VP GM, Particle Processing in Waterloo, Ontario

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About IDEX Corporation

IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), based in Northbrook, IL (suburb of Chicago), is a leading global manufacturer of diversified products in industries ranging across health, science, safety, fire, and fluidics. The company operates in 24 countries, IDEX is an innovative and growing company, focused on delivering excellence through diverse, winning teams. We’re a global provider of applied solutions serving a variety of markets. These include life science and medical technologies, process industry and infrastructure related applications, industrial/municipal fire, and rescue – to name just a few.

IDEX Material Processing Technologies (MPT): Material Processing Technologies (MPT) platform is a global $130M business with sites in the US, Canada, the UK, and shared facilities in India and China, producing equipment primarily used in pharma, food and vaccine production. https://www.idex-mpt.com/

Position Summary:

IDEX MPT is seeking an experienced, results-driven Vice President General Manager and Operations Leader to oversee the strategic and operational aspects of our Waterloo, Canada site. This pivotal role involves managing day-to-day operations, driving business growth, ensuring operational efficiency, and leading a high-performing team. The ideal candidate will posses a deep understanding of manufacturing, production processes, and business management within the industrial food and pharma sector, with a focus on capital equipment solutions.

The Waterloo site is the center of MPT’s North American operation and responsible for the global production for many product lines. The VP GM will be responsible for the Quadro, Ytron, and Steridose business lines including the combined P&L This role will also be the Operational Site Leader for the Microfluidics brand in partnership with the Microfluidics General Manager. This role will drive the achievement of continued sustainable revenue growth and continue to the work to build great global teams, with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, all while living our Core Values of Trust, Team and Excellence.

Reporting Relationships:

The Waterloo VP GM & Site Leader reports directly into the Material Processing Technologies (MPT) Platform President, based in the United States . Reporting directly to this role will be the Commercial, Applications, Operations, and IT Leaders. The HR and Finance functions are on site with shared reporting relationships with the MPT Platform and IDEX corporate.

Responsibilities:

Full Profit/Loss responsibility for a $65M business

Lead a team of 150+ employees across Canada, the US and Europe

Grow topline business by shifting from farmer to hunter mentality to drive a continual funnel of opportunities by getting closer to our end user customer.

Leverage 80/20 and the IDEX Operating Model as a way to prioritize growth opportunities as well as using continuous improvement as a way to drive engagement and productivity.

Focus on increasing development of new products that further the company’s ability to win and enhance the platform’s ability to respond to customer needs rapidly

Effectively manage key operating metrics such as lead time, on-time delivery, cost of poor quality, inventory, employee engagement

Leadership & Strategic Direction: Provide leadership to all operational and functional areas of the business, including production, engineering, quality, supply chain, and sales. Develop and execute the strategic plan for operational growth, aligning it with broader business goals and market opportunities. Act as a key member of the executive leadership team, contributing to overall company strategy and growth.

Culture: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and high-performance within the workforce.

Operational Excellence: Oversee the end-to-end production process for multiple product portfolios, form order intake to final delivery, ensuring products meet quality, cost, and timeline requirements. Optimize manufacturing efficiency, capacity planning, and resource allocation while managing costs and ensuring profitability.

Team Development & Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of managers and staff, fostering a collaborative and global environment.

Requirements and Experience:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Successful track record of at least 10 years of General Management and Leadership experience in an industrial manufacturing environment company that sells direct to customer as well as through distributors.

Bachelor Degree in Business, Engineering, or other related field of study.

Experience supporting global markets, supply chains, and teams.

Track record as an agent of change, who has established customer-centric and engineering-minded teams that are leading their customers, and the market, through collaborative partnerships

Excellent communication, relationship building and leadership skills with ability to evaluate organizations and its talent as well as align them with customer and organizational goals.

Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement methodologies, and operational excellence programs.

Strong problem-solving and decision making abilities, with a focus on data-driven solutions.

Ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

Proven track record of driving growth while maintaining a culture of excellence and openness

MPT is a global business and the leadership team is expected to collaborate in person, participate in corporate initiatives, visit key customers, and support our sales and service in the field. 15% – 25% travel both domestic and international is required.

This position must be based in Waterloo, ON, Canada

Core Competencies

Change Agent: Articulates need for changes and connects required change to success in an organization and creates followership to the desired state based on developmental growth in alignment with enterprise strategy.

Building a Growth Mindset: Focus the team on their next frontier for growth and the disruptive thinking and innovation required to position themselves in the industry to capitalize on these opportunities

Agility and ability to thrive in a complex business facing many complex issues. Experience managing a global sales and ops focused P&L with potential to scale to President level.

People leadership – Track record of hiring and developing “A” players, developing high performing teams, and building trust, credibility & followership throughout the organization; Transparent in feedback and teaches leaders on their team to do the same

Talent Evangelist: Sets a high standard for the talent on the leadership team and the feeder to the leadership team roles and ensures that talent is of the highest quality and drives changes when that is not the case.

Servant Leadership – humble, authentic leader who seeks to remove barriers and enable people and the business; puts service, customers, and team before self.

Owner’s Mindset – Customer orientation with an entrepreneurial spirit of overserving our key customers

Results orientation holds self and others accountable – Able to easily multitask to manage competing priorities.

Able to clearly set objectives, drive team accountability and connect to success of business.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to the following environmental conditions:

Office and Manufacturing environment

Quadro Engineering Corp. is committed to providing a barrier-free workplace. If accommodation is required during the selection or interview process, it will be available upon request. This job posting is available in an accessible format upon request.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws (Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled).

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Job Family: General Management

Business Unit: Microfluidics