EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

President, Specialty Converting

Specialty Materials / Packaging Converting Business

Position Overview

The President of Specialty Converting holds full accountability for the performance and growth of the specialty converting business. This executive owns the division’s financial results, manufacturing operations, commercial performance, product quality, and leadership team across the Toledo and Allendale sites.

The role translates business strategy into operating plans, builds a unified culture across sites and legacy organizations, and delivers profitable, sustainable growth. The converting business integrates complementary operations and commercial capabilities, including legacy specialty and polymer sales teams.

The organization manufactures and distributes packaging and specialty material products for industrial and commercial markets.

Key Responsibilities

•         Own the division’s P&L, annual operating plan, budget, forecast, pricing, and margin performance. Translate results into corrective actions and communicate performance clearly to the CEO.

•         Establish a multi-year business strategy and annual priorities covering organic growth, capacity, capital investment, productivity, and selective expansion opportunities.

•         Lead the Toledo and Allendale General Managers in manufacturing performance, labor and capacity planning, on-time delivery, cost control, inventory management, continuous improvement, and capital execution.

•         Set a consistent operating cadence with meaningful scorecards and clear accountability for safety, service, output, quality, conversion cost, scrap, working capital, and profitability.

•         Lead the Vice President Sales in developing and executing the commercial strategy, building a qualified pipeline, expanding key accounts, winning profitable new business, and aligning customer commitments with operational capacity.

•         Oversee the Quality Manager and reinforce consistent standards for product quality, customer complaints, root-cause corrective action, supplier quality, audit readiness, and quality-system discipline across the business.

•         Build and coach a high-performing leadership team. Define decision rights, succession plans, talent needs, and performance expectations while strengthening collaboration between plants, sales, and quality.

•         Integrate legacy processes, systems, teams, and customer approaches into an effective specialty converting organization while preserving the strengths of each operation.

•         Maintain strong relationships with strategic customers and suppliers. Represent the division in significant customer discussions, major performance issues, and business development opportunities.

•         Partner with the CEO and shared corporate functions on financial reporting, human resources, supply chain, technology, risk management, and opportunities across the broader organization.

Candidate Qualifications

•         Significant progressive leadership experience in business-to-business manufacturing, ideally specialty converting, pressure-sensitive adhesive products, tapes, films, packaging, or related engineered materials.

•         Demonstrated general management or business-unit leadership with direct P&L responsibility and a record of improving profitability while growing a manufacturing business.

•         Experience leading more than one plant or operating location and managing senior leaders across operations, commercial, and quality functions.

•         Strong command of manufacturing economics, cost structures, pricing, margin analysis, budgeting, forecasting, capital allocation, and working capital.

•         Commercial judgment and experience partnering with sales leaders on new business development, key account strategy, and customer profitability.

•         Ability to establish clear priorities, use operating data, make timely decisions, and hold teams accountable while maintaining an engaged, hands-on leadership style. Experience integrating acquired businesses is valued.

•         Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, operations, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree is a plus.

Leadership Characteristics

•         Balances strategic direction with practical plant-floor execution and maintains regular visibility in the operations.

•         Builds trust and alignment across acquired or historically separate teams while setting common standards.

•         Communicates candidly, develops capable leaders, and takes ownership of results and customer commitments.

Work Environment and Travel

This role requires regular on-site presence at both Toledo and Allendale, with travel to customers, suppliers, and other company locations as business needs require. The executive must be comfortable working in both office and manufacturing environments.

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