Chief Strategic Projects Officer

The Chief Strategic Projects Officer is a senior executive leader responsible for planning, guiding, and delivering the organizations highest-priority strategic initiatives. This role partners closely with the Chief Executive Officer, executive leadership team, department leaders, and key stakeholders to translate organizational strategy into measurable programs, projects, and business outcomes. This position provides enterprise-level leadership across complex, cross-functional initiatives that may include business transformation, operational improvement, organizational growth, technology modernization, market expansion, mergers and acquisitions, change management, and other executive-sponsored priorities. The ideal candidate brings strong strategic judgment, executive presence, program leadership, financial acumen, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders around shared objectives. Key Responsibilities Strategic Project Leadership Lead the development, planning, and execution of enterprise-wide strategic projects and executive-sponsored initiatives.Translate the organizations strategic priorities into defined programs, project plans, milestones, performance measures, and expected outcomes.Establish governance structures, decision-making processes, reporting requirements, and accountability standards for major initiatives.Ensure strategic projects are properly scoped, resourced, prioritized, and aligned with organizational goals.Oversee multiple complex projects simultaneously while maintaining focus on schedule, budget, quality, risk, and business value.Identify dependencies between projects, departments, systems, and organizational priorities.Facilitate the resolution of obstacles that may affect project performance or organizational results. Executive Leadership and Advisory Support Serve as a strategic advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and executive leadership team.Provide objective analysis, recommendations, and decision support regarding strategic opportunities, risks, investments, and organizational priorities.Prepare executive-level briefings, presentations, business cases, status reports, and recommendations.Lead or support executive planning sessions, strategy reviews, leadership meetings, and organizational performance discussions.Represent executive leadership in meetings, working groups, and special initiatives as assigned.Maintain appropriate confidentiality when handling sensitive business, financial, personnel, or strategic information. Organizational Transformation and Change Management Lead major business transformation and organizational improvement initiatives.Develop and implement change-management strategies that promote stakeholder engagement, adoption, accountability, and long-term sustainability.Partner with department leaders to assess organizational readiness, operational impacts, resource requirements, and implementation risks.Ensure employees and stakeholders receive timely communication regarding major organizational changes.Evaluate the effectiveness of transformation initiatives and recommend corrective actions when necessary.Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence. Performance, Risk, and Financial Oversight Develop key performance indicators, dashboards, and reporting tools to measure project progress and organizational impact.Monitor project budgets, resource utilization, schedules, deliverables, and expected benefits.Identify strategic, operational, financial, legal, reputational, and implementation risks.Develop risk-mitigation plans and escalate significant issues to executive leadership.Conduct post-implementation reviews to evaluate results, lessons learned, and opportunities for improvement.Ensure strategic projects demonstrate measurable value and support the organizations financial and operational objectives. Cross-Functional Collaboration Build strong working relationships across business units, departments, and leadership levels.Coordinate the efforts of internal teams, external consultants, vendors, and strategic partners.Clarify project roles, responsibilities, decision authority, deliverables, and accountability.Facilitate collaboration among stakeholders with competing priorities or differing perspectives.Communicate project objectives, progress, challenges, decisions, and results clearly and consistently.Support department leaders in resolving issues that require enterprise-level coordination. Team Leadership Build, lead, and develop a high-performing strategic projects function.Establish standards, methodologies, tools, and best practices for strategic project delivery.Recruit, develop, coach, and evaluate assigned personnel.Promote accountability, professional growth, collaboration, and high-quality performance.Assign resources based on organizational priorities, project complexity, and team capabilities.Provide leadership to cross-functional project teams that may not report directly to the position.