Director, Enterprise Execution & Strategic Initiatives

Job Description

The Director, Enterprise Execution & Strategic Initiatives leads the definition, planning, governance, and execution of complex, high-priority enterprise initiatives spanning multiple business functions, organizations, and leadership stakeholders.

Regular

Operating within the COO organization, this role is accountable for the integrated management of assigned strategic initiatives from initial definition through execution, adoption, and transition to sustained operational ownership. The position translates executive priorities into coordinated execution by establishing clear outcomes, ownership, governance, decision rights, integrated plans, dependencies, and measures of success. The role also helps shape emerging enterprise priorities into executable initiatives and contributes to the continued development of the company’s enterprise execution capability.

As the Director, Enterprise Execution & Strategic Initiatives you will either lead execution of the initiative, or establish the first line of accountability for the assigned strategic project manager. You will assist in selecting well qualified project managers that fit each initiatives unique requirements, while also serving in a mentoring capacity. Success in this role requires strong interpersonal judgment and the ability to quickly establish credibility, build trusted relationships, and create alignment across diverse stakeholders and organizational boundaries.

The role requires a leader who can navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex organizational dynamics while maintaining accountability and driving action.

• Lead complex, cross-functional enterprise initiatives involving multiple organizations, business functions, technologies, processes, and executive stakeholders.
• Shape emerging enterprise priorities into executable initiatives by clarifying the business problem, intended outcomes, scope, ownership, stakeholders, governance, dependencies, and execution approach.
• Translate strategic and executive objectives into integrated plans, milestones, decision points, ownership structures, and measurable success criteria.
• Maintain accountability for the integrated health and progress of assigned initiatives, ensuring coordinated execution across organizational boundaries.
• Establish and manage initiative governance, operating cadence, integrated schedules, work streams, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and escalation paths.
• Create enterprise-level visibility into progress, tradeoffs, resource constraints, dependencies, emerging risks, and decisions requiring leadership action.
• Provide executive decision support through concise reporting, synthesis of complex information, framing of options and tradeoffs, and clear recommendations.
• Establish and track measures of success to ensure initiatives remain connected to intended strategic, operational, financial, technology, compliance, adoption, or other business outcomes.
• Incorporate organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, adoption, and transition-to-operations considerations into execution planning as appropriate.
• Partner with functional, technical, and project/program management organizations while maintaining clear accountability between enterprise-level integration and execution owned within individual functions.
• Identify and drive resolution of cross-functional barriers involving process, ownership, governance, data, technology, or decision-making by clarifying accountability, facilitating stakeholder alignment, and ensuring timely escalation and follow-through.
• Develop and apply scalable enterprise execution practices, tools, and operating models across areas such as initiative intake,…