At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.
The Strategic Advisor serves as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior leadership, enabling effective decision-making and driving the successful execution of enterprise and functional priorities. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, execution, and analytics—translating complex business challenges into actionable insights and ensuring initiatives are aligned, governed, and delivered with measurable impact. Making and driving successful execution of enterprise and functional priorities.
As a trusted partner to executives, the Strategic Advisor leads complex, cross functional initiatives, enables prioritization and performance management, and delivers executive ready communications that inform direction, mitigate risk, and advance organizational objectives.
In this role, you will connect people, priorities, and insights to help advance our power portfolio. You will review power business development opportunities, identify emerging risks and resource needs, and facilitate discussions that help teams consistently evaluate alternatives and prioritize investments. Working across business development teams, finance, operations, legal, and other key functions, you will turn complex information into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for leadership. You will also capture lessons learned and share best practices across teams, strengthening collaboration and helping shape future opportunities. Rather than owning individual projects, you will serve as a trusted advisor, helping teams stay aligned and make informed decisions as our power business grows.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Serves as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to senior leaders, providing decision support and recommendations grounded in rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Partners with leaders to define, prioritize, and align functional and cross-functional initiatives with enterprise strategy and business objectives
- Leads complex, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, driving stakeholder alignment, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring delivery against defined objectives, timelines, and success metrics
- Develops and delivers executive-ready communications, translating complex information into clear, compelling narratives and visualizations; facilitate leadership briefings and decision-making forums with confidence and executive presence
- Evaluates current-state processes and ways of working to identify opportunities for increased effectiveness, efficiency, and value delivery, supporting continuous improvement and change initiatives
- Identifies risks, opportunities, and improvement areas that enhance leadership effectiveness, operational performance, and strategic execution
- Defines, tracks, and reports on key performance indicators (KPIs) by building and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical models that provide leaders with visibility into performance, trends, risks, and opportunities
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS, or a related field and ten (10) years of progressive experience in leadership, operations, or strategic roles, including formal management experience
- Preferred: Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS or a related field and (15) fifteen years of Project Management, Business Transformation, Strategy/Consulting Process Improvement experience
- Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills
Why Tulsa?
Because here, you don’t have to choose between career and lifestyle. Tulsa is a growing hub for innovation and energy, paired with a vibrant arts scene, great food, and a cost of living that actually lets you enjoy it all. Think shorter commutes, bigger impact and a community that feels like home from day one. Check out ExperienceTulsa.com to learn more.
We invest in our people in ways that actually show up in your day-to-day, not just on paper. Our Total Rewards are built to support how you work, live, and plan for what’s next.
Here’s a look at what that means:
- Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with options that fit your life, not the other way around
- 401(k) with company match and an annual company contribution
- Paid time off, including company and floating holidays
- Paid parental leave (up to six weeks per parent), plus fertility and adoption support
- Advanced AI tools and resources to help level up and work smarter
- Clear paths to grow your career, with a strong culture of promoting from within
- Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
- HSA and FSA options
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Domestic partner benefits
- Employee resource groups, wellness support, paid volunteer time, and company matching for causes you care about
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.
Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.
Education Requirements:Skill Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS, or a related field
- Ten years of progressive experience in leadership, operations, or strategic roles
- Formal management experience
- Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, MIS, or a related field
- Fifteen years of experience in project management, business transformation, strategy or consulting, or process improvement
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and PC skills
- Safety-focused work approach
Williams Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Williams and has not been reviewed or approved by Williams.
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Retirement Support — Retirement contributions are described as notably strong, with a fixed employer contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching up to a set level, and eligible employees may also participate in a pension plan. This structure can significantly boost long-term savings when employees contribute.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage spans PPO and consumer-driven options with prescription coverage, virtual care, second-opinion services, maternity and family-planning support, and chronic-condition programs. Additional resources such as cancer support and HSA contributions on eligible plans broaden the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and paid parental leave, alongside bereavement, military, and jury-duty leave. Coverage breadth helps employees manage personal, family, and civic obligations.
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What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel. We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future. Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
