AVP, Advisory Strategy

Assistant Vice President, Advisory Programs Strategy Enablement

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Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you'll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

The Advisory Programs team within LPL's Wealth Management Group is responsible for shaping and advancing the firm's advisory strategy across platforms, capabilities, and advisor experiences. As the firm continues to evolve its advisory and wealth management strategy, there is a growing need for dedicated enterprise strategy formation and enablement to ensure strategy consistently translates into decision‑ready, capital‑backed execution.

The Assistant Vice President, Advisory Programs Strategy Enablement will serve as a senior strategy leader focused on enterprise advisory strategy formation and enablement. This role provides the analytical depth, economics, and business case throughput required to translate enterprise advisory strategy into fundable, sequenced multi-year strategic plans. The AVP partners closely with enterprise advisory strategy leadership and Wealth Management stakeholders to align assumptions and priorities, and works in close coordination with delivery teams who orchestrate execution once direction is set.

Responsibilities:

• Own enterprise advisory strategy formation, synthesizing inputs across the Advisory Programs team (Client‑Centric Capabilities, PC&A / Model Management, Tax, Platform Strategy) into a cohesive umbrella strategy aligned to Wealth Management priorities.
• Develop and maintain multi‑year advisory strategic plans, ensuring near‑term initiatives align to longer‑term enterprise priorities and sequencing.
• Lead business case development and investment framing for major advisory initiatives, producing decision‑ready materials for executive review and funding forums.
• Own enterprise advisory economics and investment modeling to assess impact, scale, ROI, scenarios, and trade-offs across strategy options and to support capital allocation decisions.
• Support enterprise strategy translation, socialization, and leadership alignment by packaging complex strategy into clear, decision‑ready materials (e.g., narratives, presentations, and written artifacts) and ensuring inputs are consistent and well‑framed across executive conversations, prioritization discussions, and funding forums.
• Identify enterprise risks, dependencies, and constraints early, and reflect them in strategic recommendations, sequencing options, and investment trade‑offs.
• Influence and align cross-functional partners, working across Product, Technology, Marketing, Consulting, Trading, and Platform teams to align assumptions and surface enterprise implications.
• Align advisory strategy formation with broader Wealth Management strategy by working with WM leaders to reconcile priorities, assumptions, and sequencing across enterprise initiatives.
• Synthesize industry, advisor, and client insights to inform enterprise advisory direction, priorities, and strategic recommendations.
• Partner on Wealth Management platform enablement dependencies (e.g., direct trading and other platform capabilities) as strategic inputs—clarifying what must be true, when, and why—so Product and Technology teams can plan and execute against advisory outcomes.
• Continuously refine strategy formation processes, improving consistency, throughput, and quality of enterprise strategy outputs over time.

What Are We Looking For?

We're looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience leading complex, cross functional strategy initiatives within wealth management, advisory platforms, consulting, research firms, or related environments.
• 5+ years' experience developing executive ready investment cases / business cases and strategic materials, with the ability to prioritize across a portfolio of initiatives to produce sequenced, multi-year strategic plans that support funding decisions.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years' experience.

Core Competencies:

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate firm vision into actionable strategy, balancing near‑term execution with future opportunities and enterprise impact.
• Industry & Advisory Platform Acumen: Demonstrates strong wealth management/advisory industry knowledge and uses an external POV (trends, competitive landscape, advisor needs) to shape strategic assumptions, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Judgment & Problem Solving: Applies experience, analysis, and diverse perspectives to clarify complex problems and make well‑reasoned decisions.
• Operational Excellence: Designs structured approaches to strategy formation, anticipates risks, and stages work with appropriate rigor and contingency planning.
• Analytical Capability: Leverages data-driven insights to shape strategic narratives, supported by rigorous economic and financial modeling (ROI, scenario analysis, sensitivity testing) to quantify value, evaluate trade-offs, and guide investment decisions.
• Executive Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to present complex strategy clearly to senior leadership.
• Influence & Collaboration: Builds alignment across teams and functions through credibility, clarity, and partnership rather than formal authority.
• Leadership Mindset: Purposeful, resilient leader who empowers others, demonstrates integrity, and contributes positively to team culture.

Preferences:

• Prior advisor‑facing, client‑facing, or consulting experience a plus.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Pay Range:

$129,368.00 - $215,682.00 Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit

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Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity

At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation's leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.

Why LPL?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team.
• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential.
• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients.
• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact.
• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same.
• Benefits and Total Rewards: Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home.

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Information on Interviews:

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