Strategic Planning Leader

**Date**:Aug 4, 2025

**Location**: 01, SG, 609935

**Company**:Gates Corporation

Are you inspired by challenging the status quo? Do you thrive in collaborative environments that drive results? If so, Gates could be for you.

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**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
**OVERVIEW**

**THE ROLE**

This role is responsible for leading strategic planning, business performance management, and business transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment and execution of regional priorities in a complex, matrixed environment.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**1. Strategy Development & Planning**
- Serve as a partner to the President of APAC, facilitating and coordinating the annual strategic planning process across the region.
- Partner closely with regional and functional leaders to align strategic objectives, initiatives, and KPIs, ensuring cohesion and focus on high-impact priorities.
- Conduct market and scenario analysis, evaluating industry trends, competitive dynamics, customer insights, and regulatory changes to inform executive decision-making and resource allocation.
- Consolidate and synthesize market intelligence and benchmarking across countries to provide a robust strategic foundation for leadership discussions.

**2. Performance Management & Insights**
- Design and maintain executive-level performance dashboards and reporting frameworks, delivering clear and actionable insights to support strategic steering of the APAC business.
- Track, measure, and analyze CRM opportunities, regional performance, and progress toward strategic and financial targets, providing regular updates to the President and leadership team.
- Identify performance gaps, risks, and growth opportunities, and proactively recommend actions or initiatives to mitigate risks or accelerate progress.
- Collaborate with commercial teams to assess and optimize pricing strategies, ensuring competitiveness and profitable growth.

**3. Leadership Support & Execution**
- Supporting the President of APAC, managing key priorities, executive communications, and the orchestration of strategic initiatives.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and liaison, ensuring effective coordination and alignment among regional, functional, and global teams.
- Prepare high-quality presentations, briefing materials, and reports for town halls, business reviews, Board meetings, and external stakeholders.
- Lead or participate in special projects and cross-functional task forces, often acting as the President’s delegate to drive execution and follow-through.
- Facilitate seamless information flow, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making between the President, leadership team, and functional areas, ensuring clarity and focus on top priorities.

**Keys to Success**:

- Requires a comprehensive understanding of internal and industry standards and principles

**Requirements and Preferred Skills**:
**Education and Experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Economics, Strategy, or a related field; MBA or relevant master’s degree strongly preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in business planning, strategy, financial analysis, or management consulting, with at least 3-5 years in a leadership or BP&A / Chief of Staff capacity
- Proven experience working in complex, matrixed, multinational organizations
- Strong financial acumen and advanced analytical skills, including proficiency in financial modeling, data visualization, and performance reporting tools
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex information for diverse audiences
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, drive cross-functional projects, and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Experience in leading business transformation or change management initiatives is highly desirable
- Familiarity with the APAC region’s markets and business environment is a plus
- Ability to meet deadlines and demonstrates effective time management

**About the Position**

The position is based out of Singapore, and will be teamed withup to 3 local staff.

Not people manager, but second seniority in the team and deputy to the team leader.

Travelling - Less than 35%

WHY GATES?

Founded in 1911 in Denver, Colorado, Gates is publicly traded on the NYSE. While we might operate in a vast amount of time zones we operate as 'One Gates' and have a common goal of pushing the boundaries of materials science. We invest in our people, bringing real-world experience that enables us to solve our customers' diverse challenges of today and anticipate those of tomorrow.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Gates is an Equal Opportunity and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reason