Business Operations Executive (BOE) Director

Brooks is a leading provider of automation solutions with over 40 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, offering precision robotics, integrated automation systems, and contamination control solutions that empower chip manufacturers worldwide. Our product portfolio includes a range of automation solutions, including robots, vacuum systems, and atmospheric robots for semiconductor manufacturing ().

Are you looking for a place where you can be part of a transformation? Join us at Brooks Automation and be a part of a dynamic organization that is shaping the future of technology.

We are seeking a driven, highly organized, and business-minded Business Operations Executive (BOE) to serve as the operating engine behind two of our Semiconductor Business Units — Atmospheric Solutions and Vacuum Automation. Partnering closely with the Business Unit General Managers, this role runs the management system that keeps the business on track: driving the operating cadence, enforcing execution discipline, making performance transparent, and holding the organization accountable to its commitments.

By establishing a disciplined operating system and a trusted view of performance, the BOE enables the Business Unit GM to make faster, better-informed decisions and stay focused on strategy, customers, and growth. This is an outcomes-accountable role: the BOE is measured on the Business Units delivering their committed results, and drives the activities and discipline that make those outcomes happen — closely ensuring the General Managers and their functional partners deliver on what they are accountable and responsible for.

The ideal candidate brings strong operational and financial judgment, executive presence, and the ability to influence and drive accountability across a complex, matrixed organization.

• Act as the accountability partner to the Business Unit General Managers — driving delivery of the business outcomes they own: P&L performance, the financial and non-financial commitments in the annual operating plan (AOP), and the multi-year strategic plan.
• Closely ensure the General Managers, and every function that serves the Business Units, build shared clarity around outcomes, responsibilities, and decision points— help teams align on what success looks like and maintain a consistent cadence for reviewing progress through tracked, owned, and measurable actions.
• Relentlessly drive the activities that produce business outcomes — forecast accuracy and demand-signal quality, product quality and delivery performance, design-in wins and bookings, gross margin, and program milestones — surfacing gaps early and driving them to resolution.
• Convert strategy and commitments into measurable objectives and key results (OKRs) with clear owners, and hold the organization accountable to delivering them.

• Own and run the recurring business management system for both Business Units, including (but not limited to) Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), and program and phase-gate reviews.
• Orchestrate the preparation and consolidation of leadership review materials — enforcing quality standards, timelines, and pre-read deadlines.
• Apply consistent standards across both Business Units so that every review meets the same bar for quality and rigor.

• Maintain dashboards and reporting that give leaders clear, data-driven visibility into business performance.
• Establish a consistent measurement system for objectives and key results (OKRs) and track progress against targets.
• Monitor leading indicators to identify risks and trends early — surfacing issues before they become misses.

• Track actions, decisions, and commitments to closure, ensuring every item has a clear owner and due date.
• Coach teams to bring structured problem-solving to every performance gap — a clear problem statement, root cause, and corrective action.
• Escalate risks and barriers promptly, and drive issues and decisions to timely…