and value realization.
• Proven ability to influence project teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders.
• Experience within an Integration Management Office or similar governance structure.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale integration projects across departments, business areas, and external partners.
• Define objectives, scope, success measures, and implementation plans with senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate requirements gathering to ensure solutions meet organizational needs.
• Develop, monitor, and adjust project plans, timelines, budgets, risks, and dependencies.
• Mentor teams, drive organizational change, and ensure on-time delivery with lasting impact.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PMO tools

Job description

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 05-Oct-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report (https://careers.edwardjones.com/blog/edward-jones-releases-annual-purpose-inclusion-and-citizenship-report/?codes=DIRECT&utm_source=DIRECT) .

¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Are you a strategic project leader who thrives on solving complex business challenges and driving meaningful change? As a Senior Project Leader, Integration Management Office , you'll lead large-scale, high-impact integration initiatives that support the firm's long-term success. This includes leading complex integration efforts associated with acquisitions and strategic partnerships.

In this highly visible role, you'll partner with senior leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to plan, execute, and deliver complex projects that improve processes, enhance capabilities, and advance strategic priorities. You'll serve as a trusted advisor, bringing together diverse teams, managing risks, influencing decision-making, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with lasting business impact.

This role offers the opportunity to lead critical enterprise initiatives, mentor others, and influence outcomes across multiple areas of the firm while helping the organization navigate growth, change, and continuous improvement. The position may also serve in a leadership capacity within an Integration Management Office (IMO), coordinating workstreams, facilitating governance, and driving execution of complex integration programs.

What You'll Do

• Lead large-scale, complex integration projects and strategic initiatives that span multiple departments, business areas, and external partners.

• Partner with senior stakeholders and business leaders to define project objectives, scope, success measures, and implementation plans.

• Facilitate the gathering and analysis of business requirements to ensure solutions meet organizational needs.

• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, resource strategies, risk identification and mitigation approaches, and decision support tools to ensure successful delivery.

• Manage cross-workstream dependencies, critical path activities, integration risks, and escalation processes to support successful execution.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams, including Business, Finance, Operations, Technology, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Human Capital, and external partners, to achieve project milestones and business outcomes.

• Monitor project scope, budget, timeline, quality, and risks, proactively addressing issues and escalating concerns when appropriate.

• .Support readiness planning and transition execution activities to ensure successful implementation and business continuity.

• Lead organizational change efforts, helping stakeholders adapt to new processes, systems, and ways of working.

• Mentor and influence project team members, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance.

• Continuously identify opportunities to improve efficiency, strengthen processes, and enhance the effectiveness of Integration Management tools and practices

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field

• 10+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives like acquisitions, strategic partnership implementations, business integrations or large-scale organizational change initiatives.

• Strong knowledge of integration management disciplines, including governance, dependency management, risk management, readiness planning, and value realization.

• Proven ability to lead and influence project teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders, often without direct authority.

• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, including scope, budget, timelines, risks, and dependencies.

• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills with the ability to navigate complex business challenges.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for technical teams, business partners, and executive leadership.

• Experience using enterprise project management tools and methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently, make sound decisions, and drive results with broad organizational impact.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, influence senior stakeholders, and drive alignment across competing priorities.

• Experience working within an Integration Management Office (IMO), Transformation Office, Enterprise PMO, or similar governance structure preferred.

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week.

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones (https://careers.edwardjones.com/blog/?_sft_category=awards-accolades)

Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones (https://careers.edwardjones.com/en-CA/blogs/?_sft_category=awards-accolades-en-ca)

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page (https://secure.edwardjonesbenefits.com/fleet/public/index/f914262d-0362-4682-bd1e-0ccd25f1dfb1) .