Vice President, VES, PQI

Veralto

8d•$300,000 - $350,000

About The Position

The Vice President, Veralto Enterprise System Leader (VESL) will help translate the strategic ambitions of Veralto’s Product Quality & Innovation segment into sustained business performance. Reporting to the Segment SVP and serving on the senior leadership team, this executive will partner with operating company Presidents and functional leaders to advance growth, accelerate innovation, and strengthen execution across a global portfolio. At the center of this mandate is the ability to connect strategy, people, and execution. Working across businesses, functions, and geographies, this leader will help align the organization around its most important priorities, address barriers to progress, and build the leadership capabilities and management practices required to deliver results. The role combines strategic perspective with hands-on engagement, requiring an executive who can challenge thinking, earn the confidence of senior leaders, and help teams solve complex business problems. The Veralto Enterprise System (VES) provides the foundation for this work. As the segment’s senior VESL, this executive will shape how its principles and practices are applied across growth, innovation, and lean, ensuring that capability development translates into measurable improvements in business performance. They will lead and develop the VES organization, coach senior leaders, and strengthen a culture of continuous improvement and shared accountability across PQI. This opportunity offers broad exposure to the strategic and operational priorities of a global segment, with the ability to influence how its businesses execute, develop talent, and sustain success.

Requirements

A minimum of 10 years of experience leading and applying continuous improvement principles across growth, innovation, and lean, with a demonstrated record of sustained business results.
Senior leadership experience in a multinational organization, gained as an enterprise business system leader or operating company executive with substantial responsibility for continuous improvement and business performance.
Deep practitioner expertise in lean/ continuous improvement principles or a comparable enterprise business system, including daily management, standard work, structured problem-solving, and kaizen.
Demonstrated experience leading Policy Deployment workshops, executive or President-level kaizens, and certified practitioner development roadmaps tied to strategic business priorities.
Demonstrated experience working directly with teams at Gemba to strengthen problem-solving, build capability, and sustain improvements through hands-on learning.
Significant hands-on practitioner experience in new product development and the application of continuous improvement methods to innovation processes.
A proven record of building and developing teams, coaching senior leaders, and strengthening organizational capability across functions and geographies.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Marketing, or Operations required.

Nice To Haves

A master’s degree in a related field or MBA is preferred.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Segment Leader to shape leadership meeting agendas and business reviews around the segment’s most consequential priorities, ensuring discussions lead to clear decisions, accountable owners, and timely follow-through.
Facilitate annual business planning and strategy enablement, helping ensure critical initiatives are appropriately resourced, supported by clear measures of success, and executed with discipline.
Lead Policy Deployment, connecting long-term strategy with breakthrough priorities and actionable plans across the segment.
Work with senior leaders to identify performance gaps and barriers to execution, applying VES approaches to address root causes and sustain improvement.
Support acquisition integration by aligning VES deployment and capability development with the needs of newly acquired businesses.
Partner with business leaders to advance growth, innovation, and operational performance through targeted improvement initiatives.
Strengthen the management practices that help teams identify issues early, make informed decisions, and follow through on commitments, including daily management, standard work, and structured problem-solving.
Use business performance reviews, operational reviews, and Policy Deployment discussions to surface gaps, focus improvement efforts, and assess progress against priorities.
Guide high-impact kaizen activity and strategic growth initiatives, including Growth Rooms and Obeya, ensuring improvements are embedded in how teams work.
Identify successful practices across operating companies and create opportunities for leaders to share, adapt, and scale them.
Serve as a coach and thought partner to senior leaders, strengthening their ability to apply VES to business challenges and lead sustainable change.
Define and execute the segment’s VES capability and certification roadmap, aligning development priorities with current business needs and emerging strategic requirements.
Lead and develop the VES organization, mentor operating company VES leaders, and build succession pipelines that support the segment’s long-term needs.
Ensure certified practitioners and trainers are effectively deployed to deliver business impact and strengthen capability across functions.
Build an active VES leadership community that encourages collaboration, benchmarking, and shared learning across businesses and geographies.
Manage the VES function’s budget and talent priorities, aligning resources with the areas of greatest business need.