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Strategy jobs in Milwaukee are in active demand, concentrated in the Third Ward, downtown's business core, and the Menomonee Valley across healthcare, financial services, consumer goods, and professional services. Employers hiring right now include Spectrum, Rockwell Automation, and Fiserv. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Shape the future of manufacturing performance
At Rockwell Automation, our Manufacturing Performance Excellence (MPX) group exists to elevate how factories run—more competitive, more productive, safer, and higher quality. FactoryTalk MES sits at the heart of that ambition, serving Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Automotive, Tire, EV, and Battery manufacturers around the globe.
Imagine your week: Monday kicks off in a strategy review with the VP/GM of MPX, aligning on the next growth horizon for FactoryTalk MES. Midweek, you’re with your 3–4 direct reports translating Voice of Customer input into a crisp roadmap. By Friday, you’re briefing Sales, Industry Management, and Customer Success on a commercialization plan that boosts ARR and accelerates adoption of our latest releases. You split your time between our Milwaukee HQ or Mayfield Heights, OH in a hybrid schedule, and you travel (up to 25%, domestic and international) to be with customers and teams where it matters most.
What you’ll lead
Portfolio strategy & vision
- Position FactoryTalk MES as the execution core for Connected Manufacturing—ready for advanced analytics, AI-enabled operations, and the path to autonomous manufacturing.
- Own and execute the long-range platform strategy and roadmap across industry solution suites.
- Continuously synthesize market trends, competitive signals, regulatory drivers, and VOC inputs into clear investment priorities.
- Assess future platform bets and business cases that balance new growth, modernization, and installed-base protection.
- Partner with Global Sales and Industry Management to capture evolving use cases and emerging market opportunities that shape portfolio direction.
- Drive secure, scalable, AI-ready architectures that power analytics, reporting, and autonomous operations.
- Balance platform, modernization, and industry solutions to maximize long-term value.
Growth, economics, & commercial model
- Own growth, profitability, recurring revenue expansion, and investment planning to reinforce market leadership.
- Scale enterprise MES adoption across Life Sciences/Pharma, Medical Device, Battery, Tire, and other target segments.
- Turn industry insight and business cases into sharp investment, packaging, and go-to-market choices.
- Evolve software and services motions to increase ARR, margins, and scalable platform offerings.
- Set pricing, packaging, and commercialization strategies that maximize customer and shareholder value.
- Continuously align investments to strategic goals and changing industry requirements.
Customer, market, & industry engagement
- Build trust with strategic customers and industry leaders to understand digital transformation priorities.
- Institutionalize a rigorous Voice of Customer process that feeds strategy and investments.
- Work with Industry Management on sector-specific needs, adoption barriers, regulatory considerations, and cutting-edge use cases; validate direction through advisory boards, forums, and research.
- Mobilize Sales, Account Management, Customer Success, and Lifecycle Services to accelerate time-to-value.
- Represent Rockwell Automation with customers, partners, analysts, and industry organizations.
Platform innovation & sustainability
- Lead next-gen initiatives for scalability, upgradeability, maintainability, cybersecurity, compliance readiness, and superior user experience.
- Define lifecycle, support, and versioning plans that simplify the portfolio and boost current-release adoption.
- Coordinate with Industry Management to align modernization with validation, compliance, and deployment realities.
- Team with Engineering, Security, LCS, and Customer Success on migration programs, upgrade services, and tooling that ease transitions.
- Advance a modern foundation for secure data, AI services, analytics, reporting, and autonomous capabilities.
Organizational leadership
- Lead a Product Management team with clear accountability for strategy, execution, and outcomes.
- Forge alignment across Product, Industry, Engineering, LCS, Sales, Customer Success, and Security.
- Guide growth, modernization, customer success, and long-term portfolio evolution.
- Establish operating rhythms that connect strategy to execution across functions.
- Develop the next generation of leaders and a culture of accountability, innovation, and customer obsession.
How success is measured
- Profitable growth with stronger recurring revenue and portfolio economics.
- Faster innovation cadence and higher adoption of new capabilities.
- Tight synchronization of investments with customer, market, and industry needs.
- Higher current-release adoption via innovation, migration tools, and lifecycle policies.
- Balanced investment between innovation, new-market expansion, and installed-base success.
- Greater customer value through scalable platform features and targeted industry solutions.
