Imagine yourself...

Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.

Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.

Collaborating with a vibrant, diverse, global team.

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better-faster, simpler, greener and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you'll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you'll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world's everyday water needs, and where you'll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we're working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer:

PPTO Policy, plus 11 paid company holidays
Flexible working hours

Professional onboarding and training options
Powerful team looking forward to working with you
Career coaching and development opportunities
Health benefits
401(k) with company matching, starting day 1

Reporting to the Sr. Director for Product Management, the Business Unit Manager is a key leader within the product management team, responsible for driving global leadership and regional success across their respective product lines.

The Business Unit Manager is responsible for building and developing a high-performing team of product management professionals, guiding them to drive long-term commercial success and ensure that the product portfolio is aligned with global customer needs and commercial targets. The Business Unit Manager works closely with Regional Commercial, Marketing, R&D, and Operations (manufacturing) teams to identify customer needs/pain points, bring innovative solutions to market, and create differentiated offerings that address those challenges. Through collaboration, this role helps Hach customers navigate their water quality and regulatory requirements while ensuring that the company's products stand out in the market.

The Business Unit Manager leads the development and execution of annual growth plans, with a clear focus on enhancing customer workflows and delivering impactful, customer-centric solutions across diverse regions.

This position is part of the Product Management department and will be onsite in Loveland, CO or Dusseldorf, Germany.

This role will require travel for up to 25% of the time, both domestic and international.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

Ensure the team is doing the right things (focusing on the critical few) and doing things right (leveraging Veralto Enterprise System- VES, and best demonstrated practices) through hands on coaching & mentoring, with a solution-oriented mindset. Prioritize customer workflow and needs to guide team efforts towards impactful solutions.
Deliver annual objectives for the relevant product lines including revenue, margin, share gain, pricing, quality, and successful new product commercialization.
Lead cross-functional problem solving when performance is not meeting targets, always considering customer impact and continuously optimizing for improved workflows.
Partner with Regional commercial teams to demonstrate new and higher standards for well-executed new product introductions and commercial tactics to drive growth for existing products, ensuring customer workflows are enhanced by every product or initiative.
Drive unique go-to-market strategies that differentiate the business unit and its offerings from competitors, positioning products and solutions as essential to customer workflows.
Identify unique selling points and create tailored strategies to communicate these effectively to target markets.
Maintain a strategic rationalized portfolio of products within the product line, including growth, margin improvement and lifecycle related initiatives.
Inform New Product Development (NPD) roadmap decisions and product definitions; validate business cases for new product opportunities, focusing on solutions that address specific customer pain points and enhance overall workflow efficiency.

The essential requirements of the job include:

Bachelor's degree in a technical or business field required; MBA strongly preferred.
Minimum 5 years of experience in product management / commercial experience.
1 to 3 years of people management/leadership experience required.
Demonstrable experience in translating customer needs into product requirements, adapting to the cultural context and business practices of diverse regions.
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time; both domestic and international travel is required.
Fluent in English.

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto's vibrant global network of 16,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you'll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we're Safeguarding the World's Most Vital Resources™-and building rewarding careers along the way.

We anticipate this requisition will be open for a minimum of five days, though it may be open for a longer period of time. We encourage your prompt application.

US ONLY:

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate's position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $135,000.00 - $175,000.00 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

US residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Veralto Corporation and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at applyassistance@veralto.com to request accommodation.

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