VP, General Manager

Job Requirements

Why work for us?

Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. 

With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.

Summary:

The General Manager of Industrial Thermal Management (ITM) manages the largest Business Unit within Alkegen with the objective of expanding the business, ensuring sustainable growth and profitability through value-added, innovative sales and marketing activities within budgetary and resource constraints. In this role, your primary responsibility will be to provide direction, support, and vision across our matrix organization, ensuring the achievement of objectives for our customers, employees, and the company. You will oversee the financial outcomes of ITM, managing your operating cadence which includes monthly business reviews, financial forecasting, approval of key account pursuits, risk management reviews, and operations leadership to ensure key performance indicators such as productivity, customer feedback data, and successful pricing strategies are consistently met. This role is a key member of the ISC leadership team.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Development:

• Lead a skilled, engaged, and high-performing team, ensuring clear objectives, accountability, and team member retention with a focus on career development.
• Develop and implement strategies in order to ensure achievement of the ITM strategic goals and financial targets.
• Define specific market strategy for ITM and closely monitor the market evolution as well as the results and the market share of major competitors.
• Develop, present, and execute short-term and long-term business plans designed to ensure the growth of the business, market share and profitability.

Commercial Execution:

• Maintain customer satisfaction at targeted levels and promptly address and resolve customer issues.
• Review the organizational structure and make changes where necessary to ensure that product offerings are responsive to market-specific and worldwide product requirements.
• Source, analyze, and integrate data to translate into meaningful insights that inform business decision making, enable a strategic direction development, drive organization action, build competencies and business growth.
• Own the product roadmap and development opportunities, providing prioritized guidance to the development organization.
• Define, execute, and manage pricing strategy, P&L, and manufacturing footprint for product portfolio, including compilation of competitive price points to manage future price erosion.
• Responsible for product line transactional activities through daily collaboration with sales, engineering, and the manufacturing facilities.

Leadership:

• Take ownership of financial performance for ITM.
• Implement logical and transparent processes in order to allow for efficient and effective use of manpower and financial resources to improve effectiveness and efficiency of internal processes.
• Foster collaboration among team members and between teams.
• Develop a strong management team approach to problem solving, issue resolution, business strategy/planning, market opportunities, and human resource evaluation.

Key Competencies:

• Is a consistent role model for the Alkegen Core Values.
• Demonstrates excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Be able to lead, coach, and develop team members.
• Be highly motivated and possess vision and enthusiasm.
• Possess influencing and networking skills to drive results in a matrix organization and with customers.
• Communicate in an open and honest way that quickly builds trust and respect.
• Drives execution with the team and has a bias towards action.
• Displays sound economic thinking skills and financial acumen (NPV, IRR, EBITDA, etc.).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science or engineering and preferably an MBA
• 15 years experience in a team leadership role, of which 5 years owning P&L responsibilities
• Knowledgeable about the industrial industry
• International or global experience required

If you are interested in leading a world class commercial function here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you.

At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people – ALL PEOPLE – breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.

Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.