Overview

The Strategic Advisor is a high-impact, individual contributor role designed to amplify the executive's effectiveness. This role serves as a primary liaison, project lead, and strategic thought partner, ensuring that executive vision is translated into operational reality. As a deep operational partner, the advisor identifies and removes friction points across the organization. The position drives cross-functional synchronization and manages the connective tissue between various business units and the executive suite. Success is measured by the seamless functioning of the organization and the execution of high-priority strategic initiatives.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the Chief Executive in defining and tracking the progress of the company's operational roadmap and high-priority corporate objectives.
• Lead critical business projects and cross-functional initiatives that do not yet have a permanent home within the existing organizational structure.
• Monitor core operational and financial metrics to provide the Chief Executive with actionable insights regarding business performance and efficiency gaps.
• Act as the primary point of contact between the Chief Executive and department heads to ensure operational alignment and eliminate organizational silos.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in cross-departmental workflows before they require the Chief Executive's direct intervention.
• Facilitate operational leadership meetings, ensuring agendas focus on high-leverage topics and that action items are executed with rigor.
• Prepare comprehensive executive briefings, presentations, and decision frameworks for Board and Executive Committee sessions.
• Draft internal operational communications and operational updates to ensure the Chief Executive's strategic priorities are clearly understood across the workforce.
• Conduct deep-dive market and internal research to support complex decisions regarding scaling, outsourcing, or technology investments.

Candidate Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a business or technical field; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in management consulting, business operations, or a high-growth corporate strategy role.
• Deep understanding of business processes, supply chain, or service delivery models. You should be comfortable discussing "the plumbing" of a business. Field experience is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to take massive amounts of disparate data and distill it into a coherent narrative for executive decision-making.
• Exceptional ability to navigate company politics and build trust with diverse stakeholders without having formal authority over them.
• Success is measured by the success of the COO and the seamless functioning of the organization.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential function to this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Incumbent must be prepared to:

• Move up to 10 pounds occasionally, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects.
• Sitting for long periods of time while using office equipment such as computers, phones and etc.
• Performing repetitive motions involving the wrists, hands, and fingers, such as typing, picking, and pinching, within your regular work environment.
• Express or exchange ideas with others through the use of spoken word, quickly, accurately, and at an easily audible volume, and receive detailed information through oral communication at usual speaking levels without correction, and/or make fine discriminations in the nature of sounds in the environment.

Incumbent is required to have:

• Near-range visual acuity for detailed tasks and ability to perform activities with precision such as analyzing data, viewing computer screens or reading extensively.

Incumbent will be subject to:

• Inside working conditions: The change of building environment such as with or without air conditioning and heating.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by colleagues assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of colleagues so classified. All colleagues may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.