Vice President, Corporate Strategy

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Strategic Investments, this role drives the League’s long-range planning and leads strategic analysis on the NFL’s most critical long-term business questions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and drive the League’s long-range planning process, working with senior leadership and business unit leaders to develop and refine enterprise priorities and strategic objectives.
• Lead forward-looking analysis on opportunities, risks, and structural changes that may affect the League over the medium and long term.
• Assess trends across sports, media, technology, AI, consumer behavior, and adjacent industries, translating them into clear strategic implications for the NFL.
• Identify and evaluate new growth platforms, business models, strategic partnerships, market opportunities, and other sources of long-term value creation.
• Develop scenarios, strategic frameworks, and decision materials to help senior leadership evaluate choices under uncertainty.
• Synthesize business unit strategies, financial plans, market developments, and enterprise priorities into a coherent long-range plan.
• Translate strategic direction into clear priorities, recommendations, and actionable plans.
• Prepare executive-ready presentations and recommendations for senior leadership and ownership-facing audiences.
• Partner with Financial Planning & Analysis and Corporate Finance to connect strategic priorities with financial planning, investment decisions, and resource allocation.
• Establish approaches for assessing progress against enterprise priorities and major strategic initiatives.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leadership and business unit leaders on high-priority business questions and enterprise challenges.
• Lead selected internal strategy engagements and cross-functional initiatives, structuring ambiguous problems, directing analysis, and developing practical recommendations.
• Evaluate new business opportunities, partnerships, growth platforms, and operating models, including business cases and market assessments.
• Provide an independent enterprise perspective to ensure major initiatives and investments align with broader League priorities.
• Work closely with the 32 Equity team to identify and evaluate investment themes, market developments, and strategic opportunities.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of corporate strategy professionals, setting clear standards for analytical rigor, business judgment, and executive communication.
• Continuously improve the effectiveness, analytical rigor, and stakeholder engagement of the League’s long-range planning and corporate strategy processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with MBA preferred and 12+ years of relevant experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, corporate development, finance, or a related field.
• Significant experience developing enterprise strategy, leading long-range planning, or addressing major growth and transformation questions within a complex organization.
• Demonstrated ability to develop a long-term strategic perspective and translate it into clear priorities, decisions, and actionable recommendations.
• Strong understanding of how market, competitive, technological, financial, and consumer developments affect enterprise strategy and long-term value creation.
• Exceptional strategic, analytical, and financial problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify critical issues within complex and ambiguous situations.
• Experience advising senior executives and developing materials for executive leadership, boards, ownership groups, or other governance bodies.
• Proven ability to lead complex planning processes and cross-functional initiatives involving senior stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and the ability to translate external trends and emerging developments into differentiated strategic insights.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills across functions, business units, and senior stakeholder groups.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing professionals.
• Unwavering commitment to ethical conduct, professionalism, and integrity.

Skills

• Forward-looking strategic thinker with strong business judgment.
• Financially and analytically rigorous.
• Intellectually curious and externally oriented.
• Executive presence and credibility.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills.
• High-impact, low-ego collaborator.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and offering independent perspectives.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Commitment to valuing and respecting diversity in the workplace.

Pay

$225,000—$325,000 USD

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits offerings; visit NFL BENEFITS for details.

Schedule

• In-person work at an NFL office or stadium location is required; remote and/or hybrid options are not offered.
• 40 hours per week, FLSA exempt.
• Travel required, including weekends and holidays, as needed.