Head of National Accounts

The Group:

Morningstar Wealth is a core part of the broader Morningstar group, empowering investor success by delivering world-class investment products and technology solutions to advisors, individuals, and the businesses who serve them. As a global team, we build upon our renowned data, research, analytics and thought leadership to deliver intelligent, flexible, and scalable products into the hands of our clients. By bringing the best of Morningstar together, we remove friction, save time, and help clients achieve goals.

We strongly prefer for this position to be located in our Chicago office but will be open to select cities where Morningstar is registered to conduct business.

The Role:

Morningstar Wealth is seeking a high performing executive to lead our National Account organization to exceed revenue growth targets. Beyond having a passion for excellence, the desired candidate will possess deep strategic account management experience in the asset management, intermediary advisory, and fintech space along with a successful track record of rising above challenges to exceed expected results. This individual will demonstrate strong business acumen and a proven history of success in developing and leading teams. The position reports to the Managing Director of Revenue for Morningstar Wealth, Americas.

The role is primarily responsible for leading and managing a National Account team for Morningstar Wealth and evolving our account coverage and strategy to achieve exceptional results. This will include driving account penetration, wallet share, awareness, and revenue for new product launches, increasing feature adoption of new capabilities, creating new access points for distribution opportunities, and collaborating closely with Sales for execution.

This dynamic candidate will demonstrate a team-first mindset in partnering with key stakeholders and teams across Product, Sales, Investments, Operations, Technology, Compliance, and Marketing to execute the strategy.

The ideal candidate will identify and empathize with client needs, understand the market demand and requirements, strategically navigate the competitive landscape to determine best revenue opportunities, serve as a subject matter expert on our investment management business both internally and externally, and will continuously find ways to grow a mission-aligned business to empower investor success.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, grow, and drive our National Account team to exceed revenue targets
• Attract, develop, and retain industry leading talent
• Partner with other key stakeholders in strategically positioning our evolving product lines including our Platform (TAMP), proprietary investment products (including Morningstar models, SMAs and open-end mutual funds)
• Lead cross-functional governance and business committees such as pricing strategy and new product business plans
• Foster collaboration and execution across product, distribution, marketing, compliance, and investments teams to drive product innovation and adoption across proprietary and third-party wealth platforms
• Proactively identify product innovation and existing product positioning opportunities based on industry trends, current market environment and competitive advantages to meet customer needs
• Perform analysis on key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurements of business and product success (e.g., net sales targets, product profitability, customer satisfaction, quality, etc.) to inform business strategy
• Engage with the board of directors for the Morningstar suite of mutual funds

Qualifications:

• 15+ years relevant leadership experience within a regulated asset or wealth management firm.
• Proven track record of commercial success and product innovation in the traditional and/or alternative investment space for advisory clients.
• Highly effective communicator with institutional clients including C-suite executives; strong technical acumen, excellent writing, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Mastery and deep knowledge of advisor channels, primarily independent RIAs and Broker/Dealers; experience working with the financial advisor community and/or managed account platforms
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills including demonstrated experience with research, data gathering and ability to think strategically
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills, with a proven ability to collaborate with diverse, multi-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred, CFA designation a plus
• Full-time position based in Chicago, IL
• Nice to have: Please include a customized cover letter with your resume and application.

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If you received and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentially to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.