Vice President Lean Practitioner Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Location: Raleigh/Greensboro

Reports to: Chief Transformation Officer, with enterprise-wide scope and close partnership with the Executive Leadership Team

Position Overview

Vontier is a $3B industrial technology company with a portfolio spanning mobility, diagnostics, and environmental solutions. We are seeking a high-caliber enterprise transformation and operating leader to join the leadership team with direct exposure to the Board and C-suite.

Vontier is seeking an enterprise-minded, transformational executive to serve as Vice President, VBS, responsible for evolving the Vontier Business System (VBS) into a business performance engine that drives enterprise value creation across operations, supply chain, sourcing, commercial excellence, manufacturing, distribution, and broader value streams. This leader will be responsible for leading the enterprise operating system that delivers measurable business outcomes, including cost reduction, productivity improvement, revenue growth enablement, operating profit expansion, working capital improvement, and stronger customer and operational performance.

The Vice President, VBS & Enterprise Performance will partner closely with the executive leadership team, business unit presidents, operations leaders, and site leadership to identify, prioritize, and deliver high-impact operational and financial improvements across the enterprise. This role will be accountable for translating strategy into execution and execution into sustained financial results. The role will drive operational priorities focused on total cost management, margin expansion, quality, lead time, service, cash generation, and growth enablement, while embedding a culture of accountability, problem solving, and continuous improvement at every level of the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution and deployment of VBS as an enterprise operating system that drives measurable business outcomes across Vontier and its operating companies.
• Partner with the CEO, executive leadership team, and operating company leaders to activate the VBS roadmap and operational agenda, ensuring priorities are aligned to the company's most critical strategic, operational, and financial objectives.
• Build capability within operating companies by engaging leaders and teams to apply VBS fundamentals, growth tools, and performance management disciplines in ways that produce sustainable improvements in productivity, profitability, and growth.
• Partner with acquisition and integration teams to embed VBS principles, management systems, and execution rigor into newly acquired businesses, accelerating integration and value capture.
• Lead enterprise prioritization and execution management processes, including 80/20, to ensure resources are focused on the highest-value opportunities for growth, cost reduction, and operational improvement.
• Partner with commercial leaders to advance Vontier's growth capabilities, including enterprise selling, commercial excellence, and customer value creation, with a focus on enabling revenue growth and improving commercial execution.
• Lead enterprise level accountability and outcomes focused on safety, quality, delivery and cost across all operational organizations
• Continue to evolve VBS by integrating the most effective practices in Lean, daily management, problem solving, and business agility to improve execution speed, responsiveness, and business performance.
• Champion a culture of accountability and disciplined execution by deploying clear scalable outcome focused operating mechanisms, standard work, and leadership routines that enable operating companies to accelerate performance improvement.
• Implement robust performance management systems and dashboards that track business impact and problem solving, including safety, quality, delivery, inventory, productivity, growth, and operating profit improvement.
• Partner with business leaders to identify and execute structural and operational opportunities that simplify the organization, improve competitiveness, and expand margins.  
• Build credibility and influence from the boardroom to the shop floor by combining strategic insight, financial acumen, and practical operating leadership.  
• Champion annual CEO Kaizen Event and other similar enterprise-wide kaizen events.
• Build a team of high performing, impact driven VBS business partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or related field
• Advanced degree or Master's in Business Administration a plus
• Minimum 15 years of related leadership experience as an operational Lean Practitioner with an understanding of Lean Business System Deployment that maximizing business value as expressed in operating margin expansion.
• Proven track record of operational ownership leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives across manufacturing, distribution, services and other complex operational environments.
• Demonstrated success delivering measurable financial impact through productivity improvement, cost reduction, margin expansion, working capital improvement, growth enablement, and operational simplification.
• Strong experience partnering with and influencing executive leadership, including regular interaction with C-suite stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in Lean principles, Kaizen, value stream transformation, daily management systems, problem solving, and change leadership.
• Exceptional ability to lead change through influence in matrixed, global, and decentralized organizations.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect operational initiatives to financial performance and enterprise strategy.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
• High level of personal credibility, presence, and effectiveness in both boardroom and shop-floor environments.
• Willingness and ability to travel 50-75%.
• Preferred candidates located in Raleigh NC

For this specific role, you may be eligible to participate in annual and long-term incentive plans.

Vontier partners with you and your family on your health and wellness journey. Visit VontierBenefits.com to view our benefits. We offer a premium suite of health and wellness programs for you and your family, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. With programs for family planning from Maven Clinic to managing diabetes like Livongo, coverage for women's health, support for adult and elder care, paid parental leave, a generous 401(k) plan with matching company contributions, and more. Vontier is here for all stages of life. We also offer paid time off up to 20 days, 13 paid holidays (including 3 floating holidays) per year and paid sick leave.*

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Sick leave amount may vary based on state or local laws applicable to the applicant's geographic location. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law. 

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