About this role
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as a liaison supporting Market Leaders and partnering with their key leadership team to achieve market outcomes and initiatives? Do you enjoy collaborating with others to plan, coordinate and schedule events including the management of travel and expenses? Do you excel in tailoring communication and presentations while using your organizational skills to meet timelines and objectives? Would others describe you as someone who builds strong partnerships, working well with others and making sound decisions to prioritize work appropriately? If so, continue reading about how the exciting opportunity as a Market Project Coordinator in Market Management could be the next step in your Edward Jones career. Market Management empowers our talent to advocate local perspective and make real tradeoffs which better positions us to achieve client and business outcomes in the right places for maximum impact. Success for a Market Project Coordinator is delivering tailored support to the Market Leader/team in the prioritization and execution of market events, projects, expense management and communication that achieves market outcomes and objectives. The Market Project Coordinator will: • Build strong and valued partnerships with Market Leaders, Market team members, Field Leadership, Key Stakeholders and Home office to achieve market objectives. • Utilize market business plan to forecast, plan and recommend activities aligned to market objectives. This includes market training and education events, collaboration with guest speakers, High Performing Team leads and product partners, and recommendations and guidance on field events that align to market outcomes. • Plan, coordinate, and monitor market events aligned to market outcomes, culture, and engagement. This includes venue selection, collaboration with Market team, presenters, and special guests to develop agendas and ensure content alignment, collaboration with key stakeholders for meeting planning (event invitations, day of instructions, menus, travel, accommodations. • Serve as a key member of the Market Team by managing the Market Leader's schedule, travel, and expense reimbursement. • Manage Market budgets by monitoring usage, forecasting costs based on planned events, recommending processes for allocations, and monitoring Market Health and Performance funds, special funds, and region allocations to ensure appropriate use of the funds and expense codes. • Create market communication plans tailored to each market's desired outcomes, gaps, and opportunities. This may include shared OneNote(s), SharePoint sites, creation of Executive level PowerPoint presentations, RL/region emails, FA Recognition, event reminders, and strategy/results updates. • Manage, monitor, and prioritize market projects using strong verbal and written communication skills, project management skills, and the ability to build strong relationships to influence outcomes. • Handle challenging and/or sensitive conversations in a professional and confidential manner and know when to get others involved to manage issues and risks. • Consistently increase efficiencies for team members across the department by improving processes • Serves as a role model for the department, manifested through core work execution, actions and contributions to the market teams, department, and firm.