Ensono Client Engagement Director at Ensono responsible for shaping and executing company strategy with regular exposure to CEO, executive leadership, and board. Leads critical initiatives and influences executive decisions.
Responsibilities
Ensono’s Strategy team sets the company’s annual strategy, turns it into a governed portfolio of strategic initiatives, focuses corporate development, and runs the executive forums that keep the CEO, the executive leadership team (ELT) and the board focused on what matters most.
This role sits at the center of how Ensono sets and executes strategy, with regular exposure to the CEO, President, executive team, board and investors. It is designed as a path to broader strategy leadership, with growing ownership of the strategy cycle, corporate development and executive forums over time.
We are looking for a senior strategy leader who can both help shape the strategy and drive execution. You will own the machinery that translates strategy into action, lead critical initiatives personally, influence executive decisions, and develop a broad understanding of every aspect of Ensono's business.
This is not a project management or governance role. Program discipline is table stakes; the job requires judgment, business acumen and original thinking. You will spot the initiative that is drifting before it misses, write the memo that frames the decision and, from a vantage point close to every part of the business and its leaders, genuinely shape Ensono’s strategy with ideas of your own.
This role is ideal for a highly strategic, intellectually curious leader who wants to influence the direction of a growing company while building the experience required for future executive-level strategy leadership positions.
Shape the strategy from close to the business
Sit in on executive leaders’ staff meetings to stay close to the business and to give as well as take, keeping leaders current on company priorities and what is moving elsewhere in Ensono.
Connect the dots across functions, spot emerging risks and opportunities early, and bring them to the CSO, CEO and President with a clear point of view.
Contribute original ideas to the strategy, from new offerings and market moves to operating-model changes, and turn the strongest into strategy memos and initiative proposals.
Help the CEO and President do their jobs better by anticipating what they need and turning what is happening across the business into content for the ELT and the board.
Run the annual strategy cycle and initiative portfolio
Own the annual strategy process end to end, from theme intake and charters to strategy memos, decision gates and the executive strategy session, improving it each cycle.
Qualification
10 or more years in corporate strategyEvidence of original strategic thinkingExecutive-grade communicationA bachelor’s degreeAn MBA or equivalent graduate degreeHands-on M&AWe are a client-facing businessSome of our benefits include
Required
10 or more years in corporate strategy, strategy operations, consulting, corporate development or a chief-of-staff role, including 3 or more working directly with C-suite executives.
Experience working at an IT managed service provider.
A track record of running an enterprise planning or strategic initiative process across multiple functions, including portfolio governance, decision gates and executive readouts.
Evidence of original strategic thinking: ideas you originated that changed a company’s direction, offerings or operating model.
Strong structured problem solving and financial fluency: business cases, P&L and EBITDA impact, contract economics and investment theses.
Executive-grade communication, from a six-page narrative memo to a one-slide board summary.
The ability to lead without authority and hold senior leaders accountable, often people more senior than you.
The presence to sit in senior leaders’ staff meetings as both listener and contributor, and the judgment to know what to share and what stays in the room.
Rigorous program management habits (charters, plans, risk logs, status reporting) used as a means rather than the end.
Hands-on fluency with AI productivity tools, data and dashboards.
Absolute discretion with confidential information, including transactions, board matters and personnel.
A bachelor’s degree.
Preferred
An MBA or equivalent graduate degree.
Experience working at a Big 5 consulting firm.
Hands-on M&A, joint venture or partnership experience, including diligence and integration.
Experience in a private equity-backed company, including board and investor reporting.
Experience running a customer advisory board or executive client program.
Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.
We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.
