VP, Strategy- Fire & Safety

IDEX•Ocala, FL

About The Position

The VP, Strategy — Fire & Safety will serve as the platform’s strategist, growth architect, and thought partner. Fire & Safety is a global platform serving mission-critical customers across fire suppression, emergency response, rescue, industrial safety, and related highly engineered solutions. The platform includes businesses and brands serving municipal fire, industrial, OEM, emergency rescue, specialty vehicle, and critical infrastructure customers. Reporting to the FSDP and FMT Segment, VP of Strategy, this leader will build and lead a best-in-class strategy capability to enable sustainable, profitable growth across the global platform. The role will develop and embed a differentiated 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 VP will work closely with the President and Fire & Safety leadership team, business unit leaders, commercial and functional leaders, and corporate development. The role will shape long-term direction, identify major go-to-market shifts, and prioritize high-value organic and inorganic growth opportunities. It will ensure strategy informs resource allocation, commercial focus, product vitality, M&A priorities, and measurable business outcomes. The VP will also strengthen the platform’s internal and external strategic narrative through market intelligence, customer insight, competitive understanding, and clear value-creation logic.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, economics, finance, or a related field.
Approximately 8+ years of experience in strategy, corporate development, general management, commercial strategy, or related leadership roles.
Track record of developing and executing growth strategies that deliver above-market performance.
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 and strategic choices to business outcomes.
Experience building or elevating strategy capabilities, processes, teams, or governance models across a business platform.
Ability to simplify complexity, frame clear strategic choices, and focus on high-value opportunities.
Business acumen connecting customer needs, market dynamics, competitive insight, financial performance, and operational capability.
Ability to translate strategy into disciplined execution, governance, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
Comfort navigating ambiguity, change, and transformation, with a growth-minded and proactive approach.
Ability to build capability, develop team members, and foster accountability, collaboration, and execution.

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 clear Fire & Safety platform strategy, including 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, growth rates, 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, identifying opportunities to leverage common capabilities, customers, channels, technologies, sourcing, operations, and commercial practices across the platform.