Job Description

Reporting to the President - Electrical Sector EMEA, this newly established leadership role oversees a $910m revenue business, supporting customers right across the region. The organization is driven by a multidisciplinary team of 2100+ FTEs, across the primary locations of Finland, Germany, Turkey, France and Morrocco. They will lead a direct team of three senior BU leaders to drive revenue through a highly customer focused organisation, delivering results with the support of functional experts in Operations, SCM, Quality, Finance and R&D. They will drive strategic plans for growth in business development, sales, market development, and customer management with integrated offerings across Critical Power Solutions, our Medium Voltage platforms and our growing Low Voltage Assembly business, as well as our Services & Digital solutions organizations. The role is a key member of the Electrical Sector EMEA Executive Leadership team, responsible for driving top-line revenue growth and profitability. The successful candidate will build broad followership behind a significant change agenda. They will be an exceptional collaborator, comfortable delivering ambitious growth targets in a highly complex organisation. This role emphasizes negotiations with strategic partners and key customers, collaborating across the organisation to meet customer demands. The division is uniquely positioned as a growth engine for our regional performance, with a strategic focus on addressing project based opportunities to meet a highly dynamic market. Achieves or exceeds profit plans by developing and executing strategies for profit improvement, effective launch of new products and programs, and managing the budget to ensure that operational and financial goals are met or exceeded. Builds strategic alliances and partnerships internally and with external organizations to support aggressive market development and growth. Leverages regional teams to ensure that product, market-based and customer strategies are driven across the region and product line segments. Builds organizational capability and morale within the team by developing both internal talent and attracting external talent to the organization to drive the desired culture. Build effective relationship networks to support organizational goals. Exceptional talent and dynamic leadership skills, highly collaborative. Proven and successful track record of growing and transforming businesses amid changing market conditions and longer cycle customer projects. Growth oriented, comfortable in new domains and working models. Effective interpersonal style and "hands-on" approach to interact efficiently across multiple plants and global support partners. Minimum of 15 years of experience in a multi-national, high mix, multi-channel organization, with end to end execution experience. Direct experience running a full P&L for a business with at least $1B in revenue. Proven background in front-end customer negotiations and partnerships. Significant accomplishments and increasing levels of responsibilities. Extensive experience leading a complex business in the electrical industry. Strong leadership communications, interpersonal, and motivational skills. Excellent business and financial acumen. Executive presence with the ability to lead multiple diverse locations. Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, finance, or related discipline is required.

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