Strategic Advisor, Operations & Planning

MISO; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 152,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Vacation

Sick time

Bonus potential

Job summary

MISO is seeking a Principal Strategy Advisor to lead and align the core operations strategy across Market Operations, System Operations, Transmission Planning, and Resource Planning. In this role, you will partner with senior leaders to shape multi-year strategies, translate priorities into actionable roadmaps, and influence decision-making across the organization.

You will champion reliability, investment prioritization, and trade-off analyses to connect strategy with execution.

Qualifications

• Experience partnering with leaders and cross-functional teams to define problems, evaluate priorities and tradeoffs, develop recommendations, and translate strategic direction into actionable plans.
• Experience influencing across organizational boundaries without direct authority, facilitating discussions with senior leaders, building alignment among diverse stakeholders, and communicating complex topics clearly.
• Experience with progressively responsible work in strategic planning, business planning, operations, engineering, portfolio management, consulting, or a related discipline, with demonstrated experience working through complex and ambiguous business or operational challenges.

Responsibilities

• Leading and maturing multi-year Operations and Planning strategies, including defining priorities, business capability needs, outcomes, sequencing, dependencies, and measures of progress.
• Shaping and advancing MISO’s Reliability Imperative priorities, including Operations of the Future and Market Redefinition, while helping MISO prepare for significant load growth, changing resource characteristics, increasing operational uncertainty, and other emerging reliability needs.
• Advising senior leaders on operational risks, capability gaps, investment needs, priorities, and strategic tradeoffs, using industry, regulatory, technology, and market insights to develop clear recommendations and roadmaps.
• Connecting strategy and building alignment across Market Operations, System Operations, Transmission Planning, Resource Planning, and enabling teams, helping move strategic priorities from direction to action.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

MISO is seeking a Principal Strategy Advisor to lead and align the core operations strategy across Market Operations, System Operations, Transmission Planning, and Resource Planning. In this role, you will partner with senior leaders to shape multi-year strategies, translate priorities into actionable roadmaps, and influence decision-making across the organization.

You will champion reliability, investment prioritization, and trade-off analyses to connect strategy with execution.