General Manager

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Pulsafeeder provides products that control fluids, transfer fluids, and/or improve fluid characteristics. We provide engineered pumping solutions to our customers’ applications in Water and Oil & Gas markets.

The General Manager is responsible for leading this $86MM business and will provide strategic, commercial, operational, and technical leadership to grow the business. With two sites (one in Rochester, NY and one in Punta Gorda, FL), Pulsafeeder has approximately 150 employees.

Reporting Relationships:

The Pulsafeeder General Manager will report directly to the Intelligent Water Platform President. This role’s direct reports will include leaders of HR, Sales, Operations, and Engineering. The Finance leader will report functionally to the Platform Finance leader with dotted line reporting to the General Manager.

Responsibilities:

The General Manager will provide strategic, commercial, and technical leadership to the Pulsafeeder business. This will require the leader to determine the long-term strategy to continue strategic growth in focused end markets (Industrial Water, Municipal Water, and Wastewater Treatment). This role will drive the achievement of sustainable revenue growth while maintaining profit margins and building a culture of continuous improvement with teams capable of collaborating cross-functionally and making decisions together. The General Manager will focus on customer obsession, building great global teams, diversity, equity, and inclusion all while living our Core Values of Trust, Team, and Excellence.

• Full Profit/Loss responsibility for a $86MM business.

• Develop a business strategy that facilitates strategic innovation in the core growth market.

• Increase revenue from $86MM to $110MM by 2027 to achieve the Intelligent Water platform growth goal.

• Create and sustain a high-performance culture that works together to make decisions, integrate new ideas, and deliver experiences and products that delight our customers.

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

• Build strong 80 customer and partnership relationships to ensure we maintain market share or sole source position with competitive threats.

• Lead key IDEX operating model tools such as Goal Deployment and Daily Management to support execution of strategic and tactical objectives.

• Build 10 year New Product product roadmap to meet the needs of target end markets.

• Build bridge for IoT connected products and platform software strategy.

Key Characteristics:

Engaging leaders to drive a culture of innovation and critical thinking.

• High impact communicator: Ability to collect complex or diverse information and make it clear to the target audience. Translate concepts and information into understandable messages across all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrates a level of Business & Financial Acumen to provide thoughtful solutions that not only solve a problem but also provide value and efficiencies to the organization.

• Manages change and is adaptable with the ability to shift gears comfortably. Can decide and act without having the total picture when appropriate.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of driving results and solutions in a complex and evolving industry landscape.

• Demonstrated ability to handle risk and uncertainty in a timely manner.

• Assesses strengths and weaknesses in self and others to build high-performing teams and implement talent development road map as part of business strategy.

• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business goals and sustainability objectives into technology solutions and initiatives.

• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with a focus on innovation, sustainability, and driving positive change.

• Demonstrated ability to increase employee engagement and leverage human capital to win.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required (Engineering / Technical field preferred); MBA preferred.

• Successful track record of General Management and/or Leadership experience in Water industry preferred

• Experience in Industrial Water, Municipal Water, and Wastewater Treatment markets.

• Experience with Export Controlled Products (Trade Compliance)

• Global business experience, specifically in India preferred

• Experience with implementing LEAN and/or Six Sigma tools; LEAN and/or Six Sigma certification is a plus

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

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

• Ability to travel domestically & internationally as required, to successfully execute the above listed responsibilities.

Core Competencies:

• Change Agent: Articulates the need for changes and connects required changes to success in an organization and creates followership to the desired state.

• Results Orientation: Holds self and others accountable. Able to easily multitask to manage competing priorities. Able to set objectives, drive team accountability, and connect to the success of business.

• Agility: Ability to thrive in a complex business. Experience managing a global team-focused P&L with the potential to scale to a larger leadership position.

• People leadership - Track record of hiring and developing “AA” players, developing highperforming teams, and building trust, credibility & followership throughout the organization.

• 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.

• Commercial Skills - Ability to build relationships with customers, end-users, and system integrators at all levels

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?

Total Rewards

The compensation range for this position is $192,900.00 - $289,300.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.

Benefits Package

Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefit-and-rewards/

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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