Strategic Advisor

General Dynamics Information Technology•Falls Church, VA

2d•$225,250 - $304,750•Hybrid

About The Position

The Strategic Advisor is a senior partner to the business area leadership team, responsible for shaping strategic direction, enabling growth, strengthening operational excellence, and ensuring cohesive execution across the portfolio. This role provides forward-looking insight, strategic counsel, and enterprise awareness to help the business area anticipate mission needs, align capabilities, and position teams for long-term success. The Advisor serves as the connective tissue across strategy, growth, delivery, and modernization — enabling the business area to operate with clarity, alignment, and agility in a fast-evolving mission landscape.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in strategy, operational leadership and complex program environments.
Demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders, operate in ambiguity, and influence across organizational boundaries.
Strong understanding of federal mission environments and enterprise strategy constructs.
Excellent communication, relationship-building, and strategic analysis skills.
US citizenship
Able to hold TS/Q level clearance

Nice To Haves

New Market Expansion
Strategic Analysis
Strategic Direction
Strategic Growth

Responsibilities

Partner directly with business area leaders to develop, refine, and operationalize strategic priorities and multi‑year plans.
Maintain a forward-looking perspective on mission trends, customer direction, market dynamics, and enterprise initiatives.
Bring structured thinking to ambiguous challenges, providing leadership with clear recommendations and strategic options.
Support alignment to enterprise strategy frameworks such as VIA — Vision, Innovation, Acceleration — ensuring the business area is positioned for future growth.
Identify new growth pathways across the business area by analyzing mission demand signals, technology trends, and customer needs.
Strengthen customer intimacy through strategic engagement planning, understanding key drivers, and supporting senior-level relationship strategies.
Partner with Growth and BD teams to ensure strategic pursuits reflect business area priorities, mission alignment, and capability strengths — without serving as a capture lead.
Surface opportunities for organic growth (new scope, modernization expansions, capability repositioning) within existing programs and accounts.
Provide advisory support on improving delivery governance, risk awareness, performance management, and cross‑program alignment across the business area.
Promote consistent operational frameworks, customer engagement discipline, and high-quality execution aligned with GDIT’s Program Delivery standards.
Support leaders in solving operational challenges by connecting insights across programs, functions, and technical domains.
Champion value‑creating behaviors such as customer intimacy, mission alignment, delivery excellence, and innovation.
Connect business area priorities to enterprise initiatives, Centers of Excellence (COEs), growth campaigns, digital accelerators, and technology investments.
Serve as the integrator across the business area, ensuring strategy, growth, and delivery teams operate with shared awareness and coordinated execution.
Translate enterprise strategy into actionable guidance for the business area and ensure alignment to mission campaigns and strategic growth vectors.
Prepare and deliver executive-ready insights, strategy briefs, and recommendations for business area leaders.
Facilitate leadership discussions by providing context, decision-support analysis, and synthesis of complex information.
Represent the business area in enterprise strategy forums, mission campaign discussions, and cross-division coordination sessions.