General Manager Apprentice
Boston, Ma, Us
The General Management Apprentice Program provides leadership training, career development and business acumen. The program, lasting two years, requires the apprentice to complete 4 rotations in different parts of the company. Each rotation focuses on a key competency within a general manager’s framework (fundamentals, execution, strategy and specialization). A summary of my rotations in the program is as follows: Specialization Rotation (July 2010-Dec 2010): Director of Educational Content in Personal Investing—developed content for our retail branch instructional seminars, focusing on our expert independent investor customer segment; managed the development of several modules to educate customers on stock option trading strategies, exchange traded fund products, and our brokerage investing tool; provided competitor analysis and insight on the educational services of our brokerage competitors Strategy Rotation (Jan 2010-June 2010): Business Analyst in Personal Investing—led multiple work streams for the retail branches and phone channel groups to improve our metrics related to Transfer of Assets (TOA), assets that come into Fidelity Retail from a resigning custodian.; met with multiple business partners to analyze the best operational practices for completing a TOA transaction; designed and launched a communication/training program to spread TOA knowledge across the firm and drive our key metrics above goal. Execution Rotation (July 2009-Dec 2009): eChannel Manager for Workplace Investing—supported the message execution comunications team; coordinated the clean-up of expired material on our platform, NetBenefits; developed an offering listing to illustrate where clients could customize their messages (i.e. logos, text placement, etc.) Fundamentals Rotation (Oct 2008-June 2009): Business Analyst for HR Solutions & Services—provided leadership, analysis and project management of several initiatives to increase the operational efficiency of the team