VP, Integration and Optimization

Milacron, in partnership with Bain Capital’s portfolio operations team, is seeking a dynamic senior executive to join as a VP, Integration and Optimization. This is a high-impact leadership role reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with the Executive Leadership Team, Bain Capital’s portfolio operations executives, and the Milacron Board. You will be responsible for driving the company’s Value Creation Plan (VCP), accelerating growth by deepening Milacron’s market share across core end-user sectors (automotive, construction, consumer goods, electronics & telecom, medical, and packaging), identifying new verticals for expansion and driving continuous efficiency across Operations and Supply Chain. In addition to leading strategic organic initiatives, you will play a key role in evaluating and executing inorganic growth opportunities through M&A.

Experience
Milacron is seeking a seasoned executive with deep expertise in operations, business process management, innovation, technology, and transformation. The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of strategic vision, hands-on operational leadership, and experience navigating complex business environments. Key attributes include:

• Strategic operational leadership—preferably within industrial manufacturing or related sectors

• Proven transformation track record in scaling businesses and driving performance in dynamic, high-growth settings

• Analytical and insight-driven, with a bias toward data-informed decision-making

• Cross-functional leadership across product, operations, finance, and commercial functions

• M&A fluency, including deal evaluation, due diligence support, and post-merger integration

• Financial acumen, with comfort navigating P&L statements, balance sheets, and scenario modeling

• Decisiveness under uncertainty, with a pragmatic approach to risk and execution

• High emotional intelligence, team-oriented, and capable of building followership across all levels of the organization

Candidates with a hybrid background in operations and management consulting—or similar strategic roles—will be strongly considered. Experience across a range of company stages and time spent in a private equity-backed environment are valuable assets.

This executive will be joining a leadership team with a long history of working together. To be successful, they must bring not only a strong strategic point of view, but also the interpersonal and influencing skills to quickly earn trust, integrate into the culture, and drive change through collaboration. The ability to balance humility with conviction, and to lead by building alignment rather than authority, will be critical.

Role & Responsibilities
The VP, Integration and Optimization will lead key strategic initiatives focused on unlocking Milacron’s full potential. Early priorities include:

• Value Creation Plan (VCP) – Own and lead the VCP, working closely with the CEO and executive team to drive operational scale, streamline and consolidate core processes, and identify opportunities to implement new technologies, tools, and practices that increase efficiency and market responsiveness.

• Growth Execution – Support both organic and inorganic growth strategies, helping to identify high-potential markets, product opportunities, and acquisition targets while ensuring seamless integration and value realization.

• Operational Excellence – Champion initiatives that enhance manufacturing effectiveness, supply chain performance, cost structure, and customer experience.

• Organizational Alignment – Collaborate across functions to ensure strategic initiatives are understood, embraced, and effectively executed throughout the organization.

• Board Engagement – Prepare and deliver key materials and presentations to Milacron’s Board of Directors, translating strategy and performance insights into clear, actionable updates.

Bain Capital Business Transformation Partner (BTP) Program

Launched in 2018, Bain Capital’s BTP Program is comprises a group of executives each hired by a Bain Capital portfolio company to turbo-charge the value creation of portfolio companies. Bain Capital holds BTP summits several times throughout the year – at least one in-person event hosted at Bain Capital’s Boston headquarters – for idea exchange and private equity training.

Currently the BTP Program has 28 executives, working across Bain Capital portfolio companies. BTPs are welcomed into an executive network including deal investment and operations professionals from Bain who bring general investment and operations expertise, as well as functional expertise including marketing, go-to-market, digital, supply chain, manufacturing, etc. Broadly speaking, BTP candidates are strategic and tactical problem solvers with a “hands-on” orientation who understands what it takes to drive real operating change, can create a sense of urgency, and effectively influence others. This executive must have the drive and ability to help develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks, to identify practical and meaningful business improvement opportunities, and to define and implement solutions. Key to his/her success will be the ability to manage complexity and ambiguity and transform into action across functional groups, driving value-creation.

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Who we are: 

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.

EEO: The policy of Milacron is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.  We are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offer opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at recruitingaccommodations@milacron.com. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.