Director Strategic Initiatives

About the Opportunity

The company challenges its limits, driven by ambition and a desire to win. Setting the highest standards and executing beyond them, the organization offers an ultimate career opportunity for individuals who are similarly driven.

Key Responsibilities

• Get deployed by leadership against the organization's highest-priority initiatives at any given time — AI transformation, Quote-to-Cash, cost efficiency execution, or a new strategic mandate — and move again once the priority shifts.
• Structure ambiguous, cross-functional problems into clear problem statements, hypotheses, and workplans without being told how.
• Operate as an individual contributor who can independently run a workstream — or a diagnostic effort, such as a cost or organizational-health benchmarking exercise — end to end.
• Drive accountability across functions and seniority levels without direct management authority — convening workstreams, aligning competing stakeholders, and holding the right people to the right outcomes.
• Move fluidly across problem types within a single year — an AI use case business case one quarter, a Quote-to-Cash workstream the next, a cost-lever initiative after that — without losing rigor or credibility.
• Write and communicate at an executive level — recommendations that land with senior functional leaders, not just get presented to them.

Required Qualifications

• MBB (or equivalent top-tier) consulting background — non-negotiable. This is the baseline for structured problem-solving and executive presence, and what allows this role to operate independently from day one.
• Current-level Project Leader or Principal tenure (or the equivalent at another top-tier firm), or a former MBB consultant with a few years since in an operating role. Senior enough to hold their ground with senior stakeholders, but still functioning as an individual contributor rather than a people manager — this is IC capacity, not a management track.
• Pure generalist range across strategy, operations, AI, and analytics work — not deep specialization in one domain. Candidates who have only ever done one type of work, however deeply, are a weaker fit.
• A track record of driving outcomes, not just running well-structured programs — knows the difference between a program that looks good in a status update and one that's actually delivering.
• Comfortable in front of senior stakeholders fast — can be in a room with a functional SVP or VP in week two of an assignment and be taken seriously.
• Able to drive accountability across people they don't manage, including people senior to them in other functions — influence over mandate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience inside a company navigating rapid growth, transformation, or a significant strategic shift — the best proxy for what this role will encounter.
• Exposure to AI-driven transformation, cost/organizational-health diagnostics, or a quote-to-cash / revenue systems modernization effort — any one of these is a plus, given the bench flexes across all of them.
• Prior experience operating as part of a flexible, cross-functional team deployed against shifting priorities, rather than a single fixed-scope role — comfort with ambiguity in one's own mandate, not just the work itself.

Additional Information

Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams — comprised of the best of the best — work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment. This role plays a major part in the organization's transformation and benefits from a diverse remit with exposure to many parts of the business. As the market leader, every day offers a chance to learn and grow, with endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations.

The organization's software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, the software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions. Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, the organization is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.

The hiring company is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.