Leadership Operations Strategist

The Strategy & Planning team is looking to hire an organized, highly motivated Leadership Operations Strategist to support efforts across the organization, passionate about leadership operations and strategy. This individual is responsible for coordinating and ensuring the execution and delivery of initiatives supporting leadership operations, as well as the creation of content aligned with the strategy of the program. The Leadership Ops Strategist will work with cross-functional leaders to drive the strategy of our leadership operations initiatives, create supporting content to drive initiatives forward, develop and maintain schedules for required results, and drive the overarching engagement with the Leadership team to ensure strategy, structure, and content meet the goals of the initiative.

Beyond leadership operations, this individual will be responsible for high impact, high visibility projects that are cross functional in nature. Projects may include (i) researching new opportunities, (ii) furthering operational initiatives, and (iii) leading key cross-functional strategic projects. Responsibilities may extend to developing project strategy, coordinating project teams, crafting, and maintaining schedules for required deliverables within projects, tracking project dependencies and status, as well as addressing risks.

This position is highly cross-functional in nature and will involve significant senior-level stakeholder management. It requires the ability to effectively connect with executive management to drive strategy according to project and event timelines.

• Oversee strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the mentorship of senior leadership and departmental heads
• Work closely with leadership to build engagement programs and initiatives based off areas of strategic focus.
• Run events and activities within the Leadership Operations initiative including the planning and developing of scope, results, required resources, project plan, budget and timing.
• Lead and encourage cross functional teams to achieve successful execution of content, managing and communicating the vision, purpose, and guiding principles as determined by the executive team.
• Provide regular updates to project teams, leadership, and executive team on status, risks, and accomplishments.
• Identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external vendors.
• Work cross-functionally to supervise and manage dependencies and activities to ensure timely delivery.
• Ensure partner engagement and approval by establishing clear project-specific approval process, decision tracking, and cadenced updates.
• Develop organizational change strategies and partner with key team members on the adaptation of improved processes, conducting post-mortems at beneficial stages of the project delivery.
• Conduct event driven research as appropriate to ensure activities are aligned with specified goals.
• Create content and provide feedback to content creators to ensure deliverables meet the needs and expectations of project delivery

What You’ll Bring:

• 5-7 years of relevant professional experience; corporate strategy, management consulting, human resources consulting or leadership operations a plus
• Business judgment, analytical problem solving, quantitative analysis, organizational skills, and information synthesizing capabilities.
• Excellent project management and time leadership skills; ability to manage multiple projects of sophisticated scope in a constantly evolving environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communications – clear and concise with the ability to present in formal and informal settings to influence teams, as well as executive stakeholders
• Strategic approach, able to take a concept, develop an execution plan and bring idea to fruition
• Ability to problem solve and create structure in complex and sometimes ambiguous environments.
• You have on-the-ground know-how to get things done in a cross-functional organization
• Self-motivated, well-organized, and meticulous
• Adept at using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business or related field.
• Experience in a consulting or chief of staff role, driving and creating strategic content