Executive Enterprise Strategy & Insights Leader

Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.; Eagan, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc. is seeking an experienced enterprise strategy leader to integrate cross-enterprise risk, performance, and governance insights into the corporate plan.

You will partner with Corporate Planning, synthesize complex information for senior leaders, and surface strategic opportunities while navigating ambiguity and aligning diverse stakeholders around enterprise priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• 12–14+ years of experience in enterprise strategy, risk, analytics, or related disciplines.
• Proven ability to advise senior leaders and lead cross-functional work through influence, not authority.
• Ability to synthesize ERM, governance, competitive intelligence and performance management into executive insights.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to distinguish signal from noise in complex data.
• Exceptional strategic storytelling and executive communication capabilities.
• Structured problem-solving, enterprise diagnosis, and scenario thinking.
• Ability to operate confidently in ambiguity and frame enterprise-level questions clearly.
• Energy industry experience and related certifications (COSO, Prosci, Lean/Six Sigma) are pluses.

Responsibilities

• Incorporate cross-enterprise perspectives, risk, value, performance, compliance, competitive insights, external trends into clear implications for MISO’s corporate strategy.
• Partner with Corporate Planning to ensure enterprise insights strengthen the corporate plan.
• Assess the corporate plan holistically to identify gaps, tensions, dependencies, and risks.
• Engage senior leaders as credible thought partners, challenging assumptions and surfacing alternatives.
• Influence across organizational boundaries while respecting accountability of owners and leaders.
• Translate complex information into concise diagnoses, executive narratives, and strategic choices.
• Connect corporate-plan priorities to enterprise risks, performance measures, value propositions, and objectives.
• Refine enterprise strategic lens applications to planning processes.
• Support executive and Board discussions with integrated enterprise perspectives.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Analytical excellence

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc. is seeking an experienced enterprise strategy leader to integrate cross-enterprise risk, performance, and governance insights into the corporate plan.

You will partner with Corporate Planning, synthesize complex information for senior leaders, and surface strategic opportunities while navigating ambiguity and aligning diverse stakeholders around enterprise priorities.