Strategic Growth Architect — Enterprise Strategy Leader

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group); Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 207,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) is seeking a Senior Director of Corporate Strategy to lead enterprise-wide initiatives and partner with the Executive Committee. The role focuses on shaping multi-year strategy, leveraging analytics, and delivering actionable recommendations to drive growth and value across a $5B+ global business.

The candidate will influence across functions, sponsor strategic engagements, and mentor strategy talent while communicating complex topics to senior leaders with impact.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience in Corporate Strategy, management consulting, strategic finance, business operations, product strategy, or a related field, including significant experience leading enterprise-level strategic work.
• Experience in enterprise software, SaaS, HCM, workforce management, AI-enabled software, or an adjacent technology market.
• MBA or other relevant graduate degree preferred.
• Proven ability to advise C-suite or senior executive leaders on complex, ambiguous, and cross-functional business decisions.
• Demonstrated ownership of major strategy engagements from problem definition and analytical design through executive recommendation, alignment, and activation.
• Exceptional business judgment and commercial acumen, with the ability to connect market, customer, product, operational, and financial dynamics.
• Advanced quantitative and analytical capabilities, including experience overseeing complex market sizing, scenario analysis, business cases, financial modeling, primary research, and synthesis of large or imperfect data sets.
• Outstanding executive communication skills, including strategic storylining, concise writing, distinctive presentation development, and confident facilitation of senior-level discussions.
• Track record of influencing without direct authority and building trusted relationships across functions, geographies, and organizational levels.
• Demonstrated people leadership, including coaching and developing high-performing teams and setting a consistently high bar for quality and impact.
• Leadership style that combines low ego with high standards: intellectually curious, candid, collaborative, resilient, and focused on enterprise outcomes over individual credit.
• Comfort operating as a player-coach - able to move seamlessly between executive-level synthesis, hands-on problem solving, and team development.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and strong ownership orientation; energized by unstructured problems and able to create clarity amid uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise strategy and strategic planning. Shape UKG's enterprise strategy and multi-year strategic agenda; translate market, customer, product, financial, and competitive insights into clear choices, priorities, and resource implications.
• Executive advisory. Serve as a trusted thought partner to the Executive Committee and functional leaders, bringing structured problem solving, independent perspective, and well-reasoned recommendations to ambiguous or high-stakes issues.
• Strategic initiative leadership. Sponsor and lead cross-functional strategy engagements across market entry, product and portfolio strategy, operating model, growth acceleration, strategic alliances, and other enterprise priorities.
• Value creation. Identify, size, prioritize, and help activate opportunities to accelerate growth, improve competitive position, expand margins, or strengthen long-term enterprise value.
• Decision framing and analytics. Set the analytical approach for complex strategic questions, including hypotheses, decision frameworks, market sizing, scenario modeling, business cases, primary research, and synthesis of imperfect data.
• Enterprise alignment and influence. Build coalitions across functions and levels, reconcile competing perspectives, and create the clarity and momentum required to move from recommendation to decision and execution.
• Executive communication. Distill complex issues into compelling narratives and board- or executive-ready materials that focus leaders on the decisions, tradeoffs, and actions that matter most.
• External perspective. Represent Corporate Strategy in selected industry, customer, partner, and market forums to strengthen UKG's outside-in perspective and strategic network.
• Team and talent leadership. Lead, coach, and develop strategy talent; raise the bar for problem solving, executive communication, and quality of output; create an inclusive, high-accountability team environment.

Skills

Enterprise strategy

Executive advisory

Strategic leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication with executives

Problem solving

Influence without authority

Team leadership

Commercial acumen

Strategic thinking

Education

MBA or related graduate degree

Job description

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) is seeking a Senior Director of Corporate Strategy to lead enterprise-wide initiatives and partner with the Executive Committee. The role focuses on shaping multi-year strategy, leveraging analytics, and delivering actionable recommendations to drive growth and value across a $5B+ global business.

The candidate will influence across functions, sponsor strategic engagements, and mentor strategy talent while communicating complex topics to senior leaders with impact.