Strategic Initiatives Director

Overview

The Opportunity

The Strategic Initiatives Director drives the successful execution of our corporate strategy through the expert leadership of our company OKR program and initiatives supporting our strategic objectives.  This role partners with executives, functional leaders, and functional experts to define and successfully execute OKRs and project plans, and measure and communicate progress and outcomes.  This role will also drive continuous improvement within our strategic initiative management discipline.  The Strategic Initiatives Director reports to the EVP, Business Operations.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Be Doing

OKR Management

• In collaboration with executive and functional leaders, lead the process to define company key results and related team OKRs.
• Document all company and related team OKRs in our system of record.
• Partner with Finance and other systems experts to ensure reporting is built to track achievement toward OKR targets.
• Partner with all OKR owners to ensure regular status updates are entered in our system of record.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks to the successful completion of OKRs.
• Lead regular OKR progress reviews with the Executive Leadership Team and facilitate decisions related to OKR changes.
• Create OKR progress reports for our parent company and company-wide audience.
• As our OKR practice leader, provide support to teams on their implementation of OKR processes.
• Define, document, and implementing processes that improve and scale our OKR discipline.

Strategic Initiative Management

• Partner with executives, functional leaders, and subject matter experts to define goals, timelines, and desired outcomes for company high-level strategic initiatives.
• Build robust, agile plans to define and track the work necessary to achieve initiative objectives.
• Build and apply extensive knowledge of the business to draft necessary project components and identify and engage needed stakeholders and project participants.
• Lead regular and ad hoc meetings to inspect and drive progress toward defined milestones and end-state objectives.
• Provide frequent updates to executives and stakeholders on the status of strategic initiatives, including reporting on key metrics.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks that could limit the successful completion of objectives.
• Adjust and adapt project plans and scope in response to new inputs, learnings, and issues, always informed by the strategic objective.
• Define, document, and implement processes that improve and scale our strategic initiative management discipline.
• This job description in no way implies that the duties listed here are the only ones that team members can be required to perform.

Continuous Improvement

• Coordinate and lead cross-functional teams on continuous improvement initiatives across the enterprise.
• Assist functional teams on deploying continuous improvement tools.
• Develop and implement company-wide performance tracking systems.
• Collaborate with the executive team and other key stakeholders to align transformation initiatives and business priorities.
• This job description in no way implies that the duties listed here are the only ones that team members can be required to perform

Qualifications

What You Bring to the Team  

• Successful experience leading executive-level strategic projects and initiatives. Experience leading an OKR or similar program preferred.
• Experience design highly effective, repeatable processes, and structures to manage and execute work.
• Excellent relationship-builder and collaborator who inspires action through relational rather than positional authority.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, and demonstrate consistent follow-through.
• Analytical and strategic thinker who relentlessly pursues results.
• Navigate effectively through ambiguity and technical complexity to proactively identify issues and solutions.
• Communicate effectively with executives, functional leaders, and cross-functional team members.
• Quickly build expert-level knowledge of business strategy, systems, processes, teams, and roles.
• Focus on achieving vital outcomes, not just defined outputs.
• Effectively manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Experience managing a company-wide OKR or similar program preferred.
• Possess 8+ years in roles of increasing responsibility in a corporate environment.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

 

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