Vice President, Research & Development

Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.
Come join a team where People make the difference! As a part of Marmon Holdings, Inc., a highly decentralized organization, we rely heavily on people with the aptitude, attitude, and entrepreneurial spirit to drive our success, and we're committed to attracting and retaining top talent.
Marmon Foodservice Technologies is seeking an experienced Vice President of Research & Development who will build, grow and lead engineers across multiple product teams and platforms. In this role, the successful candidate will bring operational leadership, technical expertise, and proven people development skills to bear on strategic decisions in order to develop and lead the business's technical ecosystem, product, innovation and technology roadmap and engineering culture. A deep expertise in implementing development processes to drive team execution and meet business goals is critical. This role will be a key member of the Americas leadership team, reporting to the President MFT Americas.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement mid- and long-term business development strategies, execution plans and programs to achieve business objectives and deliver sustainable growth.
• Establish processes and standards to report against key metrics with a focus on continuous improvement while investing in capability to deliver greater sustainable growth.
• Use strong organizational leadership skills and growth-oriented mindset to lead, motivate and inspire teams of engineers to deliver reliable solutions and products and be held accountable for their performance.
• Recruit, retain and develop great engineers who form cohesive teams capable of learning and growing.
• Influence the development of and lead the implementation of the business' technology and product roadmap from a technical engineering perspective to meet business objectives and deliver on customer requirements.
• Lead, manage, oversee and support the overall technical design, testing, regulatory compliance, product lifecycle maintenance and production systems across our engineering function.
• Lead, advise and enhance an agile and standards-driven practice across teams in planning, design, development, testing and release products and solutions, while keeping up with market trends and advancements.
• Lead a team to enhance the innovative potential of the business developing, strategizing, and planning new interventions that will drive innovation. Create and oversee a comprehensive long-term innovation strategy for the company
• Develop and deploy a structured methodology to manage change initiatives to enable a successful transformation of the R&D organization and culture throughout the business supporting close alignment with all stakeholders and the Marmon Foodservice Technologies company culture and objectives.
• Manage all technical Intellectual Property rights in collaboration with Legal and third-party stakeholders.
• Performance of relevant tasks and duties which have not been explicitly listed above.

Required Qualifications, Skills/Competencies

• Demonstrable experience in a commensurate leadership role.
• Bachelor's or Advanced Degree with 15 years' experience designing complex engineered electro-mechanical residential or commercial appliances across multiple categories.
• Trustworthy: Truthful and honourable under all circumstances while flawlessly faithful to mission, vision and values without a personal agenda. Follows through on commitments, without fail. Communicates transparently, even in the face of criticism. Inspires a high-trust environment.
• HighIntegrity: Never fails to make decisions in the long-term best interest of the company. Embodies a consistent 'the buck stops' here mentality.
• StrongWorkEthics: Recognizes situations that warrant initiative and moves forward without hesitation. Acts as a role model for healthy work/life balance where all demands are met.
• Inspirational: Clearly communicates a vision and clear sense of purpose that others want to follow. An ability to command engaged attention and is consistently encouraging. Creates an enthusiastic buy-in to strategies and initiatives. Moves others to set high standards for themselves and their teams.
• Courageous: Challenges current thinking to understand new possibilities. Willing to recommend unpopular decisions and take unwavering action to achieve results.
• Communicative: Extraordinarily skilled when speaking, writing, and presenting. Sets a standard for listening, and coaches others to do the same.
• TeamBuilder: Creates superior level of team engagement, evident in open discussions and diversity of thought. Consistently aligns team on strategic priorities, setting expectations and goals, actively rooting out potential cross-functional conflicts.
• StrategicThinking: Demonstrates a high level of strategic planning and execution supported by long-term performance above market. Has experience translating market trends, competitive activity, technology advancements and customer needs into actionable plans that provide competitive advantage (right to win) for the organization.
• Innovation: Develops and enables new solutions, processes and technologies to sustain the business and improve competitive advantage.
• RiskManagement: Manages risk effectively while balancing short, mid, and long-term opportunities. Understands all strategic risks relevant to the business and encourages the use of experts in evaluating those risks. Very good analytical skills including cost/benefit analysis, and works well in high stress and uncertain situations

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to careers@marmon.com, and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.