TMG - VP, Strategic Initiatives

The Miles Group

3d•$160,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

The VP, Strategic Initiatives supports TMG’s leadership team – comprising the Managing Partner, Head of Client Strategy, Head of Growth, and Head of Talent – by ensuring day-to-day execution, follow-through, and communication on strategic priorities. The role focuses on execution rigor – developing executive-ready materials, tracking key issues, coordinating across functions, and summarizing complex topics into concise insights for awareness and decision support. This role delivers hands-on, tactical execution support, driving change management to free up the leadership team’s time and attention for high-impact strategic and client work.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
6-8 years of experience as a VP, Strategic Initiatives, strategy consultant, or executive projects manager in a high-performance professional services setting such as consulting, investment banking, PE, corporate strategy, or a similarly rigorous, fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated success collaborating directly with senior executives and driving cross-functional initiatives.
Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, including executive-level presentation development and data analysis.
Expertise in producing status reports, program updates, and executive dashboards.
Demonstrates exceptional judgment and ability to make sound decisions.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, incomplete information, and evolving priorities.
Maintains confidentiality, integrity, and resilience in handling sensitive information and stakeholder interactions.
Anticipates issues before they surface and proactively identifies potential challenges.
Proven record of project management, tracking, prioritization, and follow-through.
Effectively manages multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
Self-starter mentality with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
Superior written and verbal communication skills, including storytelling in PowerPoint.
Translates complex or ambiguous information into clear, concise, and actionable guidance.
Write and edits executive-level communications.
Synthesizes complex issues into clear options, insights, and actionable recommendations.
Exceptional understanding of business operations, performance metrics, and financial concepts.
Demonstrates strong EQ, executive presence, and stakeholder credibility.
Ability to influence without authority, building strong, trust-based relationships across all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

advanced degree (e.g., MBA) a plus

Responsibilities

Develop, edit, and manage high-quality presentations, dashboards, and briefing materials for recurring leadership meetings, forums, and strategic projects.
Produce polished presentations and reports that require minimal revision and consistently meet executive-level standards.
Translate complex operational and financial information into clear, concise summaries or reports that tell a story.
Ensure all materials are accurate, well-structured, and aligned with the leadership team’s priorities.
Ensure that leadership team is consistently prepared, well-informed, and proactively aware of upcoming issues and priorities.
Draft and manage internal communications on behalf of the leadership team, including firmwide messaging and communications to senior stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and consistency.
Track and manage key projects, actions, deadlines, commitments, and open issues to ensure follow-through and prevent critical items from being overlooked.
Proactively flag delays, dependencies, risks, and items requiring escalation.
Coordinate updates across multiple stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate information flow.
Provide project-management support for strategic firm projects, including milestone tracking, tracker management, status reporting, and risk and dependency identification.
Ensure initiatives remain aligned with leadership intent, expectations, and timelines, translating strategic projects into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
Triage priorities and manage competing demands to keep the leadership team focused on the highest-impact activities; partner closely with Administrative Business Partners to optimize calendars and follow-ups.
Lead change management efforts for key firm initiatives, including stakeholder alignment, communication planning, and adoption tracking to ensure new processes and priorities take hold.
Maintain visibility into performance metrics and progress against key priorities.
Analyze operational and financial data to surface trends, risks, and opportunities that inform leadership decisions.
Build and maintain reporting tools and dashboards that keep the leadership team consistently prepared, well-informed, and proactively aware of upcoming issues and priorities.
Own agenda development, pre-read preparation, content development (including PowerPoint decks) for the firm’s leadership meetings, annual offsite, and Town Halls, partnering with the Administrative Business Partner team on schedule and logistical coordination.
Capture and distribute clear, well-structured meeting notes with ownership and next steps.
Standardize operating rhythms, templates, and reporting formats to improve consistency and efficiency across the firm’s cadence.
Serve as a coordination point across teams for leadership requests, information needs, and updates.
Ensure information flows efficiently, accurately, and consistently across the firm.
Build and maintain strong working relationships with leaders and stakeholders at TMG and throughout Council Advisors.