General Manager

Tasks & Responsibilities

Management Tasks - Implementing Leadership Principles and guiding employees toward personal responsibility - Planning the effective deployment of employees and conducting orientation and return-to-work interviews - Providing instruction to all employees on the proper performance of tasks - Implementation of appropriate performance monitoring measures - Analysis and optimization of all work and communication processes - Initiating personnel measures (e.g. hiring, labor law measures, leaves of absence) - Conducting regular employee appraisals and providing support to employees for professional and personal development Subject Tasks: - Coordinating with management regarding budgets, strategies and plan specifications - Optimizing and Innovating all processes, utilization rates and efficiency - Decision-making on quality-related issues (e.g. blocking of products, release, scrapping, etc.) - Responsible for the activities of the US sales team to stabilize existing and generate new business - Monitoring budgets, productivity and result development with appropriate KPI's - Implementation and development of quality guidelines and standards in accordance with the IATF - Organization of supply chain processes, including the flow of goods and warehouses. - Informing employees about current issues and planned developments - Responsibility for the recruitment of employees and their training and development - Ensuring the efficient and needs-based use of IT systems and their continuous further development - Ensuring proper bookkeeping and payroll accounting in accordance with legal requirements

Requirements & Benefits

- Completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering and demonstrated advanced education/experience in business administration. - At least 10 years of professional experience in companies with thermoplastic assembly and its production processes. - At least 5 years of management experience in comparable companies - Experience in automotive business (for IATF etc.) - Experience in restructuring companies and manage the turnaround - Very good understanding of financial key figures and their impact on the business result - Strong aptitude for root cause analysis and troubleshooting of operational problems - Strategic way of thinking as well as intuition for markets and trends - Very good analytical-conceptual and process-oriented skills as well as a goal-oriented, structured and independent way of working - Hands-on mentality, very good communication and team skills - German language skills - Independent working style, high resilience and entrepreneurial spirit - Business fluent in English