Vice President, Strategic Planning & Project Management

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Inc.; Westchester (IL); In loco; USD 180.000 - 280.000; Tempo pieno

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RB Global is seeking a senior strategist to own the long-term plan that underpins a multi-year growth initiative. You will work for the CDSO and closely support the CEO, conducting analyses, writing materials, and leading a PMO team of four to drive cross-functional work with influence rather than authority.

You will stay close to execution to validate commitments, and you’ll have the opportunity to reshape the team as needed to maximize leverage and impact.

Competenze

• 5 years’ experience in top-tier strategy consulting firm and/or 5–10 years of experience, including at least two years at a leading strategy consulting firm.
• Ability to build and manipulate the model and identify driving assumptions.
• Ability to frame complex issues succinctly and provide direct recommendations.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and moving other functions without formal authority.

Mansioni

• Maintain and refresh a five-year plan with inputs from finance, commercial, and operating units.
• Define and validate the M&A strategy, size markets, and set screening criteria for the pipeline.
• Shape the physical footprint strategy including retail locations, storage, and warehousing initiatives.
• Lead the PMO to track initiatives, milestones, dependencies, and success measures.

Conoscenze

Strategic thinking

Financial modeling

Executive communication

People leadership

Board presentation

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About Us

RB Global (NYSE: RBA)

RB Global (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace that provides value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its auction sites in 13 countries and digital platform, RB Global serves customers in more than 170 countries across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture.

The company’s marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding, and IAA, a leading global digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers. RB Global’s portfolio of brands also includes Rouse Services, which provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers’ management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; Xcira, a leader in live simulcast auction technologies; and Veritread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport.

RB Global full-time employees are offered medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurances. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and RB Global will match 100% for the first 4% contributed. Employees will also receive 15 days of PTO each year.

Job Description

RB Global is executing a multi-year plan to roughly double GTV. This role owns the work that holds that plan together: the strategy itself, the strategic case for what we acquire, and the operating cadence that converts both into results. You will work for the CDSO and in close support of the CEO. You will do your own analysis and writing, lead a PMO team of four, and drive cross-functional work without relying on formal authority. You are expected to stay close enough to execution to know whether a commitment is real, and you will have latitude to reshape the team as you learn where the leverage is.

Responsibilities

What you’ll own

Five-year strategy

Maintain the plan as a living document rather than an annual artifact. Refresh it with inputs from finance, commercial, and the operating units, pressure-test the growth math, and turn it into a "how we win" narrative that leaders across the company can repeat without a deck in front of them.

M&A strategy

Define where we should be looking and why. Build the thesis and value case for each space, size the markets, and set the screening criteria that focus the pipeline. Corporate Development runs sourcing and execution; you set the direction it points.

Physical footprint strategy

When the growth plan calls for using our physical presence in a way we don’t today — retail locations, container storage, new service formats, added warehousing — you shape the strategy and build the business case. Properties owns the portfolio and takes it from approval through execution.

PMO

Lead the office that keeps strategic initiatives and post‑acquisition integrations on track: owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success, with slippage surfaced early enough that it can still be fixed. You inherit four people and are expected to form a view on what the function should become. If the case for more capacity holds up, make it.

Planning and performance cadence

Drive the weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual rhythm: KPI reporting, business performance reviews, and the planning cycle itself. This is chief‑of‑staff work in substance.

Qualifications

What you’ll bring

• 5 years’ experience in top-tier strategy consulting firm and or roughly 5 – 10 years of experience, including at least two years at a leading strategy consulting firm.


• You build the model yourself, know which assumptions actually move the answer, and separate fact from estimate.


• You can frame a complicated issue in two pages, make a recommendation, and answer the hard question directly.


• You have changed a senior leader's mind and moved another function to act without authority over it


• You can describe what changed after the presentation: a process, a commercial result, a customer outcome, a decision.


• You have led people and can raise the level of a small team of analysts and project leads. The team extends your reach; it does not replace your own work.


• Judgment and discretion. You will see the plan, the pipeline, and the numbers before most of the company does.


• You have experience preparing materials for and presenting to Board of Directors