Strategic Business Unit Manager

Strategic Business Unit Manager

Serving customers and our community starts with the best people doing their best work. That is precisely what we have created at MSC Industrial Supply Co. We are a leading North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), products and services. We offer more than 2 million products and have over 80 years of experience across dozens of industries. We aim to execute our Built to Make You Better brand promise for all our stakeholders, including our associates.

The Strategic Business Unit Manager role is a senior level position within the department responsible for leadership of either major aspects of one of our Category SBU's (MA, MW) or another strategically significant business within the department including but not limited to : Exclusive Brands, APO, Co-Op, Tier Two or other similar needs. This role could be an individual contributor, manager of associates, or manager of managers position depending upon the circumstance. This position will be responsible for activities tied to our departmental and company-wide strategic direction. These areas of responsibility will typically include larger profit centers, budgets and high degrees of cross-functional coordination. Strategic and action is central to this role as is the need for highly effective communication with all stakeholders. This role may report to Category Strategy or Category Operations depending upon the focus area and could report to various levels of leadership.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Develops and executes strategic plans to drive performance in the focus area.
• Acts as a bi-directional conduit into Category for a closed-loop connection with the Sales Organization
• Manages teams or associates, managers, or other cross-functional stakeholders to perform to goal within the selected focus area.
• Drives profitable and sustainable results tied to the department and company strategy and aligned with all stakeholders.
• Attracts and manages teams to high levels of performance and developing future leaders within the department and company.
• Stays current on market and landscape changes to position area of focus effectively and competitively.
• Drives analytical rigor to inform current performance and future opportunities in line with departmental and company objectives.
• Motivates high levels of associate engagement and inspired people to perform beyond their goals.
• Identifies, develops and maintains influential relationships with external partners at high levels of support strategy.
• Effectively manages budget to continually driver higher levels of performance at lower expense.

To perform this job successfully an associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, experience level and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

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Compensation starting at $109340 $171820, depending on experience.