Manager, Strategy Management

Job Summary:

The Office of Strategy Management (OSM) serves as the organization’s connector between strategy and execution. We accomplish this by organizing and leading large initiatives designed to help IGS achieve its strategic objectives and help ensure the right people are doing the right thing at the right time. This is a highly visible team and a high-impact role.

As the Manager, Strategy Management you’ll be responsible for leading a team of project management professionals to support the accomplishment of our corporate objectives and ensure the effective delivery of key strategic initiatives. Provides effective leadership of program and project management with cross-functional teams focused on delivering strategic initiatives to drive business growth. This is a highly visible position with heavy interaction with business leaders spanning all IGS businesses.

Ideal Candidate:

Your unique skills and strengths enable you to create systems and structures that allow your team to thrive. You’re constantly connecting the dots between systems, processes, and business needs that not only enable your team to achieve their objectives but allow for effective scalability to ensure strategic alignment. Strong problem-solving abilities enable you to tackle challenges with innovative solutions and insights to inform strategic decisions. Effective communication and interpersonal skills allow you to align key stakeholders, fostering collaboration across departments and ensuring appropriate focus on our strategic objectives. Your project management expertise ensures the seamless execution of strategic initiatives, balancing short-term goals with long-term vision. Adaptability and resilience are key traits, allowing you to navigate and steer through shifting market conditions and organizational changes with agility and foresight. While you utilize project management tools and methodologies, the way in which you approach and leverage them are even more important for success (see core, leadership and essential skills below).

The Office of Strategy Management’s core skills include:

• Organization: Identify logical patterns and complex topics. Determine next steps and how to logically move forward.
• Communication: Effectively convey and interpret information, tackle social issues including conflict, and contextualizing incoming and outgoing messages.
• Relationship-Oriented: Effectively co-create solutions with partners (understand which partners to involve and when, preferences for collaboration and how to navigate in problem solving)
• Problem Solver: Ability to determine why an issue is happening and determine how to resolve. Identify underlying issue by considering all contributing factors.
• Self-Aware Learner: Curious. Ability to observe and accurately interpret reactions and dynamically pivot as appropriate.

The Office of Strategy Management’s core leadership skills include:

• Create & Maintain High-Level Context: Support decision-making & efficient resource use by articulating the what, why, and how for strategic efforts. This maximizes the strengths of the organization and allows us to be more effective.
• Continuously Drive Alignment: Constantly connect with stakeholders & partners individually & collectively on the what, why, and how to ensure we are on the same page.
• This allows us to quickly identify gaps for resolution and fosters deep & meaningful collaboration on efforts. 
• Reconcile & Refocus: Drive positive forward momentum & productivity by clarifying priorities and resolving discrepancies. This unifies the team and ensures we are focused on the right things at the right time.

Essential Skills:

• Ability to influence and work effectively with key cross-functional stakeholder and senior leadership.
• Ability to use organization knowledge and relationships to diagnose, facilitate, and execute.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

• Ability to lead multiple programs with competing priorities and timelines.
• Demonstrates a positive attitude, adaptable and collaborative style.
• Strong relationship-building, influencing, facilitation, negotiation, and leadership skills.
• Customer-centric approach to problem solving.
• Strong communication skills & ability to create slide decks/material and present in front of many different types of groups.
• Ability to multitask & manage between initiatives / projects and different groups of people.
• PMP or PgMP certification or equivalent is a plus.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for an entire program/organizational goal and all projects associated.
• Manages workload, timelines, deliverables for accountability to organizational goals.
• Collaborates with team members to remove roadblocks, solve problems and leverage best practices.
• Ensure all programs within area of responsibility have clear milestones, team structure, KPIs, and financial projections (i.e. how, who, when, how much).
• Identifies the synergies to be created across areas of responsibility to ensure strategies and initiatives are linked to each other and to the IGS strategy.
• Builds relationships with internal and external business partners to identify needs and resolve issues for effective program management.
• Act as a liaison among the shared services organizations and the areas of responsibility to ensure that each initiative receives the necessary resources and attention to achieve its expected outcomes.
• Responsible for managing a team of program / project management professionals.
• Supports individual development through daily responsibilities, projects, and personalized conversations. Celebrating their successes and having tough conversations, when needed.
• Fosters an environment of trust and build team moral through connection amongst team members.
• Understands the strategy and facilitates decision making process for business partners across the organization.
• Partners with Senior Leaders to formulate strategic and initiative vision, scope and business objectives (i.e. what and the why).

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience with program / project management.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Proven experience leading through influence.

Salary Range:

$108,950.00 - $174,320.00

*This range reflects base pay only. Incentive earnings, like commissions or bonuses, are not included.

This role is also eligible for an annual incentive plan based on company performance. 

Our Offer to You:

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental, vision, and employer health savings account contributions

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching

• Tuition reimbursement, employee wellness programs, and other perks and discounts

• Paid leave policies

• And more, such as paid time off, flexible spending, employer paid life and disability, employee assistance program, and domestic partner benefits

Equal Opportunity Employment:

It is the policy of IGS Energy to ensure equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable federal and state regulations and guidelines. Employment discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, and veteran status or other legally protected class under applicable law is prohibited.