Head of Advisor Transitions | St. Petersburg, FL

Head of Advisor Transitions | St. Petersburg, FL

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Job Description Summary
This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds – flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 3 per week averaging 12 days per month in our St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.

The Head of the Transition Management team plays a critical leadership role in driving the strategic planning, execution, and continuous improvement of operational initiatives that support the seamless onboarding and integration of new financial advisors (and their teams). This role is responsible for overseeing end-to-end transition processes, aligning cross-functional teams, and ensuring a high-quality experience for both advisors and clients.

As a key contributor to the department’s overall strategy, the Head of Transitions will lead efforts to optimize workflows, implement scalable solutions, and enhance service delivery. This position requires a forward-thinking leader with strong operational expertise, a deep understanding of the financial services landscape, and a passion for delivering excellence in advisor support.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Execution:
  Collaborate with executive leadership to align transition operations with firm-wide strategic goals. Monitor KPIs and performance metrics to assess transition success and operational effectiveness. Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve advisor onboarding and retention.
• Project & Change Management:
  Manage multiple concurrent transition projects & initiatives, ensuring timely execution and adherence to regulatory requirements. Monitor progress, track milestones, and provide regular updates to senior leadership.
• Compliance &
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Ensure all transition activities comply with FINRA, SEC, and internal regulatory standards. Partner with Legal and Compliance teams to mitigate risk and maintain audit readiness.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  Lead, mentor, and develop a team of managers, transition consultants, project managers, and operations specialists. Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and client-centric service. Manage staffing, training, and performance evaluations to ensure team excellence.
• Technology & Systems Integration:
  Oversee the implementation and optimization of technology platforms used in advisor transitions. Collaborate with IT and digital teams to enhance automation, data accuracy, and user experience. Evaluate new tools and systems to support operational scalability and innovation.

Other Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the organization's operational strategy and outcomes.
• Take overall responsibility for setting and approving area budgets that achieve organizational strategy.
• Manage and report on business performance; hold direct reports accountable for achievement of business plans, and take corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of business objectives, balancing the need to deliver short-term business objectives with the longer-term delivery of stakeholder value.
• Lead the development of annual and longer-term business plans for a significant function or small local business, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); and ensure integration of key activities or projects across the organization.
• Set and communicate the strategy, along with the broad actions needed to implement it, for achieving the organization's mission, vision, and values within a function; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals.
• Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including top management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Develop the strategy for a…