Business Unit Director Inkjet

Veralto; Wood Dale (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays & PTO

Career development & training

Comprehensive benefits + 401(k) match

Job summary

Videojet Technologies, part of Veralto, seeks a Global Product Leader for the Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) portfolio. Own the product strategy, roadmap, lifecycle management, and global commercial success of Videojet’s CIJ line.

You will drive growth, profitability, and strategic vision across regions, reporting to the Sr. Director of Business Unit Management. Expect collaboration with engineering, production, marketing, and sales to balance resources and deliver results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in product management or a related role.
• Experience in a senior product role at a director level with a technical product is preferred.
• Strong understanding of the marking and coding market, industry trends, and user experiences.
• Strong expertise in market research tools and techniques.
• Proficiency in creating product vision and leading cross-team collaboration across engineering and commercial organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop product line strategy plan: 1- and 3-year vision, business cases, high-level use cases/requirements, and revenue that complements Videojet’s overall strategy.
• In depth understanding of competitors, their products and strategies with an eye to understand their full positioning and plans of attack.
• Work closely with regional leaders; the BUD owns the sales growth and P&L for their products (equipment, supplies and parts).
• Develop comprehensive materials and tools to help sales win opportunities (fight sheets, value selling documents, ROI/TCO tools, solution guides).
• Develop global plans for launch and develop internal support material.
• With Marketing, review/approve marketing materials, develop target customer segments and develop appropriate demand-generation campaigns.
• Get to Gemba to understand customer, competitor and market dynamics.
• Lead activities to address bugs, updates, upgrades and enhancements, and drive items to completion.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams in development, QA, and release of products, and balance resources to ensure success.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Market research

ROI/financial analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Competitive analysis

Product vision

Education

Bachelor’s degree (business, CS, engineering, or related)

Job description

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningfulwork thatmakes an everyday impacton the world around you.
• Growing yourexpertiseand expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambitionand fueling your career growth.

Videojet is proud to be a Product Quality & Innovation company in Veralto (NYSE: VLTO). Imagine a world where everyone has access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. That is the tomorrow Veralto is creating today. Veralto is a $5B global leader in essential technology solutions made up of over 16,000 associates across our Water Quality and Product Identification segments all united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources.

Videojet Technologies ( www.videojet.com ) is a leading global manufacturer of coding and marking solutions. With more than 400,000 units installed worldwide, Videojet covers all major technologies, including continuous and thermal inkjet, laser, thermal transfer overprinting, and case coding.

As part of our team, you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on safeguarding everyday essentials. You’ll also belong to a respectful and collaborative community that fosters career growth and professional development. You’ll be supported by resources that make a positive difference in your life because, at Videojet, we value your authenticity and want your talents to shine.

We offer:

• Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust
• Ongoing investment in your career through dedicated training, on-the-job development, and coaching
• Total rewards that support your success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards

About the role:

As the global product leader for the CIJ portfolio, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, lifecycle management, and commercial success of one of Videojet's largest product lines Continuous Inkjet (CIJ), this individual will establish a strategic vision for the product lines driving growth, profitability, and on a global basis.

This position is part of the global Business Unit Management group and will report to the Sr. Director of Business Unit Management.

In this role, you will:

• Develop product line strategy plan:1 and 3 yearvision, business cases, high-level use cases/requirements, and revenue that compliments Videojet’s overall strategy.
• In depth understanding of competitors, theirproductsand strategies with an eye to understand their full positioning and plans of attack.
• Working very closely with the regional leaders, the BUD owns the sales growth and P&L for their products (equipment, supplies and parts).
• Develop comprehensive materials and tools to help sales win opportunities. These include fight sheets, value selling documents, ROI/TCO tools, solution guides, etc.
• Develop global plans forlaunchanddevelopinternal support material.
• With Marketing, review/approve marketing materials, develop target customersegmentsand developappropriate demandgeneration campaigns.
• Get to Gemba(point of impact/field) to really understand customer,competitorand market dynamics.
• Lead activities to address bugs, updates, upgrades and enhancements, and drive items to completion.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams in the development, QA, and release of products, andbalanceresources to ensure success for the entire organization.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, or a related field
• Relevant field commercial experience
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in product management or a related role, ideally includinga track recordof successfully delivering successful new products launchings
• Experience in a senior product role at a director’s level working with a technical product is preferred.
• A strong understanding of the marking and coding market, industry trends, and user experiences
• Strongexpertisein market research tools and techniques.
• Proficiencyin creating product vision and leading cross-team collaboration across engineering and commercial organizations.

With annual sales of$ 5 billion, Veralto is a global leader in essential technology solutions with a proven track record of solving some of the most complex challenges we face as a society. Our industry-leading companies with globally recognized brands are building on a long-established legacy of innovation and customer trust to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future.

Veralto’s Water Quality companies—Aquatic Informatics, ChemTreat, Hach, McCrometer, Ott, Sea-Bird Scientific, Trojan Technologies, and XOS—manage, treat, purify, and protect the global water supply, from municipal and wastewater treatment facilities to lakes, rivers, watersheds, and oceans. And our Product Quality & Innovation companies—Esko, Linx, Pantone, Videojet, and X-Rite—protect the world’s food, medicine, and essentials by tracking and authenticating the billions of goods that travel the global supply chain every day. Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 300+ locations worldwide.

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The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $ 160000 - $ 200000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

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Veralto and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.