- A team recognized for strategic clarity, commercial rigor, execution excellence, and engagement.
- FactoryTalk MES cemented as a pillar of Connected Manufacturing and autonomous operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% (domestic and international).
Preferred
- Bachelor’s in engineering, business, or related field.
- 8+ years leading in enterprise/industrial software, SaaS, MES, or manufacturing tech.
- Track record executing long-term product, platform, and portfolio strategies.
- History of growing and transforming software portfolios, including ARR and model evolution.
- Experience modernizing on-prem products to cloud-enabled or SaaS offerings.
- P&L ownership, investment planning, commercialization, pricing, and GTM leadership.
- Strength in business cases, strategic alternatives, and portfolio investment decisions.
- Deep VOC discipline—advisory boards and direct executive customer engagement.
- Knowledge of manufacturing ops, MES, QMS, industrial automation, cybersecurity, and regulated industries.
- Background in Life Sciences/Pharma, Medical Device, CPG, Automotive, Tire, Battery, or adjacent sectors.
Benefits & working style
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental and Caregiver Leave
- Flexible work schedule arranged with your manager
Learn more about our benefits at www.raquickfind.com.
Where you’ll work
Hybrid schedule from our Milwaukee HQ or Mayfield Heights, OH.
Tools & technologies
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Enterprise Software
- Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
We value diverse perspectives and authentic voices. If you’re enthusiastic about this opportunity but don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply—you could be the right person for this or another role.
This role sits within a job family; level and compensation are determined by experience.
Shape the future of manufacturing performance
At Rockwell Automation, our Manufacturing Performance Excellence (MPX) group exists to elevate how factories run—more competitive, more productive, safer, and higher quality. FactoryTalk MES sits at the heart of that ambition, serving Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Automotive, Tire, EV, and Battery manufacturers around the globe.
Imagine your week: Monday kicks off in a strategy review with the VP/GM of MPX, aligning on the next growth horizon for FactoryTalk MES. Midweek, you’re with your 3–4 direct reports translating Voice of Customer input into a crisp roadmap. By Friday, you’re briefing Sales, Industry Management, and Customer Success on a commercialization plan that boosts ARR and accelerates adoption of our latest releases. You split your time between our Milwaukee HQ or Mayfield Heights, OH in a hybrid schedule, and you travel (up to 25%, domestic and international) to be with customers and teams where it matters most.
What you’ll lead
Portfolio strategy & vision
- Position FactoryTalk MES as the execution core for Connected Manufacturing—ready for advanced analytics, AI-enabled operations, and the path to autonomous manufacturing.
- Own and execute the long-range platform strategy and roadmap across industry solution suites.
- Continuously synthesize market trends, competitive signals, regulatory drivers, and VOC inputs into clear investment priorities.
- Assess future platform bets and business cases that balance new growth, modernization, and installed-base protection.
- Partner with Global Sales and Industry Management to capture evolving use cases and emerging market opportunities that shape portfolio direction.
- Drive secure, scalable, AI-ready architectures that power analytics, reporting, and autonomous operations.
- Balance platform, modernization, and industry solutions to maximize long-term value.
Growth, economics, & commercial model
- Own growth, profitability, recurring revenue expansion, and investment planning to reinforce market leadership.
- Scale enterprise MES adoption across Life Sciences/Pharma, Medical Device, Battery, Tire, and other target segments.
- Turn industry insight and business cases into sharp investment, packaging, and go-to-market choices.
- Evolve software and services motions to increase ARR, margins, and scalable platform offerings.
- Set pricing, packaging, and commercialization strategies that maximize customer and shareholder value.
- Continuously align investments to strategic goals and changing industry requirements.
Customer, market, & industry engagement
- Build trust with strategic customers and industry leaders to understand digital transformation priorities.
- Institutionalize a rigorous Voice of Customer process that feeds strategy and investments.
- Work with Industry Management on sector-specific needs, adoption barriers, regulatory considerations, and cutting-edge use cases; validate direction through advisory boards, forums, and research.
- Mobilize Sales, Account Management, Customer Success, and Lifecycle Services to accelerate time-to-value.
- Represent Rockwell Automation with customers, partners, analysts, and industry organizations.
Platform innovation & sustainability
- Lead next-gen initiatives for scalability, upgradeability, maintainability, cybersecurity, compliance readiness, and superior user experience.
