LEADING AN INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING BUSINESS

• Previous experience and a firm understanding of the traditional OEM and Tier 1 automotive space.
• Past Managing Director or Regional Executive with significant and relevant global experience running complex global businesses that manufacture products with high engineering content for diverse applications and markets.
• A standalone P&L owner who has managed businesses of equal or greater scale.

Driving & Managing Growth

• Experience in growing businesses and business groups through disciplined organic and inorganic strategies.
• History of leading growth and sustainable profitability in complex and dynamic markets.
• Previous experience in driving exceptional growth within a German organization.
• Talented and resilient individual who is agile and constantly looking to improve the company and possesses a balance of superior strategic and execution-oriented commercial skills.

Business Transformation

• History of delivering market-leading growth and sustainable profitability in complex and dynamic business-to-business, multi-channel, German market.
• Evidence of successful “breakout” initiatives that set new industry standards and customer expectations.
• Polished and thoughtful business leader with a proven track record of success.

Education Credentials

• An undergraduate engineering degree is required
• M.B.A. is preferred

Written and Verbal Skills

• Proficient English and German written and verbal communication skills with an emphasis on responding to common inquiries or complaints from customers and internal communications within Company.
• Communication responsibilities also include delivering presentations to customers, executive management, employees, public groups.
• Must be able to integrate well within a professional team environment – fast-paced, dynamic and results-oriented.

DRIVING TEAM RESULTS

• Works to achieve goals while overcoming obstacles and/or planning for contingencies.
• Shows strong feelings (e.g. urgency) about reaching targets.
• Checks work of self and others against required quality standards.
• Reviews performance and progress on a regular basis to ensure team is achieving results.
• Tests to see if goals are sufficiently challenging, and implements corrective action based on deviations.

LEADING TRANSFORMATION

• Communicates new direction or changes with clear rationale and appeal.
• Advocates for new direction and takes it on board personally, even countering conventional practice.
• Speaks at all available opportunities about future direction.
• Adjusts communication style to changing situations and to respond to audience concerns (including culture, background or style).

• Energizing, engaging leader who motivates others toward progress and performance.
• Passionate communicator with a high degree of emotional intelligence who can articulate a vision and sustain excitement about the Company opportunities, while being transparent and direct about its challenges and weaknesses.
• Perceived as low-ego and genuine, effortlessly generating trust and followership across internal and external stakeholders.
• Inflexible on matters of integrity, safety, ethics, compliance and a healthy and diverse work environment.
• Hands-on, out-of-the-box thinker and a charismatic leader with a collaborative leadership style, with empathy and a clear ability to empower the organization and ensure open and transparent communication between all levels and departments.
• Entrepreneurial leader who drives results and seizes opportunities with a customer-focused mindset. 
• Structured and organized but not a “micromanager”; strategic decision-maker able to delegate.
• High comfort level with extensive travel on a national and international basis for business meetings, customer presentations, and executive management related programs and activities.