Strategic Project Manager

IDEX Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 113,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEX Corporation in the United States is seeking a Strategic Project Manager to lead high‑impact, cross‑functional initiatives. You will define scope, milestones, owners, risks, and success metrics, partnering with senior leaders to ensure disciplined execution across the organization.

You will develop integrated project plans, govern cadences, and escalate issues as needed to keep critical priorities on track.

Qualifications

• Project management experience leading cross‑functional initiatives in a complex, matrixed, or multi‑site environment, preferably in Commercial Operations.
• Demonstrated ability to build project plans, manage timelines, track milestones, identify risks, and drive accountability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive‑ready updates and facilitate decision‑making conversations.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive results through collaboration.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Must be able to work effectively in both strategic planning discussions and detailed execution environments.
• Must be able to support projects across multiple functions, businesses, and stakeholder groups.
• Must be comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment with evolving business needs.
• Role may require travel to business sites, project launch meetings, milestone reviews, and leadership working sessions.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and execution with clear charters, objectives, milestones, owners, deliverables, risks, decision points, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish governance, cadence, and accountability across initiatives.
• Initiative governance operating with disciplined cadences, clear escalation paths, and timely decision‑making.
• Surface risks, dependencies, and resource constraints early and actively manage them.
• Partner cross‑functionally to drive results and support business prioritization and value creation.
• Translate strategic initiatives into integrated project plans with deliverables, timelines, milestones, and ownership.
• Present project updates to executives with structure, clarity, and actionable recommendations.
• Contribute to PMO tools, templates, routines, and standards; build repeatable PMO processes.
• Embed disciplined operating routines in leadership decision‑making and execution.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Analytical thinking

Leadership presence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Office

Project reporting

Job description

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Strategic Project Manager is responsible for leading multiple high impact/complex, cross-functional projects that translate strategic priorities into clear, actionable, and measurable execution plans. Reporting to the President- F&S, this role will help drive disciplined project execution across the organization by defining project scope, milestones, deliverables, owners, risks, decision points, and success metrics.

This role is designed for a highly resourceful, business-minded project leader who can operate effectively in ambiguity, influence without authority, and move seamlessly between strategic thinking and hands‑on execution. The Strategic Project Manager will partner closely with business leaders, functional leaders, site teams, and initiative owners to ensure work is prioritized, resourced, governed, and executed with focus and accountability.

The role will support execution of the organization’s critical priorities by building integrated project plans, establishing governance routines, tracking progress, escalating risks, and helping teams make practical trade‑offs between competing priorities. The following role profile emphasizes converting strategic priorities into initiatives with clear outcomes, owners, milestones, and operating cadences, and this Strategic Project Manager role is intended to bring that same execution discipline to the PMO.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead project planning and execution.
• Projects have clear charters, objectives, milestones, owners, deliverables, risks, decision points, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish governance, cadence, and accountability.
• Initiative governance is operating with disciplined cadences, clear escalation paths, and timely decision‑making.
• Project risks, dependencies, and resource constraints are surfaced early and actively managed.
• Partner‑cross‑functionally to drive results; support business prioritization and value creation.
• Projects are connected to business priorities and supported by practical tools, routines, and operating mechanisms that help teams execute consistently.
• Navigate managing risk, issues, dependencies, and change.
• Communicate with executive presence; communicate complex project information in a way that is simple, structured, and actionable.
• Translate strategic initiatives, business priorities, and functional objectives into integrated project plans with clear deliverables, timelines, milestones, owners, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Demonstrate strong leadership presence, sound judgment, and confidence when presenting project updates, raising risks, and recommending solutions.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of PMO tools, templates, routines, and project management standards; build repeatable PMO tools and practices.
• Help reinforce disciplined operating routines so that project execution is embedded into how leaders manage the business, consistent with the attached document’s emphasis on cadence, governance, decision forums, and escalation paths.
• Build strong working relationships across diverse stakeholder groups and influence progress without relying on direct authority.
• Where applicable, help connect project work to 80/20 thinking, customer/product priorities, operational routines, and value‑creation opportunities, reflecting the attached document’s focus on using 80/20 principles to support simplification, segmentation, profitable growth, and resource allocation.
• All other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND REQUIRED ABILITIES

• Project management experience leading cross‑functional initiatives in a complex, matrixed, or multi‑site environment, preferably in Commercial Operations.
• Demonstrated ability to build project plans, manage timelines, track milestones, identify risks, and drive accountability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive‑ready updates and facilitate decision‑making conversations.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive results through collaboration.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Must be able to work effectively in both strategic planning discussions and detailed execution environments.
• Must be able to support projects across multiple functions, businesses, and stakeholder groups.
• Must be comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment with evolving business needs.
• Role may require travel to business sites, project launch meetings, milestone reviews, and leadership working sessions.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Organizational Effectiveness, or related field.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand operational, financial, organizational, and customer implications of project work.
• Experience working with senior leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• High comfort level operating in ambiguity and creating structure where none exists.
• Proficiency with project management tools, Microsoft Office applications, and project reporting methods.
• 7+ years of project management experience.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

Total Rewards

The compensation range for this position is $112,700.00 - $169,100.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.

Benefits Package

Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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