Strategic Alignment Consultant for Growth & Implementation

Paycom - ATS; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Paycom - ATS is seeking a Senior Strategic Alignment Consultant to extend strategic frameworks and decision-readiness standards across the institution. You will work with functional leaders to operationalize strategy and shepherd ideas through the R&D pipeline, acting as a trusted advisor and hands-on partner to translate frameworks into practical guidance.

You will equip leaders with strategic thinking tools, build planning templates, and co-develop function-level plans while monitoring pilot

Qualifications

• Master's degree in organizational development, business, education, or related field.
• 5 to 7+ years of experience in strategy, organizational planning, innovation, consulting, or institutional effectiveness.
• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders without formal authority.
• Strong facilitation skills; comfortable running working sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of business case development, ROI framing, and decision-readiness criteria.
• Experience in highly regulated academic or healthcare environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Equip Functional Leaders with strategic thinking tools to frame problems and connect work to institutional strategy.
• Build tools and templates for strategic planning and decision-readiness.
• Partner on active strategic initiatives to embed frameworks into work.
• Translate strategy into actionable plans for each function during planning cycles.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies and surface gaps for resolution.
• Manage day-to-day operation of the innovation lifecycle from idea to enterprise adoption.
• Document pilot learnings and feed into enterprise planning.

Skills

Influence without authority

Facilitation

Strategic thinking

ROI framing

Decision-readiness criteria

Strategic communication

Education

Master's degree in organizational development, business, education, or related field

Tools

Strategic planning templates

Job description

Paycom - ATS is seeking a Senior Strategic Alignment Consultant to extend strategic frameworks and decision-readiness standards across the institution. You will work with functional leaders to operationalize strategy and shepherd ideas through the R&D pipeline, acting as a trusted advisor and hands-on partner to translate frameworks into practical guidance.

You will equip leaders with strategic thinking tools, build planning templates, and co-develop function-level plans while monitoring pilot