Growth Architect — Fire & Safety Strategy

IDEX; Ocala (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEX seeks a VP Strategy – Fire & Safety to lead the platform's strategy, growth, and governance on a global scale. You will shape where to play, how to win, and how to align resource allocation with measurable revenue and margin outcomes across business units.

You’ll partner with senior leaders to translate strategy into disciplined execution, build market intelligence, and drive inorganic and organic growth programs while embedding a data-driven narrative for the platform's success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, economics, finance, or related field required.
• MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical mindset

Growth mindset

Financial acumen

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/engineering/economics/finance

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job description

IDEX seeks a VP Strategy – Fire & Safety to lead the platform's strategy, growth, and governance on a global scale. You will shape where to play, how to win, and how to align resource allocation with measurable revenue and margin outcomes across business units.

You’ll partner with senior leaders to translate strategy into disciplined execution, build market intelligence, and drive inorganic and organic growth programs while embedding a data-driven narrative for the platform's success.