Vice President Commercial Excellence

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Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at  .

The Vice President, Commercial Excellence leads the enterprise transformation of how the organization drives profitable growth, improves commercial execution, and builds future-ready capabilities. This role reimagines commercial workflows, operating models, decision rights, governance, and business rhythms across Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Pricing, Customer Experience, Finance, Operations, Technology, and external partners. The leader uses technology, analytics, automation, and AI to scale well-designed processes, strengthen accountability and adoption, and improve forecast quality, go-to-market execution, decision speed, and growth in current and new markets.

• Lead and execute the enterprise commercial transformation roadmap aligned to profitable-growth priorities, market evolution, and new-market opportunities; establish the commercial effectiveness and performance framework.
• Redesign end-to-end commercial workflows, including sales forecasting, pipeline and forecast governance, go-to-market execution, reporting timelines, risk identification, demand planning, and launch execution, to improve visibility, decision quality, and speed.
• Define and implement future-state commercial operating models, decision rights, governance, roles, accountability, and operating rhythms that enable faster, better decisions across the enterprise.
• Build scalable commercial capabilities through onboarding, continuous development, and customer- and business-outcome-centered process design to accelerate pipeline growth, conversion, successful product launches, and expansion into new markets, channels, and business models.
• Partner with Technology, Finance, HR, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements and future-state processes into technology-, analytics-, CRM-, automation-, and human-agentic-AI-enabled solutions; ensure adoption and measurable value realization.
• Lead change-management strategies that align senior leaders and frontline teams, break down functional silos, accelerate adoption, and sustain new ways of working across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Product Management, Customer Experience, and Technology.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on commercial capability investments, transformation priorities, and growth acceleration; mentor leaders, reinforce accountability, and promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and execution.

Required Skills

• Transformation leadership and strategic agility: reimagines how the business works, anticipates market change, translates growth strategy into a scalable commercial transformation…