Sr. Manager, Strategic Planning

POSITION SUMMARY

• Vertiv is scaling to meet the global surge in data center demand, and we need someone who can keep the machinery in sync. The Sr. Manager, Strategic Planning serves as the connective tissue across Operations, Finance, Sales, Product, and Marketing—ensuring our biggest projects, capacity plans, and customer commitments stay aligned with reality. This is a high-visibility role; the work you do will directly influence how Vertiv responds to and delivers to the world’s largest data-center customers. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as the central coordinator for large, cross-functional planning initiatives tied to AI, hyperscale, and enterprise demand. 
• Track, analyze, and communicate demand and supply signals across Vertiv’s global footprint—turning scattered inputs into clear decisions. 
• Partner with leaders across Operations, Finance, Sales, Offering Management, and Marketing to ensure alignment on capacity, timing, constraints, and tradeoffs. 
• Support SIOP cycles by building models, pressure-testing assumptions, and surfacing risks early. 
• Manage and update project trackers, capacity views, scenario analyses, and executive-level dashboards. 
• Lead or support special planning projects—factory expansions, supply-chain dependencies, product transitions, and long-range demand modeling. 
• Prepare concise updates for senior leadership that cut through noise and show what matters. 
• Bring order to chaos when business conditions shift quickly.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or Technology/Operations preferred; MBA preferred.
• 7 years of experience, including tenure in a management consulting firm, internal business consulting function, or similar experience.  
• Advanced Microsoft Suite skills including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. 
• Strategic Thinking: evaluating industry trends, developing long-term implications, and recommending pragmatic strategies for new business opportunities. 
• Analytical Rigor: ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and intellectual leadership to problem solving; synthesize insights from analysis and ensure credible, actionable recommendations.  
• Communications skills: ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization, promote ideas and proposals persuasively. Ability to manage controversial situations, including senior-level leaders and external groups. 

PHYSICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

• Experience in a global, multi-cultural environment.

TIME TRAVEL REQUIRED

• Up to 20%.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.  

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS:  Safety.  Integrity. Respect.  Teamwork.  Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• High-Performance Culture
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

• Own It
• Act With Urgency
• Foster a Customer-First Mindset
• Think Big and Execute
• Lead by Example
• Drive Continuous Improvement
• Learn and Seek Out Development

At Vertiv, we offer the stability of a global leader in a growing industry and the opportunity of a startup. We design, manufacture and service the mission-critical infrastructure technologies for vital applications in data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial environments. With $5 billion in sales, a strong customer base and global reach in nearly 70 countries, our move to establish a standalone business enables us to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertivco.com. If you are interested in applying or learning more about this role, please visit the company’s career page located on Vertiv.com/Careers.

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.