Director - Corporate Strategy
Timken, North Canton, OH, United States
Director – Corporate Strategy
A senior executive responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing Timken’s corporate strategy to drive growth, innovation, and long-term success. The role leads strategic planning, program execution, and cross‑functional collaboration to elevate enterprise performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and refine the enterprise strategy in collaboration with the executive team.
- Conduct portfolio analysis and develop strategy for each business in the portfolio.
- Conduct industry, market, and trend analysis to identify opportunities, risks, and threats.
- Ensure clear communication of strategy and direction to all stakeholders to drive alignment, engagement, and adoption.
- Set the corporate growth strategy and multi‑year roadmap, aligning priorities across business units with clear KPIs and financial targets.
- Build and manage business case, financial and scenario models to prioritize investments.
- Lead cross‑functional execution: sponsor pilots, remove barriers, allocate resources, and ensure timely scaling of successful experiments.
- Develop enterprise‑level reporting and dashboards to track organic growth performance, risk, and ROI; present results to executive leadership and the Board.
- Foster a culture of test‑and‑learn: rapid experiments, clear success criteria, and disciplined scale‑or‑kill decision‑making.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- 12+ years of strategy, commercial, product management, or corporate development experience, including significant senior/leadership roles; experience with a reputed strategic consulting firm preferred.
- Demonstrated track record of creating and delivering strategic plans in industrial/manufacturing or B2B technology environments.
- Strong financial acumen and experience building investment‑grade business cases and rolling forecasts.
- Experience leading complex, cross‑functional transformation programs (commercial models, product launches, pricing).
- Excellent communicator and influencer with experience presenting to executive leadership and Boards.
- Comfortable working in matrixed organizations and driving change through influence rather than direct authority.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences, and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Commitment to a sustainable world and community impact
- A culture of top performance and continuous improvement
- Leadership opportunities across a global, innovative organization
- Balanced work‑life and professional growth prospects