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
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Founder36
C-Suite153
VP6
Sr Director49
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 245)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Chief Operations Officer Protolabs The COO will oversee global manufacturing, fulfillment, supply chain, and operational strategy at Protolabs, a digital manufacturing company. The role involves leading a large team and driving operational scalability and transformation. C-Suite | Minneapolis / Twin Cities area Onsite |
| Regional Vice President, Industry Expansion (Commercial and Mid-Market) Gong Lead and develop a team of Managers and Account Executives to expand business accounts and acquire new customers within various industries. VP | Chicago, New York City, Salt Lake City Hybrid |
| VP Finance Slamcore Slamcore is seeking a VP Finance to lead the financial function of a scaling AI hardware company. The role involves financial leadership, board reporting, budgeting, forecasting, investment, and international operations. VP | London, UK Hybrid |
| Director of Product Strategy – Metalworking Machinery Centricity Search Group A growing industrial machinery company is seeking a Director of Product Strategy to lead and expand a portfolio of metalworking and metal fabrication equipment. This role involves building product and category strategies, analyzing competitors, and developing roadmaps for growth. Director | Remote Remote |
| Director, FM EMEA/APAC Johnson & Johnson The role involves driving FM capabilities across EMEA & APAC, managing regulatory diversity, labor frameworks, and infrastructure maturity across Orthopedics sites. It requires strong communication skills and experience in facilities management. VP | Leeds, Cork, United Kingdom, Ireland Hybrid |
| Director of Quality ... Page Executive The Director of Quality will lead a quality team, ensure compliance with quality standards, and drive continuous improvement in a Tier 1 automotive supplier. VP | Cook, Illinois Onsite |
| Vice President of Customer Experience (CX) & Support The Vomela Companies The Vice President of Customer Experience & Support is responsible for building and leading a world-class customer service organization, focusing on end-to-end client journey, driving profitable growth, and ensuring exceptional support throughout the customer journey. VP | Chicago, IL Onsite |
| Head of Application Engineering Lumafield Lead and scale the Application Engineering team, master Lumafield's platform, standardize operations, influence the product roadmap, and drive performance. VP | Boston, MA Unknown |
| Head of Field Marketing & Sales Enablement QAD Lead field marketing and sales enablement for manufacturing ERP and AI software, driving pipeline and revenue through strategic marketing initiatives. VP | Miami, Florida, United States Remote |
| Global IT Infrastructure and Operations Director ... Manufacturing company Direct global IT infrastructure and operations, manage strategic partnerships, oversee financial planning, and lead a high-performing team. VP | Barcelona Region, Catalonia Unknown |
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.
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