ESAB

Job Description:

There’s never been a better time to join our team. The thousands of ESAB associates located around the world share a common set of goals and values that drive our success and unparalleled innovation in fabrication technology and specialty gas control equipment. At ESAB, we value and respect everyone’s uniqueness and know that our experiences as individuals strengthen our company. And we know that our ability to collaborate, transform, and empower one another is what makes us unstoppable.

With our culture of continuous improvement and innovation and our commitment to living our values, working at ESAB is a career experience like no other. We have more than 9,000 passionate associates in locations across six continents, and we empower our team members to shape the world we imagine every day.

If you have a strong desire to be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge innovations and solutions and positively impacts the community, please check out our career opportunities. We help serve a diverse range of industries such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, robotics, shipbuilding, and so much more.

Your Opportunity:

The Strategy and Business Operations Manager drives critical initiatives across multiple teams within the Fabrication Technology (FabTech) business platform at ESAB Corporation. They complement and support product, engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and core operations by providing analytical, operational, planning and strategic support. 

What you will do:

• Lead cross-functional efforts to help drive high-priority outcomes across the business, through the deployment of ESABs operational and analytical systems and processes (ESAB Business Excellence – EBX)
• Coordinate the annual strategic planning cycle for FabTech, helping to cultivate:
• organic growth initiatives across product lines and geographic regions to boost top and bottom-line growth.
• other key operational and business initiatives to support long-term goals.
• Monitor and check progress on strategic priorities within FabTech.
• Provide insights into the defined strategies and budgets, determining the potential consequences and reporting about it.
• Assess, validate, and consolidate all vital business information to prepare reports and presentations to the President of the FabTech platform and his executive leadership team.
• Work closely with the Corporate Business Development team to support M&A due diligence and integration efforts of any newly acquired businesses.
• Eventually spin out to take on full ownership of a given role, team, or opportunity within FabTech or the broader ESAB Corporation.

What we are looking for: 

• A go-getter who combines analytical rigor and an obsessive focus on outcomes with an empathetic interpersonal style
• Someone that enjoys solving hard problems and building relationships while doing it.
• Strong leadership capability with proven ability to engage and communicate with people at all levels and across different cultures as we operate in a multinational environment.
• Able to facilitate change management at all levels within the organization.
• Proven experience in serving industrial companies across a diverse range of strategic, commercial, marketing, supply chain and manufacturing footprint issues.
• Proven problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills on complex senior management issues.

Education and Experience Requirements: 

• MBA is desired.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or equivalent discipline.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Minimum 3 years of strategic consulting or global project management experience, preferably from a top-tier consulting firm (senior associate, engagement manager level).

Competencies & Behaviors Needed:

• Exceptional communicator at all employee levels including senior executives.
• Strong proponent of ESAB’s values and behaviors and EBX principles
• Drives continuous improvement.
• Effective at building relationships, trust
• Strong collaboration skills across functions and business platforms
• Negotiates with associates with a respectful give-and-take approach, where decisions are shared.
• Comfortable working in a global matrix organization
• Results-oriented with the ability to make decisions and to follow through on programs and policies.
• Bias for action; a sense of urgency; self-starter; moves with speed.
• Focus on delivering results and continuous improvement.
• Manages workload efficiently and effectively.
• Agile mind; quick on one’s feet.
• Prioritizes for maximum impact.
• Good at synthesizing data and distilling key points.
• Can dive deep into detail to support root cause analysis yet understands the big picture.
• Insightful, deductive reasoner, fact-based problem solver
• Influencing and driving performance without authority

Our Values:

At ESAB Corporation, we build our company culture on the foundations of our unifying purpose and values. Our purpose, Shaping The World We Imagine, speaks to the belief we hold as a company that today's progress makes the world we imagine possible. Our values outline how we work together as associates. They are summarized by the acronym SHAPE:

SHARED SUCCESS

We are there with solutions for our customers’ triumphs and challenges, knowing our success is fueled by theirs.

HELP EACH OTHER WIN

We collaborate as a team to achieve our shared vision – bringing the best people together to explore creative solutions, drive innovation, build on each other’s ideas, and hold ourselves accountable until the work is done. This allows us to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and stakeholders.

ALWAYS IMPROVING

Continuous improvement is at the core of our business management system, EBX (ESAB Business Excellence). We relentlessly pursue innovative solutions and constantly seek new ways to raise the bar of our performance.

PURPOSEFUL LEADERSHIP

We build strong leaders who meet challenges head on, celebrate wins, and learn from every obstacle – so our associates, our customers, and the industry can imagine and achieve new possibilities.

EVERY VOICE VALUED

We are committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming culture that values every perspective – because real progress depends on diversity, empathy, and mutual respect.

What we Offer:

ESAB prides itself as a great place to start or continue a career in the manufacturing industry. With locations throughout the world, ESAB is a global company with a rich tradition of industry leadership. ESAB careers offer room for advancement, a trusted work atmosphere, generous benefits and much more.

There are many opportunities to build a career with ESAB in a wide range of roles. We have a strong, customer focused culture and continuously look for people who will add value to our businesses and to the products and services we offer.

Team oriented, involved associates are our most valuable resources, and we are passionate about attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent. Building the right team and giving them the right environment in which to work leads to solutions that help our customers win, which is a win for us, too.

At ESAB, you will find a multi-cultural work environment that values ideas, rewards initiative, and encourages involvement in the workplace and also in the community. Your opportunities to learn, collaborate and achieve your goals are virtually unlimited.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of sex, color, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), religion, military/veteran status, national origin, marital status, family or caregiver responsibilities, or any other characteristic or status protected by law.