Director, Advisor Practice Management

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Chicago, IL, USA
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The Role
Leads Morningstar’s advisor practice management strategy by consulting with financial advisors, developing growth and productivity frameworks, creating thought leadership, enabling distribution teams, and delivering workshops, webinars, and coaching. The role helps advisors improve client acquisition, segmentation, staffing, succession planning, operational effectiveness, and retention while connecting advisor needs with Morningstar’s broader investment, research, marketing, and product capabilities.
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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.

Position Summary:

The Director of Advisor Practice Management will lead the development and delivery of Morningstar's advisor consulting and practice management strategy. This individual contributor role is responsible for helping financial advisors build stronger, more productive businesses while increasing advisor satisfaction, engagement, and retention. 

Acting as a trusted consultant to advisors and a strategic partner to the distribution organization, the Director will create scalable programs, thought leadership, and coaching frameworks that address key advisor challenges including growth, client acquisition, segmentation, staffing, succession planning, business development, productivity, and practice management. 

This individual will also help advisors unlock additional value from Morningstar's broader capabilities, ensuring Morningstar is viewed as a strategic business partner rather than solely an investment management provider. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Advisor Consulting 

  • Serve as a trusted practice management consultant to top advisor relationships. 
  • Conduct consultations, workshops, and coaching sessions with advisors and enterprise partners. 
  • Help advisors improve business growth, productivity, client experience, and operational effectiveness. 
  • Deliver actionable recommendations supported by industry best practices and benchmarking. 

Intellectual Capital & Content Development 

  • Create practice management frameworks, tools, assessments, workshops, and advisor-facing resources. 
  • Develop thought leadership on advisor growth, business management, succession planning, staffing, and client acquisition. 
  • Maintain a forward-looking perspective on industry trends and advisor business challenges. 

Distribution Enablement 

  • Partner closely with sales leadership, relationship managers, and portfolio specialists. 
  • Equip field teams with practice management insights and tools that deepen advisor relationships. 
  • Support strategic advisor and home-office engagements. 

Advisor Engagement 

  • Lead webinars, workshops, conference presentations, and advisor events. 
  • Increase participation and engagement in practice management offerings. 
  • Help establish Morningstar as a leading thought partner to advisors. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

  • Partner across investment management, wealth, marketing, research, and product teams. 
  • Identify opportunities to connect advisor needs with relevant Morningstar capabilities. 
  • Support initiatives that deepen client relationships and strengthen retention. 

Compensation and Benefits

At Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:

  • Financial Health

    • 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary

    • Stock Ownership Potential

    • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission

  • Physical Health 

    • Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages

    • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual

    • Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance

  • Emotional Health 

    • Trust-Based Time Off

    • 6-week Paid Sabbatical Program

    • 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave

    • Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave

    • Adoption Assistance

    • Leadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities

    • Annual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses

    • Tuition Reimbursement

  • Social Health 

    • Charitable Matching Gifts program

    • Dollars for Doers volunteer program

    • Paid volunteering days

    • 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups

Total Cash Compensation Range

$170,925.00-262,075.00

Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office 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.

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  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Policies include a paid sabbatical every four years and flexible PTO covering vacation, sick, and personal days, alongside paid volunteer time. Feedback suggests these features create meaningful flexibility and rest opportunities beyond standard leave plans.
  • Parental & Family Support A global minimum of 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (up to 8 weeks for secondary) and at least six weeks of paid caregiving leave are publicly stated, with adoption assistance also available. These provisions indicate robust support for families during key life events.
  • Retirement Support U.S. materials document a 401(k) match of $0.75 per $1 up to 7% of pay and no‑cost access to Morningstar retirement tools. This combination strengthens long‑term savings and planning for employees.

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Year Founded: 1984

What We Do

We are a global investment research and financial data company with 40-plus offices across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Our products and services are used daily by individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers, and institutional investors. We provide data, research, and analysis across managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. The financial system can have real barriers—hidden information, friction that can slow decisions, and forces that can limit transparency and access. We work to remove them, bringing independent research, connected data, and investor-first tools to a system that needs more clarity. The people doing this work span research, technology, design, product, sales, and functional areas. We build many of our products in-house, so the work can connect directly to the tools investors use to make real financial decisions.

Why Work With Us

Imagining big things is in our blood -- it's transformed us from a company with just a few employees in 1984 to a leading independent investment research company with a worldwide presence today. As of April 2020, we acquired Sustainalytics to drive long-term meaningful outcomes for investors in the ESG space. Join us on this exciting journey!

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