Senior Manager Digital Strategy and Planning

Senior Manager Digital Strategy and Planning

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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. 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, focusing on customer outcomes and driving productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns.

This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.

Acuity has an ambitious technology and transformation agenda across a portfolio of programmatic initiatives to drive growth. The focus of this critical role is helping Acuity follow a structured approach to setting digital strategy across the enterprise, creating transparency into and alignment around digital investments with priorities and value to the business. This role will be part of the Transformation Office in the Growth & Transformation team working at the intersection of IT, enabling functions and the core businesses of ABL and AIS (lighting and intelligent spaces).

The successful candidate will bring a blend of strategic thinking, technology understanding, financial acumen, and an ability to prioritize and sequence resources.

• Provide structure and organization to strategy and planning work that sets and resets technology investments and priorities. Work with the team to establish and run the process, set milestones and artifacts for strategic planning and prioritizing, and align the tech and business teams to a common set of deliverables.
• Lead efforts across teams to integrate strategic plans, roadmaps, resource needs, and inter‑dependencies into a top‑down view of the plans and outcomes. Prepare necessary leadership team updates and documents for communicating with the Executive Leadership Team, Board, and other critical stakeholders, including strategy and budget target reviews.
• Create an integrated view of outcomes and value delivered across investments. Work with teams to understand differences between forecast and actuals for insight into acceleration and deceleration of value realization.
• Work with program and product teams to define outcomes from digital investments and transformation initiatives. Develop ROI models and dashboards as needed to help business and IT understand and support value being delivered.
• Work with Finance and Tech teams to ensure costs are properly captured and allocated between program areas, capex and opex. Set up mechanisms to automate financial processes, reduce manual effort and increase accuracy of the numbers.
• Identify key cost drivers and analyze opportunities and risks within categories, e.g., software purchases and renewals, FTE additions and attrition, professional services. Work with Finance and tech leaders to help frame decisions in a way that drives clarity on the implications of spend commitments.

• Ability to holistically view and understand Acuity's ecosystems and connect digital and transformation investments to business outcomes.
• Relevant experience working with financial systems and understanding tech investment areas, with demonstrated structuring top‑down and attention to detail in understanding outcomes.
• A desire to drive measurable results in terms of operating efficiency or income, with a data‑driven mindset that can clearly identify, articulate, and quantify levers that will improve product performance.
• Collaborative style and owner’s mindset.
• An unwavering personal integrity and work ethic, believing in mission‑driven organizations that serve a broader purpose. A commitment to working on products that improve…