Vice President Infrastructure Operations Jobs in Minnesota

We're looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success - and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

The Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain (VP ISC) is a pivotal leadership role within nVent's Systems Protection business segment. This executive will oversee end-to-end supply chain operations across 30 manufacturing locations and 9 distribution centers worldwide, leading procurement, manufacturing, quality, logistics, warehousing, inventory management, planning/SIOP, and EHS.

Dual reporting to the Chief Supply Chain Officer and Segment President, the VP ISC will define and execute the strategic supply chain vision, ensuring alignment with nVent's enterprise growth agenda. The role requires both strategic foresight and hands-on execution, driving year-over-year improvement across cost, productivity, quality, safety, and service. Equally important, the VP ISC will lead with a growth mindset, scaling people, processes, and the supply chain footprint to meet surging demand in fast-growing end markets including data centers, utilities, and renewables. This segment is a $2.1 billion growth engine for nVent, with nearly half of revenue tied to electrical infrastructure supporting AI build-out and electrification trends.

The VP ISC will partner closely with engineering, product development, finance, and commercial leaders to enable new product launches, integrate acquisitions, optimize the global footprint, and ensure the supply chain supports nVent's growth trajectory toward $10 billion and beyond.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

• Leadership & Team Development: Enterprise Leadership: Build and mentor a results-oriented, diverse leadership team with clear succession plans. Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture aligned with nVent's values. The incoming leader must "know what great looks like," bringing cycles of learning from best-in-class organizations to mature automation, digitalization, and planning capabilities.

• Supply Chain Strategy & Transformation: Define and implement the segment's supply chain vision, strategy, and operational policies. Develop multi-year transformation roadmaps introducing digitalization, sustainability, and best-in-class practices. Establish global supplier partnerships, negotiate complex multi-year agreements, and lead supplier diversity initiatives. Drive automation, digitization, and advanced planning, ensuring supply chain processes evolve from strong lean foundations toward world-class maturity.

• Operational Excellence & Footprint Optimization: Drive Lean and Operational Excellence at all levels of the organization. Oversee global footprint initiatives, including factory consolidations, expansions, and product line transfers. Lead manufacturing engineering to identify automation, process improvement, and value engineering opportunities. With 32 plants and 9 DCs, the VP ISC will be accountable for optimizing and scaling capacity quickly and effectively, including new factory set-up and regional expansion.

• Planning, Logistics & Quality: Oversee global demand planning, S&OP, and forecasting to ensure alignment between supply, demand, and customer requirements. Lead logistics and transportation teams to ensure timely, efficient delivery of products. Oversee quality systems to ensure world-class manufacturing standards. Ensure safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible work environments across all operations.

• Innovation & Growth Enablement: Partner with Innovation and New Product Engineering to enable seamless product launches. Develop product platform strategies to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. Support rapid integration of acquisitions (seven completed in recent years, two in this segment alone), ensuring processes and talent scale in parallel with portfolio growth.

• Financial & Business Results: Deliver continuous improvements in cost structure, service, productivity, and working capital. Link operational performance directly to business results and customer satisfaction.

YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree required. MBA or advanced degree preferred. Professional certifications (APICS/CPIM, CPM) strongly preferred.

• Experience with enterprise-level strategy while executing tactically in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• History of engaging teams with humility, transparency, and integrity.

• Experience driving transformation and embedding Lean and CI practices.

• Proven record of recruiting, coaching, and developing diverse, high-performing teams.

• Goal-driven, accountable, and effective at managing complexity.

• Strong collaborator with commercial, finance, and product leaders.

WE HAVE:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

  • Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com.

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We're known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

Pay Transparency
nVent's pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee's work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.
Compensation Range:

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.

• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan - both include a company match.

• Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.