Director - Corporate Strategy

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We are hiring a Director – Corporate Strategy to build and own Timken’s enterprise-wide profitable growth agenda. It is a senior executive position responsible for designing, implementation planning and overseeing Timken’s corporate strategy to drive growth, innovation and long-term success— Identifying attractive growth opportunities, recommending where we play and how we win; mobilizing resources and driving enterprise wide execution. You will translate corporate vision into executable, cross-functional programs that accelerate profitable revenue growth, establish repeatable commercialization practices, and create the governance and metrics to measure impact.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and refine the Timken’s enterprise strategy in collaboration with the executive team.


• Do portfolio analysis and help develop a strategy for each of the businesses in the portfolio.


• Conduct industry, markets and trends analysis to identify opportunities, risks and threats in the competitive landscape.


• Ensure clear communication of strategy and direction to all stakeholders and throughout the organization 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 experience at senior/leadership levels. Experience with a reputed strategic consulting firm will be 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. 

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.