Vice President, Global Product Platforms & Innovation

Marmon Foodservice Technologies designs and manufactures the equipment that powers the world’s largest consumer brands. The way people eat and drink is changing faster than at any point in our history, and the equipment behind it has to change with it. We are creating the Vice President, Global Product Platforms & Innovation role to build that muscle from the ground up. You will own MFT’s most important platforms end to end: strategy, roadmap, architecture, technical execution, lifecycle, and economics. This is a build role, not a run role.

Responsibilities

Own global roadmap for MFT’s priority platforms across a three-to-five-year horizon; Build the organization by identifying and selecting talent, assembling teams, and appointing Platform Leaders; Define platform-to-region operating model as a service contract with clean handoff to regional manufacturing; Provide technical leadership and make architecture calls with a lifecycle mindset; Own platform economics and partner with Group Finance; Bring regional and customer input into platform strategy while keeping enterprise discipline; Own three global platforms: valve technology for fountain category, contact toasting technology, and holding bin technology platforms.

Requirements

12+ years of senior product, platform, or core-technology leadership in a global organization, with full lifecycle accountability for at least one platform from concept through commercialization and sustaining; Documented results across regions. Adoption, time to market, cost or margin, or quality and reliability. Numbers you can defend. Experience operating where a global team owns the platform core and regional teams own localization, launch, manufacturing, and customer execution; Technical depth in electromechanical, engineered product, or equipment platforms. Strong grasp of platform economics and the ability to make and defend reinvestment cases at the enterprise level; Track record of building a function or operating model from an early state to a delivering state, not only running an established one, and of hiring and developing senior platform or product leaders as direct reports.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug insurance plans; Access to a Health Advocate; Tax advantaged spending accounts for health and dependent care expenses; Wellness programs and resources including Telehealth, Mental Health, Fitness, and Family Planning; Generous paid time off for personal use, holidays, and parental leave; Company-sponsored life insurance; 401(k) with fully vested company match; Financial and retirement advising.