Director, Corporate Strategy
Morgan Street Holdings•Chicago, IL
•$180,000 - $195,000•Hybrid
About The Position
The Director, Corporate Strategy helps tms achieve sustainable growth and long-term value creation by leading core elements of enterprise strategy, enabling disciplined tradeoffs, and strengthening alignment between strategy, execution, and performance. The role also ensures leadership decisions are informed by a continuously refreshed view of external trends, competitors, relevant M&A activity, and benchmarks.
Requirements
- 10–12+ years in corporate strategy, consulting, corp dev, or strategy/FP&A roles with enterprise exposure
- Demonstrated leadership in strategic planning, prioritization, and executive decision support
- Strong capability in external scanning, competitor analysis, M&A tracking, and benchmarking
- Proven ability to deliver Board-ready narratives/materials and influence senior leaders
Nice To Haves
- Experience in industries adjacent to tms (marketing services, sourcing, supply chain/packaging, loyalty/promotions)
- Exposure to M&A evaluation or integration support
Responsibilities
- Lead major workstreams within the multi‑year enterprise strategy and strategic planning process; translate strategy into objectives, value levers, and KPIs inclusive of evaluating strategic initiatives that require financial investment through a detailed return on invested capital analysis
- Own development of executive-ready strategy materials for Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Board engagement, including strategy narrative and decision framing
- Lead process to prioritize initiatives across the enterprise, enabling explicit trade-off discussions across leadership
- Work with initiative teams to develop options and recommendations to enable leadership prioritization
- Partner with Finance to embed a strategy lens in monthly performance tracking, QBRs, and Board updates
- Partner with business leads to identify and develop KPIs, and lead development of internal dashboards and reporting to senior leadership on achievement of KPIs
- Identify execution risks, misalignment, and areas requiring strategic intervention or deprioritization; drive follow-through on course corrections
- Lead trend tracking / benchmarks / competitive reviews (point in time) and translate insights into strategic implications for tms
- Track relevant industry M&A / partnerships / investment activity and connect insights to corporate development hypotheses and planning
- Support and, where appropriate, lead corporate development and special projects; act as a sounding board and escalation partner on complex strategic issues
- Define the future path for the Corporate Strategy function (scope, ways of working, and resourcing required) and scale capability over time.
- Define and evolve the operating model for the strategy function, including planning cadence, prioritization standards, and clear “definition of done” for executive-facing outputs (e.g., Board/SLT materials, external scans, benchmarking)
- Develop a resourcing plan for the function; when appropriate, hire, onboard, and lead a small team (e.g., Manager(s), Senior Analyst(s), Analyst(s))
- Coach and develop team members (as applicable) through role clarity, feedback, quality standards, and development plans; ensure increasing leverage through others over time
- Build cross-functional influence across Finance and business leaders; model effective stakeholder management and help team members navigate complex stakeholder environments
- Own vendor engagements that support Corporate Strategy priorities (e.g., benchmarking partners, market intelligence subscriptions, specialist research, or M&A/industry scan support)
- Define scope and outputs: clear problem statements, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria tied to strategic decisions (not “research for research’s sake”)
- Manage vendor performance and quality: ensure insights are practical, decision relevant, and integrated into SLT/Board narratives and planning processes
- Coordinate with Finance on spend visibility and value realization for vendor work that informs planning/performance cycles
- Ensure knowledge transfer: vendor outputs are absorbed into internal frameworks, not stranded in standalone decks
Benefits
- Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
- Paid parental and medical leave programs
- 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
- 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
- Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
- Inclusive employee resource groups
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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