Director, Enterprise Strategy - Power Providers

Black & Veatch; Overland Park (KS); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Wellness program

Flexible work schedules

Paid vacation

Job summary

Black & Veatch is seeking an exceptional strategy leader to shape the long‑term growth agenda for its Power Providers sector. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, you will partner with leadership to decide where BV should compete and how to invest, translating market opportunities into profitable growth.

This hybrid role engages across generation, grid modernization, advisory, and lifecycle services, guiding strategy from insight to execution while addressing load growth, grid resiliency,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Must complete pre-employment onboarding requirements per policy.

Responsibilities

• Lead sector-aligned strategy work across Power Providers growth priorities.
• Evaluate investments, partnerships, acquisitions, and capital allocation choices.
• Develop investment cases, models, and roadmaps for execution.
• Engage with senior leaders to align strategy with enterprise goals.
• Coach and develop strategy talent while ensuring high-quality deliverables.

Skills

Power sector fluency

Strategic analysis

Financial modeling

Executive engagement

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

MBA or related Masters

Job description

Date: Sep 17, 2026
Location: Overland Park, KS, US
Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success.

As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.

Why Black & Veatch?

At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution.

We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives.

You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands‑on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.

Ownership shows up in how we work. We take responsibility for outcomes, follow through on commitments, and take pride in what we deliver. As a 100% employee‑owned company, employees share in the long‑term success we build together.

With flexible ways of working and meaningful development opportunities, you’ll build a career you can be proud to stand behind.

The Opportunity

Black & Veatch is seeking an exceptional strategy leader to help shape the long‑term growth agenda for its Power Providers sector while remaining part of the Enterprise Strategy organization. Reporting directly to the Chief Strategy Officer, the Director, Enterprise Strategy - Power Providers will serve as the dedicated strategic partner to Power Providers leadership, helping define where Black & Veatch should compete, how it should invest, which capabilities it should build, and how it should translate market opportunity into profitable growth.

This leader will support strategic work across the Power Providers ecosystem, including advanced power generation, thermal and nuclear readiness, transmission, substations, distribution, grid modernization, communications networks, BESS, solar, lifecycle services, infrastructure advisory, program management, and emerging integrated energy solutions. The role is designed for a strategist who combines analytical rigor, power‑sector fluency, executive presence, and practical implementation judgment.

Unlike a traditional advisory role, this opportunity provides the ability to remain involved from insight through executive decision and implementation. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of enterprise strategy and sector execution, helping Power Providers respond to rising load growth, grid resiliency needs, energy transition pressures, utility capital deployment, supply chain constraints, workforce challenges, and changing client expectations.

The Director will report to the Chief Strategy Officer and be embedded as a primary strategy partner to Power Providers leadership. The role will lead a defined portfolio of strategy priorities, frame strategic choices, develop recommendations, facilitate executive decisions, and help establish the roadmaps, measures, governance, and stakeholder alignment required to turn those decisions into measurable results.

Key Responsibilities

• Power Providers strategic planning: Lead sector-aligned strategy work across generation, solar, grid modernization, lifecycle services, and advisory.
• Portfolio choices and capital prioritization: Partner with sector, finance, solution, and enterprise leaders to evaluate where BV should invest, scale, hold, partner, acquire, or deprioritize across Power Providers growth priorities.
• Market and competitive intelligence: Develop evidence‑based views of utility capital spending, load growth, resiliency needs, regulatory shifts, EPC competition, grid investment, generation mix changes, renewable integration, and storage adoption.
• Growth strategy and client segment alignment: Help define priority clients, regions, service offerings, delivery models, and go‑to‑market priorities for Power Providers, ensuring sector choices align with BV’s enterprise growth agenda.
• Integrated solution strategy: Identify cross‑solution opportunities that connect generation, grid, BESS, solar, data center load, advisory, PMO, and lifecycle services into differentiated offerings for power‑sector clients.
• Business case and investment development: Build board‑ and ELT‑ready investment cases, scenario models, TAM/SAM assessments, market share views, capability gap analyses, and financial impact models to support Power Providers decisions.
• Execution roadmap and governance: Translate approved strategies into actionable roadmaps, milestones, ownership models, KPIs, and governance routines that connect strategic intent to measurable delivery outcomes.
• M&A, partnerships, and capability building: Work with inorganic growth, sector, and solution leaders to evaluate acquisitions, partnerships, talent investments, technology opportunities, and operating‑model changes that accelerate Power Providers growth.
• Executive stakeholder engagement: Serve as a trusted counselor to the Chief Strategy Officer, Power Providers leadership, Market Sector Presidents, solution leaders, and enterprise executives on high‑stakes strategic decisions.
• Team development and player/coach leadership: Lead complex analytical work while developing strategy talent, coaching junior team members, and raising the quality, consistency, and executive readiness of strategy deliverables.

Management Responsibilities

Supervises work of others. Responsible for hiring, discipline, and pay administration of their subordinates.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent level of professional experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• All applicants must be able to complete pre‑employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree – MBA or closely related degree
• 5+years of experience at a top tier strategy firm
• Experience with direct supervisory of a strategy or related team
• 5+ years of experience at a top‑tier strategy firm, corporate strategy function, energy infrastructure company, utility, independent power producer, developer, EPC firm, or infrastructure advisory organization.
• Power‑sector fluency: Demonstrated understanding of power generation, transmission, distribution, substations, grid modernization, storage, renewables, utility capital programs, regulatory drivers, or energy transition market dynamics.
• Strategic and financial analysis: Ability to structure ambiguous problems, build analytical models, evaluate strategic alternatives, and communicate implications clearly to senior executives.
• Deep knowledge and direct experience: Highly prefer practical experience in the EPC lifecycle, global energy transition, renewable power generation, or critical water infrastructure
• Technical Mastery: Recognized expert in developing and applying strategic frameworks, scenario modeling, strategy development, capital allocation structuring, portfolio execution, and enterprise risk management.
• Must have strong knowledge and demonstrated usage of AI – enabled insight generation to ensure accurate and efficient application of insights and market intelligence.
• Specialist Knowledge: Knowledge of power/energy, construction/design, water, government markets preferred.
• Power Providers value proposition: Ability to connect sector strategy to BV’s differentiated strengths in technical expertise, integrated delivery, execution certainty, client trust, and full lifecycle infrastructure solutions.

Specialist Knowledge

Strong familiarity with Power Providers markets, including power generation, grid infrastructure, utility capital planning, EPC delivery, project development, storage, renewables, lifecycle services, and infrastructure advisory.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Salary Plan

ADM: Administrative/Business

Job Grade

020

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