Director Strategic Facilitation

This is a hybrid position that requires 3 non-consecutive days on-site in Armonk, NY or Basking Ridge, NJ, and 2 days from home. A fully remote role is not possible for this position.

The Director Strategic Facilitation will design and implement a new business area for Global Development. Working closely with leaders and cross functional groups the group led by the Director Strategic Facilitation will objectively lead discussions to help leaders solve problems, identify issues or waste, support lessons learned, and prepare for improvement of business processes. The Director Strategic Facilitation must have a strategic and analytical approach and be an excellent communicator with top-notch presentation skills. The individual must be a strong coach and mentor.

A typical day may include:

• Oversee a team of Strategic Facilitators who support cross-functional leaders and partners to drive strategy, solve complex and sensitive problems, build relationships, enable learning and sharing of ideas through experiences that leverage trust, unbiased objectivity, and agility.
• Objectively lead and design highly visible, highly complex discussions or events ensuring business objectives are reached efficiently and effectively using tools and methodology that suits the required challenge, issue and outcome.
• Create an R&D Facilitation Community of Practice to share standard methodologies, learn from each other, and pressure test approaches and processes.
• Create a process to upskill the organization on Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen
• Actively participate in professional facilitator communities, formally or informally
• Design and manage complicated engagements that span multiple places, times, or technologies. Research, understand, and predict complicated group needs and design interactions help people do their best work in tough environments.

This maybe for you if you:

• You have phenomenal presentation and public speaking skills, along with social and interpersonal skills including influencing, listening, written and oral presentation
• You can focus on the good in a situation. Sees challenges as teachable moments
• You are able to exhibit high energy, confidence and to motivate and inspire
• You use facts and evidence to form opinions or make judgements. Removes personal bias and emotions to arrive at decisions.
• You overcome obstacles to achieve success.
• You notice, analyze, discern and process information gathered from events happening around you independently of your opinion.

To be considered, we are looking for you to have a Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of project management industry experience managing large, sophisticated projects. Along with 5+ years of relevant facilitation and meeting and events management experience. Lastly we …