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Denver International Airport (DEN) is the third-busiest airport in the United States and one of the top ten busiest airports in the world, connecting our community globally through flight and business. DEN is the primary economic engine for the state of Colorado, generating more than $33 billion for the region annually and employing nearly 30,000 people. At DEN, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. We celebrate individuality and uplift all races, ethnicities, gender identities, national origins, ages, abilities, religion, and LGBTQIA+ communities. We know that our diversity makes us stronger, and we strive to keep equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility at the center of all that we do.

The Culture & Strategy Division is seeking an influential leader to join our team as the Senior Director of Strategy & Innovation.  As part of the DEN Chief of Staff portfolio, the Culture & Strategy Division is responsible for leading DEN’s efforts in five key areas impacting the entire organization, including our stakeholders: (1) Vision 100 Strategic Plan and performance measurement; (2) Equity, Engagement & Inclusion; (3) Continuous Improvement; (4) Employee Wellness Program and; (5) DEN’s Commerce Hub. 

For this role, we are seeking an experienced and innovative leader with demonstrated strategic planning expertise who is passionate about guiding organizational strategy and performance measurement and exhibits a commitment to continuously growing and evolving as a leader.  With organization-wide impact, the Senior Director of Strategy & Innovation serves a key role in developing and maintaining the Vision 100 Strategic Plan while overseeing our Continuous Improvement, Employee Wellness and Strategic Data Management programs.

In this role, you will contribute to DEN’s success through the following job responsibilities:

• Build strong trustworthy working relationships with partners such as the executive and senior leadership team, staff at all levels of the organization, and a wide range of stakeholders.
• Establish high functioning executive and senior leadership team interactions with the ability to influence in a large organization, including leveraging strong emotional intelligence principles to navigate and resolve challenges.
• Demonstrate a commitment to growth as a leader by proactively seeking and implementing feedback, coaching and self-identified improvement opportunities.
• Guide and support development and ongoing evaluation and maintenance of the Vision 100 strategic plan, including division-level goal development to support enterprise-wide strategy.
• Research, identify and implement best practices to develop and sustain cutting edge practices at DEN.
• Develop an interactive data model, in partnership with leaders and stakeholders, that will serve as a tool to identify and monitor for impacts to strategic goals, at the division and enterprise levels. This includes supporting data analysis and developing formal reports to be used in leadership discussions and decision-making processes.
• Align the performance-based strategic plan goals to leadership performance management strategies and assist with updating based on organizational progress check points.

Provides leadership to the Continuous Improvement team, ensuring alignment of standards, efficient processes and procedures to the department strategic priorities and impacts to

• organization goals. This aspect includes guiding the evolution of innovation efforts across DEN to enhance impact and outcomes of engagement in alignment with enterprise-level strategic goals.
• Supervise the Wellness and Engagement Support Administrator and guides a holistic Wellness workplan to ensure alignment to the city-wide wellness model elements of professional, financial, physical, and mental health outcomes.  Provide support to employee engagement efforts in partnership with the Senior Director of Equity, Engagement & Inclusion.
• Lead the Strategic Data Management team, providing oversight and guidance in the utilization, documentation and standardization of enterprise-wide data to provide strong decision-making tools for leaders across the organization.
• Oversee budgets and contracts supporting the Continuous Improvement, Wellness and Strategic Data Management programs. Manage and recommend annual budget for these functions, analyze and project future needs, and track expenditures to ensure compliance with fiscal guidelines.
• Strengthen strategies and tactics to ensure cross-promotion and integration of all Culture & Strategy functions are developed and delivered and achieving optimum impacts.

We are looking for candidates with some or all the following experience:

• Five years of experience in leading a strategic planning process in a large organization, using a data-driven model, and fostering strong working relationships
• Advanced demonstrated leadership and proven success in supervising and inspiring staff.
• Direct data development and management experience, particularly in working with the Microsoft PowerBI and related applications
• Experience in developing annual work plans and measuring against budget and contract management aspects

About Denver International Airport

Denver International Airport (DEN) is the third-busiest airport in the United States and one of the top ten busiest airports in the world, connecting our community globally through flight and business. DEN is the primary economic engine for the state of Colorado, generating more than $33 billion for the region annually and employing more than 30,000 people. At DEN, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. We celebrate individuality and uplift all races, ethnicities, gender identities, national origins, ages, abilities, religion, and LGBTQIA+ communities. We know that our diversity makes us stronger, and we strive to keep diversity, equity and inclusion at the center of all that we do.

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