TMG - VP, Strategic Initiatives

 

VP, Strategic Initiatives

Leadership Advisory | Full-Time | Remote

About TMG

The Miles Group (TMG) is a leadership advisory firm dedicated to developing exceptional talent – from the C-suite to the next generation of leaders – at some of the world’s most prestigious companies. Our clients trust us as truly independent, unbiased advisors, tailoring every engagement to their unique culture and context. We serve organizations through executive coaching, succession, executive assessment, board advisory, and strategic team offsites.

About the Role

The VP, Strategic Initiatives supports TMG’s leadership team – comprising the Managing Partner, Head of Client Strategy, Head of Growth, and Head of Talent – by ensuring day-to-day execution, follow-through, and communication on strategic priorities. The role focuses on execution rigor – developing executive-ready materials, tracking key issues, coordinating across functions, and summarizing complex topics into concise insights for awareness and decision support. This role delivers hands-on, tactical execution support, driving change management to free up the leadership team’s time and attention for high-impact strategic and client work.

What You Will Do

This is a hands-on role focused on:

Creating Executive Materials and Communications

• Develop, edit, and manage high-quality presentations, dashboards, and briefing materials for recurring leadership meetings, forums, and strategic projects.
• Produce polished presentations and reports that require minimal revision and consistently meet executive-level standards.
• Translate complex operational and financial information into clear, concise summaries or reports that tell a story.
• Ensure all materials are accurate, well-structured, and aligned with the leadership team’s priorities.
• Ensure that leadership team is consistently prepared, well-informed, and proactively aware of upcoming issues and priorities.
• Draft and manage internal communications on behalf of the leadership team, including firmwide messaging and communications to senior stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and consistency.

Issue Tracking and Follow-Up

• Track and manage key projects, actions, deadlines, commitments, and open issues to ensure follow-through and prevent critical items from being overlooked.
• Proactively flag delays, dependencies, risks, and items requiring escalation.
• Coordinate updates across multiple stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate information flow.

Executive Project and Initiative Support

• Provide project-management support for strategic firm projects, including milestone tracking, tracker management, status reporting, and risk and dependency identification.
• Ensure initiatives remain aligned with leadership intent, expectations, and timelines, translating strategic projects into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Triage priorities and manage competing demands to keep the leadership team focused on the highest-impact activities; partner closely with Administrative Business Partners to optimize calendars and follow-ups.
• Lead change management efforts for key firm initiatives, including stakeholder alignment, communication planning, and adoption tracking to ensure new processes and priorities take hold.

Data Analysis and Reporting

• Maintain visibility into performance metrics and progress against key priorities.
• Analyze operational and financial data to surface trends, risks, and opportunities that inform leadership decisions.
• Build and maintain reporting tools and dashboards that keep the leadership team consistently prepared, well-informed, and proactively aware of upcoming issues and priorities.

Meeting and Operating Cadence Support

• Own agenda development, pre-read preparation, content development (including PowerPoint decks) for the firm’s leadership meetings, annual offsite, and Town Halls, partnering with the Administrative Business Partner team on schedule and logistical coordination.
• Capture and distribute clear, well-structured meeting notes with ownership and next steps.
• Standardize operating rhythms, templates, and reporting formats to improve consistency and efficiency across the firm’s cadence.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Serve as a coordination point across teams for leadership requests, information needs, and updates.
• Ensure information flows efficiently, accurately, and consistently across the firm.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with leaders and stakeholders at TMG and throughout Council Advisors.

What We’re Looking For

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (e.g., MBA) a plus.
• 6-8 years of experience as a VP, Strategic Initiatives, strategy consultant, or executive projects manager in a high-performance professional services setting such as consulting, investment banking, PE, corporate strategy, or a similarly rigorous, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated success collaborating directly with senior executives and driving cross-functional initiatives.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, including executive-level presentation development and data analysis.
• Expertise in producing status reports, program updates, and executive dashboards.

Skills and Capabilities

Judgment and Discretion

• Demonstrates exceptional judgment and ability to make sound decisions.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, incomplete information, and evolving priorities.
• Maintains confidentiality, integrity, and resilience in handling sensitive information and stakeholder interactions.
• Anticipates issues before they surface and proactively identifies potential challenges.

Execution and Communication

• Proven record of project management, tracking, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Effectively manages multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Self-starter mentality with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including storytelling in PowerPoint.
• Translates complex or ambiguous information into clear, concise, and actionable guidance.
• Write and edits executive-level communications.

Analytical and Business Acumen

• Synthesizes complex issues into clear options, insights, and actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional understanding of business operations, performance metrics, and financial concepts.

Relationship Management

• Demonstrates strong EQ, executive presence, and stakeholder credibility.
• Ability to influence without authority, building strong, trust-based relationships across all levels of the organization.

Compensation

TMG offers a competitive base salary, discretionary bonus, and benefits package. A reasonable estimate of the base salary for this position is $160,000 - $200,000, with the potential for additional performance-based earnings. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the candidate’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws. Salary is one component of TMG’s total rewards package, which includes a discretionary performance bonus, 401K, generous paid time off, benefits, and wellness program.

Equal Opportunity and EEO Statement

TMG provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, TMG complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

TMG expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of TMG employees to perform job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

TMG does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals, or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity, or third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes, or candidates submitted to TMG or any employee or owner of TMG without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered TMG’s property and not subject to fees or charges. For existing agreements, a role must be approved and open to external search; otherwise, unsolicited, and unapproved submittals and referrals will be considered TMG’s property and free of fees.