Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy Execution & Integration

IEEE•Piscataway, NJ

23h

About The Position

The Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy Execution & Integration serves as the Chief of Staff's primary partner for enterprise strategy stewardship, execution oversight, and cross-organizational integration. Reporting directly to the Chief of Staff, this role ensures that IEEE's strategic plan, Board and presidential direction, and innovation investments are translated into coordinated, disciplined execution across the organization. This role combines enterprise strategy stewardship with execution integration. It maintains the integrity of the strategic plan while ensuring that priorities are actionable, sequenced appropriately, and aligned across organizational units. The position operates with delegated authority from the Chief of Staff and serves as the central integrator across strategy, innovation, governance, and execution. The role does not own delivery within organizational units. Its purpose is to ensure alignment, clarity, accountability, and follow-through at the enterprise level. Core Purpose To ensure IEEE's strategy, Board direction, and innovation investments are coherent, prioritized, measurable, and executed effectively across the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
15+ years of experience in enterprise strategy, execution oversight, governance, or complex organizational leadership
Demonstrated success operating in highly matrixed, federated environments without direct authority
Strong experience supporting Boards and senior volunteer leadership
Proven ability to translate strategy into execution and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders
Experience integrating cross-cutting initiatives, including innovation or new program development
Exceptional judgment, credibility, and ability to navigate organizational complexity
Strong balance of strategic thinking and disciplined execution

Nice To Haves

Master's or other advanced degree
MBA, MPA, or other relevant master's degree
Prosci Change Management

Responsibilities

Provide staff leadership for the enterprise strategic planning process, including development, refresh cycles, and long-range planning
Maintain the integrity, relevance, and usability of the strategic plan, including goals, priorities, and success measures
Ensure strategy is responsive to external trends, organizational performance, and Board direction
Serve as the primary staff liaison to Board-level strategy and alignment committees
Translate Board intent, resolutions, and guidance into clear enterprise priorities and execution expectations
Support governance bodies with strategy materials, insights, and progress reporting
Translate enterprise strategy and presidential priorities into executable plans, milestones, and success measures
Establish and oversee enterprise dashboards, performance tracking, and reporting mechanisms
Monitor execution progress, identify risks and misalignment, and surface tradeoffs requiring leadership attention
Ensure initiatives are sequenced appropriately relative to organizational capacity and dependencies
Serve as the enterprise integrator across organizational units, strategy, innovation, and presidential priorities
Facilitate alignment across competing priorities, dependencies, and resource constraints
Reduce duplication, execution friction, and fragmentation across the organization
Promote a shared understanding of enterprise priorities and One IEEE objectives
Provide enterprise-level integration and governance support for innovation activities, ensuring alignment to strategy
Partner with Innovation leadership to ensure clear criteria for advancing, pausing, or stopping initiatives
Ensure innovation efforts transition into execution pathways within organizational units, not isolated pilots
Provide staff leadership for strategy, alignment, and innovation-related committees as execution oriented bodies
Ensure clear workplans, deliverables, and accountability mechanisms
Translate committee outputs into coordinated enterprise action
Lead enterprise approaches to change management, including readiness, adoption, and sustained follow-through
Maintain execution momentum across leadership transitions, presidential cycles, and competing priorities
Support senior leaders in navigating execution challenges without assuming ownership of their domains
Lead execution of cross-cutting initiatives commissioned by the Board or President
Translate direction into structured plans and ensure follow-through beyond initial approval
Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief of Staff, Presidents, and senior leadership
Provide candid assessments of execution gaps, risks, and organizational dynamics
Integrate insights from strategy, governance, and execution performance to inform decision-making
Oversee strategy, planning, and integration functions, ensuring clarity of roles and high-quality outputs
Establish standards, expectations, and operating discipline across the strategy execution function