President, Intelligent Water (Chicago)

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.Fluid & Metering Technologies Segment Our Fluid & Metering Technologies (FMT) businesses design and manufacture a range of fluid handling products – including pumps, valves, and flow meters – that are essential to fluid management in industries such as agriculture, chemicals, and energy. Our products handle some of the world’s toughest challenges, moving and measuring corrosive, abrasive, high-viscosity, and high-temperature materials with accuracy and reliability. From powering clean energy solutions to supporting pharmaceutical production, FMT delivers trusted solutions that help our customers across the globe manage their most critical processes. The segment generates approximately $1.2B in revenue, with a global footprint including 80+ sites, ~3,000 employees, and a strong runway for sustainable profitable growth.Summary Role OverviewThe President, Intelligent Water leads a global ~$385M business with ~800 employees across 8 BU’s in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Reporting within the FMT segment, this role is responsible for driving sustainable, profitable growth, operational excellence, and long-term value creation while aligning business strategy with segment and enterprise priorities.The President oversees a portfolio of market-leading businesses, including ADS, iPEK, Envirosight, WinCan, MyTana, Pipeline Renewal Technologies, Trebor, and Pulsafeeder, serving municipal water and wastewater, industrial water treatment, semiconductor, chemical and hydrocarbon processing, oil and gas, power generation, and government agency markets, globally. The portfolio provides innovative wastewater inspection, monitoring, detection, mitigation, cleaning, and repair technologies; cloud-based data and analytics platforms; metering and flow monitoring solutions; and high-purity, chemical metering, transfer, peristaltic, and gear pump technologies. Through a combination of innovative products, services, and digital capabilities, Intelligent Water enables customers to manage critical infrastructure and fluid-handling applications more effectively and sustainably.The President is responsible for the overall strategy, performance, and growth of the Intelligent Water portfolio. This leader drives alignment across the business, establishes strategic priorities, and ensures execution against financial, operational, and organizational objectives. Success in the role is measured by the ability to strengthen market leadership, accelerate innovation, expand global reach, and create value through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.Responsibilities:Develop and execute the long-term strategic vision for Intelligent Water, delivering sustainable revenue growth, margin expansion, and long-term shareholder value creation.Lead the global P&L portfolio, ensuring achievement of financial commitments, operational objectives, strategic priorities, and growth targets that outperform market trends.Drive commercial excellence by strengthening market leadership, expanding customer relationships, improving pricing effectiveness, and identifying new growth opportunities across municipal, industrial, and specialty end markets.Establish and execute capital allocation priorities, making disciplined investment decisions that optimize returns, accelerate growth, support innovation, and improve portfolio performance.Lead strategic M&A opportunities to expand capabilities, strengthen market positions, and realize growth and synergy objectives.Advance portfolio integration and operational alignment across businesses to improve scalability, enhance customer experience, leverage shared capabilities, and build more efficient operating models and data-driven processes.Foster innovation and digital transformation through the expansion of connected products, analytics, monitoring technologies, and data-enabled solutions that create differentiated customer value.Strengthen operational performance through disciplined execution, continuous improvement initiatives, and effective management of global manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial operations.Build, develop, and lead a high-performing leadership team through talent assessment, leadership development, succession planning, organizational capability building, and the recruitment and development of future General Managers and enterprise leaders.Champion a culture of accountability, collaboration, safety, integrity, inclusion, and continuous improvement while driving high levels of employee engagement and organizational effectiveness.Partner closely with FMT and enterprise leadership to align business strategies, communicate performance, and ensure Intelligent Water's priorities support broader segment and enterprise objectives.Represent Intelligent Water with customers, industry associations, acquisition targets, government agencies, investors, and other key stakeholders to strengthen the company's reputation and expand growth opportunities.Attributes & Skills: Strategic Foresight: Possesses an extended time horizon to imagine future macro scenarios, anticipate global market shifts, and create breakthrough strategies that sustain long-term competitive advantage.Telescoping Agility: Seamlessly switches gears between high-level macro portfolio strategy and deep tactical micro-level execution, using data to focus teams on the biggest rocks moving the business forward.Risk & Ambiguity Management: Acts decisively and sets clear organizational direction under conditions of uncertainty or incomplete data without over-relying on corporate consensus.Boundary Influence & Collaboration: Skillfully navigates complex matrix structures to align the interests and expectations of diverse internal and external stakeholders, winning concessions without damaging critical executive relationships.Servant Leadership & Presence: Inspires followership across geographies and levels by practicing humility, removing unnecessary organizational complexity, and connecting platform execution directly to enterprise purpose.Continuous Learning Agility: Demonstrates heightened self-awareness, actively seeks out diverse feedback without defensiveness, and quickly masters the nuances of new technical businesses or evolving market landscapesQualifications:Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced executive-level master’s degree preferred.15+ years of progressive industrial leadership experience, with verified multi-market industrial or engineered products full portfolio P&L ownership.Demonstrated success leading businesses, divisions, or portfolios with significant P&L responsibility, delivering sustained revenue growth, profitability improvement, and operational excellence.Proven experience leading global organizations across multiple regions, cultures, and regulatory environments.Experience serving municipal, industrial, water, wastewater, fluid-handling, infrastructure, or related end markets preferred.Demonstrated experience leading strategic acquisitions, integration activities, portfolio optimization initiatives, and business transformation efforts.Strong command of strategic planning, capital allocation, pricing, commercial excellence, operational performance, and continuous improvement disciplines, including application of 8020 principles.Demonstrated success building high-performing organizations, developing senior leaders, driving succession planning, and creating strong leadership pipelines.Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers, Boards, investors, and enterprise leadership.Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?Total RewardsThe compensation range for this position is $314,700.00 - $472,100.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.Benefits PackageOur comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.Attention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at View email address on apply.placed-app.com for assistance with an accommodation. These contact tools may be used only by individuals with a disability for accommodation requests. Do not inquire as to the status of an application.This posting is for an existing vacancy.‌Artificial intelligence is not used to screen, assess or select applicants.‌SummaryLocation: Chicago, IllinoisType: Full time