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General manager - Milwaukee Wisconsin
Company: API Delevan, Inc. Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Posted On: 01/23/2025
This role is responsible for leading our Automation Solutions Business Unit (ASBU), which is part of the Conveyance Solutions Division within the Automation Motion Control (AMC) segment of Regal Rexnord. The ASBU business engineers, designs, and manufactures high-speed conveying systems, including palletizers and depalletizers, focusing on Beverage, Food, CPG, and Intralogistics segments.Reporting to the Sr. Vice President of Conveyance Solutions Division, the GM of the Automation Solutions Business (ASBU) is a Senior Leader position that oversees a product and services business exceeding $70M in annual sales. This leader is responsible for the full P&L spanning across two primary manufacturing facilities and includes operations, services, sales, marketing, engineering, finance, and HR.The role will ensure the division meets or exceeds annual revenue and profitability goals, providing leadership aimed at preparing the business to achieve longer-term growth objectives. This includes driving policy deployment initiatives to drive growth with differentiated, sustainable solutions. This position must also utilize the Regal Business Systems (RBS) approach, leveraging 80/20 to understand the markets, customers, product differentiation, value proposition for target customers/applications, and develop a product innovation roadmap.The role has full Business Unit accountability with P&L focus and contributes to the overall leadership and direction of the business and organization. The GM is expected to drive the performance of the business for profitable growth within the entire division. This role will collaborate and influence other functional, geographical, and business units and their perspective teams to set strategies and align resources to achieve shared objectives.The GM will develop and execute short and long-term sales, marketing, and operational strategies to deliver the revenue and profit results in accordance with the overall business plan. They will exercise proper guidance and controls to operating plans to optimize revenue and profit. They will foster and promote effective customer relations across the business and provide leadership to motivate employees across all levels of the organization.Key Responsibilities: - Culture - Foster a culture of acting with a high sense of integrity, inclusion, engagement, responsibility, transparency, and performance with a sense of urgency.
- Strategy - Develop and implement profitable growth strategy for the businesses. Create long and short-term strategies and commercial business plans to drive a minimum 50% market outgrowth, including penetration of new markets, and year-over-year gross margin expansion.
- Performance - Develop sales targets in line with Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and ensure achievement through a cadence of regular oversight.
- P&L Management - Accountable for delivering the revenue and profit results in accordance with the overall business plan objectives. Provides financial forecasts to Management and oversees the allocation of resources to ensure overall profitability of the business unit.
- Talent Management and Development - Attract, develop, and retain talent within the business unit to ensure the competency level of all employees is sufficient to be fully effective in their roles.
- Customer Relations - Create and maintain strong relationships with new and current customers to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction.
- Coordinate with global colleagues to ensure cross-functional and cross-geographic cooperation.
- Support company continual improvement initiatives.
- Establish a results-oriented management style that measures and evaluates individual performance against clearly defined accountable competencies, responsibilities, and objectives.Required Education / Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business, or other applicable field from an accredited college or university
- Minimum of 10 years of business experience with experience leading a P&L
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without work authorization
- Ability to travel - up to 30%.Preferred Education / Experience:
- MBA from an accredited college or university
- 3+ years experience leading a P&L
- 5+ years experience in managing sales revenue plans and operating expense plans as a key business leader
- Experience with capital equipment and systems or project-based businesses
- Experience in product line management, operations, or commercial management
- Experience in automation solutions (ideally conveying systems) and specifically in the food, beverage, CPG, or intralogistics industry is a plus
- Experience developing and executing Strategic and Commercial Business PlansPosition Criteria / Skills:
- Demonstrated history of driving profitable growth
- Strong influencing skills working across functions, geographies, and segments
- Demonstrated leadership abilities
- Demonstrated ability in making quality and timely decisions
- Ability to deal with ambiguity
- Demonstrated ability to motivate others
- Ability to effectively set prioritiesBenefits:
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