General Manager, Warren Rupp

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Fluid & Metering Technologies Segment

Our Fluid & Metering Technologies (FMT) businesses design and manufacture a range of fluid handling products – including pumps, valves, and flow meters – that are essential to fluid management in industries such as agriculture, chemicals, and energy. Our products handle some of the world’s toughest challenges, moving and measuring corrosive, abrasive, high-viscosity, and high-temperature materials with accuracy and reliability. From powering clean energy solutions to supporting pharmaceutical production, FMT delivers trusted solutions that help our customers across the globe manage their most critical processes. The segment generates approximately $1.2B in revenue, with a global footprint including 80+ sites, ~3,000 employees, and a strong runway for sustainable profitable growth.

About Warren Rupp

Founded in Mansfield, Ohio in 1965, Warren Rupp engineers air-operated and electrically operated double diaphragm pump solutions for demanding fluid-handling applications. Its brands include SANDPIPER, Versamatic, and Cognito, supported by a global network of independent, factory-authorized distributors. Warren Rupp products primarily serve the chemical, paint, food processing, electronics, construction, utilities, oil and gas, mining and industrial maintenance markets. The company combines a strong heritage of innovation, quality, reliability, community involvement, and people-focused culture with an ambition to shape the future of diaphragm pumping through technology, application expertise, and global reach. Warren Rupp is a unit of IDEX Corporation that maintains primary operations in Mansfield, Ohio.

Position Overview

The General Manager is the senior business leader with full accountability for Warren Rupp’s strategy, performance, people, and profitability of ~$140M in annual revenue. Headquartered in Mansfield, Ohio, Warren Rupp is a key business within IDEX’s Severe Duty Flow Control platform and employs 175 team members.

This on-site player/coach leads both commercial market execution and manufacturing operations, ensuring strong alignment between customer demand, operational execution, and financial performance. The General Manager is responsible for accelerating profitable growth, strengthening end-customer and channel engagement, improving operational performance through SIOP and continuous improvement disciplines, and developing a high-performing leadership team capable of scaling the business for the future.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the business and own the P&L. Deliver revenue growth, gross margin expansion, profitability, cash flow, and asset performance in alignment with annual operating plan commitments. Make disciplined tradeoffs that balance near-term execution with long-term value creation.

• Set strategy and translate it into execution. Define, communicate, and embed a focused multi-year business strategy. Convert strategic priorities into measurable actions, governance routines, KPIs, resource choices, and clear accountability.

• Drive customer-centric commercial excellence. Shape go-to-market strategies around end-customer needs, buyer behavior, channels, and geographies. Build deep customer and distributor relationships, improve lead conversion and customer delivery, and connect commercial commitments to operational capacity.

• Lead operational performance. Maintain direct ownership for local manufacturing value streams, daily production performance, quality, delivery, safety, productivity, and working capital. Ensure production schedules and capacity plans support customer commitments.

• Own SIOP and continuous improvement. Lead demand and supply balancing and establish rigorous operating rhythms using the IDEX Operating Model, SIOP, daily management, Gemba, and continuous improvement practices.

• Simplify the business through 80/20. Apply practical 80/20 principles to customers, products, value streams, and processes. Reduce SKU, product-line, and transacti