VP Strategy Fire & Safety

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Fire and Safety is a global platform within IDEX serving mission critical customers across fire suppression emergency response rescue industrial safety and related highly engineered solutions. The platform includes a diverse portfolio of businesses and brands serving municipal fire industrial OEM emergency rescue specialty vehicle and critical infrastructure customers.

The Vice President Strategy Fire & Safety will serve as the platforms strategist growth architect and thought partner. This leader will sit on the Fire & Safety leadership team and collaborate closely with the president business unit leaders commercial leaders functional leaders and corporate development to shape where Fire & Safety plays how it wins and how the platform delivers sustained profitable growth.

Summary Role Overview

Reporting to the President Fire & Safety the Vice President Strategy Fire & Safety will build and lead a best-in-class strategy capability that enables sustainable profitable growth across the global platform. This leader will be responsible for developing a clear differentiated Fire & Safety strategy that guides portfolio choices where-to-play/how-to-win decisions commercial focus innovation priorities inorganic growth and execution across business units and regions.

The VP Strategy will function as the strategic architect and execution partner to the President and the Fire & Safety leadership team. They will define and embed the platform strategy shape long-term direction identify major go-to-market shifts and prioritize the highest-value organic and inorganic growth bets. The role will partner closely with business unit leaders to ensure strategy is not a stand-alone planning exercise but a practical operating system that informs resource allocation commercial focus product vitality M&A priorities and measurable business outcomes.

This leader will also play a critical role in strengthening Fire & Safetys external and internal strategic narrative ensuring the platform has a compelling data-driven story supported by strong market intelligence customer insight competitive understanding and clear value creation logic.

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.
• Strengthen 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business Engineering Economics Finance or a related field required MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• 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.

Attributes and Skills

• Strategic thinker who simplifies complexity frames clear choices and brings focus to the highest-value opportunities.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect customer needs market dynamics competitive insight financial performance and operational capability.
• Highly analytical and comfortable working with data financials market intelligence and business performance metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into disciplined execution clear governance accountability and measurable outcomes.
• Growth-minded curious proactive and comfortable navigating ambiguity change and transformation.
• Talent champion who builds capability develops team members and fosters a culture of accountability collaboration and execution.

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