Global Head of HR (m/f/d)
ECO3 (formerly Agfa Offset Solutions) is a leading global supplier of prepress systems to the printing industry. Commercial, newspaper and packaging printers rely on us for the most extensive range of integrated solutions, from printing plates and computer-to-plate systems over workflow and print management software to pressroom chemicals. Our solutions are designed to deliver higher productivity, lower costs and greener outcomes at every stage of the print process.
ECO3 is headquartered in Belgium with production and research centers in Germany, Brazil, China, and Israel. With over 1600 colleagues, we are commercially active worldwide through sales organizations and dealers in more than 30 countries.
As the Global Head of HR you will demonstrate strategic and leadership abilities but also thrive in a busy, hands-on environment, utilizing a consultative approach, coupled with subject matter expertise across HR operations; process transformation; change management and data / analytic based methodologies. The position is based in Wiesbaden or Antwerpen and requires regular travel to other operational locations.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding ECO3 business activities and ambitions, strategically, commercially and culturally
- Partnering with the leadership team to establish appropriate strategic Human Resource programs, aligned to the overall business strategy and where required, unique to their global location and translate this into an operational plan
- Ensuring ECO3 has the organization structure and management capability to achieve its business objectives, including robust management succession plans
- Building a focused, highly qualified and motivated HR team to provide the capability to deliver on the agreed strategy
- Developing and executing an internal communication strategy to drive engagement and ensure our people are kept informed
- Developing tools to enable the business to attract, select and retain top talent
- Driving performance management initiatives, including customized development of high potentials and senior leaders, and a robust performance management framework that supports an agile working environment, providing relevant data to support its success
- Developing and implementing effective people policies and procedures to manage performance, mitigating legal risks and driving employee engagement throughout the organization
- Measuring, monitoring and holding the business leaders accountable for HR service delivery alignment, performance, measurement and quality
- Maintaining a broad knowledge of strategic functional best practices so that the business can benefit from new market trends and developments within the HR profession
- Managing an HR budget ensuring services delivered support the business deliverables
- Leading on the people element of any future M&A activity
Qualifications required:
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources management or similar relevant qualification and evidence of continuous personal development to ensure learning is up to date
- Experience managing large-scale, global projects in support of organizational change efforts
- Strong communication skills with an ability to clarify problems and articulate solutions across different cultures
- Excellent leadership and customer interface and relationship management skills
- Demonstrable experience in delivering large business change, including culture change and restructuring. Previous M&A experience would be advantageous
- Extensive experience of the formulation, implementation, delivery and development of HR and L&D strategy, in a commercially focused environment
- Considerable senior management experience, in a global, fast-moving business
- Drive and resilience
- Business fluent in English
What ECO3 offers:
- A professional environment with a positive mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude, continuously striving for excellence
- Enthusiastic, committed, and skilled team, striving for sustainability, efficiency, and customer centricity
- An open company culture that stimulates exchanging experience, ideas and entrepreneurship
- The opportunity to influence positive change across our global network
- A great team of passionate, like-minded colleagues to work with
Contact
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
For our portfolio company MUVIQ (formerly known as Dayco Propulsion Solutions), a leading supplier of power transmission products to commercial vehicle and off-highway vehicle OEMs as well as light vehicle OEMs, we are looking for a DACH based Global Head of Procurement (m/f/d).
MUVIQ provides solutions for conventional and hybrid technologies, which include tensioners, dampers, pulleys, and decouplers. Headquartered in Italy, MUVIQ is a global business with 8 manufacturing facilities strategically located in every major geography, serving 50+ of the largest global and regional OEMs with technologically advanced value-add products.
Your primary objective will be to lead the procurement team in all aspects, including vision and strategy, planning, day-to-day activities, business and market interaction, policy and process compliance, governance and people management. By working closely with MUVIQ leadership team and the production site managers and reporting to the MUVIQ CEO, you will develop and implement a strategic agenda for procurement that ensures the company’s success.
Your key responsibilities:
- Full accountability for the overall management of the entire spend (more than USD 300 m). The spend includes direct material (e.g. steel, cast iron, aluminum, bearings) as well as all indirect spend (e.g. CAPEX, MRO, logistics, professional services).
- Strong contribution to the Value Engineering agenda (e.g. to counteract inflation pressure) in collaboration with the engineering teams, delivering on targets, managing performance, identifying and implementation of initiatives by utilizing a corresponding program management office.
