About This Role:

- Wells Fargo is seeking an Executive Director, Strategy and Execution.

- This role will lead end-to-end strategy development and execution for the India & Philippines, while ensuring alignment with Enterprise priorities.

- Translate the strategy into actionable programs and partner with senior leadership across Businesses and Enterprise functions to deliver measurable outcomes.

In This Role, You Will:

- Manage and develop a team of Business Execution Consultants while ensuring successful planning, integration, impasse resolution, and measurement of operations with moderate to high complexity and visibility.

- Engage functional leaders to obtain resources, influence outcomes, address conflict, and ensure alignment with Wells Fargo's policies and business line objectives.

- Identify potential risks when implementing change along with developing mitigation strategies and plans.

- Recommend opportunities for Business Execution process improvement.

- Determine appropriate strategies and actions of multiple business groups to meet moderate to high complex deliverables.

- Interpret procedures and processes, and provide leadership to strategize and execute a variety of programs, services, and initiatives that are significant in scope, complexity, and risk.

- Collaborate with and influence functional business partners, leaders, and executive management to provide support and drive strategic initiatives for the business.

- Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Business Execution.

- Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy.

Strategy Building:

- Develop strategy across People, Workforce, Real Estate, Operating Model.

- Define clear goals, success metrics via OKRs/KPIs.

- Ensure alignment with global/enterprise priorities.

Strategy Execution:

- Own end-to-end execution of strategic initiatives across businesses and functions.

- Establish strong execution cadence (governance, reviews, dashboards, escalation mechanisms).

- Track progress against milestones, proactively flag risks, and drive course correction.

Senior Stakeholder Engagement:

- Work closely with Business Heads, Functional Leaders (Finance, HR, Ops, Tech, Risk, etc.), and regional leaders.

- Influence to drive alignment and outcomes across diverse teams.

- Prepare high-quality leadership updates, decision memos, and executive reviews for the COO and leadership forums.

Governance & Reporting:

- Revisit and establish frameworks necessary to drive the strategy and execution.

- Lead governance meetings and ensure timely communication of risks, milestones, and action plans.

- Ensure clear messaging and story-boarding in senior leadership updates.

Team Leadership & Development:

- Build and lead a small, high-performing strategy/execution team.

- Coach team members on strategic thinking, structured problem-solving, and execution discipline.

- Foster a high-performance culture in the team and across cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications:

- 6+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

- 3+ years Management or leadership experience.

Desired Qualifications:

- 6+ years of total experience in strategy, business operations, transformation, or execution-focused leadership roles.

- Proven experience working in or closely with COO / CEO / CXO offices, strategy functions, or large-scale transformation programs.

- Prior experience driving cross-functional, multi-geography initiatives (India & Philippines exposure preferred).

- Background may include top-tier consulting, in-house strategy, operations leadership, or transformation roles.

- Strong knowledge of Generative AI for converting enterprise strategies into structured transformation roadmaps, portfolios, and initiative plans.

- Strong strategic thinking with the ability to simplify complex problems.

- Exceptional execution rigor-ability to drive outcomes in ambiguous environments.

- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills.

- High comfort operating with senior leaders and influencing decision-making.

- Strong analytical skills combined with business judgment.

- Ability to balance long-term strategy with short-term operational priorities.

Job Expectations:

- Lead Strategy to Execution.

- Ensure Execution Excellence.

- Partner with Senior Leaders.

Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity.

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company.

They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions.

There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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