VP, Strategy – Fire & Safety

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

📋 Description

• Develop and implement a comprehensive Fire & Safety platform strategy that outlines target areas, winning approaches, and necessary capabilities.

• Collaborate with leaders of business units to synchronize strategic priorities, allocate resources, and formulate execution plans.

• Conduct portfolio evaluations to identify growth prospects, adjacency opportunities, margin enhancement, underpenetrated markets, and strategic repositioning.

• Recognize and prioritize organic growth opportunities across various customer segments, applications, geographical locations, product platforms, services, and solution-led offerings.

• Design the go-to-market strategy, establish channel priorities, define customer segmentation, explore solution selling opportunities, and create unique value propositions.

• Enhance the innovation strategy by aligning product vitality, customer requirements, market trends, and growth priorities with revenue and margin results.

• Set up governance structures, KPIs, and value tracking for strategic initiatives, innovation programs, AI-driven use cases, and commercial growth ventures.

• Develop Fire & Safety market intelligence that encompasses market size, growth rates, customer demands, competitive dynamics, technological shifts, regulatory trends, and emerging adjacencies.

• Enhance strategic planning through improved analytics, clearer choices, and actionable execution strategies.

• Convert strategy into execution roadmaps that include ownership, milestones, KPIs, and value tracking mechanisms.

• Collaborate with business and functional leaders to achieve measurable impacts on revenue, margin, ROI, and enterprise value.

• Take ownership of synergy objectives by identifying opportunities within shared capabilities, customer bases, channels, technologies, sourcing, operations, and commercial practices.

• Act as a strategist, growth architect, and advisor to the President and the Fire & Safety leadership team.

• Enhance the internal and external strategic narrative of Fire & Safety using market intelligence, customer insights, competitive understanding, and value creation logic.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• An MBA or relevant advanced degree is preferred.

• Around 8+ years of experience in strategy, corporate development, general management, commercial strategy, or related leadership positions.

• 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 developing and executing growth strategies that achieve above-market performance.

• Strong expertise in portfolio strategy, market analysis, competitive evaluation, commercial strategy, and business case formulation.

• Solid financial and analytical capabilities.

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

• Ability to connect customer needs, market dynamics, competitive insights, financial performance, and operational capacities.

• Proficient in translating strategy into disciplined execution, with clear governance, accountability, and measurable results.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for a performance-based bonus plan.

• Health benefits.

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

• Paid Time Off (PTO).