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Director, Strategy & Execution​/Directeur(-trice), Stratégie et exécution

Job in Rocky View, Calgary, Alberta, T3S, Canada
Listing for: fasken
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-17
Job specializations:
  • Management
    Corporate Strategy, Business Management, Business Analyst
  • Business
    Corporate Strategy, Business Management, Business Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Director, Strategy & Execution/ Directeur(-trice), Stratégie et exécution
Location: Rocky View

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Fasken is a leading international business law and litigation firm, and was voted one of Canada’s Best Employers for 2024. Our firm’s 900 lawyers are located across offices in Vancouver, Surrey, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Québec City, London and Johannesburg and an office in the professional and retail district known as Taza (/Ta-Zah/) on Tsuut’ina lands. Providing strategic and thoughtful advice in all areas of business law, our broad range of clients include close to half of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as corporate clients, government agencies, regulatory authorities, non-profit bodies and individuals.

Our clients’ interests are paramount in all that we do and we take pride in supporting our communities. We are a place where bright, talented, and collegial people want to work together and we work hard together to achieve our goals in a collaborative and efficient way.

Position Overview

Fasken is seeking a Director, Strategy & Execution to serve as a strategic partner and internal consultant to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and the Firm Managing Partner (FMP). This role is designed to add meaningful leverage to firm leadership by independently defining strategic frameworks and rapidly exploring emerging opportunities. The Director will operate with delegated authority to act as a primary sounding board for firm leadership, combining rigorous strategic analysis with the authoring of complex, cross-functional initiatives.

This role requires high-level strategic gravitas, sound judgment, and the ability to hold productive tension with senior leaders and Board members when priorities compete, or alignment is not yet achieved.

The individual will synthesize external consultant insights into Fasken-specific narratives, translate strategy into action, and ensure firmwide strategic initiatives are delivered with clarity and impact.

This is a highly visible role that works closely with the Partnership Board, senior business executives, and stakeholders across the firm.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Analysis & Advisory Support

  • Independently define and author strategic analyses, research, and benchmarking to drive senior leadership decision-making.
  • Proactively identify enterprise-wide strategic gaps and structure complex or ambiguous issues into clear problem statements and recommendations.
  • Develop and propose business cases and implementation approaches for new or evolving strategic initiatives.
  • Synthesize and challenge insights from external management consultancies, translating high-level concepts into practical, decision-ready materials for executive audiences.

    • Strategy Execution & Initiative Leadership

  • Own and lead a portfolio of firmwide strategic initiatives from concept through implementation.
  • Establish initiative charters, governance structures, milestones, and success metrics.
  • Exercise delegated decision-making authority on behalf of the CAO in steering committees and leadership forums to maintain momentum.
  • Own the development and maintenance of the Firm’s Strategy Dashboard and non-financial KPI reporting to the Partnership Board.
  • Drive follow-through and accountability across teams, navigating resistance and surfacing trade-offs at the highest levels of the partnership.

    • Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination

  • Act as a senior sounding board to Practice Group Leaders and Regional Managing Partners to align priorities.
  • Facilitate working sessions, steering committees, and decision forums with independent authority.
  • Act as a connector across functions and regions to reduce duplication and improve execution discipline.
  • Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics across leadership forums, balancing diverse perspectives while maintaining an enterprise-level focus.

    • Executive Communications

  • Author high-impact presentations, updates, and briefing materials for Board-level and leadership forums.
  • Translate complex work into clear, authoritative narratives that support high-stakes decision-making.

    • Continuous Improvement

  • Architect opportunities to strengthen strategy execution practices, governance, and ways of working.
  • Share leading practices to improve strategy and initiative…
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