Lead, Business Operations

About the Role

Entegris is seeking a Business Operations Lead for the Specialty Chemicals (SC) team, based at the Ambler, PA facility. In this role, you will collaborate with Product Managers, Business Development, and cross-functional teams across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, and R&D to drive business performance, operating cadence, and execution rigor. You will act as a trusted business partner to the VP, General Manager, coordinating the Monthly Business Review (MBR) process, performance tracking, management reporting, and cross-functional alignment to ensure accountability and execution of key business priorities.

You will develop a comprehensive understanding of the Specialty Chemicals portfolio and serve as a key source of business insights and performance analytics for the leadership team. This role involves preparing and coordinating the non-statutory Management P&L for the Specialty Chemicals business in close alignment with Finance, translating results into business drivers, operational implications, risks, opportunities, and actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate the Monthly Business Review (MBR) process by consolidating inputs from functional owners, preparing executive-ready materials, tracking actions and decisions, and ensuring clear follow-up.
• Enable a structured operating cadence linking Forecast, Demand Review, Supply Review, and MBR by coordinating inputs, tracking decisions and actions, and ensuring cross-functional alignment.
• Prepare and/or coordinate the non-statutory Management P&L for the Specialty Chemicals business, ensuring alignment with Finance while translating results into business drivers, risks, opportunities, and actions.
• Define and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) across financial, commercial, operational, and continuous improvement dimensions, including contribution margin, pricing, capacity, productivity, inventory timing, project ROI, and benefit realization.
• Develop business performance reporting that translates KPI results into clear business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions for leadership decision-making.
• Provide clear variance analysis versus AOP, forecast, prior month, and prior year, with actionable insights and recommendations.
• Partner with Commercial teams to track customer, territory, and regional performance, including revenue gaps, pipeline, wins/losses, qualification progress, and order timing.
• Support pricing analytics, including price realization, cost pass-through, product/customer mix, and margin impact.
• Coordinate plant fixed-cost reviews, ensuring visibility to cost drivers, variances, corrective actions, and escalation needs.
• Monitor operational performance metrics such as capacity, throughput, schedule adherence, quality, productivity, and delivery risks, connecting operational performance to financial and customer impact.
• Maintain visibility to the Continuous Improvement (CI) and project portfolio, tracking progress, resource allocation, ROI, milestones, risks, and benefit realization.
• Support development of business cases, project prioritization, capital/resource allocation decisions, and post-completion benefit tracking.
• Drive cross-functional follow-up by maintaining action logs, decision logs, owners, timelines, and accountability tracking.
• Lead the leadership operating cadence by preparing executive summaries, decision materials, and action/decision tracking that translate business priorities into clear owners, timelines, metrics, and measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Business Operations, FP&A, Commercial Excellence, Manufacturing Finance, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, or similar roles within a manufacturing, specialty chemicals, advanced materials, or technically complex B2B environment.
• Strong understanding of financial and operational business drivers, including revenue, forecast, AOP, contribution margin, pricing, mix, fixed cost, inventory timing, productivity, quality, and ROI.
• Experience preparing, coordinating, or analyzing management reporting or business performance reviews in partnership with Finance, with the ability to translate results into business drivers, risks, opportunities, and actions.
• Proven ability to define, manage, and communicate KPIs that drive business performance, accountability, and execution discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, R&D, and site teams.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in variance analysis, data-driven decision-making, performance tracking, and executive-ready reporting.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, advanced Excel and PowerPoint; Power BI or other BI/dashboard tools preferred.
• Excellent communication and executive storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex results into clear business messages, risks, decisions, and actions.
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, confidentiality, urgency, and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity and accountability.

Benefits

• Generous 401(K) plan with an impressive employer match.
• Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance packages to fit your needs.
• Flexible work schedule and 11 paid holidays a year.
• Paid time off (PTO) policy that empowers you to take the time you need to recharge.
• Education assistance to support your learning journey.
• Values-driven culture with colleagues that rally around People, Accountability, Creativity, and Excellence.

Entegris does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.