Vice President - Grid North America

Standex • Sugar Land, TX

3d

About The Position

Standex International is a global industrial growth company operating through its market-leading brands in electronics, cutting-edge forming technologies, engraving, and scientific refrigeration. The company is seeking a results-driven Vice President to lead a rapidly growing $75M manufacturing business unit. This role will own day-to-day leadership across Sales, Operations, and Engineering, while partnering closely with the President. This leader will play a critical role in driving growth, operational excellence, and customer success, enabling the President to focus on strategic expansion initiatives. The ideal candidate brings a strong commercial mindset, deep manufacturing experience, and a proven ability to manage a full P&L in a complex industrial environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, with exposure to plant and commercial leadership
• Proven success in a P&L leadership role within a $50M–$100M+ business
• Strong sales and customer-facing background, with the ability to win and grow business
• Demonstrated ability to lead operations and drive continuous improvement
• Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, engineering collaboration, and supply chain dynamics
• Commercial Acumen: Strong ability to drive revenue growth and build customer relationships
• Operational Excellence: Skilled in improving productivity, quality, and cost performance
• Financial Discipline: Confident managing P&L and using data to drive decisions
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead through influence, build teams, and drive accountability
• Strategic Thinking: Able to balance day-to-day execution with longer-term growth initiatives
• Customer Focus: Passionate about delivering value and solving customer challenges

Nice To Haves

• advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
• Experience in industrial or grid / core manufacturing environments preferred (or similar engineered products)

Responsibilities

• Own and drive business unit performance, including revenue growth, margin expansion, and operational efficiency
• Partner with the President to develop and execute strategic business plans and growth initiatives
• Utilize strong financial acumen to analyze, forecast, and improve P&L performance
• Identify and execute opportunities for new business, market expansion, and customer growth
• Partner with the corporate/parent companies & stakeholders to execute strategic mandates, translate high-level vision into measurable success via performance analytics, bowler tracking and key metrics.
• Lead all commercial activities, including sales strategy, key account management, and customer engagement
• Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic customers and partners
• Drive a customer-centric culture, ensuring responsiveness, quality, and service excellence
• Develop and coach the sales team to achieve aggressive growth targets
• Lead and govern critical operational pillars – manufacturing, quality, supply chain logistics & inventory management.
• Oversee daily operations, ensuring efficient, high-quality manufacturing performance
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC)
• Optimize production processes, resource planning, and capacity utilization
• Ensure alignment between sales demand and operational execution
• Cultivate strong collaborative relationships, manage operational dependencies and engage in cross functional activities with overseas plants in India, Mexico, Croatia to ensure smooth working and consistent production flow/delivery to Texas facility
• Lead engineering efforts to support product development, process improvements, and technical innovation
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to deliver engineered solutions
• Drive efficiency and cost improvements through design and process enhancements
• Provide strong, visible leadership across sales, operations, and engineering teams
• Build a high-performance culture founded on accountability, empathy, collaboration, and integrity
• Attract, develop, and retain top talent within the business unit
• Foster cross-functional alignment with Finance, HR, and executive leadership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive