Senior Director, Global Strategic Initiatives

Senior Director, Global People Strategic Initiatives

Bentonville, AR

806 Excellence Dr

Bentonville, AR

R-2629923

$130,000 - $260,000/yr

Regular/ Permanent

We are looking for a highly strategic, execution-oriented leader to drive complex, high-priority initiatives from idea through implementation. This role requires someone who can operate at multiple altitudes—shaping strategy and recommendations with senior leaders while also getting into the details to build plans, solve problems, create tools, connect stakeholders, and move work forward. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, quickly creates structure where it does not yet exist, and turns strategic priorities into action.

They must have the presence and judgment to influence and direct senior leaders, while also having the willingness and capability to personally roll up their sleeves and get work done.

They will also bring an AI-first mindset to the role—using AI to move faster, improve the quality of the work, automate what is manual, and build practical solutions that fundamentally improve how work gets done.

This is not a traditional program management role focused primarily on tracking milestones and facilitating meetings. It is a leadership role for someone who can think, influence, orchestrate, build, and execute.

• Partner with senior leaders to translate business priorities and complex problems into clear strategies, choices, and actionable plans.
• Bring structure to ambiguous problems, identifying the questions that need to be answered, decisions that need to be made, and work required to move forward.
• Synthesize complex information into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-level narratives.
• Anticipate issues, dependencies, and opportunities and proactively recommend a path forward.
• Move effectively between developing the strategy and executing it, recognizing that the two often happen simultaneously.

• Own high-priority, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution.
• Establish clear outcomes, work streams, milestones, decision points, ownership, and measures of success.
• Connect work across teams and functions, ensuring leaders understand how their work contributes to the broader objective.
• Identify when work is off track and actively intervene to resolve barriers, clarify decisions, and accelerate progress.
• Create accountability and momentum without adding unnecessary process or bureaucracy.

• Work confidently with senior executives and functional leaders, providing clarity on what is needed from them and when.
• Facilitate complex conversations, surface tradeoffs, and drive groups toward decisions.
• Challenge thinking constructively and know when to push, elevate, or adapt.
• Build trust quickly and influence outcomes without relying on formal authority.
• Hold leaders and teams accountable for commitments while maintaining strong, productive relationships.

• Move seamlessly from executive discussions to hands‑on execution.
• Personally develop plans, analyses, presentations, communications, decision materials, and other deliverables required to advance the work.
• Follow through on decisions and ensure commitments translate into action.
• Step into gaps when necessary rather than waiting for someone else to solve the problem.
• Maintain a strong bias toward progress, simplification, and results.

• Use AI as an everyday tool to think faster, solve problems, synthesize information, and accelerate execution.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or inefficient work and build AI‑enabled tools, agents, and automations that…