Lead the company to sustainable, profitable growth by driving operational excellence, maximizing output and efficiency, and optimizing costs, while building high-performing teams and fostering strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure market competitiveness and long-term value creation.

• Full P&L responsibility with clear focus on profitability, sustainable margin expansion, and cash generation
• Drive operational excellence to maximize output, productivity, and capacity utilization across the entire plant and ensure optimal delivery fulfillment to customers
• Lead end-to-end business processes including sales, distribution, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, HR, IT, and commercial support functions
• Execute cost optimization initiatives across materials, logistics, production, overhead, and organizational structures
• Implement and institutionalize Lean and continuous improvement principles (e.g., 5S, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, Poka-Yoke) to enhance efficiency and reduce waste
• Optimize working capital with strong focus on inventory management, safety stock reduction, and supplier integration
• Define and execute capital investment strategy to ensure operational reliability, efficiency, and long-term competitiveness
• Build and lead a high-performance leadership team; develop key talent and ensure organizational effectiveness aligned with growth objectives
• Drive strategic transformation and performance improvement programs in close cooperation with the Head of Business Development Operations
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships, including regular collaboration with corporate headquarters leadership and department heads
• Ensure constructive engagement with unions, key suppliers, and customers while fostering a culture of accountability, performance, and pride
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required to support business objectives and global alignment

• Get to know the organization and establish a relationship with all relevant stakeholders
• Successfully integrate into the company, its management team, and the Group
• Contribute to meeting or exceeding the annually agreed budget and continuing market growth and on profitability
• Support the Director of Sales to establish or develop a strong sales force
• Set a 5-year growth plan for US entity
• Implement/Develop business with additional or new products
• Meet or over exceed annually agreed budget
• Continue market growth with optimized marketing and product management concepts
• Reduce dependence on a few product units – introduce other available product groups from the Group portfolio to the market
• Further develop the team and sales force to increase market shares
• Find new sectors, customers etc. to develop sustainable growth
• Lead the successful setup and operational launch of the new Houston site, ensuring alignment with corporate standards and market requirements

• Able to develop long-term plans as well as short term initiatives
• Recognize opportunities and makes well-founded decisions on the company's direction
• Initiator and driver of change
• Rapid responsiveness to unforeseen market and business changes

• Strategic experience in market development and expansion
• Extensive experience in organizational development, covering staff, infrastructure and processes
• Effective planning and execution of projects to achieve goals on time and within budget in close collaboration with headquarters
• Analytical ability to collect and interpret relevant data and derive well-founded, strategic decisions from it
• Experience in driving profitable growth through market expansion, innovation, and strategic partnership