Director, Strategic Planning

Director, Strategic Planning

Vertiv is scaling to meet the global surge in data center demand, and we need someone who can keep the machinery in sync. The Director, Strategic Planning serves as the connective tissue across Operations, Finance, Sales, Product, and Marketing-ensuring our biggest projects, capacity plans, and customer commitments stay aligned with reality. This is a high-visibility role; the work you do will directly influence how Vertiv responds to and delivers to the world's largest data-center customers.

Responsibilities

Act as the central coordinator for large, cross-functional planning initiatives tied to AI, hyperscale, and enterprise demand.

Track, analyze, and communicate demand and supply signals across Vertiv's global footprint-turning scattered inputs into clear decisions.

Partner with leaders across Operations, Finance, Sales, Offering Management, and Marketing to ensure alignment on capacity, timing, constraints, and tradeoffs.

Support SIOP cycles by building models, pressure-testing assumptions, and surfacing risks early.

Manage and update project trackers, capacity views, scenario analyses, and executive-level dashboards.

Lead or support special planning projects-factory expansions, supply-chain dependencies, product transitions, and long-range demand modeling.

Prepare concise updates for senior leadership that cut through noise and show what matters.

Bring order to chaos when business conditions shift quickly.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or Technology / Operations preferred; MBA preferred.

7+ years of experience, including tenure in a management consulting firm, internal business consulting function, or similar experience.

Advanced Microsoft Suite skills including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Strategic Thinking : evaluating industry trends, developing long-term implications, and recommending pragmatic strategies for new business opportunities.

Analytical Rigor : ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and intellectual leadership to problem solving; synthesize insights from analysis and ensure credible, actionable recommendations.

Communications skills : ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization, promote ideas and proposals persuasively. Ability to manage controversial situations, including senior-level leaders and external groups.

Physical & Environmental Demands

Experience in a global, multi-cultural environment.

Time Travel Required

Up to 20%.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities. Our Core Principals : Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion. Our Strategic Priorities

Customer Focus

Operational Excellence

High-Performance Culture

Innovation

Financial Strength

Our Behaviors

Own It

Act With Urgency

Foster a Customer-First Mindset

Think Big and Execute

Lead by Example

Drive Continuous Improvement

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