- Define lifecycle, support, and versioning plans that simplify the portfolio and boost current-release adoption.
- Coordinate with Industry Management to align modernization with validation, compliance, and deployment realities.
- Team with Engineering, Security, LCS, and Customer Success on migration programs, upgrade services, and tooling that ease transitions.
- Advance a modern foundation for secure data, AI services, analytics, reporting, and autonomous capabilities.
Organizational leadership
- Lead a Product Management team with clear accountability for strategy, execution, and outcomes.
- Forge alignment across Product, Industry, Engineering, LCS, Sales, Customer Success, and Security.
- Guide growth, modernization, customer success, and long-term portfolio evolution.
- Establish operating rhythms that connect strategy to execution across functions.
- Develop the next generation of leaders and a culture of accountability, innovation, and customer obsession.
How success is measured
- Profitable growth with stronger recurring revenue and portfolio economics.
- Faster innovation cadence and higher adoption of new capabilities.
- Tight synchronization of investments with customer, market, and industry needs.
- Higher current-release adoption via innovation, migration tools, and lifecycle policies.
- Balanced investment between innovation, new-market expansion, and installed-base success.
- Greater customer value through scalable platform features and targeted industry solutions.
- A team recognized for strategic clarity, commercial rigor, execution excellence, and engagement.
- FactoryTalk MES cemented as a pillar of Connected Manufacturing and autonomous operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% (domestic and international).
Preferred
- Bachelor’s in engineering, business, or related field.
- 8+ years leading in enterprise/industrial software, SaaS, MES, or manufacturing tech.
- Track record executing long-term product, platform, and portfolio strategies.
- History of growing and transforming software portfolios, including ARR and model evolution.
- Experience modernizing on-prem products to cloud-enabled or SaaS offerings.
- P&L ownership, investment planning, commercialization, pricing, and GTM leadership.
- Strength in business cases, strategic alternatives, and portfolio investment decisions.
- Deep VOC discipline—advisory boards and direct executive customer engagement.
- Knowledge of manufacturing ops, MES, QMS, industrial automation, cybersecurity, and regulated industries.
- Background in Life Sciences/Pharma, Medical Device, CPG, Automotive, Tire, Battery, or adjacent sectors.
Benefits & working style
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental and Caregiver Leave
- Flexible work schedule arranged with your manager
Learn more about our benefits at www.raquickfind.com.
Where you’ll work
Hybrid schedule from our Milwaukee HQ or Mayfield Heights, OH.
Tools & technologies
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Enterprise Software
- Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
We value diverse perspectives and authentic voices. If you’re enthusiastic about this opportunity but don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply—you could be the right person for this or another role.
This role sits within a job family; level and compensation are determined by experience.
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Strategy Jobs in Milwaukee: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a strategy job in Milwaukee?
The strongest path into Milwaukee strategy roles runs through the city's healthcare systems, regional banks and insurers, and the consumer goods companies headquartered near downtown and the suburbs to the north and west. Candidates who can show quantifiable impact on growth, cost, or market positioning stand out. Networking through Milwaukee's business community organizations and targeting firms known for internal mobility gives you a meaningful edge in this market.
Which companies hire strategys in Milwaukee?
Employers hiring strategys in Milwaukee right now include Spectrum, Rockwell Automation, and Fiserv, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Milwaukee's hiring mix tends toward large healthcare systems, regional financial institutions, established manufacturers, and mid-size consumer brands with in-house strategy functions.
Are there remote strategy jobs in Milwaukee?
Yes, though it depends on the role: analytical and corporate strategy positions tend to support remote or hybrid arrangements, while operational and market-facing strategy roles typically require on-site presence. About 100% of strategy openings tied to Milwaukee are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong flexibility among the city's corporate and financial sector employers. Portfolio and planning work tends to be the most remote-eligible.
How can I get a strategy job in Milwaukee with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point in Milwaukee is through analyst or associate roles at the city's healthcare systems, insurance carriers, and regional consulting firms, which regularly hire candidates building foundational strategy skills. Roles in financial analysis, operations, or business development at Milwaukee's mid-size manufacturers can also serve as lateral entry points. Familiarity with data tools and a demonstrated ability to frame business problems clearly will set early-career candidates apart locally.
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