VP, Strategy - Fire & Safety

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact. With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you. VP Strategy - Fire & Safety 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 VP, Strategy — Fire & Safety will serve as the platform’s 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.

Role Overview Reporting to the FSDP and FMT Segment, VP of Strategy, the VP 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 - Fire & Safety 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 & Safety’s 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.

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. Strengthening 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