Business Manager - Built Environment

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

UL Solutions seeks a senior leader to oversee Fire Resistance & Contrainment programs, with oversight across Building Materials, Construction, and Roofing. This hybrid role requires three days onsite weekly in Northbrook, IL.

You will drive strategy, P&L performance, and customer-focused growth, leading cross-functional teams and shaping the business roadmap in a safety-centric, global organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or similar.
• 8-10 years TIC or building materials/construction/fire resistance industry experience.
• Strong leadership and coaching abilities.
• Excellent communication across diverse groups.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Ability to mentor and coach teams.
• Solid business and financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements Commercial and Operational strategy to drive growth and profitability.
• Responsible for P&L activities and budget development.
• Ensures attainment of revenue, profit, and enterprise value targets.
• Manages costs, forecasting, and input into growth targets.
• Monitors revenue activities, including unbilled and aging projects.
• Leads capacity planning and resource alignment with customer needs.
• Identifies new business opportunities and drives market expansion.
• Builds strong customer partnerships through visits and market analysis.
• Oversees M&A integration and deal economics.
• Drives a high-performing team and supports UL matrix culture.

Skills

Change Management

Leadership

Data Analysis

Presentation Skills

Project Management

Microsoft Office

Customer Relationship Building

Strategic Planning

Regulatory Compliance

Organizational Change Management

Relationship Building

Future Trends

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or similar

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job 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 estimatedsalary 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 pagewww.UL.com

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Required Skills

• Change Management Practices
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Customer Relationship Building
• Data Analysis
• Engineering Disciplines
• Feedback Coaching
• Future Trends
• High Performance Teams
• Leadership Management
• Microsoft Office
• Organizational Change Management
• Organizational Strategy
• Presentation Skills
• Project Management
• Quality Management System
• Regulatory Compliance Management
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning

About Us

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.

About the Team

Our buildings don’t just shape our skylines — they provide the backdrop to our lives. And knowing they’re safe matters. We’ve been helping to create safer structures since 1894, combining our expertise with innovative new technologies to help make sure both people and property are secure. As more people have to deal with extreme weather, we’re on hand to test products and building materials to increasingly rigorous standards. Whether we’re simulating tornadoes or testing smoke alarms, the work we do on our team is used in buildings around the world to — quite literally — help save lives. Join our team and build your skills, build innovative solutions and help build a safer world.