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VP, Strategy - Fire & Safety
IDEX Corporation
Ocala, USA
Full-time
Executive · 8+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Full Job Posting
Responsibilities
- Define and embed a clear Fire & Safety platform strategy that identifies where to play, how to win, and the capabilities needed to achieve sustained profitable growth.
- Partner with business unit leaders to align strategic priorities, resource allocation, and execution plans across the Fire & Safety portfolio.
- Lead portfolio assessment work to identify growth opportunities, adjacency plays, margin expansion opportunities, whitespace, underpenetrated markets, and areas requiring strategic repositioning.
- Identify and prioritize the highest-value organic growth opportunities across Fire & Safety, including customer segments, applications, geographies, product platforms, services, and solution-led offerings.
- Partner with commercial and business leaders to shape go-to-market strategy, channel priorities, customer segmentation, solution selling opportunities, and differentiated value propositions.
- Strengthening innovation strategy by linking product vitality, customer needs, market trends, and growth priorities to measurable revenue and margin outcomes.
- Establish clear governance, KPIs, and value tracking for strategic initiatives, innovation programs, AI-enabled use cases, and commercial growth bets.
- Build a robust market intelligence capability for Fire & Safety, including credible insight into market size, growth rates, customer needs, competitive dynamics, technology shifts, regulatory trends, and emerging adjacencies.
- Partner with business units to raise the quality of strategic planning through stronger analytics, sharper choices, and more actionable execution plans.
- Translate strategy into a disciplined execution roadmap with clear owners, milestones, KPIs, and value tracking.
- Partner with business and functional leaders to ensure top strategic initiatives deliver measurable impact on revenue, margin, return on investment, and enterprise value.
- Own synergy goals in partnership with business leaders, identifying opportunities to leverage common capabilities, customers, channels, technologies, sourcing, operations, and commercial practices across the platform.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Economics, Finance, or a related field required, MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
- Approximately 8+ years of experience in strategy, corporate development, general management, commercial strategy, or related leadership roles.
- Experience in industrials, manufacturing, engineered products, mission-critical equipment, safety, emergency response, fluid management, or complex B2B environments strongly preferred.
- Proven track record developing and executing growth strategies that deliver above-market performance.
- Strong experience with portfolio strategy, market assessment, competitive analysis, commercial strategy, and business case development.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, with the ability to connect market insights, strategic choices, and business outcomes.
- Experience building or elevating strategy capabilities, processes, teams, or governance models across a business platform.
- Attributes and Skills
- Strategic thinker who simplifies complexity, frames clear choices, and brings focus to the highest-value opportunities.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect customer needs, market dynamics, competitive insight, financial performance, and operational capability.
- Highly analytical and comfortable working with data, financials, market intelligence, and business performance metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into disciplined execution, clear governance, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
- Growth-minded, curious, proactive, and comfortable navigating ambiguity, change, and transformation.
- Talent champion who builds capability, develops team members, and fosters a culture of accountability, collaboration, and execution.
- Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?
- IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.
- Attention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected] for assistance with an accommodation. These contact tools may be used only by individuals with a disability for accommodation requests. Do not inquire as to the status of an application.
About IDEX Corporation
Diversified Manufacturing9000 employeesFounded 1988
Global industrial leader developing highly engineered components and solutions.
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