Strategic Insights and Execution Senior Manager (E5482)

IEEE•Piscataway, NJ

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategy Execution, Alignment & Innovation Senior Manager supports enterprise strategy stewardship, innovation integration, cross-organizational alignment, strategic insight development, and execution coordination across IEEE. Reporting to the Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy Execution & Alignment, this role serves as a strategic execution and integration partner, helping translate enterprise priorities, Board direction, presidential initiatives, innovation activities, and committee outputs into coordinated workstreams, actionable plans, and sustained organizational follow-through. The role combines strategic thinking, synthesis, enterprise coordination, and execution support. It helps connect external trends, organizational insights, foresight activities, governance discussions, and innovation initiatives into integrated planning and enterprise execution activities. The position supports development of strategic materials, framing discussions, environmental scanning, and synthesis activities that inform Board-level deliberation, committee work, and executive decision-making. This role operates between enterprise strategy leadership and operational coordination, helping ensure that strategic direction is translated into structured execution, aligned stakeholder engagement, integrated planning, and enterprise continuity across organizational units. The position supports integration across strategy, governance, innovation, presidential initiatives, and enterprise execution activities within a complex, federated organization. The role requires strong strategic thinking, organizational awareness, relationship management, facilitation, research synthesis, and execution discipline. The position works closely with senior staff, Board-level committees, volunteers, consultants, and cross-functional stakeholders to support enterprise alignment, initiative continuity, informed decision-making, and coordinated action. The role does not own delivery within organizational units. Its purpose is to strengthen alignment, integration, visibility, execution continuity, and enterprise follow-through across IEEE.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
7-10 years of experience in enterprise strategy, strategic planning, governance support, organizational development, program management, or related fields.
7-10 years Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed, volunteer-driven, or federated organizations.
Strong strategic thinking, facilitation, synthesis, organizational coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience supporting executive leadership, Board-level committees, governance bodies, or enterprise strategic initiatives.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive-level materials and presentations.
Ability to translate strategic concepts into structured workplans, coordinated execution activities, and practical organizational follow-through.
Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, organizational dynamics, and cross-functional stakeholder environments.
Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across staff, volunteer, and leadership groups.
Individuals currently serving on an IEEE board or committee are not eligible to apply.
This position is not budgeted for employer-sponsored immigration support, this includes all persons in F (both CPT and OPT), J, H, L, or O status.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting change management, enterprise alignment, or cross-organizational coordination initiatives preferred.
Comfort using AI-enabled tools for synthesis, analysis, workflow efficiency, and strategic support consistent with organizational guardrails.

Responsibilities

Support translation of enterprise strategic priorities, Board direction, and presidential initiatives into structured work plans, timelines, milestones, and coordinated execution activities.
Assist in aligning cross-organizational initiatives by identifying dependencies, overlaps, sequencing considerations, and execution risks across enterprise efforts.
Support alignment and coordination between enterprise strategy, innovation, and cross-organizational initiatives to strengthen enterprise execution and organizational learning.
Assist in connecting strategic planning, foresight activities, innovation efforts, and presidential priorities into integrated enterprise workstreams and decision-making processes.
Help identify pathways for transitioning innovation concepts and initiatives into sustainable enterprise execution structures.
Support enterprise strategic planning, refresh cycles, and long-range planning activities, including integration of organizational unit inputs into enterprise strategy discussions.
Contribute to development and maintenance of enterprise execution frameworks, governance structures, accountability mechanisms, and operational rhythms supporting strategy implementation.
Support enterprise integration of presidential initiatives, innovation efforts, and cross-organizational priorities to ensure alignment with strategic direction, organizational readiness, and operational realities.
Assist in identifying dependencies, overlaps, and transition pathways needed to move strategic initiatives from concept development into sustainable execution structures across IEEE.
Provide strategic and operational support for Board-level, presidential, and enterprise committees related to strategy, alignment, innovation, and future-focused initiatives.
Develop agendas, framing materials, summaries, workplans, briefing materials, and follow-through mechanisms that support informed discussion and actionable outcomes.
Help ensure committees operate as execution-oriented working bodies with clear deliverables, timelines, accountability structures, and coordinated follow-through.
Translate committee discussions, Board guidance, and strategic direction into integrated next steps and enterprise actions.
Support coordination and follow-through across strategy, innovation, and future-focused committees to improve visibility, reduce fragmentation, and strengthen enterprise alignment.
Support continuity of committee work and enterprise priorities across presidential cycles, leadership transitions, and evolving strategic direction.
Support environmental scanning, research synthesis, and development of strategic materials informing Board, committee, and executive discussions.
Prepare concise, decision-oriented summaries, presentations, dashboards, reports, and integrated updates for enterprise stakeholders.
Translate complex discussions, research findings, strategic concepts, and stakeholder inputs into clear, actionable communication materials.
Assist in connecting external trends, organizational performance insights, foresight activities, and operational considerations into enterprise planning discussions.
Monitor progress across assigned initiatives and workstreams, helping identify risks, gaps, dependencies, tradeoffs, and escalation needs.
Support enterprise reporting, dashboards, status updates, and performance tracking activities aligned to strategic priorities and enterprise goals.
Assist leadership in maintaining alignment, execution momentum, and visibility across enterprise strategy and innovation activities.
Support sequencing and prioritization discussions relative to organizational capacity, dependencies, and competing enterprise priorities.