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Sr. Director, Strategic Initiatives

Thomson Reuters
$157,500 USD - $292,500 USD
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)

Apr 24, 2026
Replacement: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs. Sr. Director, Strategic Initiatives The Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives Leader is a highly visible, enterpriselevel role responsible for driving strategic rigor, executive decision support, and transformation execution across the Corporates organization. This leader will partner closely with the Segment President and Corporates leadership to shape priorities, evaluate top deals, and deliver boardlevel insights that accelerate growth and operational excellence. This role spans the full Corporates value chain, and plays a critical role in enabling effective leadership team (CLT) operating rhythms, decisionmaking, and prioritization. Location: hybrid position, need to be based in one of our hub locations (MN, TX or Canada) About the Role: In this opportunity, as Sr. Director, Strategic Initiatives you will: Corporates Strategy: Lead strategic analysis and executivelevel decision support across the Corporates business, identifying growth opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Own and facilitate top deal reviews, including financial, strategic, and operational assessments to support executive and board decisions. Partner with Sales, Retention, Customer Success Management, Professional Services, and Solution Consulting leaders to drive aligned, endtoend strategies. BoardLevel & Executive Communications: Develop highimpact boardlevel presentations, executive readouts, and strategic narratives that clearly articulate performance, priorities, and transformation progress. Translate complex data and analysis into concise, actionable insights for senior executives and the Board. Serve as a trusted thought partner to the Segment President and VP of Business Transformation. Transformation & Strategic Initiatives: Design, implement, and own transformation metrics tied to the strategic initiatives, ensuring clarity, consistency, and accountability. Monitor performance against transformation goals, identifying gaps, risks, and corrective actions. Lead executivelevel reporting and cadence reviews on transformation progress and outcomes. Drive Operating Model & Prioritization: Optimize how the executive leadership team operates, including decision frameworks, prioritization, and strategic planning processes to enable efficient decision-making, clear accountability and predictable execution. Establish and optimize business cadences (planning, reviews, prioritization forums) to ensure focus on the highestvalue work and reduce friction, duplication, and lowvalue activity. Help define and manage enterprise priorities, ensuring focus on the highestvalue initiatives. Support crossfunctional alignment and execution across GMled organizations. CrossFunctional Leadership: Influence and align senior leaders without direct authority, driving outcomes through partnership and credibility. Collaborate closely with leadership teams and support teams to ensure strategies are aligned and translate into execution. Act as a connector across functions, surfacing dependencies and removing barriers. About You: You're a fit for the role, of Sr. Director, Strategic Initiatives if you have: 12+ years of experience in strategy, strategic initiatives, corporate development, consulting, or executive leadership roles. Proven experience supporting senior executive teams, including creation of boardlevel materials. Strong background in strategic analysis, financial modeling, and enterprise performance measurement. Demonstrated success leading complex, crossfunctional initiatives in large, matrixed organizations. Experience working across commercial and delivery organizations (Sales, Retention, Onboarding, Professional Services, Solution Consulting). Preferred Experience supporting a Segment President, or equivalent senior executives. Direct involvement in enterprise transformation or operating model redesign initiatives. Background in management consulting, corporate strategy, or enterprise PMO with strong executive exposure. #LI-TK1 What's in it For You? Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected. Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance. Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together. Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world. Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role. In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $157,500 USD - $292,500 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $172,000 CAD - $222,000 CAD. 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