VP, Strategy- Fire & Safety

IDEX•Northbrook, IL

About The Position

The VP, Strategy — Fire & Safety will serve as the platform’s strategist, growth architect, and thought partner. As a member of the Fire & Safety leadership team, this leader will work closely with the president, business unit leaders, commercial and functional leaders, and corporate development to shape the platform’s strategic direction and support sustained profitable growth across its global portfolio. Reporting to the FSDP and FMT Segment, VP of Strategy, the role will build and lead a best-in-class strategy capability. It will develop and embed a differentiated platform strategy that guides portfolio choices, where-to-play/how-to-win decisions, commercial focus, innovation priorities, inorganic growth, and execution across business units and regions. The role will translate strategy into practical plans that inform resource allocation, product vitality, M&A priorities, and measurable business outcomes. The VP will strengthen the platform’s strategic narrative through data-driven market intelligence, customer insight, competitive understanding, and clear value-creation logic. The position will also establish governance and value tracking for strategic initiatives and partner with business and functional leaders to deliver measurable revenue, margin, return-on-investment, and enterprise-value impact.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, economics, finance, or a related field.
Approximately 8 or more years of experience in strategy, corporate development, general management, commercial strategy, or related leadership roles.
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, including the ability to connect market insights and strategic choices to business outcomes.
Experience building or elevating strategy capabilities, processes, teams, or governance models across a business platform.

Nice To Haves

MBA or relevant advanced degree.
Experience in industrials, manufacturing, engineered products, mission-critical equipment, safety, emergency response, fluid management, or complex B2B environments.

Responsibilities

Define and embed a Fire & Safety platform strategy that identifies where to play, how to win, and the capabilities needed for sustained profitable growth.
Partner with business unit leaders to align strategic priorities, resource allocation, and execution plans across the portfolio.
Lead portfolio assessments to identify growth opportunities, adjacency plays, margin expansion, whitespace, underpenetrated markets, and areas for strategic repositioning.
Identify and prioritize organic growth opportunities across 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, and differentiated value propositions.
Strengthen innovation strategy by linking product vitality, customer needs, market trends, and growth priorities to measurable revenue and margin outcomes.
Establish governance, KPIs, and value tracking for strategic initiatives, innovation programs, AI-enabled use cases, and commercial growth bets.
Build a market intelligence capability covering market size and growth, customer needs, competitive dynamics, technology shifts, regulatory trends, and emerging adjacencies.
Partner with business units to improve strategic planning through stronger analytics, clearer choices, and actionable execution plans.
Translate strategy into an execution roadmap with owners, milestones, KPIs, and value tracking.
Partner with business and functional leaders to ensure strategic initiatives deliver measurable revenue, margin, return-on-investment, and enterprise-value impact.
Own synergy goals with business leaders and identify opportunities to leverage common capabilities, customers, channels, technologies, sourcing, operations, and commercial practices across the platform.