About the department

Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions (FTIS) supports a platform of more than $180B as the firm’s multi-asset solutions business, combining capabilities from across Franklin Templeton to create customised investment solutions and diversified portfolios.

The Strategy Management team supports the definition and delivery of strategic priorities across FTIS, while also managing key business control functions, budgets and expenses. The team partners with senior leadership and teams across Franklin Templeton to help shape and articulate strategic priorities, translate them into executable initiatives, and deliver change that drives growth, strengthens investment capabilities and enhances the operating model.

Strategy Delivery Managers work across a varied portfolio of strategic initiatives, flexing between strategy development, business analysis, technology-enabled solutioning and project delivery as required.

How you will add value

Strategy Development and Alignment

• You will partner with FTIS leadership and business stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into clear objectives, outcomes, measures of success and executable initiatives.
• You will facilitate discussions to evaluate business problems, assumptions, dependencies, trade-offs and priorities, building alignment across stakeholders.
• You will use data, analysis and execution insight to challenge assumptions, inform prioritisation and support decision-making.

Strategic Delivery & Problem Solving

• You will lead strategic projects and program workstreams from initiation through planning, execution, implementation, adoption and closure.
• You will develop and maintain project plans, milestones, governance forums, status reporting and delivery controls to keep initiatives on track.
• You will manage risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and competing priorities across cross-functional teams to support timely delivery of agreed outcomes.
• You will coordinate stakeholders across FTIS and Franklin Templeton, ensuring clear ownership, effective communication and disciplined follow-through on actions.
• You will structure complex and ambiguous business problems, assess root causes and develop practical recommendations.
• You will use business analysis techniques to define requirements, map current and future-state processes and identify opportunities to improve ways of working.
• You will use technology, including automation, data analytics and AI, to support delivery, improve ways of working and develop practical solutions.

What will help you be successful in this role

• Relevant professional experience, supported by a degree or equivalent qualification, ideally in business, finance, technology, data analytics or a related field.
• Established understanding of the investment management industry and the interaction between investment teams, technology, operations and other enabling functions.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects, programs or strategic initiatives, including planning, governance, stakeholder management, risks, issues and delivery tracking.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and business analysis skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous issues, define requirements and develop practical recommendations.
• Strong technology capability, with experience using automation, data analytics and AI-enabled tools to solve business problems, improve ways of working and support delivery.
• Commercial and business acumen, with the ability to link project and delivery activity to tangible business value.
• Relevant professional qualifications in project management, program management, business analysis, data, technology or change management would be desirable.

Key Capabilities

Successful Strategy Delivery Managers will demonstrate: 

• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Understand business problems, evaluate options and connect initiatives to strategic priorities. 
• Delivery & Ownership - Translate priorities into outcomes, manage execution and drive initiatives through to completion. 
• Technology, Data & Continuous Improvement - Apply technology, data, automation and AI to improve capabilities and ways of working. 
• Stakeholder, Commercial & Investment Acumen - Build alignment, communicate clearly and connect change activity to investment, client, commercial and operational outcomes. 
• Adaptability - Operate effectively across strategy, analysis, technology and delivery, adjusting approach as priorities, stakeholder needs and business conditions evolve.