Strategic Advisor; Power Development

At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.

The Strategic Advisor serves as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior leadership, enabling effective decision-making and driving the successful execution of enterprise and functional priorities. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, execution, and analytics—translating complex business challenges into actionable insights and ensuring initiatives are aligned, governed, and delivered with measurable impact. Making and driving successful execution of enterprise and functional priorities.

As a trusted partner to executives, the Strategic Advisor leads complex, cross functional initiatives, enables prioritization and performance management, and delivers executive ready communications that inform direction, mitigate risk, and advance organizational objectives.

In this role, you will connect people, priorities, and insights to help advance our power portfolio. You will review power business development opportunities, identify emerging risks and resource needs, and facilitate discussions that help teams consistently evaluate alternatives and prioritize investments. Working across business development teams, finance, operations, legal, and other key functions, you will turn complex information into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for leadership.

You will also capture lessons learned and share best practices across teams, strengthening collaboration and helping shape future opportunities. Rather than owning individual projects, you will serve as a trusted advisor, helping teams stay aligned and make informed decisions as our power business grows.

• Serves as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to senior leaders, providing decision support and recommendations grounded in rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Partners with leaders to define, prioritize, and align functional and cross-functional initiatives with enterprise strategy and business objectives
• Leads complex, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, driving stakeholder alignment, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring delivery against defined objectives, timelines, and success metrics
• Develops and delivers executive-ready communications, translating complex information into clear, compelling narratives and visualizations; facilitate leadership briefings and decision-making forums with confidence and executive presence
• Evaluates current-state processes and ways of working to identify opportunities for increased effectiveness, efficiency, and value delivery, supporting continuous improvement and change initiatives
• Identifies risks, opportunities, and improvement areas that enhance leadership effectiveness, operational performance, and strategic execution
• Defines, tracks, and reports on key performance indicators (KPIs) by building and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical models that provide leaders with visibility into performance, trends, risks, and opportunities
• Other duties as assigned

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS, or a related field and ten (10) years of progressive experience in leadership, operations, or strategic roles, including formal management experience.

Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS or a related field and (15) fifteen years of Project Management, Business Transformation, Strategy/Consulting Process…