Senior Strategic Development & Planning - Senior Vice President

New York, New York, United States

iCapital is looking to hire a Senior Vice President of Strategic Development and Planning to join the Business Excellence organization within Operations and Investment Product Management (OIPM). This highly visible and collaborative role will serve as a strategic partner to the OIPM leadership team and support the continued growth and evolution of the organization. The position will focus on strengthening scalability, operational effectiveness, and organizational performance across OIPM.

The ideal candidate brings strong strategic, analytical, and business planning capabilities, along with exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills. Success in this role requires navigating complex challenges, influencing executive-level discussions, and operating effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and excellence.
• Lead annual and multi-year strategic planning processes for Fund Operations and related functions, ensuring alignment with OIPM and firmwide priorities.
• Lead large-scale business transformation and change management initiatives focused on scalability, operational effectiveness, organizational alignment, sustainable growth, and business process improvement.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives with clear objectives, milestones, success metrics, and accountability.
• Partner with senior leaders to align business priorities, drive decision-making, and ensure successful execution across functions.
• Oversee OIPM's strategic initiative portfolio, ensuring resources, investments, and priorities align with business objectives and long-term goals.
• Provide executive governance and oversight for critical business initiatives, ensuring timely execution, risk mitigation, measurable outcomes, consistency, transparency, and accountability across OIPM and the COO organization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across teams, serving as a trusted advisor and catalyst for organizational alignment and execution.
• Prepare strategic recommendations, business cases, and executive-level materials to support investment decisions, prioritization, and long-term planning.
• Synthesize complex operational, financial, and business data into actionable insights and compelling narratives for senior executives.
• Conduct strategic analyses of new business opportunities, including market assessments, competitive benchmarking, financial modeling, and operational impact evaluations.
• Partner with senior leaders to develop and oversee acquisition integration strategies, ensuring seamless transitions and realization of business objectives.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards, scorecards, performance reporting frameworks, governance standards, execution frameworks, and performance management processes, while building deep expertise in the firm's operating model, organizational structure, business processes, systems, data, and key value drivers.

• 12+ years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting (MBB or Tier
  2), business transformation, strategic finance, corporate development, or a related leadership role within a high-growth organization
• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, or a related field required; MBA or other advanced degree is preferred
• Direct experience within private markets, alternative investments, wealth management, asset management, fintech, or another highly regulated and operationally complex industry, including fund operations
• Deep understanding of fund managers (GPs),…