Strategic Growth Leader
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Qnity
Cleveland, OH, US
Summary
The Strategic Growth Leader is responsible for leading high-impact strategic projects and initiatives that drive growth and enhance organizational effectiveness. This role involves data-driven decision making and strengthening global process management.
Job Description
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Strategic Growth Leader
Job Description:
The Strategic Growth Leader plays a critical role in shaping and executing Laird’s global growth agenda. This position is responsible for leading high‑impact strategic projects /initiatives, data‑driven decision making, strengthening global process management and commercial excellence.
Operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, the Strategy Manager partners closely with senior leadership and global teams to accelerate growth and enhance organizational effectiveness across regions and businesses.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership of Strategic Projects /Initiatives
- Lead and deliver cross‑functional, global strategic projects with clear business impact (growth, margin, market share, productivity, business model etc.).
- Act as initiative owner or program lead, ensuring milestones, ownership, and outcomes are clearly defined and delivered.
- Ensure strategic alignment across regions, businesses, and functions, balancing global direction with local execution realities.
Data Analytics & Insight Generation
- Elevate Laird’s use of data analytics to support strategic and commercial decision‑making.
- The use of Excel & EDW
- Leverage internal data (e.g., sales, pipeline, pricing, product mix, market trends) to generate actionable insights for leadership.
- Design and monitor KPIs, dashboards, and performance reviews tied to strategic initiatives and business objectives.
Global Process Management & Planning
- Lead or support optimization of global, cross‑functional processes critical to growth and execution (e.g., strategy deployment, commercial processes, planning and review cycles).
- Drive continuous improvement in speed, clarity, and accountability across global ways of working.
Commercial Excellence
- Drive commercial excellence initiatives as Laird focal point person.
- Support development and deployment of commercial frameworks and best practices across regions and businesses.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Engineering, Electronics/Electrical, Economics, or related field; MBA or equivalent strongly preferred.
- 5–10+ years of experience in strategy, management consulting, corporate development, commercial excellence, or business transformation, preferably in a global industrial or technology environment.
- Strategic and structured thinker with strong execution capabilities. Good commercial acumen and business judgment.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complexity into clear insights and recommendations. Data‑driven, insight‑oriented decision making.
- Proven capability to influence without authority in a matrixed, global organization. Clear, concise executive communication.
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Get in touch: [email protected].
Founded
2009
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Education Administration Programs
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Minnetonka, Minnesota
Qnity, Inc: Qnity provides a robust suite of visually-engaging solutions serving students, professionals, and businesses in the professional beauty and wellness sector. Known for our revolutionary simple, visual approach, Qnity produces licensable products and services in the form of tactile tools, visual curriculum, one-of-a kind events, high-quality data, and ongoing content curation - all designed to help various audiences experience greater economic empowerment. Our curriculum and solutions are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and trade schools alike.
Qnity for Businesses: Qnity has served hundreds of small businesses across the globe, helping them become more scalable and sustainable. Considered the market leader in learning and development for salons, spas, medspas, Qnity guides small businesses to experience breakthroughs in the areas of execution, growth, and profitability.
Qnity for Schools: Since its inception in 2021, Qnity for Schools has helped over 20,000 students change their money stories through our financial literacy curriculum. Created using Qnity’s simple, visual approach, we partner with trade schools by providing a robust financial literacy curriculum, MONEY EDU by Qnity, to teach students critical financial skills that will set them up for a long and prosperous career in their craft of choice. On average, graduates from MONEY EDU experience a 60% in their financial confidence.
Qnity Institute: This arm of the Qnity Inc. company serves a critical need in the professional beauty and wellness sector - a lack of quality data and low levels of financial literacy across the industry. The Institute serves as a research and data firm that seeks to provide high-quality research, data, and financial literacy to gain a better understanding of the beauty and wellness sector.
Qnity Productions: Aside from the curriculum, data, and tools, Qnity produces and curates both content and events.
Get in touch: [email protected].
Founded
2009
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Education Administration Programs
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Minnetonka, Minnesota