VP, Strategy- Fire & Safety

IDEX Corporation•Ocala, FL

4d•$134,700 - $202,100

About The Position

The VP, Strategy — Fire & Safety will serve as the platform’s strategist, growth architect, and thought partner. This leader will sit on the Fire & Safety leadership team and work closely with the president, business unit leaders, commercial leaders, functional leaders, and corporate development to shape the platform’s strategic direction and support sustained profitable growth. Reporting to the FSDP and FMT Segment, VP of Strategy, the role will build and lead a strategy capability for the global Fire & Safety platform. The VP 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 position will partner with business unit leaders to make strategy a practical operating system that informs resource allocation, commercial focus, product vitality, M&A priorities, and measurable business outcomes. It will also strengthen the platform’s 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.
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.
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.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, change, and transformation.
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 Fire & Safety platform strategy identifying 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 connecting 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, sharper choices, and more actionable execution plans.
Translate strategy into an execution roadmap with clear 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 by identifying opportunities to leverage common capabilities, customers, channels, technologies, sourcing, operations, and commercial practices across the platform.