Director of Strategy - Innovations

The Director of Strategy is the President's partner in turning USEI's strategic plan into standard, repeatable ways of working across its three functional groups. The role owns the cross-functional handoffs, workflows and communication rhythms that let Project Development, Site Operations and DfMA operate as one delivery system.

Principal Duties and Accountabilities: Strategic plan execution

• Translate the annual USEI strategic plan into a tracked portfolio of initiatives, each with an owner, milestones and measures.
• Run a monthly initiative review with the Innovations Management Team and report status to the leadership team quarterly.
• Lead preparation and follow-through for leadership summits and the annual strategic planning cycle.

Cross-functional process standardization

• Map and standardize the major handoffs between functions.
• Drive adoption of standard workflows.
• Maintain a single library of USEI standard processes, templates and playbooks, and retire duplicate or outdated versions.

Communication and alignment

• Design the operating rhythm that keeps the three functions aligned: meeting cadences, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Own internal communication of strategy and change so every leader and team member understands what is changing and why.
• Partner with HR Director to interpret engagement survey results and team feedback to target communication and collaboration gaps.

Performance visibility

• Partner with Management Team to define company-level KPIs that connect functional results to the strategic plan.
• Build a leadership dashboard that shows initiative progress alongside operational performance.

Collaboration beyond USEI

• Coordinate with USEC, USES, USEMX and Holdings on shared processes and intercompany resources.
• Support the President on special projects such as organizational design, , AI best practices and implementation, and communication with USE Holdings Board of Directors

Job Scope:

Key relationships and role boundaries

The Director of Strategy leads through influence, not authority: the VPs keep ownership of how work is done inside their functions, and this role owns how work moves between them.RoleRelationshipPresident, USEIReports to; acts as chief of staff for strategy and planningVice PresidentsPartner on workflows, handoffs, KPI reporting, communicationDirector, Process OptimizationClose, frequent collaborator. Process Optimization focuses almost entirely on Site Operations; Strategy owns cross-functional standardsDirector, Human ResourcesCollaborate on team engagement and developmentTalent DevelopmentPartner on development and execution of training programsApplication DevelopmentPartner with Application Development in creation of analytical tools, platform for hosting standardized processes, and AI implementation