Regional Managing Director

Eggelsberg, Österreich

**As Regional Managing Director, for the Central Europe Hub you will be responsible to coordinate and drive to success Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The main goal is to achieve growth and hit sales’ targets by successfully managing and oversees the above countries’ activities. He/she also gives a substantial contribution to design and implement a global strategic plan to expand company’s revenue and ensure its strong presence on the market. The position implies the direct responsibility over the local countries in all their activities giving support to the business initiatives working in straight collaboration with countries’ Managing Directors by defining sales budget, targets, goals and relevant commercial strategies to achieve them in alignment with corporate’s objectives.**

**JOIN THE AUTOMATION TEAM - and start your success story in our international high-tech company**
- Your responsibilities
- Oversee all operations to include successful implementation for strategic and business plans
- Oversee the development of the annual operating and capital budgets for each country and ensures expenses comply with budget constraints while revenue meets or exceeds budgeted goals
- Ensure countries are in compliance with company's corporate policies and procedures 360°
- Ensure provision of quality service consistent with company’s goals. Oversee and participate to quality assessment and performance improvement activities
- Work directly with Country Managing Directors, Sales Managers and other support staff to identify and resolve any relevant issues to improve efficiency and success for the Central Europe
- Take care of the most relevant customers in order to guarantee high level satisfaction and strong partnership while developing further relationships with existing and new customers
- Assist Managing Directors in everyday activities with focus on HR aspects (e.g. development of talents, recruitment and succession plans) & Marketing initiatives (e.g. events & crucial industry fair)
- Accelerate growth within the region by achieving excellent results and hit targets (increase cross-selling, empower ABB cooperation, increase A&S turnover, etc.)
- Oversee the development/enhancement of office systems/procedures to ensure effective operation and communication internally/externally as well as with the corporate office
- Review/approve country policies based on the company’s mission, care standards and business practices making sure corporate policies and procedures are always followed
- Ensure that corporate initiatives and directives are implemented
- Provide to CSO all the requested report and analysis in the times and methods required
- Evaluate within the region the possible exchange of resources and skills for an organic growth of the whole area
- Make sure that countries follow important guidelines regarding Integrity and Safety in every situations
- Your background
- Requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or an equivalent discipline with 10 years’ experience in similar role
- Broad Experience with selling and supporting industrial automation projects
- Experience in a Managing Director / senior leadership role, better if internationally
- Previous experience in industrial automation company is an advantage
- Strong generalist with good understanding of multiple functional disciplines, mostly Industrial Automation and Finance related
- Demonstrable experience in developing strategies and business plans
- Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize and working well under pressure
- First class interpersonal skills adapt at building and motivating high performance teams
- Strong commercial acumen with strategic mindset
- Outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilitiesStrong ambassador for the cultural values within your organization
- Customer oriented approach, intuitive and fast reacting
- Willingness to travel up to the 70%
- Benefits
- Varied and responsible tasks and topics with opportunities for development
- Exciting and meaningful job in an international high-tech company
- A respectful cooperation in a motivated team with whom you can master every challenge together
- Our unique B&R spirit characterized by appreciation, eye-level communication and an informal work culture
- Flexible working hours and up to 8 days of home office per month
- Numerous B&R benefits (modern offices and IT systems / employee cafeteria / free hot drinks / sabbaticals / various sports activities and much more)

**More about us**:
As a global leader in industrial automation, B&R combines state-of-the-art technology and advanced engineering to provide customers in virtually every industry with complete solutions. In particular B&R develops, manufactures and distributes industrial electronics, software and mechatronic solutions as well technologies for machine and factory automation. The innovative spirit that keeps B&R at the forefront is