VSM Manager

Date: Sep 24, 2025

Location: Changzhou, CN, 213022

Company: Gates Corporation

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Manages an area or multiple teams within a plant or corporate function
  • Adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges
  • Decisions are guided by policies, resources and business plan; receives moderate guidance from direct manager
  • Integrates industry best practices in own area to the achievement of objectives
  • Identifies and resolves moderately complex business problems
  • Decision making involves compiling and organizing information and selecting best option from a range of alternatives, and put forward to Senior Management's approval, wherever necessary.
  • Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, volume and timeliness of objectives
  • Guided by departmental policies, resource requirements, budgets and business plan
  • Implements, Interprets and executes policies; makes process modifications
  • Guides, influences and persuades others internally and/or externally

Keys to Success

  • Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own areas and knowledge of other areas

Supervisory Responsibilities

  • 3+ direct reports
  • Manages a generally homogeneous team; adapts plans and sets priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges
  • Has performance management and people development responsibility for managers or associates
  • Provides subject matter guidance to associates, colleagues and/or customers

Requirements and Preferred Skills

  • 8-10 years of experience