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Want a meaningful career where you can make a difference? Edward Jones sounds perfect for you.

Collaboration. Autonomy. Opportunity. Words our headquarters associates use when talking about working at Edward Jones. Words that describe what it's like being part of a firm where everyone is aligned toward a singular focus: serving the client. And everyone is working to make the firm better together - as they grow as individuals. If these words resonate with you, we should talk.

Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

The firm's Branch Real Estate (BRE) department is responsible for supporting the physical branch office needs through the coordination of leasing, construction, lease administration, and maintenance of more than 15,000 branch office locations. BRE performs these duties in a way to maximize value and minimize disruptions to our branch teams, allowing them to continue to focus on the needs of our clients. Our department plays a critical role in the firm's strategic mission to enhance practice options and promote FA adoption of new practice models such as multi-FA branches.

Branch Real Estate has established an analytics and insights team that is responsible for helping the firm accomplish its strategic BRE goals by measuring how the firm uses its real estate portfolio and identifying opportunities to maximize the impact of the firm's real estate. Our team will deliver critical insights to improve the performance of the firm's BRE processes and support leaders in making data-driven decisions about the firm's real estate portfolio.

What You Will Do

• Leverage data using various technologies, languages, and analytical methods to provide actionable insights that support BRE business decisions.

• Analyze the effectiveness of BRE functions and strategic programs, and present actionable insights to enhance future efforts using appropriate statistical methods.

• Identify external trends in commercial real estate in key firm markets and support leaders in using those insights to drive internal real estate decisions

• Provide thought leadership to BRE senior leaders about opportunities to improve the BRE experience for branch teams and financial performance of the firm's real estate portfolio

• Develop business relationships and partnerships with BRE stakeholders and cross-functional stakeholders that work alongside BRE to support various branch practice models.

• Create, support, and maintain dashboards that help BRE leaders and field leaders understand how real estate is being used and what opportunities exist to improve BRE experience and financial impact.

• Educate other team members, associates, and leaders across the firm on data and statistical concepts and best practices.

• Identify opportunities for BRE to improve the structure and accessibility of real estate data, and collaborate with the appropriate digital product teams that can provide solutions.

At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:

Hiring Minimum: $96471

Hiring Maximum: $164262

Skills/Requirements

What You'll Need:

Experience Required:

• 5-7 years' experience in relevant field

• At least 4 years of analytics experience

• Commercial real estate experience is strongly preferred

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis in business, economics, math, engineering, or analytics preferred (or relevant work experience)

• Advanced Degree or Certification preferred

Functional Knowledge:

• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau is strongly preferred

• Requires conceptual knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures within a job discipline

• Requires expanded conceptual knowledge in own job discipline and broadens capabilities

• Proficiency interacting with various database and file storage systems (Examples: Oracle, Hadoop, NoSQL). Understanding of join types.

• Intermediate experience with data manipulation languages, such as SQL, required

• Understanding of statistical concepts and analytic techniques, including descriptive statistics, forecasting, economic modeling, various regression techniques, machine learning, exploratory analysis, and variance analysis techniques.

• Ability to determine if particular analytic problem requires capabilities that don't reside in the division. Proficiency in applying descriptive statistics, univariate analysis, forecasting, economic modeling, and class variance analysis.

• Ability to use special statistical software for appropriate use cases

• Ability to perform univariate analytic analytical techniques

Business Expertise:

• Applies general knowledge of business developed through education or past experience

• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Leadership:

• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment, independently organize, plan & prioritize individual effort needed to ensure overall success of cross-functional projects. Occasionally lead cross-functional teams responsible for divisional objectives.

Problem Solving:

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

• Ability to identify the question(s), what data is needed, analyze and interpret the results to recommend solutions to senior & executive division leaders for a broad spectrum of business improvement opportunities in a clear and concise manner

Impact:

• Has limited impact on own work team; works within standardized procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines; Ability to accurately assess risk and prioritize work

• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies; Identify, assess, and mitigate low to moderate risks that would impact the department

• Develops and performs moderately complex analysis, typically with moderate business impact

• Works with leaders throughout the firm, providing analytical guidance to directly influence business decisions

• Influence decision making, by gaining a deep understanding of inter-departments/divisions interactions the impact on firm operations and initiatives.

Awards & Accolades

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones

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About Us

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 8 million clients and 19,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.

1Fortune 500, published June 2023, data as of December 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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