About Suffolk
Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies). By integrating data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform, we connect design, construction, and operations to deliver smarter, more predictable results and redefine how America builds.
Suffolk – America’s Contractor – is a national company with more than $9 billion in annual revenue, 3,000 employees, and 17 offices, including Boston (headquarters), New York City, Miami, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Estero, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Herndon, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other key markets. Suffolk manages some of the most complex and transformative projects in the country, serving clients across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors. Suffolk is privately held and is led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR’s list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.” For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.
At Suffolk, we believe that our total rewards program should offer you and your family the support you need when it matters most. That’s why we have created a program that provides employees with access to a wide variety of options that can be personalized to support you and your loved ones physically, emotionally, and financially.
Benefits include, competitive salaries, auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles, access to market leading medical and emotional and mental health benefits, dental, and vision insurance plans, virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care, generous paid time off, 401k plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources, company paid and voluntary life insurance, tax deferred savings accounts, 10 backup daycare days each year, short- and long-term disability, commuter benefits and more. For more information, click here.
Role Summary
Suffolk is seeking a Senior Director of Vertical & Platform Strategy to help shape and advance the company’s next chapter of growth, differentiation, and enterprise value creation.
This leader will work alongside the Senior Director of Growth Strategy focused on Suffolk’s core construction business, with a complementary mandate focused on Suffolk’s broader enterprise platform: vertical service lines, innovation and AI-enabled capabilities, functional business strategy, and emerging businesses.
The role is designed for a strategic leader who can operate across a complex, fast-growing enterprise; bring structure to ambiguous opportunities; influence senior executives; and
translate vision into clear strategies, operating plans, governance models, and execution priorities.
The Senior Director will report to the Executive Vice President of Enterprise Strategy and will partner closely with leaders across Suffolk’s vertical businesses, regional construction operations, functional teams, Suffolk Technologies, AI/innovation initiatives, and enterprise leadership. The role will directly own strategy for certain developing business areas while serving as an enterprise thought partner and integrator for more mature verticals and initiatives that already have embedded strategy or business planning resources.
Vertical Strategy
Innovation Strategy
Suffolk Global Strategy
Stakeholder Management & Leadership
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a high-caliber strategist with experience in a top-tier strategy consulting firm, corporate strategy role, private equity portfolio operations environment, innovation strategy role, or similarly demanding strategic leadership context.
They should be comfortable with ambiguity, capable of moving from high-level enterprise questions to detailed operating implications, and experienced working with senior executives on growth strategy, business model design, operating model decisions, innovation, technology adoption, and transformation.
The candidate should bring the intellectual range to understand construction, technology, services, investment, operations, AI, data, and functional strategy — and the humility to learn the business deeply from operators.
This person must be especially strong at leading through influence. Many of the businesses and initiatives within the role’s scope will have their own leaders, teams, and embedded strategy resources. The Senior Director must be able to add value without creating confusion, duplicating work, or appearing to take ownership away from accountable business leaders.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.
Suffolk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Suffolk will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination toward, or harassment of, applicants or employees by anyone at Suffolk, or anyone working on behalf of Suffolk.
The expected salary range for this position (Senior Director, Vertical and Platform Strategy) in New York and Boston, MA is between $250,000 and $350,000 USD. This represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Suffolk’s total compensation package. Actual salaries may be based on several factors including, but not limited to, skill set, experience, education and other qualifications. Suffolk offers a comprehensive benefits package as part of its overall compensation strategy. Salary ranges may differ by geography and are reviewed regularly to reflect market trends.