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Director of Global Business Operations - Bioprocessing

ECOLAB
United States, Pennsylvania, King of Prussia
Jul 25, 2025

Join Ecolab as a Director Global Business Operations. The Director of Global Business Operations has a responsibility to lead the Commercial excellence and business operations of the division's Global Bioprocessing business, which includes sales operations management (e.g. CRM, sales tools, incentives), sales effectiveness (e.g. pipeline health, field activity metrics) and managing and tracking of key growth initiatives including external commercial partnerships. In addition, this individual will have leadership responsibility to build out a team of 3-5 over time, in the areas of sales enablement, sales operations, and internal sales. The role will directly report to the General Manager and be a part of the Bioprocessing Commercial leadership team.

What's in it For You

  • The opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
  • The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
  • The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best

What You Will Do

  • Create and sustain commercial operational consistency and compliance, in line with strategic objectives, across the global Bioprocessing business to ensure effective delivery of the commercial plan
  • Lead projects that will drive further operational efficiency and impact global alignment
  • Increase sales effectiveness through strong sales analytics, including utilizing, optimizing, and maintaining the data integrity of the CRM system, field activity reporting, and other sales tools that support the full commercial team
  • Execute and track growth drivers /growth initiatives
  • Own the Sales & Operations (S&OP) process from a commercial standpoint and manage commercial coordination with the manufacturing plant. Drive compliance and report out improved KPIs
  • Lead Sales incentive programs and work alongside Finance and HR in execution, analysis, and adjustments of these programs
  • Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders on behalf of the Bioprocessing business, including aggregating and presenting data to Senior Management
  • Drive pipeline health, lead management, and follow up, with strong analysis, recommendation, and execution on outcomes
  • Manage external commercial partnerships in coordination and metric tracking
  • Track compliance to MSA deliverables, including measures, lessons learned, and best practice sharing
  • Implement and maintain a Sales Reporting platform (I.e. Power of BI)

Position Details

  • Candidate must reside within a commutable distance of King of Prussia, PA
  • 20% overnight travel, both domestic and global

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or equivalent.
  • 10 years commercial/sales operations experience.
  • 5 years of experience in Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences manufacturing and/or development industry
  • 3 years of people leadership experience
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels, cross division, cross function, and externally.
  • Strong analytics background, uses data driven insights in decision making
  • Fluency in English language

Preferred Qualifications

  • Masters degree, or MBA
  • Proven Leadership skills and self-directed orientation.
  • Bioprocessing background with deep industry knowledge
  • Know-how in developing pricing strategies
  • Strong project management background
  • Negotiation and communication skills

Ecolab is the $14 billion global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services. Around the world businesses in foodservice, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose Ecolab products and services to keep their environment clean and safe, operate efficiently and achieve sustainability goals.

Annual or Hourly Compensation Range

The base salary range for this position is $145,400.00 - $218,200.00. This position is eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentives based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

Benefits

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families.Click here to see our benefits.

If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website, view our benefits at jobs.ecolab.com/working-here.

Potential Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

- Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, including a booster if eligible, unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Ecolab will provide reasonable accommodation (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please visit the Recruiting Support link in the footer of each page of our career website.

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