Director, Corporate Strategy

ADP • Roseland, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As Director, Corporate Strategy at ADP, you will help shape and advance the company’s most important enterprise priorities. Working closely with leaders across the business, you will contribute to enterprise strategic planning, evaluate growth opportunities, and advance high-priority initiatives designed to accelerate growth, strengthen competitive advantage, and create long-term value.

This is a highly visible role focused on solving complex business challenges, leading high-impact projects, and influencing decisions through data, analysis, and sound business judgment. You will partner with stakeholders across the organization to develop recommendations, prepare executive-level communications, and move initiatives forward. The role requires navigating ambiguity, building cross-functional alignment, balancing multiple priorities, and helping executives make informed decisions about the future direction of the business.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of strategy experience, including at least 3 years at a top-tier strategy consulting firm at Consultant/Associate level or above, or on an enterprise corporate strategy team.
• A track record of owning workstreams end to end and developing recommendations for executives.
• Experience driving enterprise strategy, strategic planning, growth initiatives, and cross-functional business priorities in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Experience evaluating markets, competitors, customers, and business performance to identify opportunities and inform decisions.
• Ability to solve complex business challenges through structured analysis, sound business judgment, and actionable recommendations.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to develop presentations, business cases, and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority, build alignment across diverse groups, and drive initiatives forward.
• Strong analytical skills, including evaluating opportunities, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and building decision-support models.
• Ability to synthesize input from various stakeholders into a clear, defensible point of view.
• Fluency with AI tools in your own work and curiosity about how AI is reshaping software and service business models.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within or supporting business services, enterprise software, human capital management, or other technology-enabled services industries.
• MBA and/or advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Partner with executive leadership to shape ADP’s enterprise strategic agenda and drive high-priority initiatives across the company.
• Lead key components of ADP’s annual strategic planning process, including strategic assessment, priority setting, and executive alignment.
• Identify and evaluate enterprise growth opportunities by analyzing markets, competitors, customers, and internal performance.
• Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives from opportunity assessment through recommendation, execution planning, and implementation support.
• Assess potential partnership, alliance, and inorganic growth opportunities that could strengthen ADP’s strategic position and expand its portfolio.
• Build models, analyses, executive-level presentations, and business cases from scratch to support decision-making by senior leadership, the Executive Committee, and the Board.
• Manage Executive Committee follow-through, including decision memos, action tracking, and communication with initiative owners.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director