We are seeking a results-driven
Vice President to lead a rapidly growing $75M manufacturing business unit. This role will own day-to-day leadership across Sales, Operations, and Engineering, while partnering closely with the President.
This leader will play a critical role in driving growth, operational excellence, and customer success, enabling the President to focus on strategic expansion initiatives. The ideal candidate brings a strong commercial mindset, deep manufacturing experience, and a proven ability to manage a full P&L in a complex industrial environment.
What You'll DoBusiness Leadership & P&L Ownership
- Own and drive business unit performance, including revenue growth, margin expansion, and operational efficiency
- Partner with the President to develop and execute strategic business plans and growth initiatives
- Utilize strong financial acumen to analyze, forecast, and improve P&L performance
- Identify and execute opportunities for new business, market expansion, and customer growth
- Partner with the corporate/parent companies & stakeholders to execute strategic mandates, translate high-level vision into measurable success via performance analytics, bowler tracking and key metrics.
Sales & Customer Leadership
- Lead all commercial activities, including sales strategy, key account management, and customer engagement
- Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic customers and partners
- Drive a customer-centric culture, ensuring responsiveness, quality, and service excellence
- Develop and coach the sales team to achieve aggressive growth targets
Operations & Manufacturing Excellence
- Lead and govern critical operational pillars - manufacturing, quality, supply chain logistics & inventory management.
- Oversee daily operations, ensuring efficient, high-quality manufacturing performance
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC)
- Optimize production processes, resource planning, and capacity utilization
- Ensure alignment between sales demand and operational execution
- Cultivate strong collaborative relationships, manage operational dependencies and engage in cross functional activities with overseas plants in India, Mexico, Croatia to ensure smooth working and consistent production flow/delivery to Texas facility
Engineering & Technical Leadership
- Lead engineering efforts to support product development, process improvements, and technical innovation
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to deliver engineered solutions
- Drive efficiency and cost improvements through design and process enhancements
Leadership & Team Development
- Provide strong, visible leadership across sales, operations, and engineering teams
- Build a high-performance culture founded on accountability, empathy, collaboration, and integrity
- Attract, develop, and retain top talent within the business unit
- Foster cross-functional alignment with Finance, HR, and executive leadership
What You'll Bring- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, with exposure to plant and commercial leadership
- Proven success in a P&L leadership role within a $50M-$100M+ business
- Strong sales and customer-facing background, with the ability to win and grow business
- Demonstrated ability to lead operations and drive continuous improvement
- Experience in industrial or grid / core manufacturing environments preferred (or similar engineered products)
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, engineering collaboration, and supply chain dynamics
What We Value- Commercial Acumen
- Strong ability to drive revenue growth and build customer relationships
- Operational Excellence
- Skilled in improving productivity, quality, and cost performance
- Financial Discipline
- Confident managing P&L and using data to drive decisions
- Leadership
- Proven ability to lead through influence, build teams, and drive accountability
- Strategic Thinking
- Able to balance day-to-day execution with longer-term growth initiatives
- Customer Focus
- Passionate about delivering value and solving customer challenges
