VP Product Development & Technology, Mott

If youre looking for a special place to build or grow your career youve found it. Whether youre an experienced professional a recent college graduate or somewhere in between IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering marketing sales supply chain operations HR finance and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe chances are we have something special for you.

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. Were 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.

What makes this role a GREAT fit for you When you join Mott a leader in the industries we serve youll join an entrepreneurial fast-paced team with a growth mindset. We inspire engineers to escape the ordinary to solve mission critical problems for our customers and have fun along the way. Every day you will come in and work with the biggest names across the most technologically complex industries. You will create custom filtration and flow control solutions that enable EUV Lithography tool allow a rover to land on Mars restore eyesight to a human being and provide power to the world. Every single day you will have the ability to impact things that change the world.

This VP Product Development & Technology is the senior technical leader in the organization responsible for all research & development product development technical innovation and project execution in the business. As a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) member this position is essential to steering the overall growth direction of the company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define Technology Roadmap: Ultimate responsibility for the development and implementation of the Companys technology roadmap.

• Champion for Safety and Continuous Improvement: Drive Safety first and Continuous Improvement mindset across our technical organization.

• Build Agile High Performing Teams: Build a high-performance organization of individual contributors managers and directors capable of executing Company strategy.

• Own Customer Relationships: Build and maintain senior level technical relationships at top Customers. Use relationships to drive product innovation needs.

• Launch Product & Technology: Ultimate responsibility for developing new capabilities and launching new products into Operations.

• Project Execution: Responsibility for Customer project execution for large scale CAPEX projects and OEM driven projects across multiple markets and industries.

• Protect Technology: Ensure compliance with CMMC IP and Trade Secret protocols throughout the innovation process.

Major Challenges:

• Mott is a rapid custom solution provider not an organization that develops one product at a time. Comfort in managing research initiatives product development Customer driven work and project execution.

• Ability to work in OEM driven product development and one-off CAPEX driven projects.

• Must be able to prioritize across multiple simultaneous tasks to drive best overall business outcome at industry leading Speed.

• Must lead an agile team to flex and satisfy requirements of 6 different businesses. Must develop a process to scale non-linearly to headcount.

• Must be able to translate technical quality commercial and operational requirement differences across 6 major businesses and translate into ability to capture technical value.

• Must be able to work across sister organizations (dozens) to spot overall technical synergies to grow the overall corporation.

• Must be comfortable being Mott technology champion in front of Customers and develop rapid pathways to a solution for Customer. This includes working with Customers Suppliers and Government Partners.

Outcomes:

• Lead Safety first culture throughout technical organization to ensure generation and closure of 200 safety opportunities annually

• Develop technical roadmap capable of doubling EBITDA within a 3 year window. Deliver roadmap milestones with 90% on time delivery or better.

• Within 180 days define current state organization identifying missing skills/talent and implement plans for key employee development.

• Use customer relationships to drive at least 3 innovations quarterly in each of the top markets. Cascade Customer need into team for action.

• 98% on time delivery of product launches to within 10% as estimated cost.

• Lead Continuous Improvement and Daily Management to improve technical execution and ensure on-time delivery of new products and capabilities.

• Define company IP strategy

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor and Master degree in Materials Science Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. PhD a plus. MBA a plus.

• 15 years industry experience in highly engineered solutions environment. Semiconductor Space Exploration or Defense industry experience a plus.

• Preferred candidates

• 5 years executive technical leadership.

• Proven track record of IP generation IP management. Experience with Government grants and funding a plus.

• Proven track record of deriving technical value pre-sale helping commercial teams capture 8-figure or above value.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Innovation Mindset

• Executive Leadership Presence

• Strategy Development & Execution skills

• Interpersonal and organizational skills

• Customer Facing Pre-Sale and Negotiation skills

• Results Driven

• Self-directed

• Analytic thinker

• Acts with Urgency

• Life-Long Learner

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

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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: is an Equal Opportunity 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.

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