Business Manager - Built Environment

UL Solutions; Northbrook (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K

Paid time off

Annual bonus

Job summary

UL Solutions in Northbrook, IL is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Fire Resistance & Contrainment initiatives within Building Materials, Construction and Roofing. The role will oversee multiple teams and require a strategic, financially driven mindset.

This hybrid position requires three days on site weekly, with P&L ownership, budgeting, and growth planning. You will collaborate with Sales, BD, and Operations to deliver value, manage capex, and drive performance across segments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 8–10 years in TIC or building materials, construction, or fire resistance/containment industries.
• Strong leadership experience with prior management of leaders preferred.
• Excellent communication across diverse internal/external stakeholders.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and financial/operational acumen.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements commercial/operational strategy to drive growth and profitability.
• Responsible for P&L and budget development.
• Manage costs, forecasting, and input growth targets for customers/segments.
• Oversee revenue activities, including unbilled and aging projects, and WIP analysis.
• Translate customer needs into operational plans with available resources.
• Identify new business opportunities and drive market share growth.
• Collaborate with Sales/BD to anticipate customer needs and build pipeline.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Microsoft Office

Coaching/Mentoring

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or similar

Job description

Description

This role will focus on Fire Resistance & Contrainment and may oversee teams in other areas in Building Materials, Construction, and Roofing.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week onsite in Northbrook, IL.

Responsibilities

• Develops, executes and implements Commercial and Operational strategy to drive organic/inorganic growth and profitability while ensuring customer satisfaction through a deep understanding of the customer and market intelligence.
• Responsible for P&L activities and budget development.
• Accountable for ensuring financial targets (revenue, profit, enterprise value, etc..) are met.
• Responsible for managing costs, reporting and forecasting, workflow overviews and providing input into growth targets for customers and segments.
• Closely monitors and manages revenue activities, including unbilled, aging and inactive projects, work on hand analysis to ensure balance of demand and throughput.
• Implements and executes capacity and capability strategies and successfully translate customer needs into an operational plan to fulfill projects with the right resources (availability, skillset).
• Drives and leads initiatives to identify new and/or additional business opportunities.
• Anticipates customer needs by creating strong partnerships with Sales and Business Development.
• Ensures there is sufficient pipeline of opportunities, orders to meet overall P&L budget.
• Drives Price, Promotion, Service offering for dedicated Segment to maximize DCM/AOI.
• Provides proactive solutions for new business opportunities to secure revenue, profit margin, market share and customer satisfaction.
• Builds customer intimacy and establishes strong relationships through customer visits, analyzing business data and market trends.
• Participate in client seminars, conferences and trade shows.
• Manage capex intensive investments to meet agreed timeline with deliveries in order to meet Long Range Plan commitments.
• Manages initiatives and resources to meet DCF and ROI targets on schedule.
• Manages segment specific M&As to ensure integration and ensuring overall timeline is kept.
• Participates in M&A deal process and is responsible for meeting the deal economics and targets for DCF/ROI.
• Drives a high performing team by managing the performance and development of team members.
• Operates effectively in the UL matrix to actively support and drive high performance culture changes, transformation efforts and people engagement.
• Holds team and self-accountable for results, defines accountabilities and establishes performance objectives and metrics to execute strategy.
• Develops and coaches by providing, training, career counseling, feedback, guidance to drive high performance and morale.
• Ensures understanding of and compliance with all established policies and requirements.
• Communicates and exemplifies ULs Vision and Mission.
• Leads, promotes and embraces change for self and team.
• Collaborates and builds trust within the organization and with customers to meet or exceed their expectations.
• Develops strong, flexible cross-functional networks and global relationships to promote becoming the fastest, highest quality and most customer-friendly organization.
• Coaches and mentors employees to do the same.
• Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices.
• Performs other duties as directed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or similar.
• 8-10 years of Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) or building materials or construction or fire resistance and containment products industry experience.
• Strong leadership experience. Experience managing leaders highly preferred.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with diverse groups within the company and customers.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to coach and mentor.
• Demonstrated business and financial acumen.

What we offer:

Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $140,000-160,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).

Learn More:

Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit our company page www.UL.com

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