IT Operating Model and Strategy Advisory Lead - Executive Director

Madison-Davis, LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC, based in New York, seeks an Executive Director to drive an enterprise Technology and Operations advisory capability. You will partner with senior executives to shape how large functions are structured, governed, located, and operated, blending technology strategy, organizational design, and executive advisory work.

You will lead engagements from current-state assessment to target-state design, business-case development, and transition into implementation, building repeatable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant technology strategy or organizational-design experience.
• Demonstrated enterprise-scale target operating model design.
• Strong organizational-design and governance experience.
• Shared-services and/or global capability center strategy experience.
• Benchmarking and maturity-assessment expertise.
• Strong financial and strategic business-case development skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise target operating model and organizational-design initiatives across Technology and Operations.
• Design organizational structures, governance frameworks, decision rights, and accountability models.
• Develop shared-services, global capability center, nearshore, location, outsourcing, and build-vs-buy strategies.
• Lead benchmarking, maturity assessments, and strategic diagnostics.
• Build financial and strategic business cases covering current costs, investments, savings opportunities, and payback.
• Advise senior executives on complex cross-functional and cross-regional transformation decisions.
• Structure strategic engagements and transition approved target states to delivery organizations.
• Develop repeatable methodologies, frameworks, and tools for future enterprise advisory work.

Skills

Tech strategy

TOM design

Org design

Shared services

Benchmarking

Business case

Outsourcing strategy

Executive communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

A global financial institution is seeking an Executive Director to lead a strategic advisory capability focused on enterprise Technology and Operations operating models. This leader will partner with senior executives to determine how large, complex functions should be structured, governed, located, and operated in the future. The role combines technology strategy, organizational design, financial analysis, transformation design, and executive advisory work. The successful candidate will lead strategic engagements from current-state assessment and problem definition through target-state design, business-case development, executive alignment, and transition into implementation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead enterprise target operating model and organizational-design initiatives across Technology and Operations.
• Design organizational structures, governance frameworks, decision rights, and accountability models.
• Develop shared-services, global capability center, nearshore, location, outsourcing, and build-vs-buy strategies.
• Lead benchmarking, maturity assessments, and strategic diagnostics.
• Build financial and strategic business cases covering current costs, investments, savings opportunities, and payback.
• Advise senior executives on complex cross-functional and cross-regional transformation decisions.
• Structure strategic engagements and transition approved target states to delivery organizations.
• Develop repeatable methodologies, frameworks, and tools for future enterprise advisory work.

Role Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant technology strategy, target operating model, or organizational-design experience.
• Demonstrated enterprise-scale target operating model design.
• Strong organizational-design and governance experience.
• Shared-services and/or global capability center strategy experience.
• Benchmarking and maturity-assessment expertise.
• Strong financial and strategic business-case development skills.
• Build-vs-buy and outsourcing-strategy experience.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional and cross-regional transformations.
• Executive-level communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.
• Ability to meet the stated New York City hybrid schedule.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Financial-services experience.
• Top-tier management consulting experience.
• MBA or related advanced degree.
• Experience developing reusable consulting methodologies.