Practice Management Consultant, Business Models
The Opportunity
As a Practice Management Consultant, you will help financial advisors excel in their role as entrepreneurs. This position serves as a business model specialist, supporting advisors in designing Lead, Ensemble, and Enterprise businesses. The role is highly visible in the field and makes a meaningful impact through consulting, workshops, resource creation, and thought leadership. Practice Management consultants deliver advanced expertise and drive innovation in their respective areas of specialization.
The Team
Our Practice Management team is expanding MassMutuals business support and resources to help our affiliated financial advisors successfully grow and strengthen their businesses. Our objectives are to increase advisor growth, productivity, retention, and recruiting. The team supports advisors in all aspects of leading their businesses, including strategic planning, human capital, systemization, client value creation, business structures, financial management, organic growth, practice acquisitions, and succession. This is a recently formed team that is rapidly building new offerings and an extensive service modelmaking it an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment within a larger, established organization.
The Impact
Serve as the practice management specialist for wealth management business models, helping financial advisors design and operate Lead practices (solo practitioners and vertical advisor teams), Ensembles (horizontal advisor teams), and Enterprises (large-scale businesses)
Provide advanced expertise on business models, including ownership structures, team roles, financial models, client management approaches, organizational design, owners compensation, partner pathways, and operating models
Deliver presentations and workshops for one-to-many offerings and one-to-one consulting for large practices
Build a comprehensive business toolkit to help advisors operate more effectively
Design and deliver interactive workshops for advisors with an emphasis on actionable outcomes
Provide specialist expertise to general agencies to strengthen their practice management offerings
Support the Business Development teams practice management coaching programs in a specialist capacity
Partner with Society Concierge Consultants to support practice management needs for qualifying advisors
Deliver sessions for MassMutual Academy, Society 1851, agency meetings, and other events
Develop expertise of MassMutuals advisor platform and resources in relation to center of excellence and spearhead enhancements
The Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree
8+ years experience in financial services or, alternatively, in an unrelated field serving small business owners
Willingness to travel approximately 10-20% of the time
Due to the nature of the position, as a part of our background check process, candidates must be able to pass a non-registered fingerprinted background check to qualify as a fingerprinted person under FINRA
The Ideal Qualifications
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Deep understanding of the issues facing financial advisors as small business owners
Advanced expertise working with advisors on issues related to business structure
Ability to independently identify, build, and deliver new business resources
Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
Ability to navigate ambiguous business situations
Experience delivering consulting engagements that span both technical factors and interpersonal dynamics
Strong presentation skills in both live and virtual formats
Ability to clearly communicate nuanced concepts
Team player who is also comfortable working independently
Preference to work in a fast-paced, high-demand, dynamic environment
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
Regular meetings with the Head of Practice Management
Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
Access to mentorship opportunities
Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefit
MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.
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