VP, Veralto Enterprise System Leader (VESL), WQ Segment

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of WQ, the Veralto Enterprise System Leader (VESL) will be a key member of the senior management team responsible for leading the strategy design and implementation of the Veralto Enterprise System (VES) to support the WQ Segment’s continued success.

This executive will lead the roadmap to embed VES into the company culture, allowing WQ to achieve Policy Deployment (PD) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets. The VESL will oversee all platform-wide VES activities, focusing on fundamentals, lean, innovation, and growth.

This role includes coaching and training senior leaders and associates to enable process improvements and sustain stronger results using VES tools and analytics.

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

• Ability to influence others, drive sustainable change, and build high-performing team.
• Results-oriented with a strong customer focus and ability to deliver results.
• An inclusive and authentic leader who earns trust and builds psychological safety in a global organization with high awareness and actions that foster a diverse and inclusive team.
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, and strategic leader, able to operate in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Serve as a role model for Veralto Values: Operational Excellence, delivering results as a team, unlocking ingenuity for customer success, and serving humanity with purpose and integrity.
• Technical excellence - must possess the technical skills necessary to be seen as credible in Veralto by peers and managers; must have significant practitioner experience in New Product Development.
• Champion the key VES fundamentals – daily management, standard work, and problem-solving. Strong command of the PSP process with a proven ability to pragmatically get to the root cause and execute effective countermeasures. Able to identify which VES tool must be applied and when.
• Strong Gemba orientation and technical skills necessary for credibility.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Experimentation mindset – able to help teams take and manage risk and drive experimentation to facilitate learning.
• Demonstrates key leadership traits, including integrity, adaptability, vision, judgment, courage, and passion.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Marketing, or Operations required. Master’s degree in a related field or MBA preferred.
• Years of Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience leading and applying continuous improvement principles (VES) to various business situations across growth, innovation, and lean.
• Executive VES or L1 leader at a major operating company; has led PD install workshops, Certified Practitioner roadmaps and President Kaizens.
• Strong followership to drive focus and impact of results. Must be a pragmatic leader who thinks and acts strategically, viewing the business from a general management perspective.
• A ‘Gemba-based’ leader who has demonstrated experience working with Teams at Gemba to drive great VES adoption with an eye towards ‘hands-on’ learning.
• Computer skills (data analysis, word processing, spreadsheets, graphics, statistical tools).
• Must be able to provide concise executive summaries of business performance issues, changes needed or made, and results delivered.
• Excellent communication skills to work with individuals across all levels of the organization and training others.
• Proven track record in a multinational senior leadership position with experience in global companies.
• Commit to 50% of required business travel.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

VES Leadership

• A key member of the L1 leadership team responsible for defining, developing, and leading the strategy design and overall implementation of VES Capability and VES Certification roadmap across the WQ Platform globally.
• Responsible for leading and executing VES processes and tools through their work with associates and management - guiding, coaching, and providing resources as needed.
• Champion using key VES fundamentals—daily management, standard work, and problem-solving.
• Lead PD workshop installs with linkage to the strategic plan and key breakthroughs.
• Drive VES immersion for L1 leaders and mentor Business VESLs in applying VES best practices.
• Lead a VES organization that will directly provide formal and informal VES training and coaching. Augment with other sources of training and coaching (Veralto VESO and outside sources). Improve VES training and facilitation by pursuing certification in VES tools for self and others.
• Provide coaching and support for PD workshops, Obeya/Growth rooms, and strategic initiatives.

Continuous Improvement:

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