Executive Partner, Business System; VBS

Position: Executive Partner, Vontier Business System (VBS)
INTRODUCTION and WHAT YOU WILL DO (Job Responsibilities) Job Overview

Serve as the business-line extension of Vontier's enterprise operating system. Act as trusted advisor and coach to Presidents, GMs, and functional leaders, embedding target setting, Policy Deployment, operating cadence, daily management, problem solving, accountability, and capability building into leader standard work. The role strengthens how leaders run the business; it does not own the P&L, business targets, resources, or operating decisions.

* Role is located in Stow/Akron Ohio
- Must be willing to be onsite to work with President to deliver business goals.

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy and annual plans into clear targets, owners, operating plans, measures, and review cadence.
• Establish and improve Policy Deployment, Goal Deployment, performance-review, and accountability routines.
• Coach leadership teams to make gaps visible early and respond through rigorous problem solving.
• Connect strategy, operating KPIs, countermeasures, and leader standard work.
• Challenge unclear ownership, weak root cause, unsupported countermeasures, and ineffective escalation.
• Help leaders choose and apply appropriate VBS methods, including daily management, Lean, kaizen, value-stream transformation, full 80/20 as an integrated business-system lens, Raving Fans, Key Account Management, customer-value creation, and growth problem solving.
• Identify material capability gaps and pull appropriate enterprise VBSO support.
• Strengthen local practitioner, Expert, Champion, and leader capability.
• Ensure business routines remain owned and conducted by business leaders.
• Reduce central support as leadership capability and operating-system maturity increase.

WHO YOU ARE (Qualifications) Required

• 15+ years of progressive experience in relevant business, operational, functional, or transformation with strong background in lean transformation.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
• Demonstrated effectiveness advising senior leaders without taking over their accountabilities.
• Experience translating strategy into operating discipline and measurable execution.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Expert problem solving;
• Proficient with strategy execution & value-stream transformation.
• Willingness to travel regularly (30-40%) across a global operating company portfolio.

Preferred

• Leadership experience within a P&L or major function and experience building operating routines across multiple sites or functions.
• Preferred candidates from Danaher or Fortive.

Outcomes and Deliverables

• Strategies translated into executable, measurable operating plans that enable leaders to improve business performance.
• Targets and gaps visible at the appropriate review cadence.
• Faster, higher-quality business-owned problem solving.
• VBS routines embedded in leader standard work.
• Improved attainment of business targets through stronger operating-system discipline, without transferring result ownership to VBSO.
• Reduced recurring need for central rescue or facilitation.

Scope & Decision Rights

• Owns:
  Coaching approach, operating-system standards application, maturity assessment, and recommendations.
• Influences:
  Target deployment, cadence, countermeasure quality, prioritization, escalation, and capability actions.
• Does not own: P&L, targets, resources, operating decisions, or business results. The role remains accountable for enabling performance through operating-system maturity, leader coaching, cadence, problem-solving quality, and capability building.

Competencies

• Executive presence and the ability to influence without authority across a decentralized portfolio.
• A builder mindset - comfortable standing up a new function, lean team, and enterprise standard from a blank page.
• Bal…