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SME Southfield, MI
Responsible for ensuring SME's strategy, growth ideas, and new initiatives are market-validated, economically viable, organizationally integrated, and designed to scale.The Vice President, Strategy and Enterprise Integration sits at the center of SME executive leadership and works in close partnership with the CEO to translate mission and vision into a prioritized, integrated portfolio of initiatives—moving ideas from concept through feasibility, funding strategy, and go-to-market readiness before transitioning execution to appropriate department leaders.
The role is highly collaborative and intentionally designed to prevent silos, leverage SME's full capabilities and value, and ensure that vertical strategies and new offerings reinforce one another.This role partners with other members of the SME executive leadership team to align workforce and technology strategies across the organization for measurable mission and outcomes.
Major functions include co-owning SME's enterprise strategic plan facilitation and development with the CEO, architecting and maintaining a portfolio view of strategic initiatives, identifying opportunities for cross-vertical leverage, developing and maintaining clear manufacturer segmentation strategies, owning and operating SME's enterprise stage-gate process for new business, leading structured evaluation of ideas, ensuring leadership focus is inclusive of idea generation to disciplined prioritization and follow-through, leading market feasibility analysis, monitoring competitive landscape and market dynamics, overseeing the organizational market intelligence function, developing business cases and operating models, identifying and prioritizing strategic funding pathways, partnering closely with the CFO to structure blended funding approaches, supporting early execution through initial pilots or market entry, ensuring SME offerings are designed and positioned as integrated solutions, maintaining an enterprise view of how SME's assets combine to deliver differentiated value, strategically convening industry members and experts, establishing and maintaining a strategic performance framework, monitoring and reporting on the health of the enterprise initiative portfolio, defining and tracking strategy-level, outcome-oriented metrics, providing the CEO and executive leadership with decision-oriented insights, partnering with the Vice President, Organizational Impact & Strategic Initiatives, providing direction, coaching and leadership, fostering a high-performance culture of collaboration, accountability and innovation, negotiating and approving agreements and contracts, preparing and overseeing annual department budget, and other duties as assigned.
Requirements include a bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred, at least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise strategy, corporate development, business planning, management consulting, portfolio management, venture building, or growth leadership, at least 5 years of experience managing and leading high-performing teams, proven ability to develop and implement growth strategies, demonstrated success leading organizational initiatives, strategic partnerships, and externally funded programs, deep understanding of manufacturing industry dynamics, workforce and advanced technology, exceptional cross-functional leadership skills and external relationship management, experience working with academia, government, and corporate stakeholders, familiarity with federal and state funding mechanisms and industry consortia, proven ability to develop, refresh, and operationalize enterprise strategy in a complex organization, strong capability in portfolio prioritization, strategic trade-off decisions, and aligning cross-functional leaders around a shared direction, experience building business cases and implementation roadmaps, including resource planning and go-to-market readiness, experience designing and leading structured evaluation processes, exceptional ability to influence without authority, drive alignment, and integrate priorities across multiple executive leaders and business units, strong executive communication skills, high judgment, discretion, and ability to operate as a trusted advisor to the CEO, strong analytical capability, including comfort with data-driven decision making, KPI design, and portfolio monitoring, and prior experience operating within a mission-driven organization with a strong business orientation.
Key competencies include communication and collaboration, relationship management, professionalism and integrity, critical thinking and decision-making, execution, initiative, leadership, and development.
Leadership competencies include leadership and vision, talent management and development, and change leadership.
Job specific competencies include enterprise strategy architecture, portfolio governance & investment discipline, market & competitive intelligence, business & funding strategy development, and strategic trade-off & capital allocation decision-making.
Working conditions include normal office environment, primary office location: Southfield, MI, regular, in-person attendance required, travel required.
SME Southfield, MI
Responsible for ensuring SME's strategy, growth ideas, and new initiatives are market-validated, economically viable, organizationally integrated, and designed to scale.The Vice President, Strategy and Enterprise Integration sits at the center of SME executive leadership and works in close partnership with the CEO to translate mission and vision into a prioritized, integrated portfolio of initiatives—moving ideas from concept through feasibility, funding strategy, and go-to-market readiness before transitioning execution to appropriate department leaders.
The role is highly collaborative and intentionally designed to prevent silos, leverage SME's full capabilities and value, and ensure that vertical strategies and new offerings reinforce one another.This role partners with other members of the SME executive leadership team to align workforce and technology strategies across the organization for measurable mission and outcomes.
Major functions include co-owning SME's enterprise strategic plan facilitation and development with the CEO, architecting and maintaining a portfolio view of strategic initiatives, identifying opportunities for cross-vertical leverage, developing and maintaining clear manufacturer segmentation strategies, owning and operating SME's enterprise stage-gate process for new business, leading structured evaluation of ideas, ensuring leadership focus is inclusive of idea generation to disciplined prioritization and follow-through, leading market feasibility analysis, monitoring competitive landscape and market dynamics, overseeing the organizational market intelligence function, developing business cases and operating models, identifying and prioritizing strategic funding pathways, partnering closely with the CFO to structure blended funding approaches, supporting early execution through initial pilots or market entry, ensuring SME offerings are designed and positioned as integrated solutions, maintaining an enterprise view of how SME's assets combine to deliver differentiated value, strategically convening industry members and experts, establishing and maintaining a strategic performance framework, monitoring and reporting on the health of the enterprise initiative portfolio, defining and tracking strategy-level, outcome-oriented metrics, providing the CEO and executive leadership with decision-oriented insights, partnering with the Vice President, Organizational Impact & Strategic Initiatives, providing direction, coaching and leadership, fostering a high-performance culture of collaboration, accountability and innovation, negotiating and approving agreements and contracts, preparing and overseeing annual department budget, and other duties as assigned.
Requirements include a bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred, at least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise strategy, corporate development, business planning, management consulting, portfolio management, venture building, or growth leadership, at least 5 years of experience managing and leading high-performing teams, proven ability to develop and implement growth strategies, demonstrated success leading organizational initiatives, strategic partnerships, and externally funded programs, deep understanding of manufacturing industry dynamics, workforce and advanced technology, exceptional cross-functional leadership skills and external relationship management, experience working with academia, government, and corporate stakeholders, familiarity with federal and state funding mechanisms and industry consortia, proven ability to develop, refresh, and operationalize enterprise strategy in a complex organization, strong capability in portfolio prioritization, strategic trade-off decisions, and aligning cross-functional leaders around a shared direction, experience building business cases and implementation roadmaps, including resource planning and go-to-market readiness, experience designing and leading structured evaluation processes, exceptional ability to influence without authority, drive alignment, and integrate priorities across multiple executive leaders and business units, strong executive communication skills, high judgment, discretion, and ability to operate as a trusted advisor to the CEO, strong analytical capability, including comfort with data-driven decision making, KPI design, and portfolio monitoring, and prior experience operating within a mission-driven organization with a strong business orientation.
Key competencies include communication and collaboration, relationship management, professionalism and integrity, critical thinking and decision-making, execution, initiative, leadership, and development.
Leadership competencies include leadership and vision, talent management and development, and change leadership.
Job specific competencies include enterprise strategy architecture, portfolio governance & investment discipline, market & competitive intelligence, business & funding strategy development, and strategic trade-off & capital allocation decision-making.
Working conditions include normal office environment, primary office location: Southfield, MI, regular, in-person attendance required, travel required.
