VP Product Development & Technology, Mott

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.

IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), based in Northbrook, IL (suburb of Chicago), is a leading global manufacturer of diversified products in industries ranging across health, science, safety, fire, and fluidics. The company operates in 24 countries; IDEX is an innovative and growing company, focused on delivering excellence through diverse, winning teams. We’re a global provider of applied solutions serving a variety of markets.

These include life science and medical technologies, process industry and infrastructure related applications, industrial/municipal fire, and rescue – to name just a few.

When you join Mott, a leader in the industries we serve, you’ll join an entrepreneurial, employee‑owned and fast‑paced team and play a key role in our company’s double‑digit growth. We inspire employees to escape the ordinary to solve mission‑critical problems for our customers and have fun along the way. From customer support to new product development, ensuring world‑class quality of our products is at the core of our strategy for success.

You’ll work alongside smart, creative, motivated colleagues and have unlimited opportunities to learn, grow and contribute. If you're excited to be part of a winning team, you will be glad you applied here.

This VP Product Development & Technology is the senior technical leader in the organization responsible for all research & development, product development, technical innovation and project execution in the business. As a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) member, this position is essential to steering the overall growth direction of the company.

• Define Technology
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Ultimate responsibility for the development and implementation of the Company’s technology roadmap.
• Build Agile High Performing Team: Build a high‑performance organization of individual contributors, managers, and directors capable of executing Company strategy.
• Own Customer Relationships: Build and maintain senior‑level technical relationships at top customers. Use relationships to drive product innovation needs.
• Launch Product & Technology: Ultimate responsibility for product development, R&D and product launch into Operations.
• Champion for Safety and Continuous Improvement: Drive Safety first and Continuous Improvement mindset across our technical organization.
• Protect Technology: Ensure compliance with CMMC, IP and Trade Secret protocols throughout the innovation process.

• Must be able to prioritize across multiple simultaneous tasks to drive best overall business outcome at industry‑leading speed.
• Must lead an agile team to flex and satisfy requirements of 6 different businesses.
• Must develop a process to scale non‑linearly to headcount.
• Must be able to translate technical, quality, commercial and operational requirement differences across 6 major businesses and translate into ability to capture technical value.
• Must be able to work across sister organizations (dozens) to spot overall technical synergies to grow the overall corporation.
• Must be comfortable being Mott technology champion in front of customers and develop rapid pathways to a solution for customers. This includes working with customers, suppliers and government partners.

• Develop technical roadmap capable of doubling EBITDA within a 3‑year window.
• Deliver roadmap milestones with 90% on‑time delivery or better.
• Within 180 days, define current state organization identifying missing skills/talent, and implement plans for key employee development.
• Use customer relationships to drive at least 3 innovations quarterly in each of the top markets.
• Cascade customer…