Description
ADP is hiring a Director, Corporate Strategy.
- Do you excel at evaluating strategic opportunities, solving complex business challenges, and developing executive-level recommendations that influence key business decisions?
- Are you skilled at navigating ambiguity, influencing stakeholders without direct authority, and driving cross-functional projects from analysis through execution?
Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to make your mark?
As Director, Corporate Strategy, you will help shape and advance ADP's most important enterprise priorities. Working closely with leaders across the business, you will help drive enterprise strategic planning, evaluate growth opportunities, and advance high-priority initiatives that help ADP accelerate growth, strengthen competitive advantage, and create long-term value.
This is a highly visible role for someone who enjoys solving complex business challenges, leading high-impact projects, and influencing decisions through data, analysis, and sound business judgment. You'll partner with stakeholders across the organization to develop recommendations, build executive-level communications, and help drive initiatives forward.
Success in this role requires strong problem-solving capabilities, executive communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while building cross-functional alignment. You'll work on a wide variety of enterprise priorities, balancing multiple initiatives and helping executives make informed decisions that shape the future direction of the business.
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Learn more about ADP at jobs.adp.com
What you’ll do:
Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:
- Partner with executive leadership to help shape ADP's enterprise strategic agenda and drive high-priority initiatives across the company.
- Lead key components of ADP's annual strategic planning process, including strategic assessment, priority setting, and executive alignment.
- Identify and evaluate enterprise growth opportunities through rigorous analysis of markets, competitors, customers, and internal performance.
- Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives from opportunity assessment through recommendation, execution planning, and implementation support.
- Assess potential partnership, alliance, and inorganic growth opportunities that can strengthen ADP's strategic position and expand its portfolio.
- Build models, analyses, and executive-level presentations and business cases from scratch to support decision-making by senior leadership, the Executive Committee, and the Board
- Run Executive Committee follow-through, including decision memos, action tracking, and communication with initiative owners.
Experience. You have 5+ years of strategy experience, including 3+ years at a top-tier strategy consulting firm (Consultant/Associate level or above) or in an enterprise corporate strategy team, with a track record of owning workstreams end to end and developing recommendations for executives.
TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:
- Experience driving enterprise strategy, strategic planning, growth initiatives, and cross-functional business priorities within a complex, matrixed environment, including evaluating markets, competitors, customers, and business performance to identify opportunities and inform decision-making.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex business challenges through structured analysis, sound business judgment, and the development of actionable recommendations that drive strategic decisions and business outcomes.
- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to develop presentations, business cases, and recommendations that support decision-making by senior leaders.
- Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority, build alignment across diverse groups, and drive initiatives forward.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to evaluate opportunities, conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses, build models to support decision-making, and apply sound business judgment.
- Ability to synthesize input from various stakeholders into a clear, defensible point of view.
- Fluency with AI tools in your own work and curiosity about how AI is reshaping software and service business models.
- You’ll have a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
For additional comfortability in the role:
- Experience within and/or supporting the business services, enterprise software, human capital management, or other technology-enabled services industries.
- MBA and/or advanced degree.
YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:
- Collaborate. We value courage, ownership, and respect to find the best solutions together.
- Deliver at epic scale. Your work will shape decisions at the Executive committee and Board level along with shaping the company’s long term strategic direction.
- Be surrounded by curious learners. We stay agile, learn from mistakes, and grow together.
- Act like an owner & doer. You’ll set direction and see your strategy come to life.
- Give back to others. We do the right thing for our clients, associates, and communities.
- Join a company committed to equality and equity. We’re building a culture where everyone belongs.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Matched Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Charitable Contribution Match, Holidays, Personal Days & Vacation, Paid Volunteer Time Off, and more. The compensation for this role is USD $123,400.00 - USD $303,800.00 / Year*
*Actual compensation will not be less than the applicable minimum wage or minimum exempt salary requirement under federal, state and local laws.
A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP’s operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.
Ethics at ADP: ADP has a long, proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws. We also expect our people to uphold our values with the highest level of integrity and behave in a manner that fosters an honest and respectful workplace. Click https://jobs.adp.com/life-at-adp/ to learn more about ADP’s culture and our full set of values.
