Job DescriptionBusiness Manager for Integrated Energy Systems, UL's fastest-growing team!
This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our offices in Northbrook, IL or Melville, NY.
Responsibilities- Develops, executes and implements Commercial and Operational strategy to drive organic/inorganic growth and profitability while ensuring customer satisfaction through a deep understanding of the customer and market intelligence.
- Responsible for P& L activities and budget development.
- Accountable for ensuring financial targets (revenue, profit, enterprise value, etc.) are met.
- Responsible for managing costs, reporting and forecasting, workflow overviews and providing input into growth targets for customers and segments.
- Closely monitors and manages revenue activities, including unbilled, aging and inactive projects, work on hand analysis to ensure balance of demand and throughput.
- Implements and executes capacity and capability strategies and successfully translate customer needs into an operational plan to fulfill projects with the right resources (availability, skillset).
- Drives and leads initiatives to identify new and/or additional business opportunities.
- Anticipates customer needs by creating strong partnerships with Sales and Business Development.
- Ensures there is sufficient pipeline of opportunities, orders to meet overall P& L budget.
- Drives Price, Promotion, Service offering for dedicated Segment to maximize DCM/AOI.
- Provides proactive solutions for new business opportunities to secure revenue, profit margin, market share and customer satisfaction.
- Builds customer intimacy and establishes strong relationships through customer visits, analyzing business data and market trends.
- Participate in client seminars, conferences and trade shows.
- Manage capex intensive investments to meet agreed timeline with deliveries in order to meet Long Range Plan commitments.
- Manages initiatives and resources to meet DCF and ROI targets on schedule.
- Drives a high performing team by managing the performance and development of team members.
- Operates effectively in the UL matrix to actively support and drive high performance culture changes, transformation efforts and people engagement.
- Holds team and self-accountable for results, defines accountabilities and establishes performance objectives and metrics to execute strategy.
- Develops and coaches by providing, training, career counseling, feedback, guidance to drive high performance and morale.
- Ensures understanding of and compliance with all established policies and requirements.
- Communicates and exemplifies ULs Vision and Mission.
- Leads, promotes and embraces change for self and team.
- Collaborates and builds trust within the organization and with customers to meet or exceed their expectations.
- Develops strong, flexible cross-functional networks and global relationships to promote becoming the fastest, highest quality and most customer-friendly organization.
Qualifications- University degree in Engineering, Business, or similar required.
- 10+ years in the Energy Systems sector required.
- 5+ years of leadership experience required. Experience managing leaders preferred.
- Experience in managing large Capex projects with multiple stakeholders preferred.
- Demonstrates business acumen skills and has via experience in Leading diverse business an advanced understanding of how decisions impact business results, management concepts such as effectively building a diverse team and planning and thinking strategically.
- Demonstrates financial acumen and has a clear understanding of how business decisions impact DCF/ROI.
- Demonstrates the ability to manage employee performance through development of performance expectations and goals, managing employee relations issues, identifying and addressing training needs, planning and executing against required staffing levels and assisting in operational planning.
- Demonstrates the ability to make the complex simple and present information in a concise, relevant and powerful manner.
- Demonstrates the ability to analyze and interpret a wide variety of materials including analyses, data, financial reports and/or legal documents.
- Demonstrates the ability to work in and understand diverse cultural environments.
What you'll experience working at UL:- Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn't new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 125 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
- People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you'll almost always hear, "the people." Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We're able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
- Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers' create. We're inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
- Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
- Total Rewards: In the US, we provide lots of great benefits for our employees are their families. From Volunteer Days off to 401k match and retirement contribution benefits to flexible work location & schedule options we look to support our employees no matter what stage in life they are experiencing.
The salary range for this position is $140-187K and is based upon years of experience that is commensurate with the level of the position.
All employees at UL Solutions are eligible for annual bonus compensation. The target for this position is 20% of the base salary offered. Employees are eligible for health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental & financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country, for the relevant position level.
We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
Internal applicants with questions related to the Total Rewards for this position should submit a ticket via askHR for more insights.
Learn More:Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit our company page www.UL.com
#LI-EH1 #LI-HybridAbout UsA global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
About the TeamWithin our Energy and Industrial Automation (EIA), we provide solutions for safety, security, and performance throughout the energy, power distribution and, automation value chains. We work in a diversity of cutting-edge industries, such as: Power and Automation, Renewable Energy, Field Evaluation Services and Industrial Functional Safety. The impact of our work spreads through many business areas on a global scale yet focused locally through our collaborative team members.
