Senior Strategy Business Partner

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)•Carmel, IN

9d•$157,000 - $182,000•Onsite

About The Position

This role strengthens how MISO executes strategy, ensuring business-area plans are clear, aligned, and tightly connected to corporate objectives. You’ll help leaders navigate complexity, integrate cross-functional priorities, and mature planning processes that advance MISO’s enterprise goals. If you thrive at building alignment, influencing without authority, and translating strategy into action, we’d love to talk.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
12–14 years of relevant experience, including at least 8 years in organizational strategy, transformation, or change leadership.
Strong analytical and advisory skills; ability to distinguish signal from noise and recommend pragmatic next steps.
Experience developing aligned business-area plans and connecting them to enterprise strategy.
Skilled at asking context-rich, nuanced questions that reveal insights and enable better decisions.
Ability to embed deeply with business units, build trust, and quickly understand operational realities.
Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver executive-level narratives.
Experience with enterprise integration, strategic road-mapping, and performance measurement.

Nice To Haves

Energy industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Facilitate high-stakes cross-functional strategy discussions, alignment sessions, and leadership workshops.
Bridge top-down corporate strategy with bottom-up operational planning, guiding leaders through tradeoffs and dependencies.
Own and evolve enterprise strategy artifacts, objectives, maps, measures, and roadmaps.
Integrate departmental strategies to reveal misalignments, competing priorities, and enterprise-wide dependencies.
Lead senior-level strategic analysis of internal drivers, external trends, risks, and industry changes.
Deliver executive-ready strategic narratives that simplify complexity and clarify enterprise decisions.
Serve as a trusted advisor to business-area leaders, framing choices, interpreting performance, and identifying enterprise-level implications.
Manage and mature the enterprise strategy-management cadence, improving decision flow and integration.
Strengthen performance measures and STI metrics, linking outcomes to strategic priorities.
Provide strategic support for cross-cutting initiatives such as AI, digital transformation, and automation.