Strategic Advisor

Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.

The Strategic Advisor serves as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior leadership, enabling effective decision-making and driving the successful execution of enterprise and functional priorities. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, execution, and analytics—translating complex business challenges into actionable insights and ensuring initiatives are aligned, governed, and delivered with measurable impact. Making and driving successful execution of enterprise and functional priorities.   

As a trusted partner to executives, the Strategic Advisor leads complex, cross‑functional initiatives, enables prioritization and performance management, and delivers executive‑ready communications that inform direction, mitigate risk, and advance organizational objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to senior leaders, providing decision support and recommendations grounded in rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Partners with leaders to define, prioritize, and align functional and cross-functional initiatives with enterprise strategy and business objectives
• Leads complex, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, driving stakeholder alignment, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring delivery against defined objectives, timelines, and success metrics
• Develops and delivers executive-ready communications, translating complex information into clear, compelling narratives and visualizations; facilitate leadership briefings and decision-making forums with confidence and executive presence
• Evaluates current-state processes and ways of working to identify opportunities for increased effectiveness, efficiency, and value delivery, supporting continuous improvement and change initiatives
• Identifies risks, opportunities, and improvement areas that enhance leadership effectiveness, operational performance, and strategic execution
• Defines, tracks, and reports on key performance indicators (KPIs) by building and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical models that provide leaders with visibility into performance, trends, risks, and opportunities

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS, or a related field and ten (10) years of progressive experience in leadership, operations, or strategic roles, including formal management experience
• Preferred: Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS or a related field and (15) fifteen years of Project Management, Business Transformation, Strategy/Consulting Process Improvement experience 

Requirements:

• Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills                               
• Other Duties as assigned                                                                                     

About Tulsa:

Our corporate headquarters is located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2nd largest city in Oklahoma and the 47th most populous in the U.S.

Tulsa is known as the Mother of "The Mother Road" - Route 66, and boasts impressive art deco architecture, the #1 city park in the U.S. (The Gathering Place) and is a great venue for live music. It's an easy place to get in and out of, with more than 20 non-stop flight destinations offered at Tulsa International Airport. Tulsa is listed on CNN Travel's best destinations to visit in 2022!

Tulsa is not only a great place to live, but it's affordable. According to the 2019 Economic Report from Tulsa's Future, the cost of living is 8 percent below the U.S. average. There is no place like T-Town. Check out visittulsa.com to learn more!

Why Choose Williams?

We are committed to providing our employees with competitive compensation and benefits as part of your Total Rewards package to help protect your current and future physical, emotional, and financial health. We generally offer health benefit programs to our employees and their families that are competitive and flexible enough to meet your needs, and retirement benefits to allow you to invest now for financial security when you retire.  With rich learning and development programming and a high internal mobility rate, you are not just applying to a job with Williams; you are embarking on an exciting career!

• Competitive compensation

• Annual incentive program

• Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office-based roles

• Flexible work schedule for most field-based roles

• 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits

• Generous company-paid life insurance and disability benefits

• A consumer-driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account

• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Paid time off, including floating and company holidays

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Robust employee learning and development

• High internal mobility (we promote from within)

• Parental leave (we provide up to 6 weeks for each parent)

• Fertility coverage and adoption benefits

• Domestic partner benefits

• Educational reimbursement

• Non-profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer

• Employee resource groups

• Employee assistance programs

• Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative

• Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes

Williams has a long history of making a significant difference in the communities where we live and work, and we strive to cultivate an environment of employee inclusion, innovation and passion that values all voices and opinions. We help each other succeed and great things happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. Together, we make clean energy happen.

Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.

For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.

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