Vice President, Integrated Insight

GLG is transforming the way the world's top professionals share expertise and learn. Global, technology-enabled, and nimble, GLG curates custom learning opportunities among professionals and major thought leaders across fields. GLG supports knowledge exchange through conversations, small group meetings, mentorships, expert surveys, and more. GLG's network of 900,000 experts works with our 2,400 employees in 21 offices in 12 countries.

GLG attracts employees from the most distinctive professional and academic backgrounds. Across all of our positions, we insist upon integrity, creativity, intensity, and professionalism.
- The overall purpose of the role is to work with the GLG top management team to implement key initiatives as well as set the strategic agenda for GLG, and support decision making.
- The role will offer exposure to a broad range of topics including talent, sales and marketing, data and technology, and operations. The role will also provide regular exposure to the full GLG senior management team and broader organization.
- Will report to the Head of Corporate Development who will provide a close mentoring environment to rapidly accelerate development but also work closely with other members of the team on specific projects.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

- **Strategy execution partnership**: act as execution expert and through partner to senior leaders, in particular for complex enterprise initiatives. This involves:

- Creating charters and detailed roadmaps to drive clarity and prioritization
- Supporting executives in scoping, planning and execution of strategic enterprise initiatives
- Determining and tracking critical milestones, driving to timely delivery and resolution of roadblocks
- Using stakeholder mapping, change management and communications to drive effective deployment
- Monitoring and adjusting implementation plans based on performance against objectives and desired outcomes
- Identifying and mitigating key risks
- **Strategic partnership**: work with GLG leaders to frame, analyze and synthesize recommendations on strategic issues. This involves:

- Structuring business issues including developing hypothesis and analytical frameworks to drive decision making
- Identifying and analyzing key data sources to put a fact base behind the frameworks and develop readily intelligible output to support decision making
- Developing and delivering written and verbal communications to inform and align with key decision makers
- At least 6 years of experience in strategy execution or strategic program or project management experience, including a minimum of 3+ years experience working with senior leaders
- Strong drive and organizational skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, as well as executive level presence is required
- Must be highly personable and collaborative, with strong interpersonal and relationship building skills and ability to influence and work within the organization
- Strong business acumen with ability to pick up various topics quickly and cut to the core issues
- Must be both a broad strategic thinker, who is able to see the big picture, while also being into the details and able to get 'hands dirty' and do what is required to drive things forward
- Ability to stand alone both in terms of confronting reality and driving work independently
- Change management experience a plus

We seek bright, positive and flexible people who also:

- Act with the highest integrity and professionalism in all their endeavors
- Think creatively and focus on opportunities for growth
- Exhibit constant attention to detail
- Express a strong desire to work in a team
- Demonstrate the ability and initiative to handle increasing responsibility over time

**About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group**

GLG is the world's insight network. Our clients rely on GLG's global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).

GLG's industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company's culture.

Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. ("GLG") is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.