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Functional Strategy Generalist III

Adecco US, Inc.

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At a glance

Compensation
$121.91/hr
Location
New York, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Adecco is recruiting a Functional Strategy Generalist III for an onsite opportunity in New York, supporting a client described as an American search engine company. The role contributes research, analysis, and recommendations to strategic and operational initiatives; manages cross-functional programs; and works with stakeholders and executives to align plans and implement recommendations. The position emphasizes program management, operations, and communications.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Effective QuestioningKPI ManagementChange ManagementBusiness AnalysisStakeholder InfluenceBusiness Area KnowledgeSystems AnalysisProject ManagementData AnalysisStakeholder ManagementNegotiationProgram ManagementOperations ManagementCommunications

Qualifications

6 Years in Program Management or Related4 Years With Advanced DegreeAdvanced Degree3 Years Executive Stakeholder Experience2 Years Strategy or Cross-Functional Initiatives

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Adecco is assisting a local client recruiting for an Functional Strategy Generalist III opportunity in New York, NY, 10011 with an onsite work schedule. This is an excellent opportunity to join a winning culture and get your foot in the door with a Company known as an American search engine company. If Functional Strategy Generalist III sounds like something you would be interested in, and you meet the qualifications listed below, apply now!

Responsibilities for Functional Strategy Generalist III include but are not limited to:

  • As a Functional Strategy Generalist, you contribute to core-problem structuring, owning research, data gathering, business insight, and analytic depth to support larger, more integrated, and complex strategic and operational initiatives within the PA, function, or sub-function.

  • You interact regularly with PA, function, or sub-function stakeholders to persuasively communicate recommendations to area leadership, and influence decisions by building consensus and mobilizing towards implementation.

  • You serve as a subject-matter specialist for a PA or function's goals, direction, and priorities, with comprehensive knowledge of how the business area fits broadly into the company, as well as its existing OKRs, KPIs, business plans, and operating plans.

  • Manage key initiatives from inception to completion, including team-wide initiatives on projects to drive alignment and increase velocity.

  • Work closely with function leaders, product managers, and product area leadership to drive operationalization of recommendations.

  • Synthesize, understand, and make recommendations regarding trends in the future of work, including designing business strategy and technology strategy in tandem, translating market insights into action, shortening of strategic planning cycles, transforming digital and agile development, and tapping into ecosystem partners.

  • Proactively identify defined problems and issues across the PA, function, or sub-function and create programs and processes to solve them. Structure defined and sometimes vague business issues for leadership team, and develop solutions to business and technical problems by documenting key requirements and supporting business case justification.

  • Support executives in defining overall communications strategy across the function and regions, driving the planning of internal events and aligning internal communications.

  • Establish and drive processes for effectively defining the function e.g., OKRs, QBRs, annual planning, team meetings, budget, expenses.

  • Manage workflows within the targeting and measurement processes, driving collaboration and engagement across stakeholders both to ensure timely and accurate delivery of work.

  • Make recommendations regarding the development of PA, function, and/or sub-function strategies, collaborating with business area stakeholders.

  • Drive strategic analysis, defining ways to optimize business performance and ensure best-in-class execution within relevant PA, function, or sub-function.

  • Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and problem solve effectively, driving the development of compelling business recommendations.

Candidates Functional Strategy Generalist III must meet the following requirements to be considered:

  • Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:

  • Effective questioning

  • KPIs

  • Change management

  • Business insights and analysis

  • leadership alignment and stakeholder influence

  • Business area knowledge

  • Systems analysis

  • Project management skills

  • Data analysis

  • Stakeholder management

  • Negotiation

  • Strong emphasis on Program management, operations and communications.

  • Minimum role qualifications requirement:

  • 6 years of experience in Program management, chief of staff, management consulting, operations, business strategy, corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.

  • 3 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.

  • 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.

What's in this Functional Strategy Generalist III position for you?

  • Pay: $121.91 /hr.

  • Job Loction: New York, NY, 10011

  • Shift: M-F; 8 AM – 5 PM

  • Weekly paycheck

  • Dedicated Onboarding Specialist & Recruiter Access to Adecco’s Aspire Academy with thousands of free upskilling courses.

This Functional Strategy Generalist III is being recruited by one of our Centralized Delivery Team and not your local Branch. For instant consideration for this Functional Strategy Generalist III position at Adecco, apply today!

Pay Details: $121.91 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

  • The California Fair Chance Act

  • Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

  • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Massachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,897 open Strategy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$121.91/hr
  • US median$39–51/hr50 hourly ranges

This rate, $121.91/hr, is 191% above the US median midpoint ($42/hr) — in the top quarter of Strategy hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 577 open Strategy jobs in New York and 4,897 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Strategy postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 4,476 postings).
Education
2,848 of the 4,897 open Strategy jobs (58%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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