Manage and deliver strategic programs for technology transformation by collaborating with stakeholders and partners, enhancing business operations and processes.
Company Profile
Founded in 1977, GMO is a global investment manager committed to delivering superior long-term investment performance and advice to our clients. We offer investment strategies and solutions where we believe we are positioned to add the greatest value for our investors. These include multi-asset class, public equity, public credit, and liquid alternative offerings.
We manage approximately $65bn for a client base that includes many of the world’s most sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Industry-wide, we are well known for our focus on valuation-based investing, willingness to take bold positions when conditions warrant, and candid and academically rigorous thought leadership. Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Co-Founder and Long-Term Investment Strategist, is renowned as an expert in identifying speculative investment bubbles and also as a leading climate investor and advocate.
GMO is privately owned and employs over 430 people worldwide. We are headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and Australia. Our company-wide culture emphasizes commitment to clients, intellectual curiosity, and open debate. We celebrate and respect our differences, while embracing and valuing what each of us brings to work, as we know that diverse teams in an inclusive, caring environment achieve higher engagement and better client results.
Please follow the prompts included in this job posting to apply. The application window for this role is anticipated to remain open until the job is filled, or as otherwise determined by GMO.
Position Overview:
Work with the Product Transformation Team to enable strategic change across GMO’s various functions by partnering and collaborating with Technology team members and business innovators to understand, document, communicate, standardize, and implement the transformation of the GMO Technology environment into a ‘Data and Analytics Everywhere’ ecosystem in support of GMO’s strategic goals.
Responsibilities:
•Manage and deliver on strategic programs; contribute to a best-in-class transformation operating model and serve as a liaison across stakeholders
•Partner with Technology Leads, Product Transformation Lead, and business stakeholders in defining a technology vision that enables the business strategy
•Develop strong relationships with technology and business partners by connecting on an individual level and in large groups; drive accountability, cultivate entrepreneurship, and influence cross-functional partnership
•Develop a broad contextual understanding of the firm’s business, data, and technology strengths and challenges
•Balance the delivery of programs against the realities of a budget and timeline
•Partner with Technology Leads in achieving specific runbook goals
Skills and Requirements:
•At least three years of related experience with demonstrated ability to manage and enhance collaboration among diverse business and technology groups in transforming concepts and requirements into innovative product solutions that allow for systems and processes to pivot as business needs change
•Ideal candidates will have experience from a technology organization although we are open to profiles from various industries
•Strong understanding of product transformation life cycles, including design, discover, build, and adopt
•Commitment to inclusive, ethical, accountable, and transparent leadership
•Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, ability to prioritize multiple tasks, handle diverse situations, set goals, and meet deadlines
•Highly developed presentation, facilitation, and communication skills (both verbal and written)
•Excellent communication management skills including email management, calendar management, meeting takeaways, and shared project documentation
•Motivation to work efficiently & effectively with minimal supervision, willingness to take initiative and follow-through
•Ability to learn new concepts, systems, and software independently and quickly
•Ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences, and incorporate them into the transformational plan
•Proven ability to deeply understand a function’s business strategy
•Strong understanding of data driven product transformation initiatives measured using key performance indicators and other metrics
•Experience working with multiple project management techniques including design thinking, proof-of-concept, agile, and scrum
•Strong demonstrated experience in using professional productivity tools including Excel, PowerPoint, MSOffice Suite, GAI Copilots
•A successful candidate will have demonstrated interest and experience in a few of the following: data engineering, data architecture, cloud infrastructure, SQL, Python, workflow design tools
GMO is currently operating in a hybrid work model with the current expectation that the Product Transformation Analyst will be in the office a minimum of 1 day per week (Thursday) and the balance of the week working either in the office or remotely (to be discussed with the candidate).
GMO is committed to the recruitment, employment, and promotion of all candidates equally, regardless of an individual's gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability (except where such disability is a bona fide occupational disqualification) or any other classification protected under federal, state or local law.
GMO will not offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity.
Top Skills
Excel
Gai Copilots
Msoffice Suite
PowerPoint
Python
SQL
GMO Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
40 Rowes Wharf, Boston, MA, United States, 02110
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