GEA

Senior Director BL Chemical & Environmental Technologies - LPT India Cluster

Vadodara Unit 1 Full time

Responsibilities / Tasks

  • Leads Sub Business Unit Chemical & Environmental Technologies within LPT India Cluster
  • Full responsibility for Business operations (Sales, Order Intake, Margin & EBITDA), allocate resources and prioritize initiatives, team training & competency development.  
  • Develop localization strategies with the CoC for the BU Chemical & Environmental Technologies business with responsibility for implementation and performance delivery. This should be in alignment with the overall organizational strategies. Set, align and govern targets, processes, standards, methods and tools
  • Strong financial and operational performance required with key GEA financial KPI delivery on annual budgets and MTP.
  • Manage and lead the business activities focusing on financial and profitable growth of organization
  • Improve the BU Chemical & Environmental Technologies market position and drive effectiveness, through project execution excellence.
  • Take responsibility and ownership for the relevant product portfolio, product management over the entire value chain and product customization in alignment and with inputs from the Technology and Sales groups.
  • Ensure top market position and cost competitiveness of the relevant technologies and applications through innovation, product development and standardization and utilization of low-cost manufacturing hubs as required.
  • Establish and inspirationally lead and develop high performance “can do” management team, with a focus on nurturing key talents and creating a leadership pipeline
  • Ensure the organization has a high customer centric focus but with a view to delivering profitable returns for GEA, timely delivery and customer satisfaction.
  • Responsibility to ensure all necessary contracts and commercial processes are acceptable to GEA before Contractual sign off. Manage and mitigate risk.
  • Align closely with the Service and support with execution and technical competence and to ensure drive growth of our highly profitable Service Business.
  • Accountable for all processes/teams associated with the operation and execution of the business.
  • Ensure adherence of quality/ HSE standards.
  • Align closely with Operational excellence functions within GEA to identify opportunities for optimizations in operational excellence including

Your Profile / Qualifications

Heads Business Line (BL) Chemical & Environmental Technologies with full responsibility & accountability for P&L performance (Order Intake, Sales, GM, EBITDA) in complaint manner, YoY Growth, Creating Open Transparent Working Culture, Driving Strategies for localization by working with CoCs & Developing local competency (process, sales, engineering & best in class execution) 

Qualification: Degree in Engineering

Experience

  • Min 15 years’ experience in similar functions (5 years as a manager)
  • Strong Operational and Project Execution based work experience with organizational practices across several different job areas
  • Deep application knowhow, end-to-end process expertise
  • Experience with lean production processes and excellent product management
  • Product Management expertise
  • Proven track record in Project Execution Excellence
  • Understanding of corporate finance and performance management principles
  • Change management experience
  • Seasoned business manager with a strong focus on integration of businesses and improving cost and performance efficiency 
  • Industrial background within a larger global professional organization with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and innovation 
  • Deep practical know-how of state-of-the-art process organization methods and improvement tools   

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