Taylor Held

Experience

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  Kent Sporting Goods Company, Inc.

  Sept 2011 - May 2014

  Design Engineer

  Responsibilities included product design using AccuMark Pattern Design Software, new product development, and quality control.

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  ABB

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2021

  Establish and achieve a market-driven strategy that produces profitable growth and capital efficiency for Dodge Industrial's power transmission component product family. Ensure that all business functions - including sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and accounting - are in line with the same strategic goals. Responsible for the achievement of established targets through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed. Targets include growth in orders, gross margin, and EBITA, and meeting critical project on-time and on-cost goals. Further responsibilities include setting and ensuring delivery of the product strategy, managing target customer segments, managing and planning the product portfolio, delivering business intelligence updates, establishing price positions, setting product roadmaps, implementing global standards, policies, and processes related to operations or project execution, and sharing functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization. Show less

  • Global Product Manager - Dodge PT Components

    Sept 2019 - Oct 2021

  • Field Sales Engineer

    Jun 2014 - Sept 2019
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  Dodge Industrial, Inc.

  Jun 2014 - now

  Establish and achieve a market-driven strategy that produces profitable growth and capital efficiency for Dodge Industrial's mounted ball bearing product family. Ensure that all business functions - including sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and accounting - are in line with the same strategic goals. Responsible for the achievement of established targets through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed. Targets include growth in orders, gross margin, and EBITA, and meeting critical project on-time and on-cost goals. Further responsibilities include setting and ensuring delivery of the product strategy, managing target customer segments, managing and planning the product portfolio, delivering business intelligence updates, establishing price positions, setting product roadmaps, implementing global standards, policies, and processes related to operations or project execution, and sharing functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization. Show less Establish and achieve a market-driven strategy that produces profitable growth and capital efficiency for Dodge Industrial's coupling and mechanical drive component (belted drive) product families. Ensure that all business functions - including sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and accounting - are in line with the same strategic goals. Responsible for the achievement of established targets through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed. Targets include growth in orders, gross margin, and EBITA, and meeting critical project on-time and on-cost goals. Further responsibilities include setting and ensuring delivery of the product strategy, managing target customer segments, managing and planning the product portfolio, delivering business intelligence updates, establishing price positions, setting product roadmaps, implementing global standards, policies, and processes related to operations or project execution, and sharing functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization. Show less

  • Division Manager - United Kingdom

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Global Product Manager - Mounted Ball Bearings

    May 2021 - Oct 2023

  • Global Product Manager - PT Components

    Sept 2019 - May 2021

  • Field Sales Engineer

    Apr 2015 - Nov 2019

  • Customer and Product Trainee (CAPT)

    Jun 2014 - Apr 2015