Strategy & Planning Director
Wells Fargo · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
Business Development$185k–$300k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented or summarized away detail. Must remove boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. The posting includes Pay Range: $185,000.00 - $300,000.00. Also mentions Hybrid in-office schedule consistent with Wells Fargo policy; some travel required. So we have Pay and Schedule sections.
Benefits: The posting lists benefits: Health benefits, 401(k) Plan, Paid time off, Disability benefits, Life insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, Parental leave, Critical caregiving leave, Discounts and savings, Commuter benefits, Tuition reimbursement, Scholarships for dependent children, Adoption reimbursement. So we can include Benefits section.
Now we need sections: About the role (intro paragraph). Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (maybe Required Qualifications). Qualifications (maybe Desired Qualifications). Skills (maybe some skill statements). However we must avoid duplication. The posting includes Required Qualifications and Desired Qualifications. Also includes many skill-like statements: "Critical success factors include managing effectively in a matrixed organization, building partnerships..., leading through influence...". Also "Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills...". We need to decide how to map to sections.
We must not create sections with filler. So we need to ensure each section has substantive content.
Potential sections:
- About the role: a paragraph summarizing role purpose.
- Responsibilities: bullet list of duties (the many bullet-like sentences after "In This Role, You Will").
- Requirements: maybe combine Required Qualifications and Desired Qualifications? But we have separate headings: Requirements and Qualifications. Could put Required Qualifications under Requirements, Desired Qualifications under Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe include "Critical success factors" and "Exceptional problem-solving..." etc.
- Benefits: list.
- Pay: show pay range.
- Schedule: mention hybrid in-office schedule, some travel required.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Also must not include "Posting End Date", "Reference Number". Must drop those.
We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Strategy & Planning Managing Director or Executive Director". We must not put that as heading.
We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's extract substantive content.
First, intro paragraph: "Wells Fargo is seeking a Strategy & Planning Managing Director or Executive Director to join the Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) Strategy team. The Strategy Director will advise and support the Head of WIM Strategy and the WIM leadership team in designing and driving business innovation, growth opportunities, and strategic priorities across the wealth and investment management ecosystem and will be accountable for developing and leading strategic plans, advancing business transformation, and positioning WIM for sustainable long-term growth in an evolving competitive and regulatory environment. The Strategy Director will lead a team of Strategy professionals. They will own a portfolio of WIM's highest-stakes strategic agendas from problem definition through executive decision and implementation. They will work directly with, support, and influence members of the WIM Operating Committee and their teams. The successful candidate brings a deep understanding of the wealth management and investment industry - client segments, advisor models, platform capabilities, investment products, regulatory considerations, and the competitive landscape - combined with the management consultant's toolkit: structured problem solving, critical thinking, quantitative rigor, and concise executive communication. Critical success factors include managing effectively in a matrixed organization, building partnerships across business and functional areas, and leading through influence, with a sense of urgency and personal accountability for results."
That's a good About the role paragraph.
Now Responsibilities: list after "In This Role, You Will". Let's extract each bullet:
- Develop and lead strategic plans that position WIM for sustainable long-term growth, and own the WIM annual strategic plan together with strategy presentations for the Board of Directors and Investor Day
- Update, challenge, and refine the long-term (3-5 year) strategic vision and growth plan for an assigned portfolio of WIM businesses, encompassing advisory, brokerage, digital and self-directed wealth, deposits, lending, and trust
- Develop and lead the strategy for digital and self-directed wealth products, including client segmentation, the self-directed-to-advised funnel, pricing and digital engagement economics, and build, buy, or partner recommendations
- Lead the workplace wealth strategy across stock plan, equity compensation, and retirement offerings, and structure, negotiate, and steward partnership agreements - commercial terms, economics, and risk allocation - with Legal, Risk, Finance, Product, and Corporate Development partners
- Lead the growth agenda for deposits, securities-based and mortgage lending, and trust and fiduciary relationships, including cash and sweep economics, client primacy, and channel-level opportunity sizing
- Define WIM's position in emerging areas including digital assets, converting regulatory developments, competitor moves, and client demand into a sequenced set of offer and investment decisions
- Advance business transformation by identifying, sizing, and driving AI-enabled organizational efficiency across WIM and building the business case with Finance, Human Resources, and Technology
- Advance WIM's understanding of evolving client expectations, advisor needs, competitive trends, regulatory developments, and technology innovations, and continually benchmark across wealth managers, RIAs, asset managers, digital wealth platforms, private banks, and fintech entrants
- Ensure strong alignment and coordination with firmwide and cross-LOB objectives, including with Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Corporate Strategy
- Manage and develop a team of less experienced managers and professional individual contributors, allocate people and financial resources for the team, and contribute to Wells Fargo's firmwide Strategy capabilities
- Lead the development and enhancement of the team's internal consulting and analytics capabilities, and set an AI-enabled operating model in which agents and AI tooling carry the research, modeling, and material production traditionally performed at the analyst level
- Ensure insights, strategic recommendations, and execution roadmaps are well communicated and understood by senior leaders and stakeholders across WIM and the enterprise
- Provide strategic oversight and guidance to ensure business objectives - including responsible growth, risk excellence, and differentiated client and advisor experiences - are achieved, and develop policies and procedures where the work sets precedent
That's a lot; we can keep them as
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Now Requirements: Required Qualifications: "10+ years of Strategy and Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education 4+ years of management or leadership experience". We'll put as bullet list maybe.
