Business Manager

Ensured Consideration Date: November 23, 2026

Michigan Technological University is an R1 technological research university founded in 1885 in Houghton. Our rural campus is situated just miles from Lake Superior in Michigan's scenic Upper Peninsula and is home to nearly 7,500 students from more than 60 countries around the world. Consistently ranked among the best universities in the country for return on investment, Michigan’s flagship technological university offers more than 185 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Research focus areas include defense, health, energy, automotive, environment, and aerospace.

The area’s waters, forests, and snowfall support year-round recreation, including skiing, snowboarding, hiking, biking, and paddling. The University is an integral part of the region, supported by a friendly and welcoming community that takes pride in being a true college town. We embrace our size, climate, sense of adventure, and originality.

Summary

The Advanced Power Systems Research Center (APSRC) is organized into a matrix structure with vertical teams organized around technical areas of revenue generation, and horizontal teams organized around support function. Both the vertical and horizontal groups are staffed by Research Professionals.

The Business Manager executes a variety of tasks (as described below) either in direct alignment with the customer (when in a vertically oriented group), or in a supporting role (when in a horizontally oriented group).

Responsibilities And Essential Duties

The Business Manager must be adept at a range of duties.

• Manage the business side of APSRC. Including but not limited to, initially develop, then track and interpret business metrics, on a monthly basis, including revenue and expenses, acceptance rate on submitted quotes or proposals, potential revenue from contract projections, KPI’s, and any other business metrics that will help the business manager provide informed advisement to the director, promoting robust financial decisions.
• Create, implement, and facilitate training programs focused on communication, emotional intelligence and conflict resolution.
• Ensure compliance with awards and university policies and procedures.
• Manage all standard work within the business operations group including but not limited to payroll functions, index transfers and balancing, expense allocations, Concur reimbursements, P-Card reallocations, invoicing, etc.
• Serve as the primary Institute liaison to operational units on main campus (e.g. HR, SPO, SPA, FSO, etc.).
• Manage all aspects of the end-to-end purchasing lifecycle, including PR/PO processing, contractor agreements, invoice payments, vendor onboarding, receiving, and order returns.
• Manage all HR related functions within the institute including accurate completion and timely submission of operational MTU HR processes, including onboarding, employee status change requests, and personnel ...

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