Director, Corporate Strategy - Virtual

Our Story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. Alight embraces values that come directly from our people – purposeful, human, united and growth-minded – reflecting our inclusive culture and promise that our clients expect. We are passionate about connecting purpose with impact. Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, Alight offers programs and plans that support your mind, body, wallet, and life. Benefits include health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One. Additionally, Alight colleagues enjoy wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities – all within a thriving global organization.

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 6 years in a row.

Thanks to the work of every colleague, Alight has received multiple awards of recognition including “Great Place to Work” for the past 7 years and Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For.”

Alight's Corporate Strategy & Development team is seeking a Director, Corporate Strategy, for a highly visible and impactful role. Our team works vigorously to shape and define company direction, growth priorities, and value creation opportunities. We assist the Executive Leadership Team, and Business Unit leaders with enterprise strategy, solution and segment strategy, portfolio management, and strategic business initiatives including M&A.

As part of the high-impact Strategy & Corporate Development team, you will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and lead complex strategic initiatives that influence Alight's long-term direction. This is a highly analytical, individual contributor role with significant ownership and visibility across senior leadership. You will work directly with the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and alongside other senior strategy leaders to solve Alight's most important strategic challenges and support decision-making at the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors level.

You will work across the organization to identify customer, competitive, industry, and macroeconomic trends impacting the business and translate those insights into actionable recommendations. In this role, you will independently structure and lead strategic work streams, develop fact-based analyses, build business cases, evaluate investment opportunities, and present recommendations to executive leadership and the Board.

You will partner with commercial, product, and solution leaders to evaluate growth opportunities, shape solution and segment strategies, assess portfolio priorities, support strategic transactions, and drive enterprise value creation. This role offers broad exposure across Alight's businesses while providing the opportunity to influence some of the company's most important strategic and investment decisions.

• Develop and communicate both near-term and long-term corporate growth strategies, including recommendations regarding market opportunities, competitive positioning, and enterprise priorities
• Partner with the Executive Leadership Team to identify, prioritize, and evaluate strategic initiatives aligned with Alight's long-term growth objectives
• Lead enterprise-wide strategic assessments and deliver fact-based recommendations on growth, profitability, portfolio optimization, and value…