ED, Corporate Services : Job Level - Executive Director

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
 

In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.

The Salt Lake Global Center COO serves as the operational leader for one of Morgan Stanley's most significant U.S. locations supporting more than 1,800 employees across a diverse set of core Firm divisions that collectively contribute to the broader enterprise's operational strength and client delivery. In this role, the COO is positioned to meaningfully influence the trajectory of the site by driving disciplined execution of the strategic agenda shaping how the Global Center delivers excellence today and builds the capabilities required for tomorrow.

What you'll do in the role:

The COO partners closely with senior leaders across business units, infrastructure teams, and Firmwide enterprise functions to drive a cohesive, high performing Global Center that directly advances Morgan Stanley's strategic objectives. The role is accountable for site operations, governance, communications, strategic execution, workforce strategy, and senior level engagement across all businesses represented in the Salt Lake Global Center.
Serving as a unifying force, the COO ensures consistent standards, operational excellence, and a strong, connected culture reinforcing Salt Lake's role as a critical, integrated component of Morgan Stanley's Global Center footprint.

What you'll bring to the role:

-Site Governance & Operational Excellence: Oversees the operating model for the Salt Lake Global Center, ensuring strong governance, effective controls, and smooth day-to-day site operations.
-Strategic Leadership for the Global Center: Shapes and drives the long-term direction of the site aligning capabilities, growth opportunities, and workforce strategy with broader Firm and Global Center priorities.
-Communications & Engagement: Leads the executive communication strategy and fosters a connected, engaged culture through leadership visibility, sitewide messaging, and coordinated employee and community engagement.

-Financial Management & Resource Planning: Directs budgeting and financial oversight for COO aligned functions, ensuring disciplined resource allocation that supports strategic and operational objectives.
-Talent, Culture & Workforce Strategy: Partners with HR and business leaders to strengthen the talent pipeline, promote mobility and leadership development, and reinforce a cohesive, inclusive culture across the Global Center.
-Global Center Coordination & Integration: Collaborates with other Global Centers to harmonize processes, share best practices, and ensure Salt Lake's priorities and strengths are fully integrated into Firmwide initiatives.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).