Imagine yourself doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you, growing your expertise and expanding your skillset, thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence. 

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

Job Description:

The General Manager is accountable for all aspects of the company’s operations. The initial focus will be to strengthen sales, customer support, and management teams, while providing strategic vision, support, and most of all on-the-ground leadership.

GM Korea will keep regional leadership abreast of opportunities, competitive issues, and market/regulatory conditions, and drive total sales and profit growth, balanced against the necessary investment to strengthen and maintain a first-class market-leading business organization.

Core Responsibilities:

Provide vision and guidance to the organization to address competitive and changing market dynamics.Drive Organizational Objectives around 3 broad objectives:Shareholder Focused Metrics – Core growth, Operating margin expansion, Working Capital ImprovementsPeople – Demonstrate ability to attract, coach, retain and develop talentCustomers – Drive customer satisfaction related metrics (e.g. OTD, NPS, Quality)Evaluate the current sales activities to identify areas of strength and assess those activities that must be improved to meet the demands of current sales, as well as future aggressive growth.Monitor technological changes, market trends, competitive products/pricing, and be a key participant in identifying and analyzing the products to be developed for and channeled to the market place.Achieve revenue objectives set forth by senior management by disseminating the budgeted performance goals and implementing value selling philosophy, sales funnels and action plans.Coordinate, prepare and implement sales and expenditure budgets; monitor actual vs. budgeted performance, implement corrective measures as appropriate; report goal accomplishment and variance analysis monthly.Lead and develop team by establishing annual goals; hiring and training new associates; and coaching, monitoring and appraising individual performance through the use of policy deployment tools and improving processes with a focus on kaizen and continuous improvementDesign and implement standards of accountability for others in the organization that can be used to focus, guide and set high standards of performance for others to achieve business results

Experience:

The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of and experience in an appropriate mixture of some the following areas:

Experience as regional representative of an appropriate size Western multinational office or sales subsidiary, including managing to revenue and margin goals, with P/L experience and international reporting.Able to set and pursue a goal of sales revenue and profit maximization.Must have operating company leadership experience of an appropriate scale. Experience in B2B industry is highly preferredAble to deal effectively with, and present convincingly to regional/global corporate headquarters to get the support and resources necessary to successfully build the regional business.Business strategy creation and commercial sales experience. Familiar with and capable of leading a business focused high-quality products and services.Must be a capable and effective communicator. Adept at influencing people with diverse interests, objectives, agendas.Sense of ownership - a strong desire to make a personal contribution to the success of the overall company.Ability to gain respect through stature, presence and strong leadership skills.Skilled at maintaining effective relationships with the key executives of each division.

Additional experience:

Entrepreneurial evangelistic leader who is driven to create success stories in a highly competitive local environment.Behavioral traits should include: strong and well-developed leadership skills, team player, open frank to-the-point communicator, passion for both work and fun, apolitical, enough self- confidence to hire the very best talent without feeling threatened, people-oriented coaching management style, and agile thinker with high native intelligence.Independent personal traits – integrity, charisma, judgment, decision-making capability.Mental agility. Bright, flexible, thoughtful, creative. Ability to grasp and analyze situations quickly and at the same time to create and implement innovative ideas to build strategies for implementation in a structured way.Maturity, positive approach to problem solving, seasoned judgment, good business instincts, well developed sense of personal accountability.Personal attitude and way of looking at problem solving allowing him to be successful in a highly competitive market: adaptable, self-motivated and goal oriented.Comfortable with both Western and Asian business practices and work cultures, and able to bridge them seamlessly.Stature and presence to deal effectively with senior executives in customer, business partners, and regulatory organizations.Comfortable with a reporting structure requiring extensive liaison between Asian and regional/global headquarters.

Leadership Skills and Personal Trait Profile

Ability to build and maintain the confidence of senior management and to build relationships necessary to work in a complex, cross-functional organizationExcellent organizational skills and attention to detailAbility to handle a mix of short-term urgent projects while also driving critically-important and sometimes complex long-term projectsThrives in a fast paced, high demand environmentAccomplishes by doingExcellent judgment and strong business acumen; able to rapidly learn the businesses’ competitivedriversKaizen mentality—stays on top of daily work but always strives to find better ways of accomplishing moreUnquestioned integrity—adheres to the highest values in decisions, conduct, and work with others

Why this is a Great Opportunity

You will play an integral part in shaping the OpCo’s business in Asia, one of Veralto’s strongest and highly visible region with many untapped opportunitiesYou will work with a team where the goal is to create an environment of continuous-improvement, wellness, and open, honest, two-way communication

Position Status: Full Time

Travel Required: As per job requirements, typically 40-60%

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.

At Veralto, 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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