VP & Business Unit Manager – Laser Systems & Measurement – Lsm
Company | Coherent |
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Location | Tualatin, OR, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in physics, materials science, optics or other engineering fields. Graduate degree preferred.
- 8-10 years of experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility leading, managing, and growing teams and presenting to executives.
- Experience and proven accomplishments in design, development, and manufacturing of similar industry products.
- Demonstrated organizational agility working across functional groups at site level, across divisions and corporate functions.
- Demonstrated ability to work with customers and suppliers to create mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Sound understanding of relevant markets, customers, and competition.
- Demonstrated ability in developing annual budgets and operating plans.
Responsibilities
- Full responsibility for the P&L covering operations, engineering, marketing, and product marketing.
- Direct oversight of department managers responsible for product marketing, manufacturing operations, supply chain, engineering, R&D and quality.
- Oversee a team of about 120 direct and indirect reports and ensure employee engagement, ownership, organization development, and accountability.
- Ensure managers and supervisors are vested in employee development and career growth, to maintain high level employee satisfaction and retention.
- Works with the Controller to create quarterly and annual budgets, provide periodic forecasts, monitor performance and report on status versus budget and forecast.
- Coordinate and lead quarterly business reviews with segment executives and stakeholders as well as quarterly townhall events for local staff.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing to understand customer needs and assess the competitive landscape, to develop a product roadmap that offers differentiated and valued added products.
- Support Product Marketing and maintain a liaison with key customers.
- Ensure Engineering and R&D groups are working on projects that are of the utmost value to customers as identified by Product Marketing, and those that reduce product costs.
- Work with the Operations Manager to staff the manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, facilities, quality, customer service and EH&S functions to ensure a productive and lean operation that delivers high quality products at the lowest cost.
- Work with the Supply Chain Manager to manage procurement, inventory, production planning and shipping to ensure an efficient SIOP process that captures customer demand and delivers products while keeping inventory low.
- Work with the Quality Manager to ensure adherence to ISO standards and foster continual improvement of quality systems and procedures.
- Foster Lean Manufacturing and a culture of Continuous Improvement.
- Domestic and International travel 20%.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in developing business plans, growing a profitable business centered around highly technical product portfolio and managing its P&L is preferred.