Job Summary

Reporting directly to the Chief Strategy Officer, the Manager of Strategy and Execution plays a key role in supporting the growth and value creation of the Performance Materials business unit by ensuring accountability of major strategic initiatives. In partnership with senior leadership, it will drive the strategic planning and execution process, develop and implement long-term growth strategies, and lead a portfolio of large-scale strategic projects.

This role partners closely with executive leadership, commercial teams, R&D, operations, and regional business units to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, ensure disciplined execution, and monitor performance outcomes. The position will be critical in developing KPIs, dashboards and materials to clearly communicate progress to key stakeholders, including the C-suite and business unit president and leadership team. The role will have significant exposure to the senior leadership of the company and have meaningful impact on the ability of the enterprise to meet our long term financial and strategic goals.

You will have an opportunity to:

o Corporate and BU Strategy (15%): Assist in business segment strategy development - maintain and facilitate strategic planning process, support multi-year investment plans and facilitate problem solving and collaboration.

o Execution and performance management (25%): establish and implement the process for driving execution and accountability of overall performance and major strategic initiatives across the business unit, including: Communicating with functional owners on prioritizing initiatives, analysis and execution plans with defined milestones, owners and success metrics; and setting meeting cadence, agendas and KPIs for initiative reviews.

o Program Management (30%): personally lead and execute large-scale, high-impact strategic projects, ensuring disciplined project management, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of targeted outcomes.

o Board and C-Suite Communications (20%): Create content and presentations to succinctly communicate strategy and execution progress to key stakeholders through clear strategic narratives, frameworks, and executive-ready presentations.

o M&A and Strategic Partnership (10%): Coordinate with Materion's Director, Strategy and Execution to evaluate and manage potential acquisition and partnership targets in alignment with strategy for growth.

Requirements:

o Bachelor's degree in engineering, materials science, business, or related field

o Advanced degree, MBA preferred.

o Minimum 5 years experience in General Management, manufacturing continuous improvement or quality, corporate development, or management consulting.

o Proven background leading strategy planning, development, and execution.

o Preferred: Manufacturing or B2B industrial environment experience and cross-functional project management experience.

Responsibilities Required:

o Networking, collaboration and consensus building; ability to work across functional areas in a global, matrixed organization; Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; strong team builder; humble in nature and team-first mentality; big picture thinker with ability to execute tactically; Executive level presence with exposure to the most senior leaders of the company (e.g. CEO, CFO, BU Presidents, etc.)