- Identifying, qualifying and developing a new supplier base to establish regional and technological best-sourcing and cost-down activities.
- Ability to give confidence to stakeholders, customers and suppliers at the highest level, resulting in delivery to plan and targets for the entire procurement.
- Support the governance and structure of the procurement operations, including cross-functional collaboration and effective prioritization, deployment, control and monitoring of spend across the relevant spend areas.
- Support the establishment with a new way of working demonstrating the value of procurement, setting standards, reinforcing the enabling culture and approach across the organization.
- Show presence in the plants, interact with plant managers and drive main initiatives with the local procurement teams. Supervise supplier quality audits (VDA, IATF 16949).
- Coordinate MUVIQ’s ESG efforts.
Your profile:
- Educational background: Master’s degree in engineering or business administration
- Proven track record in automotive procurement strategy development, stakeholder & supplier management, supplier development, business acumen (financial & commercial)
- Global perspective on sourcing and dealing with diverse markets
- Proven track record in people-, project and change management
- Born negotiator & leader, proven self-motivator who sets clear direction and priorities
- Fostering a collaborative supplier-customer culture & multi- stakeholder partnership
- Building stakeholder confidence and managing communication effectively in a multi-organization business environment
- Ability to influence senior management, teams and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines, hierarchies and geographies to drive common solutions
- Ability to inspire and motivate team through sharing and communicating vision
Our offer
- A professional environment with a positive mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude, continuously striving for excellence.
- Enthusiastic, committed, and skilled global team, striving for sustainability, efficiency, and customer centricity
- An open company culture that stimulates exchanging experience, ideas and entrepreneurship.
- An attractive and performance orientated package
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
ECO3 (formerly Agfa Offset Solutions) is a leading global supplier of prepress systems to the printing industry. Commercial, newspaper and packaging printers rely on us for the most extensive range of integrated solutions, from printing plates and computer-to-plate systems over workflow and print management software to pressroom chemicals. Our solutions are designed to deliver higher productivity, lower costs and greener outcomes at every stage of the print process.
ECO3 is headquartered in Belgium with production and research centers in Germany, Brazil, China, and Israel. With over 1600 colleagues, we are commercially active worldwide through sales organizations and dealers in more than 30 countries.
At ECO3 group level, we are seeking a highly accomplished and results-oriented
Head of Accounting (m/f/d)
to lead and develop our global accounting teams from our HQ office in Mortsel, Belgium. As the Head of Accounting, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, compliance and integrity of our accounts and financial reports, striving for high quality standards in our financial and accounting processes.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the entire accounting function of the ECO3 group, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and financial reporting
- Ensure compliance with IFRS accounting standards, regulatory requirements and internal policies
- Develop and implement strategic accounting initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness in all accounting areas: Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) as well as Record-to-Report (R2R) processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as procurement, operations, logistics and sales colleagues to support the translation and implementation of business developments and flows into efficient accounting processes. You will also partner with IT and Business Process teams.
- Support the financial analysis to support decision-making in the actual reporting
- Prepare accurate and timely financial reports for internal and external stakeholders
- Manage a dynamic and diverse team of accounting professionals, providing guidance, training, and performance evaluations
- Partner with regional finance teams across the globe, and with in-house and external financial shared service centers
Qualifications required:
- Master’s in law, Economics, Finance or Accounting and a proven track of record in similar positions.
- Minimum 10 years working experience preferably in a multinational industrial environment as an auditor.
- Proven experience managing and leading a team of accounting professionals with knowledge of IFRS to further develop ECO3’s accounting policies
- Strong numeracy and IT literacy skills, especially in SAP
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to partner within a dynamic environment
- Project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities. Experience with change management is an asset
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Proactive and results-oriented approach to problem-solving
- Analytical and decision-making skills, critical mind-set
- Fluent in English
- Willingness to travel from time to time
What ECO3 offers:
- A professional environment with a positive mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude, continuously striving for excellence
- Enthusiastic, committed, and skilled team, striving for sustainability, efficiency, and customer centricity
- An open company culture that stimulates exchanging experience, ideas and entrepreneurship
- The opportunity to influence positive change across our global network
- A great team of passionate, like-minded colleagues to work with
- A hybrid working environment
Contact
Please apply via e-mail including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation: naiara.esnal@eco3.com.
tmgroup is a forward-thinking technology business that is using software and data to provide more efficient, more accurate and easy to use services for conveyancers and other property professionals. We have huge empathy for our clients, which means we’re considering their challenges at every stage. This ‘client+design’ philosophy enables us to produce high-quality, user-focused products and provide the right advice. This is why we make the complexities in the property transaction beautifully simple.
