Senior Director Solution Commercialization

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Banbury - UK

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 6 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Senior Director Solution Commercialization is a newly created global leadership role responsible for building and leading a world-class solution Commercialization organization for highly complex capital-intensive supply chain and logistics systems. This leader will drive the end-to-end lifecycle of the companys market offeringsfrom identification of market needs through design engineering commercialization deployment and long-term support.

The role requires a visionary leader who can harmonize market requirements engineering excellence commercial strategy and operational execution across a large matrixed global organization. This includes oversight of standardized solution offerings future solution development and portfolio investment strategy for a portfolio generating over $1B in annual order intake.

We offer:

  • Career Development

  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits

  • Pay Transparency

  • Global Opportunities

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Tasks and Qualifications:

Accountabilities:

  • Lead the global solution portfolio strategy and roadmap by defining long-term direction aligning to market opportunity guiding investment priorities and driving growth for a $1B portfolio of complex supply chain solutions.
  • Own and govern the end-to-end solution development process establishing standard methodologies and ensuring consistent execution across market requirements concept development engineering standards documentation tools and commercialization.
  • Translate market insights and customer needs into actionable solution requirements developing robust business cases and steering new offering development to meet emerging industry trends and competitive pressures.
  • Build lead and develop a global solution management organization managing 5 direct and 40 indirect reports fostering a high-performance culture and clarifying roles responsibilities and operating models.
  • Align with engineering product management R&D and application teams to define solution architectures required sub-products configuration standards and technical rules that ensure scalable cost-effective and reliable solutions.
  • Drive commercial readiness and enablement ensuring availability of pricing frameworks sales tools training and customer-facing documentation to support effective selling and deployment across all global regions.
  • Coordinate cross-functional execution across the global business partnering with sales consulting project management installation and service to ensure smooth handover from design to delivery and consistent global application.
  • Establish portfolio governance and performance measurement implementing KPIs and review mechanisms to track adoption quality development investments lifecycle performance and overall portfolio profitability.

Functional Competencies:

Required

  • 12 years of experience in solution management systems engineering product management or portfolio leadership.
  • Proven leadership experience in complex capital-intensive industrial supply chain logistics or automation environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage large multidimensional solution portfolios and investments.
  • Strong track record of building and leading global cross-functional teams.
  • Experience with large-scale solution development processes including requirements management engineering standards and commercialization.

Preferred

  • Advanced degree in Engineering Business or related field.
  • Experience managing portfolios exceeding $500M in annual order intake (or similar scale).
  • Deep understanding of automation systems material handling systems industrial equipment or similar high-capital technologies.

Leadership Capabilities

  • Strategic thinker with a strong orientation toward systems processes and long-term value creation.
  • Exceptional cross-functional communicator and influencer.
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance customer needs business outcomes and engineering realities.
  • Builder mentalitycomfortable creating new organizations processes and governance models.

Required Experience:

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The Senior Director Solution Commercialization is a newly created global leadership role responsible for building and leading a world-class solution Commercialization organization for highly complex capital-intensive supply chain and logistics systems. This leader will drive the end-to-end lifecycle...
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We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.

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