General Manager, Warren Rupp

IDEX; Mansfield (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Warren Rupp, a unit of IDEX, is seeking a General Manager to lead the Mansfield, Ohio operation. This on-site role will own the P&L and drive revenue, margin, and asset performance across the site, with accountability for strategic execution and organizational leadership.

The position requires a bachelor’s degree and at least 12 years of senior leadership experience in manufacturing or industrial environments, with a track record of profitable growth and cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Twelve+ years of progressive leadership experience in general management, operations, commercial leadership, strategy, or related roles with accountability for business performance.
• Proven ability to lead both commercial and operational functions and connect market commitments with manufacturing capacity and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business and own the P&L.
• Set strategy and translate it into execution.
• Drive improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and working capital.

Skills

P&L ownership

Leadership

Strategic planning

Operational leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact. With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

Fluid & Metering Technologies Segment

Our Fluid & Metering Technologies (FMT) businesses design and manufacture a range of fluid handling products - including pumps, valves, and flow meters - that are essential to fluid management in industries such as agriculture, chemicals, and energy. Our products handle some of the world’s toughest challenges, moving and measuring corrosive, abrasive, high-viscosity, and high-temperature materials with accuracy and reliability. From powering clean energy solutions to supporting pharmaceutical production, FMT delivers trusted solutions that help our customers across the globe manage their most critical processes. The segment generates approximately $1.2B in revenue, with a global footprint including 80+ sites, ~3,000 employees, and a strong runway for sustainable profitable growth.

About Warren Rupp

Founded in Mansfield, Ohio in 1965, Warren Rupp engineers air-operated and electrically operated double diaphragm pump solutions for demanding fluid-handling applications. Its brands include SANDPIPER, Versamatic, and Cognito, supported by a global network of independent, factory-authorized distributors. Warren Rupp products primarily serve the chemical, paint, food processing, electronics, construction, utilities, oil and gas, mining and industrial maintenance markets. The company combines a strong heritage of innovation, quality, reliability, community involvement, and people-focused culture with an ambition to shape the future of diaphragm pumping through technology, application expertise, and global reach. Warren Rupp is a unit of IDEX Corporation that maintains primary operations in Mansfield, Ohio.

Position Overview

The General Manager is the senior business leader with full accountability for Warren Rupp’s strategy, performance, people, and profitability of ~$140M in annual revenue. Headquartered in Mansfield, Ohio, Warren Rupp is a key business within IDEX’s Severe Duty Flow Control platform and employs 175 team members. This on-site player/coach leads both commercial market execution and manufacturing operations, ensuring strong alignment between customer demand, operational execution, and financial performance. The General Manager is responsible for accelerating profitable growth, strengthening end-customer and channel engagement, improving operational performance through SIOP and continuous improvement disciplines, and developing a high-performing leadership team capable of scaling the business for the future.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the business and own the P&L.
• Deliver revenue growth, gross margin expansion, profitability, cash flow, and asset performance in alignment with annual operating plan commitments.
• Make disciplined tradeoffs that balance near-term execution with long-term value creation.
• Set strategy and translate it into execution.
• Define, communicate, and embed a focused multi-year business strategy.
• Convert strategic priorities into measurable actions, governance routines, KPIs, resource choices, and clear accountability.
• Drive customer-centric commercial excellence.
• Shape go-to-market strategies around end-customer needs, buyer behavior, channels, and geographies.
• Build deep customer and distributor relationships, improve lead conversion and customer delivery, and connect commercial commitments to operational capacity.
• Lead operational performance.
• Maintain direct ownership for local manufacturing value streams, daily production performance, quality, delivery, safety, productivity, and working capital.
• Ensure production schedules and capacity plans support customer commitments.
• Own SIOP and continuous improvement.
• Lead demand and supply balancing and establish rigorous operating rhythms using the IDEX Operating Model, SIOP, daily management, Gemba, and continuous improvement practices.
• Simplify the business through 80/20.
• Apply practical 80/20 principles to customers, products, value streams, and processes.
• Reduce SKU, product-line, and transactional complexity; improve mix; eliminate waste; and focus resources on the critical few priorities.
• Advance innovation and digital transformation.
• Integrate product innovation, digital customer experiences, analytics, and appropriately governed AI-enabled improvements into the business strategy, with clear outcomes for growth, productivity, customer value, and profitability.
• Build an aligned, high-performing organization.
• Recruit, assess, develop, and retain an outstanding leadership team.
• Create succession strength, clarify decision rights, reinforce accountability, and build capability across commercial, operational, engineering, and enabling functions.
• Champion safety, compliance, and culture.
• Set the standard for an incident-free workplace, ethical conduct, inclusion, and shared values.
• Maintain visible leadership across shifts and functions, listen at the Gemba, and foster a team-first environment grounded in respect and collaboration.

Measures of Success

• Delivery of annual revenue, margin, profitability, cash flow, and operational commitments.
• Execution and organizational adoption of a clear multi-year business strategy.
• Above-market growth from prioritized products, applications, customers, channels, and geographies.
• Improved safety, quality, on-time delivery, productivity, working capital, and asset performance.
• Greater customer intimacy, commercial effectiveness, innovation vitality, and digitally enabled growth.
• A strong leadership team, deeper succession bench, high employee engagement, and a culture of accountability.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred. Twelve or more years of progressive leadership experience in general management, operations, commercial leadership, strategy, corporate development, or related roles with increasing scope and demonstrated business impact with accountability for business performance, including P&L ownership in a global industrial or engineered products environment. Demonstrated P&L leadership and a track record of delivering profitable growth, margin expansion, and sustainable value creation. Proven ability to lead both commercial and operational functions and connect market commitments with manufacturing capacity and execution. Experience developing and executing organic growth strategies. Exposure to M&A, strategic partnerships, business case development, due diligence, or integration is preferred. Strong financial and commercial acumen, including strategic investment, capital allocation, pricing, portfolio, and performance decisions. Demonstrated success building leadership teams, developing talent, strengthening succession, and leading through organizational change. Experience influencing senior leaders and aligning cross‑functional, global teams in a matrixed organization. Ability to use market intelligence, customer insights, operational data, and performance metrics to make sound decisions and drive measurable outcomes. Working knowledge of digital transformation, analytics, and AI-enabled business applications, with the ability to connect technology investments to business value.

Critical Leadership Capabilities

• Enterprise perspective with operational depth: Moves fluidly between long-range strategy and day-to-day execution, rapidly synthesizing commercial, financial, and operational data.
• Strategy and execution discipline: Simplifies complexity, focuses the organization on the critical few, establishes clear ownership, and follows through tenaciously.
• Talent champion: Builds an inclusive, high-accountability culture; hires and develops strong talent; coaches leaders; and creates succession strength.
• Humble, authentic leadership: Listens, learns from the front line, builds trust across levels, and combines low ego with high standards and decisive action.
• Executive communication and influence: Communicates with clarity and credibility across employees, customers, partners, platform and corporate leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Learning agility and change leadership: Demonstrates curiosity, sound judgment, resilience, and comfort navigating ambiguity, transformation, and evolving markets.
• Values and integrity: Models ethical leadership, personal ownership, inclusion, safety, and respect in every decision and interaction.

Work Environment and Travel

This is an on-site leadership position based in Mansfield, Ohio. Frequent travel is required, including domestic and international travel to customers, distributors, suppliers, IDEX locations, and other business partners. The role operates in office and manufacturing environments and requires adherence to all site safety requirements.

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