Product Delivery Manager

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Product Delivery Manager - CLP Apply locations Cannon Street Office time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id J51103 About the Opportunity Job Type: PermanentApplication Deadline: 31 August 2024

Job Description

Title Product Delivery Manager - CLP

Department Investment Management Technology

Location London (Cannon Street Office)

Reports To Programme Director - ISS Technology & Change

Level 8

We share a commitment to making things better for clients and each other. We continually explore new technology and different ways of working to put our clients first. So, bring your boldest ideas to our Investment Management team and feel like you're making progress

About your team

Investment Management Technology, part of Investment Solutions & Services business, provides systems development, implementation, and support services for Fidelity International's global Investment Management division. We support Fund Managers, Research Analysts and Traders in all of Fidelity International's locations, including London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Toronto, Australia, Singapore, and China.

Fidelity is embarking on several strategic programmes of work that will create a technology platform to support the next evolutionary stage of our Investment Processes. These programmes span across asset classes and include Fundamental and Quantitative Research, Sustainable Investing, Systematic and Portfolio Construction, Risk Management and Trading.

One of these is Client Led Portfolios (CLP), a strategic programme tasked with delivering three critical outcomes to support the aspirational growth to double our AUM in the next decade. These are:

The delivery of new and consolidated cross asset class Investment Toolkit; replacing several legacy applications and data stores The implementation of Model Based Investing; a new operating model construct required to unlock strategic growth and scale The migration away from asset Pooling structures, a regulatory and counterparty risk to FIL's future growth.

About your role

As a Product Delivery Manager on CLP, you will play a key role working with senior Business and Change leads within both Fidelity International and our vendor partners to facilitate and lead the definition and delivery of viable business tooling and operating model changes to support Fidelity's Investment Management future growth and success.

One of these areas is the implementation of tools, technologies and op model changes to support the realisation of Model Based Investing, a key vehicles to support Fidelity's ability to meet an ever-changing client demand for product customisation across all asset classes. This will require you to lead teams of business analysts and technical vendors and engage with internal enablement functions to define and deliver key outcomes across the front, middle and back office functions to manage the execution of newly defined investment models, Client portfolio design and execution

The introduction of model-based investing, alongside a new investment toolkit, will add significant capacity and scale to FIL's investment platform by streamlining significant manual process and capacity constraints that exist in the investment process today. The aim is to allow investment management expertise to be focused on the management of core portfolios that best represent key investment strategies, that can be delivered to clients through a range of delivery mechanisms, including a variety of fund vehicles, segregated mandates, and advisory services.

You will ensure the core business goals are understood and will help shape large, high risk and complex initiatives. You will work collaboratively with solution and enterprise architects, UX designers, and wider delivery teams to ensure that solutions address the requirements of the business.

The successful candidate will have a detailed knowledge of working in an Agile environment using Agile tools and techniques,) as well as business analysis tools and techniques. You will have experience working with full scale Scrum or Kanban and be a competent user of Jira and Confluence.

You will be required to effectively influence and assist key stakeholders, support multiple change initiatives, and oversee and drive communication streams within the workstream and programme. A willingness to take on new challenges, collaborate and share knowledge freely with colleagues globally is also critical to success.

This role will face off to senior stakeholder in the Investment Management organisation so the successful candidate will therefore be personable, articulate and have strong industry experience.

About your key accountabilities

Within this role you will be required to

• Reporting into both the CLP Programme Director, partner with the business leads and senior Business and Enterprise Architects to incept and deliver the critical outcomes for new tooling and Model Based Investing Structures over the next 2 years.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery for a key product workstream within the CLP programme, managing plans to meet key outcomes & milestones to realised new functional and non-functional requirements
• Work closely with leads in the Data and Investment Risk and Attribution programmes, to successfully bring together cohesive solutions across tooling & data services
• Design and correctly resource the global change team with the necessary skills and capabilities to successfully deliver the workstream outcomes in line with ISS enterprise standards.
• Establish a roadmap demonstrating the staged delivery of capabilities, benefits realised, dependencies with other initiatives, customer impact, and regulatory impact.
• Ensure that there are clearly defined transition states for the Operating Model at different points in time on the roadmap to represent the staged delivery.
• Align the technology and business functions under a cohesive governance model to deliver each stage of the strategy & Operating Model
• Ensure that the key functions and stakeholders are engaged and represented in the workstream structures, and that user needs, and requirements are adequately represented within the workstream across front, middle and back office functions.
• Plan and lead operational readiness activities are planned, resourced, and monitored including Organisation design, job descriptions, role profiles; processes and procedures aligned to the Target Operating Model, Training.
• Work closely with Technical, product and oversight governance functions to align outcomes, plans and designs to enterprise and programme targets

About you

The successful candidate would be expected to have strong business analysis skills with a proven record of project participation and delivery ideally gained within Investment management. The ability to understand technical design and assess approach to rectify any issues encountered is also important.

• Detailed understanding of Investment management lifecycle across front, middle and to back office
• Strong experience on portfolio management and Model Based investing and how these are evolving across the sector
• Portfolio Engineering / Quantitative Experience will be added benefit
• Background in Investment management technology product development of all key asset classes
• Able to understand performance and risk attribution of model-based investing
• Experience working on in-house/vendor product that supports model-based investing
• Ability to explain complex technical and functional requirement concisely
• Successfully operated as a hands-on business analyst in a lead role
• Requirements analysis using structured techniques (Use Cases, Design Thinking etc.)
• Strong logical and physical data analysis skills
• End to end development using formal methodologies, agile or iterative techniques (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP)
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience presenting recommendations
• Experience of delivering change using an offshore model

Feel rewarded

For starters, we'll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We'll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we'll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It's all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit

As an international financial services organisation, we are in-scope of international regulations in the way that we carry out our work. This position is involved in work that is regulated by the FCA and/or the PRA and their Individual Conduct Rules (COCON) apply to it, along with any other regulation. We provide training on COCON and how it affects our employees. More information about COCON can be found in the Employment Handbook.

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