Director of FI Commercial Discovery

Job Description:

The Role

The Director of FI Commercial Discovery is responsible for connecting the dots across insights, strategy, and execution to uncover and activate new revenue opportunities. By partnering closely with business leaders and cross-functional teams, this role drives the discovery, testing, and scaling of commercial initiatives for Fidelity Institutional while deepening client understanding through structured intelligence efforts.

Your primary area of focus in this role will be to lead the full lifecycle of commercial experimentation, from idea generation and test design to execution and analysis. You will be a strategic connector, linking insights, business needs, and market dynamics to uncover untapped commercial opportunities. It will be essential to use market insights to inform commercial ideation and ensure initiatives are grounded in real client needs and behaviors.

You will:

• Partner with business stakeholders to co-create and implement revenue-generating initiatives, embedding them into existing processes, optimizing workflows, or launching new programs.

• Collaborate across business functions to drive innovative but also executable and scalable ideas to action.

• Expand and mature the constellation of client listening posts to generate actionable insights. Includes partnering with Specialist Team insight delivery process to pull intelligence into cycle of thought leadership development.

• Support dynamic profiling efforts to improve segmentation, personalization, and client engagement strategies.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred with 10+ years of business development, product management, consulting or related experience within the financial services industry

• Bring an intrapreneurial and client-centric approach with experience building new capabilities within established organizations

• Strong understand of the intermediary and institutional financial markets, investment products and distribution channels

• Ability to lead through partnership and influence across functions. Experience driving alignment with client-facing associates including sales and relationship managers, marketing and product teams.

• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple initiatives and drive them to completion.

• Proven ability to move from concept to action, even in environments with limited direct control.

• You can work with ambiguity and uncertainty, uncover opportunities through data analysis and analytics and identify market opportunities and unmet client needs

• Proficiency in survey design, client feedback tools, analysis techniques, business statistics and insight generation

• Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Team

The Market Intelligence & Commercialization team brings together deep industry knowledge focused on elevating relevant market and competitive insights within the intermediary and institutional financial markets with a process to systematically identify and act on both near- and long-term commercial opportunities. We are focused on a culture of learning and value action, expertise, innovation, and connectivity

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Category:

Marketing

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.