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Salary: USD 200,000 - 250,000 / annual
iCapital seeks a Senior Vice President of Strategic Development and Planning to join the Business Excellence organization within Operations and Investment Product Management (OIPM). This is a highly visible, strategic leadership role reporting to OIPM leadership, focused on strengthening scalability, operational effectiveness, and organizational performance across the division.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and excellence.
- Lead annual and multi-year strategic planning processes for Fund Operations and related functions, ensuring alignment with OIPM and firmwide priorities.
- Lead large-scale business transformation and change management initiatives focused on scalability, operational effectiveness, organizational alignment, sustainable growth, and business process improvement.
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives with clear objectives, milestones, success metrics, and accountability.
- Partner with senior leaders to align business priorities, drive decision-making, and ensure successful execution across functions.
- Oversee OIPM's strategic initiative portfolio, ensuring resources, investments, and priorities align with business objectives and long-term goals.
- Provide executive governance and oversight for critical business initiatives, ensuring timely execution, risk mitigation, measurable outcomes, consistency, transparency, and accountability.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across teams, serving as a trusted advisor and catalyst for organizational alignment and execution.
- Prepare strategic recommendations, business cases, and executive-level materials to support investment decisions, prioritization, and long-term planning.
- Synthesize complex operational, financial, and business data into actionable insights and compelling narratives for senior executives.
- Conduct strategic analyses of new business opportunities, including market assessments, competitive benchmarking, financial modeling, and operational impact evaluations.
- Partner with senior leaders to develop and oversee acquisition integration strategies, ensuring seamless transitions and realization of business objectives.
- Develop and maintain executive dashboards, scorecards, performance reporting frameworks, governance standards, execution frameworks, and performance management processes.
The role requires navigating complex challenges, influencing executive-level discussions, and operating effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You will work in the office Monday–Thursday, with flexibility to work remotely on Friday.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting (MBB or Tier 2), business transformation, strategic finance, corporate development, or a related leadership role within a high-growth organization.
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, or a related field required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
- Direct experience within private markets, alternative investments, wealth management, asset management, fintech, or another highly regulated and operationally complex industry, including fund operations.
- Deep understanding of fund managers (GPs), investment products, fund structures, investor servicing models, operating environments, operational risk, control frameworks, regulatory environments, and scalable operating practices.
- Proven experience building, leading, and developing high-performing teams, with a track record of fostering collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, build consensus, and align diverse stakeholders around common goals, priorities, and business outcomes.
- Proven success leading large-scale strategic and cross-functional initiatives, organizational transformations, operating model enhancements, and organizational change through influence rather than direct authority.
- Experience designing and implementing governance frameworks, operating models, performance management processes, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex challenges into actionable strategies, business cases, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience developing strategic recommendations and executive-level materials for leadership teams, executive committees, and board-level audiences.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling capabilities, with the ability to synthesize complex operational and financial data into clear, actionable insights.
- Strong communication, executive presence, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills, with proficiency in data visualization, reporting, and business intelligence tools.
