Strategic Planner

Supporting the Power Project Management Office, this role shapes the company’s direction and creates plans to achieve business objectives by solving customers' most pressing challenges. Collaborate across AC Power product lines and functional teams to maintain competitive edge and allocate resources for maximum return on investments.

Responsibilities

• Support product strategy team with analysis, tools, models, and management cadence for strategic growth areas.
• Conduct primary and secondary research to examine competitive performance, market needs, and growth opportunities.
• Assist teams and business leaders in structuring business cases, customer segmentation, competitive analysis, value-based pricing, economic benchmarking, and technological analysis across business segments.
• Structure customer- and market-segmentation, develop market models, and derive insights from internal and external data sources.
• Support business leaders with analysis, modeling, and research tools to develop recommendations and business plans for programs and service development.
• Consult with stakeholders to uncover solutions to business challenges through critical thinking, external benchmarking, and internal best practices.
• Drive proactive project cadence and coordination with diverse stakeholders to ensure timely and successful outcomes.
• Manipulate market databases, financial modeling, and analysis in tools such as Excel and Power BI to construct forecasts and analytical models.
• Perform other activities as requested and prioritized by the Global Vice President of Strategy for Products & Solutions.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a consulting firm or internal business consulting function leading initiative teams in strategy, operations, and transformation projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, or related field; MBA preferred.
• Complex program management experience.
• Analytical skills to assess the impact of recommendations on the organization and change management needs.
• Clear, well-developed oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build diverse relationships internally and externally and excel within a matrix organization.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Smartsheet and Power BI experience preferred.

Skills

• Strategic Thinking: Evaluating industry trends, developing long-term implications, and recommending pragmatic strategies for continuous improvement and new business opportunities.
• Analytical Rigor: Ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and provide intellectual leadership; synthesize insights from analysis to ensure credible, actionable recommendations.
• Communications Skills: Ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization and promote ideas persuasively.

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics, and ongoing services to enable customers' vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally, and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves challenges in data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling, and IT infrastructure solutions and services. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and operates in more than 130 countries.

This position is located onsite at our Delaware, OH location. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship is not available for this role.