Director, Entprse Strategy

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 21-Aug-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose:
We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

We are seeking a strategic, influential, and highly collaborative leader to join our team as Director, Enterprise Strategy. In this role, you will lead the development, refinement, and activation of the firm’s enterprise strategy while partnering closely with senior executives across the organization as well as other business and technology leaders to assess, prioritize, and accelerate AI-enabled initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, value creation objectives, and responsible governance practices.

This is a high-visibility leadership position for someone who enjoys solving complex business challenges, turning insights into action, and influencing enterprise-level decision making. You will lead a team responsible for competitive intelligence, market insights, and major strategic initiatives that help shape the future direction of the firm.

• Partner with the Enterprise Leadership Team and senior stakeholders to define strategic priorities and business objectives
• Translate internal and external insights into actionable strategic recommendations
• Assess long-term trends, emerging opportunities, and enterprise risks to inform the evolution of the firm’s strategy

• Lead strategic analyses and cross-functional initiatives that inform enterprise priorities and executive decision making
• Monitor industry, market, customer, and competitive trends and assess their impact on firm strategy
• Identify emerging opportunities and risks and elevate key findings to executive leadership

• Lead the evolution of the firm’s competitive insights function, including strategy, governance, operating model, and enabling tools
• Transform external signals and market intelligence into decision-ready insights for firm leaders
• Oversee the synthesis and distribution of industry, customer, competitor, and market intelligence across the organization
• Lead the evaluation and application of artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance strategic planning, competitive intelligence, decision support, and enterprise-wide business insights
• Partner with business and technology leaders to identify and apply AI capabilities that enhance strategic planning, competitive intelligence, decision support, and enterprise insights, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, value creation objectives, and responsible governance practices

• Frame and solve complex business challenges using both qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Develop strategic hypotheses, gather and analyze data, and present recommendations to executive audiences
• Partner with business and functional leaders to address critical enterprise opportunities and challenges
• Identify emerging AI trends, technologies, business models, and market developments, translating their potential impact into strategic recommendations that inform firm…