VP - Strategic Planning

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital•Memphis, TN

21h•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. Working directly with the CEO and senior leaders, the VP shapes how ALSAC anticipates change, scales impact, and sustains its leadership in philanthropic impact. The role develops and oversees strategic goals, integrating divisional and market perspectives to advance growth and operational excellence in alignment with ALSAC’s mission, vision, and evolving business conditions. The VP serves as a principal strategic advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, providing analysis, recommendations, and guidance on strategic decisions and potential pivots. This leader assesses market conditions, industry trends, competitive dynamics, emerging disruptions, and AI developments, translating insights into enterprise implications and choices. The role also advises business units on performance and strategic challenges. The position partners across divisions and with external thought leaders, research teams, and futurists to identify opportunities and shape enterprise decisions. It identifies and incubates new business opportunities, builds business cases, leads innovation efforts, and partners with divisions to test, launch, scale, or discontinue initiatives. The VP guides resource prioritization and monitors strategic projects, performance metrics, and progress toward organizational priorities. The role also fosters strategic thinking, innovation, agility, and continuous improvement; supports communications about organizational strategy; and represents ALSAC at high-level meetings. This position is based at ALSAC’s Executive Office in Memphis, Tennessee. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates outside the Memphis area.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
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 into actionable strategies that drive measurable impact.
Proven record of driving enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, leading cross-functional teams through influence, and delivering transformational outcomes.
Extensive knowledge of industry trends, market dynamics, and strategic planning methodologies.
Demonstrated proficiency applying AI in the workplace, including practical 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 AI-related data privacy, security, bias, accuracy, regulatory, and ethical risks and translate them into strategy, governance, and responsible-use guidance.

Nice To Haves

Consulting or corporate strategy background.
Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent).

Responsibilities

Serve as the principal advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic matters, providing updates and recommendations for strategic pivots.
Lead with influence in a matrixed environment and model collaborative, inclusive leadership.
Maintain a fact-based view of market conditions, industry trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging disruptions; conduct competitive teardowns and translate external intelligence into enterprise implications and choices.
Advise existing business units on performance, assumptions, and strategic problems.
Use AI to advance strategic work, monitor trends, updates, and risks, and guide responsible enterprise adoption to strengthen strategy, decision-making, and mission impact.
Partner with executive leaders 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 create sustainable growth.
Build business cases for new initiatives, defining market opportunity, investment requirements, 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 opportunities.
Track and report progress on prioritized projects across the organization, surfacing risks, dependencies, and needed course corrections.
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 that foster 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

Low-cost, low-deductible medical coverage.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
401(k) retirement plan with 7% employer contribution.
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.