VP - Strategic Planning

ALSAC • Memphis, TN

22h • Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Strategic Planning guides ALSAC’s enterprise vision and long-term strategy, translating its mission-driven ambition into measurable growth and innovation. In partnership with the CEO and senior leaders, this executive shapes how ALSAC anticipates change, scales impact, and sustains leadership in philanthropic impact. The role develops and oversees strategic goals, integrating divisional and market perspectives to support growth and operational excellence while maintaining alignment with ALSAC’s mission, vision, and evolving business conditions.

The Vice President advises the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic matters, monitors market and industry developments, and turns external intelligence into enterprise implications and choices. The role also advises business units, advances responsible use of AI in strategic work, builds cross-functional and external partnerships, identifies and evaluates new business opportunities, and leads innovation and initiative prioritization. The position tracks organizational performance and strategic initiatives, supports strategic communications, and represents ALSAC in high-level meetings.

The position is based at ALSAC’s Executive Office in Memphis, Tennessee. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates who are not currently located in the Memphis area.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 8 years of progressive leadership experience in strategic planning, business development, or related executive roles.
• Visionary strategic leadership and the ability to anticipate and adapt to evolving markets and organizational landscapes.
• Ability to connect data, insights, and mission to actionable strategies that drive measurable impact.
• Proven ability to drive enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, lead cross-functional teams through influence, and deliver transformational outcomes.
• Extensive knowledge of industry trends, market dynamics, and strategic planning methodologies.
• Demonstrated proficiency applying AI in the workplace to advance strategic work, including hands-on use of AI tools for research, analysis, scenario modeling, and synthesis of insights, with sound judgment about reliance on AI outputs.
• Working knowledge of AI trends, product updates, and emerging capabilities, and ability to assess risks such as data privacy, security, bias, accuracy, regulatory considerations, and ethics and translate them into strategy, governance, and responsible-use guidance.

Nice To Haves

• Consulting or corporate strategy background.
• Advanced degree, such as an MBA or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Advise the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic matters and provide regular updates and recommendations for strategic pivots.
• Lead collaboratively and inclusively through influence in a matrixed environment.
• Maintain a fact-based view of market conditions, industry trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging disruptions; conduct competitive teardowns and translate external intelligence into implications and choices for the enterprise.
• Advise existing business units as they assess performance, challenge assumptions, and solve strategic problems.
• Stay current on AI trends, updates, and risks, and guide responsible enterprise adoption of AI to strengthen strategy, decision-making, and mission impact.
• Partner with executives across divisions to cascade strategic opportunities and initiatives and ensure alignment and integration.
• Guide strategies for programs and projects, mobilizing cross-functional teams to achieve transformational outcomes.
• Partner with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to engage external thought leaders, research teams, and futurists to identify trends and insights that inform enterprise strategy and business decisions.
• Identify, evaluate, and incubate new business opportunities, including products, programs, partnerships, and ventures that extend mission impact and support sustainable growth.
• Build business cases for new initiatives, defining market opportunity, investment needs, risks, success metrics, and expected return, and present recommendations to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
• Lead an enterprise innovation agenda by scanning emerging technologies and market shifts and piloting ideas with divisions.
• Partner with divisions to move validated opportunities from concept to launch, establishing stage-gate criteria and ownership for scaling or sunsetting efforts.
• Guide prioritization of enterprise resources, including funding, talent, and technology, toward high-value strategic initiatives and new business opportunities.
• Track and report progress on prioritized projects across the organization, surfacing risks, dependencies, and needed course corrections to leadership.
• Establish and track performance metrics and progress toward annual priorities, positioning ALSAC for long-term success.
• Monitor and evaluate existing strategies and make data-driven adjustments to support growth, profitability, and mission fulfillment.
• Guide teams in developing and implementing strategic thinking and processes, fostering innovation, agility, and continuous improvement.
• Partner on communications about organizational strategy to ensure consistent messaging to internal and external stakeholders.
• Represent ALSAC at high-level meetings to advance strategic objectives.

Benefits

• Core medical coverage, including low-cost, low-deductible medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 7% employer contribution.
• Exceptional paid time off.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Infertility treatment program.
• Adoption assistance.
• Education assistance.
• Enterprise learning and development.
• Relocation assistance for qualified candidates who are not currently located in the Memphis area.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive