Director - Corporate Strategy

As the Director - Corporate Strategy, you will partner with senior executives and Strategic Business Unit (“SBU”) leaders to shape enterprise portfolio theses, partner with SBU leaders to translate those theses into SBU strategies, and identify new growth and capability-building opportunities. As a foundational leader of this capability, you will establish the strategy function’s operating model, including project intake and prioritization, work standards, executive review cadences, and knowledge management. You will also support enterprise growth and the continued expansion of Wesco’s solutions capabilities.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the ongoing development and refresh of Wesco’s enterprise portfolio theses, using market, customer, competitive and internal performance insights to frame strategic choices and implications.

- Coordinate with SBU leaders to translate enterprise portfolio theses into clear SBU strategies and help maintain alignment of priorities, assumptions, and strategic direction across the enterprise.

- Partner with SBU leaders to define market-backed strategic priorities, identify capability gaps and determine the appropriate build, buy or partner pathways.

- Convert SBU priorities into actionable growth themes, capability roadmaps and target archetypes that can guide organic initiatives, partnerships, and M&A activity.

- Develop opportunity-specific strategic rationales, synergy theses, integration priorities, and source-of-value cases before opportunities are advanced for approval.

- Provide flexible, high-quality analytical capacity for CEO, CFO and SBU questions involving market shifts, portfolio choices, and other time-sensitive enterprise issues.

- Build trusted relationships across Corporate Development, Finance, the SBUs and enterprise functions, influencing decisions through analytical rigor, commercial insight, and practical judgment.

- Serve as a hands-on, player-coach by remaining directly involved in the work and, as the team grows, recruiting, coaching, and developing high-performing strategy professionals while setting a high bar for the quality, relevance, and impact of the team’s work.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree - finance, accounting, economics, business, or related; Master's Degree is preferred.

- 6 years relevant experience, with minimum of 4 years of significant experience in a top-tier strategy consulting firm, comparable corporate strategy environment, or investment management firm.

- Experience at approximately the Engagement Manager / Project Leader / Case Team Leader level, with a record of leading complex strategy engagements and personally owning major analyses and deliverables.

- Ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop, and test hypotheses, conduct market and competitive analysis, build strategic and financial models, and translate findings into decisions.

- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to connect external market dynamics, customer needs, internal capabilities, portfolio choices, and execution requirements.

- Strong executive communication skills, including concise writing, compelling presentations, and confident facilitation with senior leaders.

- Ability to influence across a complex, matrixed organization and build alignment without relying on positional authority.

- High intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, low-ego collaboration and a bias toward practical execution and measurable outcomes.

- Experience in distribution, industrial, electrical, communications, utility, supply chain or adjacent B2B markets is helpful but not required.

- Ability to travel 0-25%.

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