Vice President - Enterprise Process Enablement - Parametric

474 MS Services Group, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley's Parametric division is seeking a senior professional to establish enterprise discipline across cross-functional initiatives. You will ensure clear operating models, structured analyses, and reusable artefacts, shaping standards and governance across the organization.

You will advance process knowledge, maintain governance, and deliver decision-ready outputs while collaborating with business, operations, and technology teams to drive strategic transformation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in Business Process Management, Operating Model Design, Business Analysis or Business Architecture.
• Strong end-to-end process thinking with the ability to decompose complex, cross-functional business processes.
• Practitioner investment management domain expertise across middle- and back-office functions, the end-to-end trade lifecycle, and associated non-financial risks and controls.
• Experience supporting complex cross-functional change within large organizations in investment management or financial services.
• Confident facilitator who can challenge assumptions and build consensus across multiple stakeholder perspectives.
• Ability to adapt approach, depth and communication style to suit different stakeholders, enabling effective collaboration and informed decision making across cross-functional teams.
• Experience producing structured process artefacts that inform business and technology decisions.
• Proficient in BPMN and process modelling tools (e.g. Signavio, Visio or Lucid).
• Advanced Microsoft Office, collaboration tools (Confluence) and emerging AI productivity suite.
• Working knowledge of workflow solutions such as Camunda is a strong advantage.
• Industry credentials in one or more of the following domains are highly desired: Business Process Management, Process Architecture / Business Architecture, Operating Model Design, and Enterprise Transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to think beyond process mapping to understand how organizations operate.
• Can turn ambiguity into structured analysis and practical outcomes.
• Demonstrated balance of strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
• Passion and skill for building frameworks, standards and repeatable ways of working.
• Someone who sees process as a tool for better business outcomes, not just documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead process discovery and operating model analysis across strategic initiatives, translating complex business challenges into clear, decision-ready artefacts.
• Facilitate workshops to challenge assumptions, identify process gaps, dependencies, business rules, data impacts and unresolved ownership before solution decisions are made.
• Assess change across people, process, platform and data, translating process insights into practical operating model considerations and implementation recommendations.
• Apply investment management and trade lifecycle expertise to identify process, data, operating model, risk and control implications of change.
• Develop current and future state process models, using BPMN and other structured artefacts appropriate to the decision being supported.
• Build and embed the Enterprise Process & Operating Model Framework by developing standards, templates, modelling conventions and reusable process assets.
• Maintain enterprise process knowledge, ensuring process information is governed, reusable and provides consistent inputs into business and technology decisions.

Skills

Process discovery

Operating model analysis

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Structured analysis

Tools

Signavio

Visio

Lucid

Confluence

Camunda

Job description

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

ABOUT PARAMETRIC

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Business Process Improvement and Organizational Programs team partners with Business, Operations, Technology, Architecture and Risk to ensure change is informed by a shared understanding of business processes, ownership, governance and impacts. We strive to make business change visible, traceable, and decision-ready; create practical artefacts that improve change outcomes, clarify ownership, expose dependencies and provide a clear line of sight from business intent through to solution delivery.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The organization is executing multiple strategic initiatives across technology modernization, regulatory change, operating model evolution, and global growth. This role establishes and applies enterprise discipline across complex, cross-functional initiatives, ensuring that business processes are explicitly understood, operating model implications are identified early, and decisions are supported by structured analysis. The role leverages investment management domain expertise and an understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle, including the associated non-financial risks and controls. Beyond supporting initiatives, you'll help define and embed our enterprise process & operating model framework, establishing standards, reusable artefacts and consistent ways of working across the organization.

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead process discovery and operating model analysis across strategic initiatives, translating complex business challenges into clear, decision-ready artefacts.
• Facilitate workshops to challenge assumptions, identify process gaps, dependencies, business rules, data impacts and unresolved ownership before solution decisions are made.
• Assess change across people, process, platform and data, translating process insights into practical operating model considerations and implementation recommendations.
• Apply investment management and trade lifecycle expertise to identify process, data, operating model, risk and control implications of change.
• Develop current and future state process models, using BPMN and other structured artefacts appropriate to the decision being supported.
• Build and embed the Enterprise Process & Operating Model Framework by developing standards, templates, modelling conventions and reusable process assets.
• Maintain enterprise process knowledge, ensuring process information is governed, reusable and provides consistent inputs into business and technology decisions.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years' experience in Business Process Management, Operating Model Design, Business Analysis or Business Architecture.
• Strong end-to-end process thinking with the ability to decompose complex, cross-functional business processes.
• Practitioner investment management domain expertise across middle- and back-office functions, the end-to-end trade lifecycle, and associated non-financial risks and controls.
• Experience supporting complex cross-functional change within large organizations in investment management or financial services.
• Confident facilitator who can challenge assumptions and build consensus across multiple stakeholder perspectives.
• Ability to adapt approach, depth and communication style to suit different stakeholders, enabling effective collaboration and informed decision making across cross-functional teams.
• Experience producing structured process artefacts that inform business and technology decisions.
• Proficient in BPMN and process modelling tools (e.g. Signavio, Visio or Lucid).
• Advanced Microsoft Office, collaboration tools (Confluence) and emerging AI productivity suite.
• Working knowledge of workflow solutions such as Camunda is a strong advantage.
• Industry credentials in one or more of the following domains are highly desired: Business Process Management, Process Architecture / Business Architecture, Operating Model Design, and Enterprise Transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to think beyond process mapping to understand how organizations operate.
• Can turn ambiguity into structured analysis and practical outcomes.
• Demonstrated balance of strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
• Passion and skill for building frameworks, standards and repeatable ways of working.
• Someone who sees process as a tool for better business outcomes, not just documentation.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated - and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Salary range for the position: $115,000 - $225,000/Yr.

The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award.

The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component.

Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $115,000 and $225,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.

At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values.

Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world.

In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.