Strategy Manager - Water Technology Industry

Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking an Industry Strategy Manager for Water who can help accelerate the digital transformation of the water infrastructure and operations industry. As a member of the AEC Design Strategy team, you will be responsible for leading and driving the strategic planning process to frame strategy and drive alignment and execution on the water software solutions portfolio of Innovyze - an Autodesk Company with a focus on Operations and Maintenance (O&M) side of the industry within the overarching strategy for Water.

You will use your industry, business, and analytical expertise to support go-to-market strategies in water software. You will partner and influence stakeholders across Autodesk, including product development and sales to determine the most effective strategies and actions to drive awareness, preference, and demand for Autodesk’s solutions in the O&M space of the water industry.

You must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and an excellent communicator. This role reports to the Director, Infrastructure Business Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Business and Strategy planning
• Leads and develops Autodesk’s Water Operations strategy
• Creates compelling business plans to identify new market opportunities and investments
• Develops go-to-market strategies to achieve business growth goals
• Gathers and prioritizes market requirements to influence product roadmaps, and ensure Autodesk can effectively compete in target markets
• Collects and analyzes competitive market activity and dynamics
• Develops and manages strategic industry partnerships

Industry leadership

• Develops and communicates inspirational, and differentiated stories for water engineers, water infrastructure owners and operators (often public utilities) to be shared with customers, press, industry analysts, partners, and the internal Autodesk community
• Presents at customer executive briefings and key industry events Autodesk’s BIM, digital delivery, and digital twin vision and strategy
• Represents Autodesk in key water industry working groups and committees

Internal Collaboration

• Collaborates with Autodesk sales, finance, and operations teams on go-to-market strategies
• Develops strong partnerships with product development teams to influence product requirements and prioritization to meet the needs of water owners and operators
• Serves as key point of contact for product and sales teams, throughout strategic planning, and go-to-market execution

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a water-related technical discipline (such as civil engineering, meteorology, geoinformatics, hydroinformatics). MBA a plus
• Good understanding of Building Information Modelling (BIM), Digital Project Delivery, Digital Twin, and other emerging technologies in AEC
• Experience in infrastructure asset performance management, project management in water and/or wastewater systems operations or water utility infrastructure
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Highly motivated, results-oriented, self-starter with strong analytical, presentation and communication skills
• Leadership skills, experience in defining a market vision and influence in large, complex, and global organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and/or solid understanding of the public and private water utility marketplace. Multi-national understanding a plus.
• At least 5 years of engineering design and/or project management experience on large water projects.
• Experience in asset management, project management in water and/or wastewater systems operations or water utility infrastructure maintenance experience is preferred
• Strong awareness of competitive product landscape in water software
• Professional network of key decision makers, executives, innovators and policy makers in the water industry.  Multi-national network a plus.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills, ability to present to large groups including external stakeholders
• Ability to successfully function in a matrixed organization; ability to influence, coordinate and drive decisions to closure
• Manage multiple projects concurrently, thrives in a dynamic environment where requirements shift to meet changing business needs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audience

Ability to travel approximately 25%

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Industry experience

Education: M.B.A

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 5 to 10 years

Taxonomy

• Strategic Planning
• Business Strategy
• Strategy Consulting
• Corporate Strategy
• Industrial Water Strategy