Working cross‑functionally across regions, the Director drives innovation, global standardization, and product excellence in partnership with product management, manufacturing, operations, quality, and customers across First‑Fit and Aftermarket channels worldwide.

• Leads and governs the global engineering organization for fluid power couplings, ensuring worldclass performance, quality, reliability, and cost competitiveness across the full product lifecycle.
• Owns the development, validation, and optimization of global and regional hosecoupling systems, ensuring compliance with Gates internal requirements and applicable international standards.
• Sets enterprise governance for crimp specification data, technical drawings, models, and product specifications—driving global standardization, accuracy, and realtime availability across engineering, manufacturing, channel partners, and aftermarket customers.

Testing, Certification & Compliance

• Directs all global typeapproval and certification activities, ensuring timely approvals, renewals, and complete technical documentation in line with regulatory and industry requirements.
• Oversees customerspecific testing programs, including FirstFit approvals and thirdparty coupling evaluations that enable market access and hose sales growth.
• Provides executive oversight of global test lab operations to ensure consistency in methods, equipment, data integrity, and reporting.

Innovation & Technology Strategy

• Builds and leads global innovation teams advancing nextgeneration coupling technologies, materials, sealing solutions, manufacturing processes, and productivity initiatives.
• Defines and executes mid and longterm technical roadmaps aligned with Gates’ strategic growth priorities and emerging market applications.

CrossFunctional & Commercial Partnership

• Partners with Global and Regional Product Management to assess market needs, competitive dynamics, and new growth opportunities.
• Serves as the senior technical authority supporting Application Engineering, Operations, Quality, and regional commercial teams on customer issues and strategic initiatives.
• Provides executivelevel evaluation of new materials, suppliers, and technologies to support innovation, quality, and supply resilience.