Hach VP, Veralto Enterprise Systems Leader

At Hach (www.hach.com), 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 better—faster, 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.  More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us   

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Hach President, the Vice President, Veralto Enterprise Systems (VES) will be a key member of the Hach senior management team responsible for leading the strategy design/implementation of VES to support Hach’s continued success in driving technology innovation, commercial execution and Lean across the globe. 

This executive will have the overall responsibility of identifying and leading the roadmap that will embed VES as part of the culture allowing Hach to achieve their Policy Deployment (PD) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets.  The Vice President, Veralto Enterprise System (VES) will have full leadership responsibility for Hach VES activities focused on all areas of the VES toolset, including fundamentals, lean, leadership and growth. This position will provide coaching and training of senior leaders and associates to enable process improvements and sustainment of stronger results using VES tools, analytics, and improved performance reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• A key member of the L1 leadership team responsible for defining, developing and leading the strategy design and overall implementation of VES Capability across and VES Certification roadmap Hach globally.

• Drive targeted, sustainable improvement in QDCI (Quality, Delivery, Cost and Innovation) that is tied to Policy Deployment (PD) and Daily Management (DM) by leveraging VES tools, consulting skills, and the change management process

• Leader of a team of global VES practitioners who are responsible for leading and executing the daily implementation of VES processes and tools through their work with associates and management to guide and facilitate activities and provide any necessary supplies or resources.

• Consult with senior leaders about the pain points in their functions, determine how VES can be applied.

• Champion the use of the PSP process and partner to identify which VES tool must be applied and when.

• Provide guidance and support for Obeya/Growth rooms.

• Successfully lead with the VES Innovation tool set or similar innovation tools; benchmark with Veralto Operating Companies for VES best practices.

• Periodically review commercial growth success with Business Unit and commercial leaders, form assessment of Hach’s success in “leading through VES” in our commercial areas

• Support global management in the planning, facilitation, implementation, and sustainment of kaizen activities, benchmark tours, and new employee orientation.

• Guide pre-work and sustainment of the Kaizen process and provide training on key VES Tools (Kaizen, PSP, Daily Management, etc.); ensure and conduct regular reviews of kaizen charter creation, review, approval, and pre-work that drive successful kaizen preparation, and kaizen sustainment.

• Drive VES immersion for L1 leaders and mentor Business VESL´s in application of VES.

• Engage the network of VES leaders across Veralto to identify 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 (VESO and outside sources). Improve VES training and facilitation by pursuing certification in VES tools for self and others.

• Audit existing processes and systems to assess/determine actions required for improvements.

• Analyze data and proce