Manager Of Strategic Initiatives Jobs in Arizona

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Job Description The Director, Strategy Execution & Transformation serves as the CIO's strategic execution partner, ensuring that ISG's strategic priorities are translated into actionable plans, aligned investments, and measurable outcomes. The role drives enterprise-wide planning, transformation, and integration efforts across Core Services, Centers for Enablement (C4Es), Shared Services, and enabling functions, fostering alignment between business objectives, technology priorities, and organizational capabilities. Working closely with ISG leaders, business stakeholders, and strategic partners, the Director orchestrates the execution of critical initiatives, removes barriers to delivery, and ensures resources, focus, and leadership attention are directed toward the highest-value opportunities. Through disciplined governance, strategic insight, and a relentless focus on outcomes, the role accelerates transformation, strengthens organizational effectiveness, and enables ISG to deliver sustained business impact.

• Strategic Orchestration: Translate strategy into enterprise execution by driving alignment, integration, and accountability across ISG, ensuring strategic priorities are operationalized, transformation commitments are delivered, and organizational barriers are proactively resolved to sustain momentum and business impact.
• Executive Visibility & Strategic Insights: Provide the CIO and leadership team with timely, decision-ready visibility into organizational performance, strategic initiatives, emerging risks, and opportunities, transforming data and operational signals into actionable executive insights.
• Strategic Decision Enablement: Orchestrate critical decision-making forums and executive conversations, bringing together the right stakeholders, perspectives, and analysis to accelerate alignment, resolve trade-offs, and drive decisions that advance ISG's strategic objectives.
• Strategic Governance & Performance Stewardship: Establish and lead governance mechanisms that provide the CIO with effective oversight, transparency, and control across strategy execution, investment portfolios, transformation programs, and organizational performance, enabling informed steering and course correction.
• Executive Communications & Stakeholder Engagement: Shape and orchestrate strategic communications for the CIO, ensuring clear, compelling, and timely messaging that aligns stakeholders, reinforces priorities, builds confidence in the transformation agenda, and advances key organizational outcomes.

Key Performance Indicators

• Total Globe NPS
• Total Globe EBIT
• Orchestration of Strategic Initiatives
• Management of Strategic Planning Activities
• Priority Strategic Initiative Completion
• Value Monitoring, Governance and Reporting
• People Engagement & Development (Collab Index & Competency Uplift)

Skills

• Strategic Portfolio Orchestration: Ability to bridge high-level business strategy with technology execution, managing a portfolio of critical initiatives to ensure alignment with Globe and ISG's long-term business objectives.
• Executive Influence & Advisory: Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills to serve as a trusted partner to the leadership team, facilitate executive decision-making, and drive alignment across siloed, cross-functional organizations without direct authority.
• Large-Scale Change Orchestration: Proven capability to guide the organization through complex IT transformations, mitigating resistance and managing the cultural and operational shifts associated with strategic initiatives.
• Business-to-Technology Translation: Deep understanding of the telecommunications business domain, market trends, and competitive landscape to translate corporate goals into high-impact IT strategy and transformation initiatives.
  

Hiring Requirements

• Target Experience: 10 to 15 years of demonstrated experience in Strategy & Transformation Offices, Management Consulting (Big 4 or boutique strategy firms), Regional Portfolio Leadership, or Enterprise Business Transformation functions.
• Core Focus: A proven track record of partnering with executives to shape priorities and drive enterprise-wide change, rather than a background primarily focused on localized project delivery, application engineering, or steady-state IT operations.
• Domain & Technical Acumen: Strong knowledge of modern IT solutions, emerging technologies (e.g., AI, cloud platforms), and telco industry processes to effectively challenge and shape technology agendas.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. An MBA or advanced degree in Strategy/Management is highly preferred.
• Certifications (Preferred, not Required): Advanced frameworks in Change Management (e.g., Prosci) or Enterprise Strategy are highly valued. Traditional project management or Agile certifications (PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum) are secondary to actual strategic advisor experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Globe's hiring process promotes equal opportunity to applicants, Any form of discrimination is not tolerated throughout the entire employee lifecycle, including the hiring process such as in posting vacancies, selecting, and interviewing applicants.
Globe's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy Commitment can be accessed here

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