Director of Strategic Initiatives - AI

As the Director of Strategic Initiatives - AI , you will serve as a trusted strategic partner to executive leadership, ensuring the successful execution of the company's highest priority initiatives across six consulting service lines. This role is responsible for driving organizational accountability, coordinating cross-functional projects and ensuring strategic initiatives move from concept to completion. Acting as the operational bridge between executives and business leaders, AI Market Intelligence Lead provides structure, visibility, and accountability across the organization. This individual excels at managing complex initiatives, aligning stakeholders, removing roadblocks, and ensuring leadership priorities are executed effectively while maintaining a high standard of client service. This is an ideal opportunity for a highly organized, results-driven professional with strong project management, operational, and consulting experience who thrives in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. As a premier consulting and technology firm, alliant is focused on providing solutions to help businesses transform and thrive, while serving as their ongoing growth partner. Responsibilities: Partner with executive leadership to execute the organization's strategic priorities and long-term business objectives. Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, and success metrics for enterprise initiatives. Track progress across multiple initiatives, proactively identifying risks and driving resolution. Ensure strategic priorities remain aligned across all business units and consulting service lines. Serve as the central point of coordination for executive initiatives and organizational priorities. Hold cross-functional teams accountable for commitments, deliverables, and deadlines. Facilitate executive meetings, including preparing agendas, documenting action items, and monitoring follow-through. Develop executive dashboards and KPI reporting to provide visibility into organizational performance. Lead cross-functional projects from planning through implementation. Coordinate resources across consulting, operations, technology, finance, marketing, HR, and business development. Identify dependencies, manage competing priorities, and maintain project momentum. Implement project management best practices that improve execution and organizational efficiency. Build strong relationships across departments to improve communication, ensure stakeholder buy-in, and drive organizational alignment. Facilitate collaboration and decision-making amongst business leaders to drive the execution of enterprise-wide initiatives Advise and assist executives with organizational planning, change management, and operational decision-making. Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement. Identify opportunities to improve organizational processes, workflows, and resource utilization. Drive operational efficiencies through process…