Strategy & Foresights Advisor

The Strategy and Foresight Advisor plays a critical role in shaping the organization's long-term direction and ensuring sustained competitive advantage. This role supports the development, articulation, and execution of both enterprise-wide and functional strategies and plans. It integrates data-driven insights with forward-looking perspectives to help the organization proactively respond to emerging trends, risks, and opportunities. By leveraging competitive intelligence, financial analysis, market research, and industry trends, this function develops robust strategic narratives and scenario-based planning frameworks. These insights enable leadership to make informed decisions and position the organization effectively in a rapidly evolving environment. In addition, this role ensures that strategy is clearly and consistently communicated across the enterprise, aligning stakeholders at all levels around priorities, decisions, and change initiatives. It promotes a culture of alignment, discipline, and forward-thinking, ensuring that strategic intent is translated into coordinated action across the organization. What You'll be Doing: • Lead the development, refinement, and communication of enterprise and business unit strategies. Translate high-level organizational objectives into actionable, measurable plans that drive growth, efficiency, and long-term value creation. • Articulate the organization's strategy clearly and consistently across the enterprise to ensure shared understanding and alignment. Develop and reinforce cohesive messaging that connects strategic priorities to business actions, enabling leaders and teams to understand their role in delivering on strategy and achieving organizational outcomes. • Partner closely with business units and functional teams to ensure that operational plans, initiatives, and resource allocations are aligned with strategic priorities. Facilitate alignment workshops and governance processes to maintain consistency and accountability across the organization. • Apply strategic foresight methodologies-including environmental scanning, trend analysis, and scenario planning-to anticipate future market conditions. Develop and maintain dynamic scenarios that inform risk management, opportunity identification, and strategic decision-making. • Gather and synthesize market intelligence, customer insights, and competitive analysis to identify emerging trends, disruptions, and growth opportunities. Provide actionable recommendations to leadership based on data-driven insights. • Establish metrics and tracking mechanisms to monitor the effectiveness of strategic initiatives. Continuously refine strategies and plans based on performance outcomes, changing conditions, and new insights. • Monitor and evaluate enterprise performance, providing actionable insights for improvement to strategy & execution practices. What you Bring: Education: • A bachelor's degree preferably in business administration, finance, economics, or a related field is required. Experience: • 6-8 years of progressive experience in strategic planning, market research, corporate strategy, strategic communications, or a related discipline is required. • Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data Why Servus? Working for Servus has outstanding benefits. In addition to standard benefits like health and wellness, vacation and retirement savings programs, we also provide other important benefits such as: • Competitive compensation including performance-based incentive pay and profit share • Training & Development Opportunities • Career Advancement Potential • Flexible work options • Meaningful work towards individual and corporate goals • Opportunities to get involved and give back through an employee volunteer program At Servus, our employees are also members. This means you'll have all the benefits of being a member of the credit union including profit sharing, voting for the board of directors, and all of the financial services we provide...with a few additional perks! What happens next? We thank all applicants for their interest. Please note applications will only be accepted online and only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.