VP Strategy - Fire & Safety: Growth Architect

IDEX Corporation

Northbrook (IL)

On-site

USD 222,000 - 333,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

IDEX Corporation is seeking a VP Strategy for Fire & Safety to shape the platform's growth, define where to play, how to win, and guide investments across global businesses. You will partner with senior leaders to translate strategy into a disciplined execution roadmap with clear governance and measurable outcomes.

The role requires 8+ years in strategy leadership, strong financial acumen, and a track record in industrials or engineered products.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Economics, Finance, or a related field required.
Approximately 8+ years of experience in strategy, corporate development, general management, commercial strategy, or related leadership roles.
Experience in industrials, manufacturing, engineered products, mission-critical equipment, safety, emergency response, fluid management, or complex B2B environments strongly preferred.
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, with the ability to connect market insights, strategic choices, and business outcomes.
Experience building or elevating strategy capabilities, processes, teams, or governance models across a business platform.

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.
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.