What are the responsibilities and job description for the Partner Integration Consultant position at American Century Investments?
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American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
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The Partner Integration Consultant will support the Personal Financial Solutions (PFS) division’s Business Development efforts. This role will collaborate with key stakeholders at American Century and external clients/prospects to grow partnership opportunities and small business clients and net new flows to the firm. The ideal candidate will find opportunities to improve existing partner infrastructure, Business Development sales capacity and productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with prospects and partners to identify program needs, integration capabilities, and lead go-to-market execution.
- Collaborate closely with Client Development, Business Transformation, Operations, Marketing, IT, Finance, Legal and Compliance to develop and maintain infrastructure to ensure partner success.
- Translate Business Development and client acquisition strategy into detailed, prioritized requirements to better enable sales distribution and go-to-market processes.
- Support existing partnerships by leading the planning and initiative or refinement of partner-sourced client experiences.
- Conduct business analysis and background research on partners, industries, and competitors with a view to support growth for Personal Financial Solutions.
- Deliver value for clients, business and teammates. Influence the development of strategic plans that are effective in marketplace and lead to measurable business results.
Requirements
- Strong listening skills to understand client and stakeholder needs. Must have superior influencing, networking, and inter-personal skills to operate with comfort in a highly matrixed environment.
- Proven leadership skills with strong ability to empower, delegate and achieve results both with and without having direct management authority
- Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations.
- Digital literacy including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot
- Strong analytical skills
- Able to complete assignments independently, using a high level of judgment and initiative to resolve problems and develop recommendations
- Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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