Now Qualifications: Desired Qualifications: a paragraph with many bullet-like statements. We'll extract each as bullet.
Desired Qualifications text:
"A seasoned strategy leader with 10+ years of progressively increasing responsibility in wealth management, private banking, asset management, retirement, digital wealth, or advisory platform strategy; alternatively, a Principal or Associate Partner at a top-tier management consulting firm with a wealth or asset management focus, or head or deputy head of corporate strategy at a peer wealth manager
Experience leading strategy for a high-growth or transformation-oriented business, and deep understanding of wealth management, including product and platform evolution, client segmentation, and advisor ecosystems
An innovation mindset with the ability to leverage emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to accelerate business performance - evidenced by AI agents or workflows the candidate has built into how strategic work gets done
Demonstrated expertise in several, and working familiarity across most, of: digital and self-directed wealth; partnerships, corporate development, or M&A; workplace wealth including stock plan and retirement; deposit, lending, and trust growth within a wealth channel; digital assets; operational and process improvement
Experience structuring and negotiating commercial partnership or vendor agreements, including economics, term-sheet alternatives, and risk allocation
Experience preparing Board of Directors and Investor Day strategy materials, ideally at a best-in-class peer
Experience managing in a large-scale, complex matrixed organization, and leading change through influence
Demonstrated ability to quantify operational effectiveness, identify strategic opportunities, and implement strategies that drive improved performance
A disciplined operator who can manage in a complex risk and regulatory environment, and instill a culture of accountability, ownership, and results across teams - both direct reports and peers
Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills with a track record of converting insights into actionable plans; demonstrated relationship building, collaboration, influence, and negotiation with executive stakeholders; and excellent written and verbal communication across audiences and levels."
We can split into bullet list.
Now Skills: maybe we can include "Critical success factors" and "Exceptional problem-solving..." but those are already in Desired Qualifications. To avoid duplication, we could put Critical success factors under Skills. However the posting already includes "Critical success factors include managing effectively in a matrixed organization, building partnerships across business and functional areas, and leading through influence, with a sense of urgency and personal accountability for results." That's a skill set. Also "Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills..." is also skill. But we already used that in Desired Qualifications. To avoid duplication, maybe we treat Desired Qualifications as Qualifications, and Critical success factors as Skills. But there is overlap. However we must preserve ALL substantive information; we can duplicate? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't forbid duplication, but better to avoid redundancy. However we need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content for Skills: the critical success factors and maybe also the "exceptional problem-solving..." but that is also in Desired Qualifications. Could we put that under Qualifications and not duplicate? Let's decide: We'll put Required Qualifications under Requirements, Desired Qualifications under Qualifications, and Critical success factors under Skills (maybe also include the exceptional problem-solving... but we can note that it's also in Qualifications; but to avoid duplication we could keep it only in Qualifications. However the instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; if we omit it from Skills, we still have it in Qualifications, so it's preserved. So we can omit duplication.
Thus Skills section will contain the critical success factors bullet list.
Now Benefits: list as bullet.
Pay: show range.
Schedule: mention hybrid in-office schedule consistent with Wells Fargo policy; some travel required.
Now we must not include "Some travel required" duplicated? It's in Schedule and also maybe in Job Expectations. We'll include schedule section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings
for each section. Structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
Pay
$185,000.00 - $300,000.00
Schedule
Hybrid in-office schedule consistent with Wells Fargo policy; some travel required.
We must ensure no extra sections like "Job Expectations". Also we must not include "Posting End Date", "Reference Number". Also must not include EEO etc. Now we need to verify that we haven't included any filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now we need to ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The intro paragraph includes many details; we captured them. Check if any other details like "Officer title of Executive Director or Managing Director will be determined by candidate experience and level at hire" - that's substantive. Should we include? It's under Job Expectations. Could be part of About the role or maybe