Industrial & Manufacturing Executive Roles
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role across discrete and process manufacturers, industrial equipment OEMs, and supply-chain platforms.
Tier breakdown
4
Founder39
C-Suite156
VP8
Sr Director55
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Industrial & Manufacturing industry covers the broad industrial economy: discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles, durable goods), process manufacturers (chemicals, food, pulp and paper), industrial equipment OEMs, factory automation suppliers, and large supply-chain leaders.
Industrial is heavily onsite. Executive remote policy in this industry skews ~65% onsite, 25% hybrid, 10% remote. Plant General Managers, VP Manufacturing, and CSCO seats are anchored to specific manufacturing footprints. The classifier surfaces remote-friendly corporate seats (often CFO, CTO, CHRO) explicitly so candidates can filter accurately.
Functions over-represented in Industrial & Manufacturing: COO/Operations (multi-plant ownership), Supply Chain (CSCO, VP Procurement, Director Supply Chain), and CTO/Engineering (industrial engineering, automation, IIoT). Director-tier in this industry frequently runs a single plant or major sub-function — real exec scope despite the title prefix.
Sample Jobs (10 of 262)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Corporate Controller Balfour & Co. Senior financial leader responsible for accounting and treasury operations across a multi-plant, multi-ERP manufacturing environment. Oversee U.S. and Mexico-based accounting teams, lead monthly close, direct cash management, and provide financial insight for Executive Leadership. VP | Aventura, Florida Onsite |
| Head of Sales Solutions Engineering Slip Robotics The Head of Sales Solutions Engineering leads a team at the intersection of Sales, Account Management, and Product/Operations, ensuring solutions are operationally viable and profitably deliverable. VP | Norcross, Georgia, United States Hybrid |
| Chief Engineer - AHS Applied Intuition The role involves leadership in delivering Applied's AHS across strategic site operators, developing a New Product Introduction process, and aligning workstream leads across various departments. C-Suite | Sunnyvale, California Onsite |
| GTM GM, Manufacturing Miro Build specialized solutions for manufacturing, work cross-functionally, and represent Miro externally. Requires 10+ years in manufacturing operations and consulting. VP | Austin, TX Unknown |
| Operating Partner, Commercial Excellence ... Middle-Market Private Equity Firm Lead commercial value creation initiatives across industrial and manufacturing businesses for a middle-market private equity firm. Requires 15+ years in commercial strategy and transformation. C-Suite | Confidential Unknown |
| Marketing Lead Workerbase Lead marketing activities, generate high-quality inbound leads, build campaigns, and manage the marketing team at Workerbase. VP | Munich Hybrid |
| Sr. Director of Strategic Alliance BrainWorks Lead growth of the CDMO business by developing strategic partnerships with medical device OEMs. Responsible for identifying, developing, and expanding new business opportunities while growing existing strategic accounts. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Head of Risk ... international shipping group Manage enterprise risk frameworks, market risk, credit and counterparty risk, financial regulatory and compliance risk, and liquidity management. Requires experience in risk management and compliance. VP | London, England Onsite |
| Director IT ... rapidly growing international industrial group Lead IT integration and transformation for a growing international industrial group, focusing on ERP implementation and technology strategy. Director | Madrid, Spain Unknown |
| Human Resources Director ... global manufacturing organization Director of Human Resources for a global manufacturing organization, responsible for strategic and operational HR leadership across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Director | Prattville, AL Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Industrial & Manufacturing industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with industrial-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is identified via NAICS codes (31–33 for manufacturing, 423–424 for industrial wholesalers), product-category signals, and a curated allowlist of OEMs and large industrial holding companies.
- Discrete vs. process tagging. The classifier separates discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles) from process manufacturers (chemicals, food, materials) — different exec-team composition and different remote-policy distributions. Sub-tags surface as filter facets.
- JD signals for boundary cases. GPT reads the job description for industrial-specific signals (plant references, lean/six-sigma vocabulary, BOM and SKU-count language, ERP system references like SAP or Oracle Manufacturing) when the company allowlist is ambiguous. Editorial review catches diversified industrials with non-manufacturing divisions. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier explicitly excludes from Industrial & Manufacturing: pure consumer-goods brands without owned manufacturing (these are Consumer Goods), industrial-software-only companies (Technology), and aerospace primes classified separately under Aerospace.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Industrial & Manufacturing is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Industrial + Supply Chain and your inbox shows industrial CSCO, VP Supply Chain, and Director Supply Chain seats only — not every Industrial role regardless of function, and not every Supply Chain role across the platform. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only Director-tier and above Industrial roles — capturing single-plant Plant GMs and Director Engineering seats — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only for pure C-suite Industrial seats. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
Remote mix