VP, Strategy – Fire & Safety

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement the strategy for the Fire & Safety platform, including market positioning, competitive advantage, and necessary capabilities.

• Collaborate with leaders of business units to ensure alignment on strategic goals, resource distribution, and execution strategies.

• Conduct portfolio evaluations to uncover growth potential, adjacent opportunities, margin enhancement, untapped markets, and necessary strategic changes.

• Identify and prioritize growth opportunities that are organic across various customer segments, applications, regions, product platforms, services, and solution-oriented offerings.

• Formulate the go-to-market strategy, establish channel priorities, segment customers, identify solution-selling opportunities, and define value propositions.

• Enhance the innovation strategy by connecting product vitality with customer demands, market trends, and growth priorities to drive revenue and margin results.

• Create governance frameworks, key performance indicators (KPIs), and value tracking for strategic initiatives, innovation projects, AI-driven use cases, and commercial growth strategies.

• Develop market intelligence to encompass market size, growth rates, customer needs, competitive environments, technological advancements, regulatory trends, and new opportunities.

• Strengthen strategic planning through enhanced analytics, informed decision-making, and actionable execution plans.

• Convert strategy into actionable roadmaps with designated owners, timelines, KPIs, and value tracking mechanisms.

• Collaborate with business and functional leaders to achieve measurable impacts on revenue, margins, return on investment (ROI), and enterprise value.

• Oversee synergy objectives and identify opportunities across various capabilities, customer bases, channels, technologies, sourcing, operations, and commercial practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Economics, Finance, or a related discipline is required.

• An MBA or a relevant advanced degree is preferred.

• Approximately 8+ years of experience in strategy, corporate development, general management, commercial strategy, or similar leadership roles.

• Experience in industrial sectors, manufacturing, engineered products, mission-critical equipment, safety, emergency response, fluid management, or complex B2B environments is highly preferred.

• A proven history of creating and implementing growth strategies that yield above-market performance.

• Solid experience in portfolio strategy, market evaluation, competitive analysis, commercial strategy, and business case formulation.

• Strong financial acumen and analytical capabilities.

• Experience in developing or enhancing strategy capabilities, processes, teams, or governance frameworks across a business platform.

• Ability to link customer needs, market trends, competitive intelligence, financial performance, and operational capabilities.

• Competence in translating strategy into disciplined execution, clear governance, accountability, and measurable outcomes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonus plan may be available.

• Health benefits offered.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.

• Paid Time Off (PTO).