Senior Director - WU Strategy & Transformation + Apply Now + Start applying with LinkedIn + **Please wait...** Job Description Grundfos Water Utility is seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Strategy and Transformation. As a Senior Director, you will join our esteemed WU Leadership team and report directly to our Water Utility divisional CEO. _ _ **What is the job about?** Join our team as a strategic and entrepreneurial Senior Director shaping and implementing the Water Utilities strategy. You will be instrumental in driving our growth through strategic execution, delivering short-term results and long-term transformational initiatives that directly impact our divisional growth and success. With a focus on Strategy deployment , transformation and mergers and acquisitions, we seek someone with an entrepreneurial mindset, effective collaboration skills (across functions and geographies), and a solution-oriented approach. Building relationships internally and externally and influencing at all levels will be crucial. If you excel in leading transformational journeys and defining clear M&A portfolios then we want to hear from you.   **Your main responsibilities:** + Collect market trends, assess the competitive landscape, and identify white spaces for organic and inorganic growth opportunities, presenting them to the Water Utility Leadership Team. + Continuously refresh the Water Utility strategy, developing an execution roadmap with clear milestones, timelines, and governance mechanisms, aiming for target topline and EBIT growth. + Support the WU Leadership team members in developing their functional strategies, providing a clear execution roadmap for the three years strategic plan deployment cycles. + Manage internal communication to ensure all Water Utility colleagues understand and align with the strategy, aiding in the achievement of short and long-term ambitions. + Own and drive X-Matrix with the rest of the WU leadership team. Drive the annual strategic planning cycle, including business review meetings with Group Management and other reporting obligations. + Build, manage, and execute the M&A portfolio in coordination with the WU Leadership team and group functions, facilitating inorganic growth ambitions. + Lead the integration and management of acquired companies, joint ventures, partnerships, and other inorganic growth drivers to exceed value creation goals. + Execute key transformations, choices, and enablers outlined in the Water Utility strategy. + Lead the transformation of core functions (Commercial, Marketing, Operations, Product Development) by optimizing structure, design, investment, and KPIs in collaboration with other WU LT partners. + Build a high-caliber team focused on inorganic growth, strategy development and deployment, and complex problem solving across the value chain, with the potential for scaling up or down as needed. (Initial team of 3 FTEs with continuous up and down scaling depending on the need.)   **Your background** We imagine that you have: + Master’s Degree in Business administration or relevant field + 10+ years of relevant functional and senior leadership experience in a multicultural and multi-national environment. + 10+ years of experience in water industry with deep knowledge of target markets in USA and Europe. + Ability to conceptualize and deploy entrepreneurial management in a structured and rigorous approach + Transformational leadership capabilities to develop and commercialize new-to-company and new-to-market offerings + Proven experience developing and executing key strategic initiatives within a complex/matrix business environment + Strong background in leading, coaching and developing director-level leaders + Extensive strategy development and deployment experience + Experience with M&A and transformation skills + Extensive project management skills + Strong communication skills and stakeholder management + Fluent in spoken and written English **About Water Utilities** Water Utilities (WU) is headquartered at Houston, Texas. This division focuses primarily on two industry verticals: Ground Water Intake (GWI) to bring water from underground to where it is needed and the Municipal segment serving a multitude of large and small municipal institutions in centralized and decentralized settings. Given the favorable macro trends such as population growth, urbanization, climate change and sustainability, this division has ambitious goals to grow significantly leveraging organic and in-organic growth plans. The Water Utilities division has 2500 colleagues around the world with multiple manufacturing sites and technology centers serving commercial presence in most of the countries globally. **What’s in it for you?** You’ll be an invaluable part of our global leadership team, a diverse network of leaders guiding others in seeing possibilities, not problems. You will be key in promoting our encouraging outlook to advance global innovation and purpose, exemplifying our six core values (https://www.grundfos.com/about-us/our-purpose-and-values) and guiding our colleagues in living them daily in global projects. We guide your career journey, offering tools to refine your skills and explore new areas such as diversity and inclusion, coaching, and culture.    In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:  + Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly.  + If you’ll be working from your home office, we’ll make sure you are well equipped with a workstation. However, you are always welcome to our offices where you can engage, learn, and have fun with colleagues.   + On the top of it, flexible working hours and up to 20 paid vacation days. Vacation hours are accrued on a prorated basis, based on your hire date within the calendar year. + Annual bonuses, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programs. + Competitive medical insurance rates medical, dental, and vision plans; and a 401(k)-match program. + Access to the modern Grundfos Academy to pursue further both personal and professional development.  **If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume by clicking “Apply”.** **Please note** : + While we offer a hybrid work set up, the ideal candidate is preferably based in Houston, Texas, along with the WU leadership team + This position comes with approximately 35-40% travel and as a result, candidates should be able to maintain valid identification. + Relocation for this position cannot be supported and qualified candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Sponsorship is not available for applicants for US Work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa. To dig deeper into the Grundfos universe, follow us on LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/company/grundfos%22%20/t%20%22\_blank) or YouTube (http://linkedin.com/company/grundfos%22%20/t%20%22\_blank) . Check out Meet our people (https://www.grundfos.com/careers/meet-our-people) to get to know some of your future colleagues and why they enjoy working at Grundfos.   _Grundfos needs and welcomes professional people from all corners and backgrounds by providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. 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Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities._ **We look forward to hearing from you.** + Apply Now + Start applying with LinkedIn + **Please wait...** Information at a Glance **Job Details** Application deadline: As soon as possible Workplace: Hybrid (office and home-working) Job Location: Brookshire, Texas, United States | Houston, Texas, United States | Katy, Texas, United States Contract Type: Full-Time Employment Type: Regular