VP - Strategic Planning

American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities; Memphis (TN); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness arm for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, seeks a Vice President of Strategic Planning to translate mission-driven ambition into measurable growth and innovation.

This leader will partner with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to set enterprise vision, drive initiatives, and foster cross-functional collaboration across divisions. You will oversee strategy development, performance metrics, and external partnerships, guiding the organization through

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of leadership in strategic planning, business development, or related executive roles.
• MBA or equivalent preferred.
• Consulting or Corporate Strategy background preferred.
• Visionary, strategic leader with proven ability to influence at the CEO/ELT level.

Aufgaben

• Advise the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic matters with regular updates and recommendations.
• Lead enterprise strategy and long-term growth across divisions.
• Identify, evaluate, and incubate new business opportunities to extend mission impact.
• Guide AI adoption in strategy and decision-making while monitoring risks.
• Track progress of prioritized initiatives and surface risks to leadership.

Kenntnisse

Strategic leadership

Executive advisory

AI in strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

MBA or equivalent

Tools

AI tools experience

Jobbeschreibung

At ALSAC you do more than make a living; you make a difference.

We like people who are different...because we're different, too. As one of the world's most iconic and respected nonprofits, we know what it's like to stand out. That's why we're looking at you. Your background, perspective, and desire to make an impact set you apart. As we work to help St. Jude cure childhood cancer, we're calling on the game-changers, innovators and visionaries to join our family. Not just for the kids of St. Jude, but also for you. Because at ALSAC, we develop and celebrate our employees. So, bring your whole, authentic self and become part of our shared mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®

As a key architect of ALSAC's future, the Vice President, Strategic Planning guides enterprise vision and long-term strategy, translating mission-driven ambition into measurable growth and innovation.

Partnering directly with the CEO and senior leaders, this leader will shape how ALSAC anticipates change, scales impact and ensures ALSAC remains a leader in philanthropic impact.

The Vice President will develop and oversee strategic goals, integrating divisional and market perspectives for growth and operational excellence while ensuring alignment with our mission, vision, and evolving business conditions.

Essential Functions

Enterprise Strategy Leadership

• Serve as the principal advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic matters, providing regular updates and recommendations for strategic pivots.
• Lead with influence in a matrixed environment, modeling collaborative and inclusive leadership.
• Serve as the organization's chief strategic analyst, maintaining a clear, fact-based view of market conditions, industry trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging disruptions; conduct competitive teardowns and translate external intelligence into implications and choices for the enterprise.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to existing business units, helping leaders assess performance, challenge assumptions, and solve strategic problems.
• Leverage AI to advance strategic work, staying ahead of AI trends, updates, and risks, and guiding the enterprise in responsibly adopting AI to strengthen strategy, decision-making, and mission impact.

Cross-Functional & External Partnerships

• Partner with executive leaders across all Divisions to cascade strategic opportunities and initiatives, ensuring alignment and integration in all critical areas.
• Guide strategies that drive specific programs or projects, mobilizing cross-functional teams to achieve transformational outcomes.
• Work in partnership with CEO and ELT to engage with external thought leaders, research teams, and futurists to identify critical trends and insights that shape enterprise strategy and inform key business decisions
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• Identify, evaluate, and incubate new business opportunities, including new products, programs, partnerships, and ventures, that extend ALSAC's mission impact and create sustainable growth.
• Build business cases for new initiatives, defining market opportunity, investment requirements, risks, success metrics, and expected return, and bring clear recommendations to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
• Lead an enterprise innovation agenda, scanning emerging technologies, including AI, and market shifts, and piloting new ideas with Divisions to test, learn, and scale what works.
• Partner with Divisions to move validated opportunities from concept to launch, establishing stage-gate criteria and clear ownership for scaling or sunsetting efforts.
• Guide the prioritization of enterprise resources, including funding, talent, and technology, toward the highest-value strategic initiatives and new business opportunities.
• Track and report on the progress of prioritized projects across the breadth of the organization, surfacing risks, dependencies, and needed course corrections to leadership.

Organizational Performance

• Establish and track performance metrics and progress toward annual priorities, and position ALSAC for long-term success
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of existing strategies, making data-driven adjustments to ensure continued growth, profitability, and mission fulfillment
• Guide teams in developing and implementing strategic thinking and processes that push the enterprise forward, fostering a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous improvement

Strategic Communications & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner on the development of communications related to the organization's strategy, ensuring consistent messaging to internal and external stakeholders.
• Represent the organization at high-level meetings to advance strategic objectives.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• Consulting or Corporate Strategy background preferred
• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of progressive leadership experience in strategic planning, business development, or related executive roles; Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.
• Visionary, strategic leader with a proven abil