Head of Strategy, Planning and Business Services

Strategy Director

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Experience within industrial technology, scientific instrumentation, life sciences, private equity-backed businesses, or an MBA would be advantageous.
• 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.
• 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.