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This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds – flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 3 per week averaging 12 days per month in our **St. Petersburg, FL** Corporate Office.

The Manager of New Advisor Transitions Management is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing the successful onboarding and integration of financial advisors into the firm. This position leads a high-performing team of **_Transition Consultants and/or Traveling Support Associates_** , manages complex transition projects, and ensures a seamless experience for advisors joining the organization.

With many years of management experience and a proven ability to lead large teams, the Manager excels in relationship management, deadline-driven execution, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional with deep industry knowledge, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for delivering outstanding service.

**Responsibilities** :

+ Oversee an operational area with guidance from senior colleagues. Could involve responsibility for development or delivery (or both).

+ Contribute to the development of annual and longer-term business plans; forecast performance against business key performance indicators (KPIs); develop business cases for key activities/projects; and estimate the financial and human resources required to deliver performance targets.

+ Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.

+ Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives.

+ Manage day-to-day service operations, developing and/or delivering a plan and outcomes for a service operations area with guidance from senior colleagues.

+ Develop medium- or long-term work schedules that enable the organization to achieve its business goals. Involves coordinating across multiple teams.

+ Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.

+ Develop procedures and interpret and apply policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs, or advise the wider business on application of policy, then monitor implementation of those procedures within the organization.

+ Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices that would improve operational support.

+ Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of internal communications with guidance from senior colleagues.

+ Develop and/or deliver a contingency plan for significant aspects of the risk management and/or risk control processes.

+ Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.

+ Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.

+ Monitor and review performance and behaviors within area of responsibility to identify and resolve noncompliance with the organization's policies and relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct.

**Skills** :

+ Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.

+ Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.

+ Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.

+ Works independently and provides guidance and training to others while interpreting and applying comprehensive knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in area of expertise.

+ Applies comprehensive knowledge to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.

+ Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.

+ Applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on reviewing and creating relevant, lucid and effective reports.

+ Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing risks.

+ Uses expertise to serve as the organizational authority on meeting high customer service standards.

+ Works at an advanced level to shift into and out of a mental mindsets associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

+ Applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to independently manage and apply safe systems of work while providing guidance and training to others.

+ Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to negotiate independently while providing guidance and training to others on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.

+ Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.

+ Applies comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to independently engage in strategic planning.

+ Works at an advanced level to orient work in a workflow to plan, organize, and execute the steps it takes to achieve a goal to achieve higher efficiencies. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Licenses/Certifications

+ **SIE required** or **ability to obtain within 120 days** (as required by FINRA), provided that an exemption or grandfathering cannot be applied.

+ **Series 99 required,** or **ability to obtain within 120 days** (as required by FINRA). Persons holding Series 6, 7, 17, 37 or 38 or those who hold principal-level registrations: Series 4, 9/10, 14, 16, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 51, and 53 would be qualified to register as an Operations Professional (Series 99) without passing the examination.