Chief Operating Officer

Principal Accountabilities:

• Missional Focus: Grasps and personally embraces the vision and mission of the Company and is able to articulate and inspire others toward the accomplishment of that mission.
• Executive Leadership: Serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, working collaboratively to determine short-, medium-, and long-term goals and establish annual/quarterly strategic priorities.
• Organizational Leverage: Ensures full utilization of gifts and talents of the Company’s directors, managers, professionals, and other team members, delegating appropriately and leveraging effectively to foster competency, growth, and a sense of ownership and accountability.
• Change Management: Develops and effectively implements change management initiatives supporting Company objectives that maximize enterprise-wide adoption/implementation.
• Communication: Facilitates effective communication organization-wide to ensure understanding of Blue Trust’s goals, objectives, strategic direction, etc.
• Performance Metrics and Profit Planning: Develops and monitors progress toward key corporate performance metrics and, in collaboration with the Director of Finance, ensures development and implementation of the Company-wide annual profit plan, monitoring and communicating progress on a regular basis.
• Leadership Team Engagement: Facilitates effective communication among all members of Blue Trust leadership to enhance company-wide teamwork, understanding, and ownership of results.
• Biblical Role-Modeling: Actively exhibits unremitting integrity and strong moral character in day-to-day behavior while modeling the company's Core Values in their daily interactions with clients and coworkers.

• Drives effective utilization of the Company’s Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS)

• Effectively stewards the unique strengths and areas of giftedness of each member of the team.
• Practices the art of leadership, building and nurturing a healthy, productive, continuous learning work culture.
• Supports team to achieve professional/personal growth providing direction and accountability through the process.
• Proactively develops future leaders to ensure seamless transition to next generation of leadership.

• Collaboration: Initiates collaboration with leaders of the Company’s various divisions to ensure operational priorities are aligned with organizational needs and coordinated with enterprise-level objectives
• Capacity: Strives to build organizational capacity by supporting efforts to create and seize business development opportunities, maintaining a healthy commitment to results.
• Technological Leverage: Ensures the Company’s technology platform supports the needs of advisory teams and divisions and remains current with technological trends within the Company’s industry.
• Regulatory Compliance: Works closely with the Company’s Chief Compliance Officer to ensure operational systems and processes support and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Process Improvement and Implementation: Continually assesses opportunities for process improvement and ensures timely implementation of process improvement initiatives.
• Product Offerings: Consults with National Office departments and other Company divisions regarding existing and expanded product offerings, incorporating feedback from advisor team members via established channels.
• Training and Development: Develops and participates in ongoing training programs to meet personnel needs.
• Performance: Maintains performance standards and evaluates performance, taking corrective action when needed.

• Approaches work, interactions, and relationships in a manner consistent with the Company’s Core Values.
• Manages projects and interacts with others in a manner that is consistent with Company’s Management Language, leadership principles and values.
• Understands and supports the counsel and biblical basis upon which Blue Trust serves its client base.
• Maintains the highest Compliance standards by adhering to the Company's Human Resources guidelines, Compliance policies and procedures, professional designation standards, and industry's regulatory standards to mitigate risk to the company.

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be an experienced leader and executive with strong strategic planning and technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus.
• The individual must also be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and exhibit competence in the following skill areas: use of language, persuasive communication, business mathematical skills, and effective reasoning skills.
• The requirements and qualifications listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education, Experience & Skills:

• B.A. or B.S. degree and ten to fifteen (10-15) years’ related experience and/or training is required; equivalent combination of education and experience could be acceptable.
• Experience/familiarity with the Company’s operational platform systems and partners (preferred), including:

• Demonstrated experience leading organizational change on an enterprise-wide level

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Travel demands would/could include overnight travel, by air or other reasonable means of transportation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.