Aladdin Client Transformations, Director (Execution Lead)

About this role

About this role:

BlackRock’s business is investing on behalf of our clients, from large institutions to parents and grandparents, doctors and teachers who entrust their savings to us. We are committed to our clients—period. Our promise is to offer them the clearest thinking about what to do with their money and the products and services they need to secure a better financial future.
That’s why investors of all kinds have made us the world’s largest asset manager, entrusting us with trillions of dollars, and it's why companies, institutions and global governments come to us for help meeting their biggest financial challenges.
BlackRock runs on Aladdin. It has always been at the core of BlackRock. Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that seek to connect the information, people, and technology needed to manage money in real time. Our investment software combines risk analytics with portfolio management, trading, compliance, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading, and operational scale. Aladdin is used by a community of over 900 clients around the world. There are over 100,000 end users of Aladdin globally. Through Aladdin, the firm offers to clients the same technology and intellectual capital that BlackRock uses to manage investments day-to-day.

The Aladdin Client Business is growing rapidly, with the volume of new client deals growing each year. We are at the next phase of our growth and are evolving into a business with multiple new product launches. Successful candidates will join in our efforts to help our clients onboard the world’s leading end-to-end operating system to manage investment portfolios and transform their business.
We are looking for a candidate to join us in a Director-level project management role within the Aladdin Client Transformation team with 12+ years of relevant work experience.

This person is responsible for project delivery and management to ensure successful implementations of Aladdin products and services.  Project managers are expected to be organized and efficient, balancing multiple client engagements concurrently. The highest level of client service is expected as the project manager will drive the project to completion, build client relationships and exceed client expectations to meet deadlines, ensuring a satisfied, referenceable client.

The ideal candidate would be expected to be a teammate, bring new insights and assist in process improvement once familiar with our implementation technology, clients and processes.
 

Your team:

The Aladdin Client Transformation team is responsible for the installation and deployment of Aladdin and related products and services, globally. Aladdin transformations are high profile initiatives that require team members to have senior level exposure and play an active role in redefinition of investment organizations. A typical transformation project is at least as much about processes and implementing change as it is about investments and technology. We help clients achieve ambitious strategic objectives, which range from streamlining investment operations to integrating teams, to unifying their investment analytics and risk reporting framework, to modernizing their overall investment process. Aladdin’s transformation model is unique in the sense that we take full responsibility for the Client going live on our solution. It also means that we develop true partnerships with our clients at the most senior levels, which continue to grow post go live.

Your responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the Client's senior management team to provide strong leadership throughout the implementation.  Understand client’s goals/objectives and take strong emotional ownership to deliver solutions.
• Effective overall responsibility for project delivery and management of key elements including scope, deliverables, resources, timelines and budget.
• Continuously refine project management process and standards, adopting best practices to ensure optimal value delivery.
• Identify target milestones and create detailed project plans.
• Manage and communicate all deviations from plan.
• Monitor and control projects by actively identifying, tracking, managing, mitigating and resolving project issues and risks – provide the requested internal and external reporting.
• Conduct project meetings, collaborate with project team members to build consensus on complicated issues.
• Communicate requirements and actively set and manage expectations to ensure all team members and stakeholders are accountable for their role in the project’s overall success.
• Project documentation such as SOWs, weekly status reports, issue/risk logs, time analyses and analyzing/estimating project costs and forecasts.
• Manage key stakeholders by setting appropriate expectations, ensure proper communication and manage crisis.
• Defining and following up on the schedule and the quality of the deliverables.

Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Minimum of 12+ years related experience in financial services, alternative investments, software and/or a large consulting firm industry.
• Must have consulting experience working with external clients.
• Detail-oriented, proactive teammate with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders, with excellent project delivery methodology knowledge and practical application.
• Excellent risk, issue, action, decision, and assumption management, along with budgeting, forecasting, maintenance, reporting, and management skills.
• Project management qualifications such as PMBOK, PMP, Agile, Six Sigma, a plus.
• Leadership/ability to mobilize internal and external teams.
• Communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Flexibility, adaptability and resourcefulness.

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$195,000.00 - USD$275,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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