Vice President - Grid North America

Standex International is a global industrial growth company operating through our market-leading brands in electronics, cutting-edge forming technologies, engraving, and scientific refrigeration. We work with our customers to advance progress through innovation. From inventing and producing parts for next-generation space vehicles to evolving vaccine refrigeration, designing functional textures for everyday products, improving renewable energy technology, and much more, we are focused on making what's next possible.

We are 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.

Key Responsibilities

Business Leadership & P&L Ownership

• 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.

Sales & Customer Leadership

• 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

Operations & Manufacturing Excellence

• 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

Engineering & Technical Leadership

• 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

Leadership & Team Development

• 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

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
• 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
• Experience in industrial or grid / core manufacturing environments preferred (or similar engineered products)
• Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, engineering collaboration, and supply chain dynamics

Key Competencies

• 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

Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.