Business Unit Manager, Process - Hach - Veralto : Job Details

Imagine yourself doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you. Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth. Collaborating with a vibrant, diverse, global team.

At Hach, a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis betterfaster, simpler, greener and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you'll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you'll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world's everyday water needs, and where you'll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we're working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.

Reporting to the Sr. Director for Product Management, the Business Unit Manager is a key leader within the product management team, responsible for driving global leadership and regional success across their respective product lines.

The Business Unit Manager is responsible for building and developing a high-performing team of product management professionals, guiding them to drive long-term commercial success and ensure that the product portfolio is aligned with global customer needs and commercial targets. The Business Unit Manager works closely with Regional Commercial, Marketing, R&D, and Operations (manufacturing) teams to identify customer needs/pain points, bring innovative solutions to market, and create differentiated offerings that address those challenges. Through collaboration, this role helps Hach customers navigate their water quality and regulatory requirements while ensuring that the company's products stand out in the market.

The Business Unit Manager leads the development and execution of annual growth plans, with a clear focus on enhancing customer workflows and delivering impactful, customer-centric solutions across diverse regions.

This position is part of the Product Management department and will be onsite in Loveland, CO or Dusseldorf, Germany.

This role will require travel for up to 25% of the time, both domestic and international.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Ensure the team is doing the right things (focusing on the critical few) and doing things right (leveraging Veralto Enterprise System- VES, and best demonstrated practices) through hands on coaching & mentoring, with a solution-oriented mindset. Prioritize customer workflow and needs to guide team efforts towards impactful solutions.
• Deliver annual objectives for the relevant product lines including revenue, margin, share gain, pricing, quality, and successful new product commercialization.
• Lead cross-functional problem solving when performance is not meeting targets, always considering customer impact and continuously optimizing for improved workflows.
• Partner with Regional commercial teams to demonstrate new and higher standards for well-executed new product introductions and commercial tactics to drive growth for existing products, ensuring customer workflows are enhanced by every product or initiative.
• Drive unique go-to-market strategies that differentiate the business unit and its offerings from competitors, positioning products and solutions as essential to customer workflows.
• Identify unique selling points and create tailored strategies to communicate these effectively to target markets.
• Maintain a strategic rationalized portfolio of products within the product line, including growth, margin improvement and lifecycle related initiatives.
• Inform New Product Development (NPD) roadmap decisions and product definitions; validate business cases for new product opportunities, focusing on solutions that address specific customer pain points and enhance overall workflow efficiency.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business field required; MBA strongly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in product management / commercial experience.
• 1 to 3 years of people management/leadership experience required.
• Demonstrable experience in translating customer needs into product requirements, adapting to the cultural context and business practices of diverse regions.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time; both domestic and international travel is required.
• Fluent in English.