THE COMPANY

Our client is a water technology company.

THE POSITION

This role is designed for a leader who excels at leading the development of strategic plans, managing multiple strategic priorities, leading the integration of acquisitions and driving the execution of strategic initiatives through a structured management system and cadence. The right candidate will work with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and broader Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to challenge thinking and identify initiatives with “breakthrough” potential. The candidate will also ensure alignment across functions and business units, monitor progress against targets and drive results, using the company’s Strategic Deployment Process (SDP).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and support the strategic planning and LRP process and annual development, execution, tracking and governance of the company’s long-range plan, working with the team to define and support the development of the 3-5 major initiatives to drive, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategic goals.
• Embed LRP initiatives into the SDP: Translate into a set of executable initiatives with accountable owners, clear timeframes and measurable targets/KPIs.
• Drive the execution of the strategic roadmap to ensure company goals are met and exceeded.
• Facilitate the business system at the business unit/functional level to enable delivery of the LRP and SDP process, which includes the development of business cases, detail plans, success factors and metrics, and coordinating and facilitating monthly and quarterly meetings, KPI and TTI tracking and development of countermeasures.
• Identify capability gaps that create risks to executing initiatives and highlight these gaps and proposed solutions. Ensure capabilities, systems and processes are appropriately scaled to support the BU growth.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement efforts to raise the performance bar across processes to bring them to the next level and make sustainable in the long term, driving root-cause analysis and countermeasure process.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven track record of leading and facilitating strategic planning processes.
• Deep experience and success in identifying and driving transformational initiatives that have had impact on both the top and bottom lines.
• Demonstrated success in managing complex product solutions, including solid planning, priority setting and project management skills with experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders in a dynamic business environment.
• Strong analytical skills and a value-oriented mindset to effectively manage strategic planning and development of value cases and execution plans.
• Can formulate and articulate comprehensive business cases for new opportunities and operational improvements to help assess trade-offs and prioritization.
• Demonstrated experience and leadership in M&A integration.