Senior Lead Business Strategy Consultant - Diverse Segments Representation and Inclusion

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Consultant who will influence the strategy for diversity, equity, and inclusion for various lines of business within Wells Fargo.  This leader will influence and execute the DE&I strategy, including specific initiatives that will advance equity for our employees.

About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community based financial services company with $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment, and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through 7,500 locations, more than 13,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com), and mobile banking, and has offices in 32 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 261,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the U.S. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 29 on Fortune’s 2019 rankings of America’s largest corporations.  News, insights, and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.

About DSRI

The Diverse Segments, Representation, and Inclusion (DSRI) team is focused on increasing diverse representation at all levels of the company, creating a more inclusive workplace environment, and better serving and growing our diverse customer segments and diverse suppliers across all lines of business. This highly visible role will report to the Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) for Wealth and Investment Management (WIM), Consumer Lending (CL), and Consumer and Small Business Banking (CSBB)and will be instrumental in transforming WIM Consumer business initiatives into more efficient, inclusive, and sustainable solutions.  A successful candidate will have a passion for learning at a rapid pace to quickly understand the complexities of the various products, services, and business capabilities, and to influence and articulate the intersectionality of customer needs and connectivity points with partners.

Acting as a strategic hub within the lines of business, this senior consultant will actively participate, develop, maintain, and articulate a multi-year diverse strategy plan within the WIM Consumer lines of business. Will partner and share best practices to promote integration of programs and plans aligned to shared business goals and outcomes. Facilitate discussions with senior leaders to assess, influence and build consensus on strategy and execution business plans.

In this role, you will:

• Provide strategic, inclusionary consulting to executives, senior leaders, and within the COE community to develop actionable reports, metrics, and insights. 

• Develop and implement recurring mechanisms to collectively update business leaders on progress of DE&I strategy and drive optimization.

• Partner with Talent Management peers to support equitable distribution of performance ratings across demographics within segments of the line of business.

• Lead compelling, data-driven discussions with executives, senior leaders, and key partners to provide an appropriate level of insights to implement recommendations and industry best practices. 
• Implement and scale DE&I, and DSRI initiatives across specified line of business.

• Earn trust across a range of levels and disciplines to establish yourself and the team as a trusted inclusionary subject matter expert and business partner.

• Demonstrate maturity and professional courage to consistently model inclusive and equitable leadership.

• Demonstrate continuous learning and development in disciplines related to DE&I, apply learnings to day-to-day activities.

• Design and drive inclusive strategies and initiatives within the lines of business at Wells Fargo.
• Develop acute organizational/functional DE&I goals that support the increase of diverse representation, while fostering parity for retention, attrition, and sentiment of inclusion across key demographics in service of successful execution of the broader business strategy.
• Establish alignment and partnership with peers across center of excellence (COE) community.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ 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

Desired qualifications:

• 7+ years of Diversity and Inclusion experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a c