Strategic Growth Leader

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver cross-functional, global strategic projects with clear business impact (growth, margin, market share, productivity, business model etc.)
• Act as initiative owner or program lead, ensuring milestones, ownership, and outcomes are clearly defined and delivered.
• Ensure strategic alignment across regions, businesses, and functions, balancing global direction with local execution realities.

Data Analytics & Insight Generation

• Leverage internal data (e.g., sales, pipeline, pricing, product mix, market trends) to generate actionable insights for leadership.
• Design and monitor KPIs, dashboards, and performance reviews tied to strategic initiatives and business objectives.

Global Process Management & Planning

• Lead or support optimization of global, cross-functional processes critical to growth and execution (e.g., strategy deployment, commercial processes, planning and review cycles).
• Drive continuous improvement in speed, clarity, and accountability across global ways of working.

Commercial Excellence

• Drive commercial excellence initiatives as Laird focal point person.
• Support development and deployment of commercial frameworks and best practices across regions and businesses.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Engineering, Electronics/Electrical, Economics, or related field; MBA or equivalent strongly preferred.
• 5–10+ years of experience in strategy, management consulting, corporate development, commercial excellence, or business transformation, preferably in a global industrial or technology environment.
• Strategic and structured thinker with strong execution capabilities.
• Good commercial acumen and business judgment.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complexity into clear insights and recommendations.
• Data-driven, insight-oriented decision making.
• Proven capability to influence without authority in a matrixed, global organization.
• Clear, concise executive communication.