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.

Responsibilities

Immediately after the acquisition of a new investment through AURELIUS, you will take over the full responsibility for the transformation of the company. Your main task is, together with the established management, to elaborate and implement the strategy, the equity story and a comprehensive added-value concept in the company. Throughout this journey you have the possibility to support the value creation plan from the analysis to the final implementation and be engaged in driving change as well as increasing the overall competitiveness, profitability and sustainable increase of the company value. You will be able to rely on the support of the AURELIUS’ task force and the extensive toolset of the AURELIUS’ operating model.

Qualifications required

• Well-experienced and pragmatic manager with at least five years of leadership responsibility in a medium-sized and/or private equity backed company.
• Consultancy background paired with a profound understanding of commercial, sales and technical topics.
• Experienced in change processes and a proven track record in the operational, strategic, structural and cultural transformation of companies.
• Self-confident and determined as well as a pragmatic “hands-on” result-oriented mentality with an eye for the big picture.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills combined with a confident, convincing and entrepreneurial personality.
• Analytical / strategical thinking, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork.
• Cost awareness, an instinct for business and the ability to implement.
• Experience in building up and developing management teams and the capability to lead these through critical transformations with the required sensitiveness and speed.
• Extensive travel and presence on site is a prerequisite.
• Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required).

Our offer

You will be working in a highly dynamic environment with core values such as entrepreneurial spirit, pragmatism and a no-blame and no-politics culture. We offer an attractive development path through the AURELIUS Academy and the opportunity to eventually build up your own investment portfolio as a Senior Managing Director.

Further to your base renumeration and in accordance with the entrepreneurial assignment you have the possibility to participate in the value growth of “your” company and thereby profit from your own success.

Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.