**Imagine yourself…** + Using your passion to create a culture for continuous improvement across commercial teams. + Acting as a change-agent, shaping commercial 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 supports your continued development and growth. Reporting to the VP Operational Excellence & VES, you will serve as the VES Leader for EMEA Commercial Growth, accelerating X‑Rite Pantone’s commercial strategy by strengthening sales and marketing processes across the region. You will embed the **Veralto Enterprise System (VES)** —a proven business management system focused on continuous improvement, lean, problem‑solving, and operational excellence—into daily operations. This means coaching leaders, improving processes, and driving adoption of methods that deliver sustainable growth. In this role, you will elevate commercial capability, influence strategy, and enable a culture of experimentation, collaboration, and data‑driven decision making across diverse markets. **In this role, a typical day will look like:** + Coach Sales, Marketing, and Commercial Support teams on applying VES tools (Problem Solving Process (PSP), VOC, VSM, Standard Work, Daily Management) to real commercial challenges. + Strengthen the region’s ability to execute commercial strategies through improved funnel visibility, lead flow processes, campaign effectiveness, and sales execution routines. + Identify process gaps and lead improvement projects to enhance KPIs and business outcomes. + Partner with regional and global leaders to optimize CRM usage, sales processes, and marketing operations. + Facilitate Kaizens, CI workshops, and structured problem‑solving sessions tailored to commercial needs. + Advance regional VES maturity by assessing current capabilities, identifying gaps, and building execution plans with leaders. + Drive the Kaizen Funnel processes, ensuring prioritization, qualification, preparation, execution, and sustainment. + Promote experimentation ( _try storming_ ) and agile approaches to commercial improvement. + Build the CP/CT pipeline by identifying high‑potential associates and guiding certification journeys. + Collaborate cross‑functionally (Marketing, Sales, Finance, HR, Product, IT) to align improvement efforts with growth priorities. + Use insights and analytics to influence commercial decision‑making and monitor funnel health. + Represent EMEA in global VES and commercial excellence forums, ensuring transparency, alignment, and accountability across diverse markets. **The essential requirements of the job include:** + Bachelor’s degree required. + 3–5+ years of experience in commercial, sales, marketing, or business development. + Proven track record in process improvement and measurable business results. + Experience leading Kaizens, coaching PSP, or driving commercial transformation. + CRM and marketing automation literacy (SFDC, Marketo preferred). + Ability to travel up to 25% across EMEA. + Fluency in English required; Swiss German preferred; French or other EMEA languages a plus. + Certified Practitioner in PSP (or equivalent) preferred. + Strong influence and change leadership skills: able to work across cultures and seniority levels without formal authority, building followership and momentum for change. + Effective facilitation and coaching abilities: capable of creating psychological safety, structure, and engagement within teams, with adaptable communication across functions and contexts. + Data‑driven mindset uses insights and commercial data to diagnose issues and drive improvements. X-Rite Pantone is proud to be part of the Product Quality & Innovation 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 17,000 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. \#LI-FM1 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. 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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.