In this role you will report directly to the Chief Commercial Officer and be responsible for boosting client revenue through ensuring increased collaboration, alignment, best practice and seamless integration across departments.
The Director of Sales and Account Management will lead a dedicated function of 20 employees and assume full P&L-responsibility. This includes managing client P&Ls and sales OPEX along with actively contributing to the formation of business unit strategies.
It is essential the role holder establishes a well-developed network in the sector through building higher level relationships and demonstrates proficiency in sales execution to create a more profitable business model across their function.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead, manage, retain, coach and develop the sales team, ensuring the right competences and capabilities to deliver current and future revenue growth targets. Foster a positive team spirit while ensuring a resilient and robust performance approach with regular review meetings. Identify and promptly course-correct under-performance.
- Collaborate with senior leaders to align sales and overall business objectives, analyse market trends, client needs and competitor activities. Set ambitious sales targets and lead quarterly sales reviews, being responsible for client plans, budgeting (per supplier), month-end closing as well as gap/recovery plans. Assume overall responsibility for the annual price rise and negotiation process.
- Streamline and optimise the sales process, establish structured ways of working and tools to support business development and account manager teams. Promote synergies amongst sales teams and collaborate with marketing in planning. Encourage and facilitate professional development within the function and shadow selected activities to assess performance towards clients.
- Manage and communicate with all internal and external stakeholders to develop market position. Outwardly, identify and cultivate strategic client relationships to understand needs, develop solutions and ensure high levels of satisfaction and retention. Inwardly, ensure effective communication with marketing, supplier management and finance.
- Participate in commercial decisions, pertinent client or supplier meetings with significant business, financial and/or relationship implications. Make valuable contributions to new business projects and ensure optimisation in areas such as planning accuracy, supplier management and client service levels.
Success criteria:
- Financial KPIs (P&L)
- Forecast accuracy
- New business development
- Employee satisfaction
- Supplier satisfaction
- Client satisfaction (NPS)
- Collaboration between functions (marketing, supplier management, finance etc.)
This role will suit someone results-oriented, focused and energised, with well-developed business acumen who enjoys formulating strategies and plans, collaborating and leading teams to deliver ambitious targets.
Due to the nature of the role, travel, flexibility and working additional hours is required needed, especially for client meetings, networking and event attendance. The role is home-based with frequent/daily travel throughout the UK. It is anticipated the role holder will attend the Head Office in Swindon approximately once per week.
Experience
- Proven experience in a senior sales role leading and developing a high performing sales team to plan and implement successful business-aligned strategies to achieve and exceed revenue growth targets.
- Sales management including sales planning, forecasting and budgeting and analysing sales data, market trends and client behaviour to inform decision making.
- Ideally relevant industry experience; conveyancing, real estate, property or related industry or the capability to rapidly develop in-depth knowledge of the conveyancing industry, market trends and competition, processes and regulations.
- Proficiency in CRM software and other relevant sales tools to enhance productivity and efficiency.
Skills required
- A client-centric approach, understanding needs and ensuring satisfaction.
- Ability to collaborate with other departments such as marketing, finance and operations to ensure a cohesive approach.
- Ability to foster a well-developed professional network establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
- Excellent presentation and communication (written and verbal) skills to effectively convey ideas, negotiate and build relationships internally and externally.
- Outstanding negotiation skills to close deals and manage contractual client agreements as well as proficient in creating and managing commercial supplier contracts.
- Well-developed leadership capability, leading and inspiring sales teams, setting goals and provide guidance to support these. Enjoys leading through periods of change and achieving under pressure.
- Conflict resolution; able to handle conflicts in the team or with clients in a constructive manner.
- Problem solving; adapting to changing market conditions, industry trends and internal dynamics and identifying challenges and solutions to overcome sales process obstacles
- Willingness to stay updated on industry trends, sales methodologies and best practices.
Qualifications
- Full valid driving licence
- A related business diploma or degree (BMA or BA), in business management, sales or marketing may be beneficial
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.