Director of Advanced Automation Solutions

Director of Advanced Automation Solutions

Novaspect, Inc., an Emerson Impact Partner and provider of automation systems and solutions, is seeking a Director to join the Systems Solutions Business Unit and report to the Senior Vice President of Systems Solutions. This role is responsible for managing our advanced automation solutions team, ensuring growth, market presence, and technical & executional excellence to deliver safe, high-quality customer outcomes.

This role sets direction, creates accountability, aligns resources, develops business plans, and drives growth. This position requires an agile leader who can manage a dynamic portfolio of offerings while maintaining customer commitments, employee-owner development, execution performance, and long-term business goals.

• Lead the Advanced Automation Solutions team, setting clear direction, expectations, priorities, and accountability for safe, high-quality, profitable execution.
• Own advanced automation team business performance levels, including utilization, operating income, resource capacity, delivery quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure service execution aligns with approved scope, proposal commitments, budgets, schedules, and customer expectations while proactively managing deviations, risks, and change impacts.
• Serve as a member of the Systems Solutions Leadership Team (SLT) in business planning, business reviews, customer escalations, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure in-house staffing levels, subcontracted resources, technical capabilities development, and investment priorities meet business unit expectations.
• Serve as the operational liaison to advanced automation business principals & partners
• Establish Technical Advisor roles for each growth area portfolio offering with expectations to:
• Define solution strategy and growth plans
• Influence and supporting sales pursuits
• Serve as the recognized subject matter expert internally and externally
• Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, customer needs, and industry trends
• Help shape service offerings and go-to-market approaches
• Translate business unit strategy into actionable plans supporting strategic trusted advisor and premier industrial automation solutions provider objectives.
• Hold team members accountable for execution, quality, safety, financial performance, and employee owner development.
• Develop and govern implementation methodologies and service execution quality standards.
• Review performance metrics, identify trends, remove barriers, and drive actions that improve execution, profitability, quality, and team effectiveness.
• Develop team members through coaching, succession planning, and consistent performance and employee-owner development practices.
• Partner with sales leadership to drive advanced automation solutions growth program success

• Executive-level communication and leadership skills with the ability to set direction, align teams, create accountability, and effectively communicate priorities, risks, and recommendations to senior leaders, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong business judgment and strategic thinking, with the ability to translate business goals into actionable plans, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and balance customer needs, employee impact, operational constraints, and long-term business outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence across functions and organizations, including business units, customers, suppliers, and Emerson Impact Partner relationships, while driving alignment and execution.
• Strong financial acumen, including the ability to understand and act on revenue, operating income, utilization, forecasting, margin, pricing, and resource capacity data.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop leaders, build organizational capability, support succession planning, and drive employee-owner development through managers and supervisors.
• Working knowledge of advanced automation technologies and services, including alarm management, advanced process control (APC), simulation, cybersecurity, etc.
• Proficiency with business systems, analytics tools, and data-driven…