Senior Director, Strategy

Job Description:

There’s never been a better time to join our team. The thousands of ESAB associates located around the world share a common set of goals and values that drive our success and unparalleled innovation in fabrication technology and specialty gas control equipment. At ESAB, we value and respect everyone’s uniqueness and know that our experiences as individuals strengthen our company. And we know that our ability to collaborate, transform, and empower one another is what makes us unstoppable.

With our culture of continuous improvement and innovation and our commitment to living our values, working at ESAB is a career experience like no other. We have more than 9,000 passionate associates in locations across six continents, and we empower our team members to shape the world we imagine every day.

If you have a strong desire to be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge innovations and solutions and positively impacts the community, please check out our career opportunities. We help serve a diverse range of industries such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, robotics, shipbuilding, and so much more.

Your Opportunity:

The Senior Director, Strategy is a trusted advisor to the global leadership and will lead the strategy and business development activities for various business initiatives, including portfolio assessments projects, growth opportunities, acquisition, and business development activities. The Senior Director, Strategy will have frequent interactions with the executive management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as well as strategic business unit Presidents and functional leaders.

This is an internal consulting leadership role, and as such the successful candidate must possess excellent business acumen, interpersonal skills, communication skills, and leadership to further advance to a significant functional and/or business leadership position.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

The Senior Director, Strategy will report to the Chief of Strategy and Corporate Development who in turn reports to the CEO and will have responsibilities in business growth through both organic and acquisitive means. This is a strategic thought leadership role and facilitator of enterprise value.

Identify key growth opportunities and pathways to execute on those opportunities.

• Develop new ideas and constructively challenge existing ones, for the organization to refine its “where to play” and
• “How to win” choices to drive growth, and sustain competitive advantage
• Own strategy development for opportunities that break new ground and expand addressable market
• Partner with the leadership team to continuously refine strategies and priorities to help achieve growth, customer
• experience enhancement, and margin expansion goals
• Partner with General Managers and other key functional leaders to develop M&A strategy and M&A pipeline
• globally
• Provide thought leadership and drive the process of assessing the strategic fit, synergy potential, and key risks to
• enable the executive team to make well-informed inorganic investment decisions
• Coordinate competitive intelligence across the business, focusing on market sizing, share of market, and growth
• trends and drivers, and competitors
• Support / Develop multi-year strategic plan and annual operating plan performance plan, budget, and targets
• Develop strategic plans that enable the company to grow faster than the market in selected verticals
• Help lead cross-line of business initiatives and identify strategic priorities
  
  

Qualifications:

• The Senior Director, Strategy will bring experience developing strategic growth and business development plans.
• Corporate experience combined with top-tier strategic management-consulting experience is strongly preferred.
• They must have proven success defining and implementing strategic planning, growth, and/or operational enhancement initiatives in a global manufacturing or related industry. The successful candidate must possess proven strategic, analytical and implementation skills.
• 10 plus years’ strategy experience driving growth initiatives in industrial manufacturing with global reach
• Experience defining strategy plans with a fact-based approach to competitive analysis, customer segmentation, market attractiveness and product positioning, financial analysis, external and execution risks, potential impact and scenario planning, resource requirements, and regional and global implications
• Experience defining “white space” opportunities and accessing adjacencies (in market, product, share of wallet, technology and related) and think beyond where we are today
• Exposure with implementing portfolio positioning and growth options
• Engagement project lead / project manager
• Business case development with financial acumen and strategy toolkit
• M&A and divestiture identifying and developing targets and modeling scenarios
• Strong project management, financial and analytical skills
• Global exposure, with experience in developing effective global business strategies across many different operating environments
• Breadth of industrial experience such as automation, software digitization, technology or related preferred
• Global work experience desirable
• Experience in a non-strategy role desirable
  
  

Leadership Qualifications:

The Senior Director, Strategy will be expected to be a high-energy, creative, and resourceful self-starter who demonstrates leadership skills and instincts. In terms of personal competencies, the successful candidate must be a hands-on person who possesses the best combination of strategic thinking that also leads to tangible results. They will be an excellent broad-based business thinker who can collaborate effectively with peers and executive functional and senior business line leaders.

In addition, the Senior Director, Strategy should possess the following competencies:

• Managerial courage to constructively challenge guide senior leaders
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial
• Ability to think “on their feet” in a structured manner and immediately add value to high -level management interactions
• Leadership gravitas: A confident, mature person with the ability to connect and inspire others
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal): able to communicate complex concepts effectively and develop compelling executive and Board presentations
  
  

Education:

• Undergraduate degree is required; and graduate degree preferably MBA, is strongly desired.
  
  

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO):

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of sex, color, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), religion, military/veteran status, national origin, marital status, family or caregiver responsibilities, or any other characteristic or status protected by law.