Strategic Spare Parts Lead — Industrial Hydraulics

Bosch Group; Welland; On-site; CAD 78,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Savings Matching Program

Discounts on Bosch Products

Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts

Global networking opportunities

Job summary

Bosch Rexroth Canada seeks a Spare Parts Group Leader to drive profitable growth, manage inventories, and collaborate with Sales, Service, Logistics, and partners to strengthen market presence. The role emphasizes strategic planning and aftermarket expansion.

The position requires strong leadership and channel development skills to deliver long-term aftersales growth and customer satisfaction across the Canadian market, including the Niagara region.

Qualifications

• Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Certified Fluid Power, Robotics, or equivalent education is considered an asset.
• 3+ years of leadership experience leading, coaching, and developing a team.
• 5+ years of sales or marketing experience promoting technical products to industrial customers.
• Experience with inventory planning for industrial products.
• Strong technical background related to industrial hydraulics, mobile hydraulics, fluid power, robotics, or a comparable technical field.
• Strong financial acumen and understanding of KPIs.
• Demonstrated experience with strategic planning, project management, and change management.
• Strong communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Customer-focused with a strong sense of urgency.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to drive initiatives.
• Collaborative team player.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a five-year rolling strategic plan aligned with sales, profitability, growth, and overall business targets.
• Establish and maintain a product roadmap that supports the long-term business plan and identifies resources and key enablers.
• Implement channel partner strategies and initiatives that support market growth and penetration.
• Develop and manage budgets for sales, marketing, promotional, and product growth activities.
• Align goals and strategic initiatives with Sales and Service leadership.
• Develop and manage a strategic inventory plan that supports market requirements throughout the product lifecycle while meeting inventory targets.
• Determine the type, level, and location of product support required to achieve growth objectives, including preparing business cases for additional resources.
• Develop marketing strategies for product launches, promotional campaigns, and product awareness initiatives.
• Oversee product launches by establishing and monitoring project schedules and deliverables.
• Conduct customer visits alongside channel partners, Sales, and Service teams to identify opportunities through a consultative selling approach.
• Gather customer feedback and provide recommendations for improvements to existing products and services.
• Contribute to distribution strategies, reseller agreements, aftermarket support programs, and other business development opportunities.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key customers in collaboration with responsible managers and account development teams.
• Create product value propositions, positioning statements, key benefit messages, and competitive selling strategies.
• Recommend advertising, technical literature, digital tools, trade shows, and exhibitions that support business growth.
• Manage and distribute technical product literature in both electronic and printed formats.
• Work with Service and Logistics to determine appropriate inventory items and quantities to support spare parts sales and repair activities.
• Monitor inventory service levels, market lead-time expectations, and stocking requirements to maximize sales opportunities.
• Support inventory optimization by recommending actions for slow-moving and non-moving inventory.
• Manage product phase-in and phase-out activities, including long-term aftermarket support.
• Leverage North American warehousing and direct-shipment opportunities to better serve the Canadian market.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with global business units and key internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate urgent deliveries, direct inventory shipments, stocking strategies, pricing information, lead-time requests, and business unit visits.
• Negotiate special pricing requirements with factories and source business units when needed to support market opportunities.
• Conduct market research to identify industry trends, prospective customers, new markets, and product opportunities.
• Collect and analyze competitive information, including market share, product offerings, pricing, delivery lead times, and long-term competitor strategies.
• Develop and communicate appropriate countermeasures for competing products and technologies.
• Develop market pricing and discount strategies in alignment with organizational requirements and sales objectives.
• Monitor annual sales plans, cost centre expenses, profitability, market share, customer satisfaction, inventory levels, and strategic growth initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Sales

Communication

Technical skills

Financial acumen

Project management

Customer focus

Education

Mechanical Engineering / related asset

Job description

Bosch Rexroth Canada seeks a Spare Parts Group Leader to drive profitable growth, manage inventories, and collaborate with Sales, Service, Logistics, and partners to strengthen market presence. The role emphasizes strategic planning and aftermarket expansion.

The position requires strong leadership and channel development skills to deliver long-term aftersales growth and customer satisfaction across the Canadian market, including the Niagara region.