Executive Strategy & Operations Lead

Grant Thornton; Wichita (KS); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking an Associate Director, Strategy & Operations to join the Office of the COO. This senior role leads strategic priorities, business performance initiatives, and cross-functional execution across the firm and Americas member firms.

It reports to the Head of Strategy & Operations and delivers executable plans with measurable results. The role requires strong business judgment, professional services acumen, and the ability to influence across geographies and functions

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of progressively responsible experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, transformation, finance, or a comparable environment.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex, cross-functional strategic or operational initiatives from problem definition through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to convert complex analysis into business insight, management implications, and actionable recommendations.
• Experience regularly engaging and influencing senior executives, including facilitating discussions and presenting recommendations.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to understand performance drivers and connect operational activity to business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead strategic and operational initiatives sponsored by the Office of the COO, from problem definition and workplan design through recommendation, decision, implementation, and benefits realization.
• Structure complex and ambiguous business questions, develop hypotheses, establish the analytical approach, and determine the information and stakeholder input required to reach a sound conclusion.
• Develop strategic options, business cases, and decision frameworks that clearly articulate business implications, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended courses of action.
• Translate enterprise priorities into executable plans with clear outcomes, ownership, milestones, dependencies, performance measures, and governance.
• Anticipate execution barriers and emerging issues; resolve them directly where possible and bring forward focused decisions when executive intervention is required.
• Lead cross-functional leadership reviews and enable focused executive discussion and decision-making.

Skills

Executive presence

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, accounting, or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking an Associate Director, Strategy & Operations to join the Office of the COO. This senior role leads strategic priorities, business performance initiatives, and cross-functional execution across the firm and Americas member firms.

It reports to the Head of Strategy & Operations and delivers executable plans with measurable results. The role requires strong business judgment, professional services acumen, and the ability to influence across geographies and functions