Veralto Enterprise System Leader (VESL), Growth Innovation (R&D / Product Management) (m/f/d)

Imagine yourself…

• Using your passion to create a culture for continuous improvement across innovation and product teams.
• Acting as a change agent, shaping innovation strategy by optimizing systems and workflows.
• Empowering teams to unlock breakthrough thinking using data, insight, and experimentation.

It’s all possible with a role at X-Rite Pantone, the global leaders in color science and technology.

X-Rite Pantone, a Veralto company, provides complete end-to-end color management solutions for clients in every industry where color matters. At X-Rite Pantone, you’ll deftly blend the art and science of color to help customers inspire, select, measure, formulate, communicate, and match color so that users get color right the first time, every time. And along the way, you’ll build a vibrant career through rich skill-building opportunities, on-the-job learning, and coaching and training that support your continued development and growth.

This role reports directly to the VP, Global Operational Excellence & VES and is structured as a remote position with approximately 25% travel to Regensdorf (Switzerland) and the United States, where the R&D teams are located. Travel typically consists of one week per month onsite in Switzerland or the US, followed by remote work. The ideal candidate can be based in any city within a 3.5–4 hour train ride of Regensdorf. The primary responsibility of this role is to drive the deployment of VES tools and methodologies across global R&D and Product Management, accelerating innovation outcomes and embedding a culture of continuous improvement.

How You’ll Make a Difference:

• Support the deployment of VES tools and methodologies — including Accelerated Product Development (APD), Continuous Delivery (CD), Product Planning (PPG), Strategic Innovation Review (SIR), and Rationalized Roadmap (RRM) within R&D and Product Management teams to accelerate innovation outcomes globally in an agile manner.
• Partner with R&D and Product Management leadership to identify, prioritize, and execute high-impact improvement across the innovation pipeline.
• Facilitate Kaizen events, rapid improvement workshops, and Value Stream Mapping / Visual Project Management (VSM / VPM) to eliminate waste and reduce New Product Development (NPD) cycle times
• Coach cross-functional teams on VES principles and tools, build internal capability, and a self-sustaining culture of continuous improvement across global sites.
• Drive adoption of structured problem-solving methods (root cause analysis) to resolve R&D and product development bottlenecks.
• Help establish visual management systems and daily management cadence that improve transparency, accountability, and decision velocity across innovation teams.
• Collaborate with the VP, Global Operational Excellence & VES, and senior leadership to define, track, and communicate key performance metrics aligned to innovation strategy.
• Champion cross-functional alignment by bridging Operational Excellence and R&D/Product Management, ensuring VES initiatives support growth and commercial objectives.

Key Responsibilities & Behavioral Expectations:

• Innovation Excellence & Leadership

  • Help define a winning roadmap for attractive segments utilizing Customer Insight, Problem to Portfolio (P2P), Strategy Partner Grow (SPG), and Technology Development Process (TDP).
  • Implement, improve, and sustain standard work and operating rhythms for Innovation and Product Management teams.
  • Support the effective deployment of NPD Planning and NPD Execution

• Coaching, Facilitation & Capability Building

  • Facilitate Kaizen events, workshops, JDIs, and problem-solving sessions.
  • Provide ongoing coaching on NPD tools – including FMEA, VSS, VPM, and LEx for NPD Commercialization.
  • Model situational leadership, resilience, and positive change adoption behaviors

• Kaizen, CP/CT, & PSP Funnel Ownership