General Manager, Building Automation - Data Centers

As a General Manager of the Global Line of Business – Data Center at Honeywell, you will be responsible for the overall profit-and-loss performance, driving accelerated growth through innovative strategies, optimizing business operations, and enhancing customer satisfaction while also developing a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture.

You will report directly to our Chief Commercial Officer, and you’ll work out of our Atlanta, GA location on a Hybrid work schedule.

In this role, you will develop and implement business strategies to optimize and grow the business at or greater than market rates. You will make the most of product technology, new product development, innovation, voice of the customer, manufacturing assets, and engineering capabilities. This role owns overall performance, growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction. You will have significant customer-facing engagement in guiding and managing several key high-profile programs with regular updates to Honeywell senior management.

As a people guide at Honeywell, you will play a critical role in developing and assisting our employees to help them perform at their best and drive change across the company. You will continuously work to build a strong, diverse team by recruiting talent, identifying and developing successors, driving retention and engagement, and fostering an inclusive culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop new product strategies, roadmaps, go to market strategies, and product improvements across business lines aligned with the overall data center strategy.
• Drive breakthrough initiatives and new product introductions across business lines using structured strategy deployment that provides for commercialization and quick execution.
• Deliver on revenue growth, margin expansion, cost control, and aggressive time to market commitments toward achievement of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and program commitments.
• Drive strategy execution that includes product cost and pricing optimization, customer & market segmentations, channel management, RDE investments, accelerating product lifecycle improvements, and developing differentiated value propositions.
• Use methodologies to create and evaluate business cases for launch
• Convert Voice of Customer and differentiated technologies to market back requirements and industry leading system solutions.
• Build out business development expertise and the global sales functions aligned to deliver on growth targets.
• Develops and executes creative sourcing and supply chain strategies to support New Product Introduction, as well as legacy/late cycle product cost, inventory, and ontime delivery.
• Coordinates with ISC/Sourcing in support of supplier negotiations and performance management for delivery, quality, cost, inventory, and reliability, including supporting structured transition management.
• Successfully leads the management operating systems to milestones, metrics, and risk mitigation with customer engagement and disciplined scope management.
• Establishes and nurtures effective executive business relationships with key customers and suppliers/partners.

You Must Have

• 8+ years of guiding, strategy deployment, operations, business management, sales, or program management experience.
• Demonstrated start-up or new business venture experience where you have built or scaled a business

We Value

• Bachelor's or MBA preferred
• Strong sales and product marketing acumen, particularly in new market spaces
• Business acumen and knowledge of financial metrics
• Strong analytical skills and ability to leverage analytical tools (Microsoft Suite/PowerPoint and Excel)
• Strong portfolio management skills
• Strong guiding skills - Ability to guide and develop a high-performing team
• Executive-level written/verbal communication skills