Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Project & Change Management - Vice President - Birmingham

Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE WILL BE BASED IN BIRMINGHAM

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 its 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 senior stakeholders and ensure the optimal solution

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Minimum 10-15 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
• Proven ability to lead a team/management experience
• 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
• Extensive leadership experience demonstrated through empowerment, situational awareness, increasing transparency and conflict resolution on a large-scale program
• Hands on, able and willing to work with teams while coaching them to reach efficient and effective performance levels
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral; confident in interaction with senior stakeholders

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Job Info

• Job Identification 131397
• Job Category Vice President
• Locations Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Healthcare & Medical Services

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state of the art on site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre approved amount).

We offer on site child care centers that provide full time and emergency back up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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