Job Title – Strategy Director
Job Type - Full Time
Location – Boston, MA or Atlanta, GA
Role Benefits - Competitive Salary + Benefits Package and more
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About the role:
As Strategy Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Malvern Panalytical's long-term growth and value creation agenda. Reporting to the VP Strategy & M&A, you will lead the development and ongoing refinement of the enterprise strategy, helping the organisation make informed decisions and translate strategic priorities into coordinated action across a global business.
Working closely with the President, Executive Management Team, and senior leaders, you will provide insight, challenge, and structure to strategic decision-making. You will coordinate enterprise strategic planning, support value creation and transformation initiatives, and contribute to the evaluation of inorganic growth opportunities through acquisitions and strategic partnerships.
What you'll be doing:
• Lead the enterprise strategy process, translating market trends, competitive insights, and business priorities into a clear strategic roadmap.
• Partner with divisional and functional leaders to align business strategies with organizational objectives and value creation goals.
• Coordinate strategic planning, governance, reporting, and performance tracking across key enterprise initiatives.
• Support M&A activity by defining strategic growth themes, evaluating opportunities, and contributing to commercial diligence processes.
• Provide oversight and challenge across transformation, integration, and value creation programmes to help ensure successful execution.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, helping drive critical strategic decisions across the business.
About you:
• Significant experience leading strategy engagements, enterprise strategy programmes, or value creation initiatives within a consulting, corporate strategy, private equity, or similarly complex environment.
• Strong strategic and commercial acumen, with the ability to analyze complex information and develop clear, actionable recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
• Experience translating strategy into execution through governance, planning, transformation, or organizational change initiatives.
• Experience evaluating growth opportunities, acquisitions, or commercial diligence activities within a strategic context.
• A relevant degree or professional qualification. Experience within industrial technology, scientific instrumentation, life sciences, private equity-backed businesses, or an MBA would be advantageous.
What's in it for you
• Play a key role in shaping the future direction and growth strategy of a global technology leader.
• Work directly with executive leadership on the organization’s most important strategic priorities and decisions.
• Influence enterprise-wide transformation, value creation, and growth initiatives.
• Gain exposure to market strategy, M&A, commercial diligence, and business performance at the highest level.
• Enjoy a competitive rewards package and opportunities for continued professional development and career growth.
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We provide market-leading, material characterization technologies for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories in the analytics of advanced materials.
We support our customers through their biggest challenges, from developing lifesaving vaccines to sustainable fuels. We wake up every day to delight our customers through innovation, high-quality solutions and workflows, and excellence in customer satisfaction.
We are a recognized leader for quality and insights in material characterization; winning customers with performance and keeping them with service. With more than 2,000 employees operating in over 20 countries across the world, and R&D sites in North America, Europe and Asia.
We are part of Spectris, a company which combines precision with purpose to equip customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive. In 2025, Spectris acquired Micromeritics as part of Malvern Panalytical.
Skills Required
- Significant experience leading strategy engagements, enterprise strategy programs, or value creation initiatives
- Experience in consulting, corporate strategy, private equity, or a similarly complex environment
- Strong strategic and commercial acumen with the ability to analyze complex information and develop actionable recommendations
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority
- Experience translating strategy into execution through governance, planning, transformation, or organizational change initiatives
- Experience evaluating growth opportunities, acquisitions, or commercial diligence activities
- Relevant degree or professional qualification
- Experience in industrial technology, scientific instrumentation, life sciences, or private equity-backed businesses
- MBA
Spectris plc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spectris plc and has not been reviewed or approved by Spectris plc.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee ownership opportunities are broadly available to permanent staff through the Owners@Spectris programme and share incentive plans, offering potential long‑term upside. Participation is subject to eligibility and performance conditions but provides a pathway to share in company value.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical-expense insurance is provided, with references to family cover in some arrangements, alongside life and disability insurance. These provisions indicate a comprehensive healthcare and protection package in certain locations.
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Retirement Support — Pension arrangements are part of the benefits offering, with additional share incentive mechanisms such as partnership and matching shares. These elements point to structured retirement and savings support, though availability can differ by location.
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What We Do
Spectris harnesses the power of precision measurement to equip customers to make the world cleaner, healthier, and more productive. The company provides high-tech instruments, test equipment, and software for many of the world’s most technically demanding industrial applications.
