Senior Director Representative Refrigeration

6 months ago


Sittingbourne, United Kingdom GEA Group Full time

**Senior Director Representative Refrigeration Division Country UK**:
GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success - come and join them We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Why join GEA

**Job information**

**Reference Number**

JR-0029001

**Job function**

Service

**Position type**

Full time

**Site**

Unit 9, Conqueror Court, Watermark, Velum Drive Sittingbourne Kent ME10 5BH
- Your responsibilities and tasks:
- Responsible for the development of Heating & Refrigeration Technologies (HRT) including new market entries and identifies opportunities for organic growth.
- Responsible for drawing up an annual plan of the division within R&C, draws up budget proposals, discusses them with Director R&C and adjusts them if necessary.
- Understands the full potential of the value chain of the product and service offering and knows how to use it.
- Stimulates sales management and account management with the help of CRM.
- Responsible for the development and implementation of the Sales & Service plans in the United Kingdom in close cooperation with the division, both BUs: Heating & Refrigeration Solutions (BU HRS) and Compression Technologies (BU CT) allocates resources, gives priority to initiatives to increase GEA's profitability.
- Understands the commercial and technical needs of customers and skillfully brings them back to the division; respective BU and knows how to translate them into business.
- Understand how to deal with two BUs which deal with End-Users as well as Contractors.
- Ensures that transactions with customers are profitable and sustainable and that risks and cash are well managed. Ensures that good and clear contractual negotiations are conducted.
- Ensure that all of GEA's HRT activities comply with GEA's compliance guidelines.
- Directly or indirectly supervises, develops the expertise of and coaches the employees within the entity and ensures optimal staffing in terms of quality and quantity.
- Responsible for compliance with and compliance with (legal) regulations, procedures and (house) rules, both internally and externally, and for ensuring that they are correctly applied.
- Develops contacts with internal and external customers, relations and suppliers, maintains them and manages expectations.
- Initiates and defines projects, manages multidisciplinary (improvement) projects.
- Responsible for compliance and compliant to (legal) regulations, procedures and (house) rules, both internally and externally, and ensuring that they are correctly applied.
- Discussion partner for the HR BP’s
- Chairman of the Management team
- Active contributor to the GEA HRT Global strategy and its execution. Member of the GEA UK Management Team

Your profile and qualifications:

- Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering or (food) processing and/or Business Administration
- General Management professional incl. P&L responsibility
- Significant experience in steering sales and service organizations
- Experience in growth and change processes and performance transformations in traditional sales organizations to best in class sales management.
- Advanced understanding in business development, customer relationship management, market development in a national customer base
- Familiarity of working in a manufacturing company
- English speaking and writing, and preferably further languages
- Entrepreneurial skills (clear drive to sell and strong customer orientation & understanding, ability to gain high levels of trust from customers)
- Leadership competencies (ability to lead diverse teams, strong top-line and target orientation with a strong people orientation)
- Interpersonal skills (power of persuasion, conviction, well-argued reasoning, proven to maintain & build up relationships and networks with decision makers and stakeholders)
- Actively shaping a team on the basis of their ability, track record and potential, evaluating as well as coaching and mentoring to develop higher levels of capability
- Dealing in a timely manner with performance issues



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