Director, Corporate Strategy

ADP • Roseland, NJ

23h

About The Position

ADP is hiring a Director, Corporate Strategy to help shape and advance the company’s enterprise priorities. Working with leaders across the business, the role supports enterprise strategic planning, evaluates growth opportunities, and advances high-priority initiatives to accelerate growth, strengthen competitive advantage, and create long-term value. This highly visible position involves solving complex business challenges, leading high-impact projects, and influencing decisions through analysis and sound business judgment.

The Director partners with stakeholders across the organization to develop recommendations, create executive-level communications, and move initiatives forward. The role balances multiple enterprise priorities and helps executives make informed decisions about the future direction of the business. Success requires strong problem-solving and executive communication skills, the ability to navigate ambiguity, and the ability to build cross-functional alignment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of strategy experience, including 3+ years at a top-tier strategy consulting firm at Consultant/Associate level or above, or in an enterprise corporate strategy team.
• 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 developing 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, building decision-support models, and applying sound business judgment.
• 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 and/or supporting the 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 through analysis of 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 can 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.
• Run 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