Office of the CSO, Senior Strategic Initiatives Lead

Job Summary:

Global Partners is seeking a highly strategic, execution-oriented leader to serve as a senior partner to the Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer (CSTO) and support key priorities of the Office of the CEO. This role will help shape how Global develops leaders, drives accountability, strengthens organizational effectiveness, and executes enterprise priorities.This individual will play a central role in building the next generation of leadership at Global, helping reimagine executive and high-potential leadership forums, advancing executive succession planning, fostering a stronger coaching and performance culture, and ensuring enterprise priorities cascade clearly through the organization.The role combines strategy, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, governance, executive communications, and operational execution. It requires someone who can move seamlessly between enterprise strategy and hands-on implementation while operating with credibility and discretion at the highest levels of the company.This leader will help translate strategy into action, improving organizational alignment and operating cadence, strengthening leadership effectiveness, and ensuring key initiatives maintain momentum and accountability across the business. The role will also serve as an operational extension of the CSTO and a key support partner to broader Office of the CEO priorities and executive programming.

At Global Partners, business starts with people. Since 1933, we’ve believed in taking care of our customers, our guests, our communities, and each other—and that belief continues to guide us.  

The Global Spirit is how we work to fuel that long term commitment to success. As a Fortune 500 company with 90+ years of experience, we’re proud to fuel communities—responsibly and sustainably. We show up every day with grit, passion, and purpose—anticipating needs, building lasting relationships, and creating shared value. 

Job Description:

• Lead and evolve Global’s executive succession and leadership planning processes, partnering closely with executive leadership to identify future leadership needs, key talent risks, development priorities, and succession pipelines.
• Help build and institutionalize a stronger coaching, accountability, and feedback culture across the organization, reinforcing leadership expectations and high-performance behaviors.
• Lead enterprise organizational review processes for key initiatives and organizational changes, including assessments of role clarity, decision rights, governance, and organizational effectiveness.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify organizational strengths, gaps, risks, and opportunities, and develop practical recommendations and implementation plans.
• Help shape and reinforce leadership principles, operating expectations, and enterprise leadership behaviors aligned with Global’s culture and strategy.
• Support the development and implementation of KPI and performance frameworks that cascade from enterprise strategy to business units, functions, teams, and individual leaders.
• Drive greater execution discipline, accountability, and follow-through across leadership teams through stronger operating rhythms, governance structures, and leadership cadences.
• Lead the redesign, development, and ongoing management of Global’s executive and leadership forums, including the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), executive offsites, high-potential leadership cohorts, and other enterprise leadership groups.
• Reimagine how leadership teams operate across the company, creating stronger connectivity, clearer accountability, and more effective enterprise decision-making and collaboration.
• Partner with HR to create meaningful leadership programming, development experiences, and operating cadence that strengthen alignment, accelerate leadership capability, and reinforce Global’s culture and leadership principles.
• Design and curate content, agendas, experiences, facilitation approaches, and follow-through mechanisms for executive meetings, leadership forums, and enterprise events.
• Support high-profile executive programming and strategic initiatives as part of the Office of the CEO.
• Serve as a strategic advisor, thought partner, and operational extension of the CSTO across a broad and fast-moving portfolio.
• Bring structure and prioritization to executive priorities by helping sequence work, drive alignment, and ensure the most important initiatives move forward effectively.
• Drive preparation and follow-through for executive meetings, business reviews, transformation governance forums, leadership offsites, and strategic planning sessions.
• Manage highly sensitive and confidential matters with sound judgment, maturity, an