Job at a glance
An exceptional General Manager is sought to lead and further evolve a successful technology business that is part of a larger, market-leading organisation that touches 90% of the world’s retail packaging and is undergoing extensive transformation and growth. This will suit a VP/GM who has held full P&L accountability and consistently delivered results, solution innovation, and customer success within multinational, product-focused B2B companies.
The Opportunity Esko, a Veralto company (NYSE: VLTO), provides a broad range of innovative, best-in-class software, hardware and services to clients around the world, enabling them to produce the best packaging for billions of consumers. Esko’s Digital Flexo business manufactures and sells high-quality capital equipment that combines laser imaging technology and advanced software to produce flexographic printing plates for packaging manufacturers and printers.
With a dedicated factory in northern Germany and ~250 geographically dispersed associates spanning R&D, Product Management, Operations, Commercial, Field Services, and Customer Success, the business operates as a distinct, end-to-end global unit and also benefits from strong collaboration across shared Esko teams, including marketing, IT, customer experience, HR, finance & legal. The Vice President / General Manager, Digital Flexo is based remotely in Europe with approximately 50% travel.
Reporting to Esko’s President, this role carries full P&L leadership of a profitable and growing global business and sits as a key member of Esko’s Senior Leadership Team, contributing broadly to planning, M&A, business transformation, and other strategic initiatives. The VP/GM will join at a pivotal moment: the business is actively developing a connected, intelligent ecosystem of integrated hardware, software and cloud-based services leveraging IoT and AI.
There is also a strong strategic focus on user-centric serviceability and go to market transformation with associated process automation and operational transformation to support these changes. We won’t pretend this role is straightforward. You’ll be operating in a fast-paced, high-performance and rapidly evolving environment, navigating complexity and sometimes ambiguity. But if you’re the kind of General Manager who finds that energising, we’d genuinely like to meet you.
What Success Looks Like In your first year, a successful leader will have established clear strategic priorities for the business, deepened key customer relationships, energised the team, and made tangible progress on the business model transition combined with sustainable growth. In year two and beyond, the focus shifts to delivering the connected ecosystem roadmap, and positioning Digital Flexo as a platform for broader Esko ambition.
Experience & Skills Proven general management of multinational B2B technology or complex product businesses, including full P&L accountability and a consistent track record of delivery Demonstrated ability to drive results, product innovation, customer success and people development in high-performance environments, combining energy, speed and agility Inspirational, charismatic leader with strong followership and the ability to engage and align large, geographically dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams Strategic vision combined with analytical rigour, data orientation, operational discipline and a willingness to roll up sleeves on tactical execution Effective internal collaborator and active contributor to executive leadership teams, providing insight, partnership and influence across a matrixed organisation Comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity in fast-moving, transformation-oriented environments Willing and able to travel approximately 50% of the time globally, with particular focus on operations in Germany and Belgium Fluent English is mandatory; German language capability is advantageous but not essential Bachelor’s or master’s degree