Enterprise Strategy & Planning Lead - IT Strategy - IT/Consulting

The Enterprise Strategy and Planning Lead drives IT strategy and enterprise planning through strong partnership with business leaders. This role focuses on strategic alignment, portfolio planning, and facilitation, ensuring technology investments support business priorities and long-term objectives.

As a trusted advisor and connector between business and IT, the role translates business strategy into clear technological direction, designs and leads enterprise planning programs, and enables informed, executive-level decision-making without a focus on hands-on technical execution.

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain enterprise technology and capability roadmaps.

- Align IT initiatives with business objectives and corporate strategy.

- Drive enterprise IT strategy and planning efforts that align technology investments with business priorities and long-term corporate objectives.

- Design and facilitate annual and quarterly planning cycles, ensuring alignment across business and IT leaders and clarity on priorities, outcomes, and investment direction.

- Guide enterprise-level portfolio planning and prioritization, helping leaders evaluate initiatives based on strategic value, business impact, and risk.

- Partner closely with business leaders to understand strategic goals, challenges, and opportunities, translating those needs into clear technological direction and actionable plans.

- Lead and support executive governance forums, steering discussions, framing options, and enabling informed decision-making across the enterprise.

- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT leadership, offering perspective on how technology can enable growth, efficiency, and innovation.

- Develop and maintain enterprise roadmaps that clearly articulate priorities, sequencing, and dependencies; communicate these plans effectively to diverse stakeholder groups.

- Foster collaboration across teams and functions, breaking down silos and ensuring shared understanding of enterprise priorities and commitments.

- Identify emerging trends and opportunities that may benefit the business, supporting lightweight assessments or pilots to inform strategic decisions.

- Define success measures for strategic initiatives and provide clear, executive-level reporting on progress, outcomes, and alignment to business goals.

- Facilitate annual and quarterly technical strategy and planning cycles.

Skills & Experience:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- 6 - 8 years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or technology planning.

- Proven experience in strategic planning and governance.

- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise or IT strategy development, multi-year roadmaps, and investment planning processes aligned to business outcomes.

- Proven ability to partner closely with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and shape technology direction that delivers measurable business value.

- Experience engaging and influencing senior and executive leaders, including facilitating strategic discussions, governance forums, and enterprise-level decision-making.

- Experience designing, facilitating, and sustaining planning and governance programs, such as annual and quarterly planning cycles, prioritization frameworks, and cross-functional alignment forums.

- Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, business-focused insights.

- Ability to assess trade-offs, evaluate options, and support enterprise-level prioritization and strategic decision-making.

- Comfortable leading through influence and collaboration, coordinating across teams and functions to drive alignment and outcomes.

- Ability to manage competing priorities, operate effectively in ambiguity, and exercise sound judgment in a dynamic environment.

- Solid understanding of how technology enables business capabilities and transformation, without requiring deep hands-on technical or architecture expertise.