Academy Executive - Wealth Management, Merrill, Consumer Investments, and Private Bank

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

About the Academy:

The Academy is Bank of America’s award-winning onboarding, education and professional development organization.  The Academy supports the onboarding, coaching and development of teammates across the enterprise. The mission of the Academy is to equip employees with the skills, knowledge, and resources to succeed in their careers, engrain a client-centric culture, support our brand in the marketplace, and foster career growth and professional development.

Job Description:
The Academy supports the onboarding, coaching and development of teammates across the enterprise. The mission of the Academy is to equip employees with the skills, knowledge, and resources to succeed in their careers, engrain a client-centric culture, support our brand in the marketplace, and foster career growth and professional development. The Academy Executive is responsible for leading the team that enables end-to-end learning and development support of teammates across the enterprise

The Academy Executive is responsible for leading the team that enables end-to-end learning and development support of teammates across the enterprise. This role will support Wealth Management, Merrill, Consumer Investments, and Private Bank organizations by developing and maintaining Academy programs.

This is a critical position with responsibility for ensuring the achievement of key business outcomes through the utilization of impactful and proven learning and development strategies. The successful candidate will be an influential and results oriented leader who can develop and manage relationships across the company and with a wide variety of partners based on trust, teamwork and knowledge.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Ensure optimal alignment between the business’ strategies, future state operating model and the learning program required to deliver on them.
• Build strong relationships to partner effectively with a variety of constituents.
• Partner with business and HR leaders to deliver a comprehensive learning and development program that will ensure our workforce is well equipped to meet the needs of the business.
• Apply expertise in Global Learning to identify opportunities, strategies, and solutions that are directly linked to organizational and business goals.
• Enhance operational efficiency and collaboration and drive a culture of continuous learning.
• Support executives in building/developing strong teams.
• Identify, develop and lead the implementation of multiple programs in a fast-paced, challenging environment with competing priorities.  Measure success and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead a geographically dispersed team; inspire a strong sense of camaraderie and accountability and motivate continuous improvements to performance.

Managerial Responsibilities:
This position will also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Breaks down barriers to create a more inclusive environment that supports company Great Place to Work goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Challenges end-to-end process efficiency and effectiveness, champion data driven decision-making and removes obstacles to optimize operations.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Contributes to enterprise strategy and influence messaging to connect team contributions to business purpose, results, and success.
• Risk Manager: Inspects and challenges risk controls, governance and culture to ensure the timely identification, escalation, debate and remediation of risk across the organization.
• People Manager & Coach: Coaches to sustain and elevates organizational performance while differentiating to ensure pay for performance.
• Financial Steward: Efficiently allocates and manages resources across the organization to drive short and long term profitability.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Inspects and manages the health of the bench to ensure succession for the organization, while supporting enterprise talent needs.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Mobilizes organizational resources to deliver the full range of the bank’s capabilities to meet client needs and to gain competitive advantage.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience working in large, complex, global organization with a sophisticated client base.  Financial Services industry experience required.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience within Wealth Management, Merrill, Consumer Investments, and/or Private Bank.
• Must have direct managerial experience with the demonstrated ability to motivate, lead and develop outstanding teams.
• Must have Series 7, 66, 9 and 10

• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills to build and maintain credibility and influence with teammates and stakeholders across a complex matrix environment.
• Strong business acumen and highly developed analytical skills, as well as superior intellect and judgment. Able to aggregate multiple sources of information and details to communicate a high-level story quickly, succinctly and effectively.
• Ability to prioritize work, manage complexity and deliver solutions on tight deadlines.
• Strong written, oral and active listening communication skills, including ability to drive consensus among partners.
• Solutions focused, positive and resilient with the ability to overcome obstacles and challenges and remain agile to changing business needs and priorities.
• Demonstrated problem solving, strong follow-up skills and ability to escalate and gain resolution as needed.
• Proficiency in day-to-day risk identification and mitigation, and ability to communicate and reinforce the bank’s risk culture.

Desired Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a training development and content design role.

Skills:

• Executive Presence
• Influence
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Strategic Thinking
• Talent Development
• Business Acumen
• Drives Engagement
• Inclusive Leadership
• Presentation Skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Coaching
• Customer and Client Focus
• Fiscal Responsibility
• Performance Management
• Planning

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540), US - NJ - Pennington - 1500 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 5 (NJ2150)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$170,000.00 - $225,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.