Director of Management ( Extrusion

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The Director of Application Management – Extrusion is responsible for leading the technical strategy and execution for the Century Extrusion business, with a strong focus on technical applications, customer solutions, and market development. This role requires deep knowledge of extrusion processes, equipment, and applications, with the ability to understand complex customer requirements and translate them into technically sound and commercially viable solutions.

The Director works directly with customers and strategic accounts to identify application needs, develop solutions, support complex opportunities, and drive profitable growth. Working closely with Engineering, Applications, Aftermarket, Marketing, Operations, and executive leadership, this position connects customer and market needs with Century Extrusion’s technical capabilities and commercial strategy.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise in extrusion applications and engineered capital equipment.

• Develop and execute the technical strategy for the Extrusion business to achieve sales, growth, market share, and profitability objectives.
• Serve as a key technical leader for complex extrusion applications and customer opportunities.
• Work directly with customers to understand their materials, processes, production objectives, technical specifications, and application requirements.
• Evaluate customer applications and partner with Engineering and Applications resources to develop appropriate extrusion equipment configurations, process concepts, and technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the sales process, including application reviews, equipment recommendations, technical proposals, customer presentations, and complex technical discussions.
• Apply strong knowledge of extrusion processes and equipment to support customer process development, optimization, troubleshooting, and equipment selection.
• Support and participate in customer trials, testing, demonstrations, and other application-development activities required to validate proposed solutions.
• Identify new applications and market opportunities where Century Extrusion's technology and process capabilities can provide customer value.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers, strategic accounts, partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Lead and support major capital equipment opportunities from initial application development through commercial negotiation and order.
• Develop and execute strategies for strategic and global accounts.
• Ensure customer technical requirements are clearly defined and effectively transferred to Engineering and Operations during project development and execution.
• Support commissioning, startup, and process optimization activities for strategic projects when additional technical or customer support is required.
• Bring the Voice of the Customer into product development, engineering, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify recurring application and customer requirements and translate those needs into opportunities for product development, differentiation, and standardization.
• Monitor industry trends, emerging applications, competitive technologies, customer investment, and market conditions to identify opportunities for growth.
• Partner with Aftermarket to identify opportunities for equipment upgrades, rebuilds, process improvements, wear components, replacement parts, and other lifecycle solutions.
• Ensure…