General Manager (m/f/d) – France
For one of our international portfolio companies, a leading manufacturer of premium bathroom products, headquartered in Germany with subsidiaries across Europe, we are looking for you in the greater area of Strasbourg.
As the General Manager France, your key responsibility is to manage and lead the company in all aspects, establishing and maintaining a sustainable profit level. In this role, you develop and implement relevant business strategies to strengthen the company’s position in the market and establish a performance-oriented culture through personal and strong leadership. Furthermore, your core task is to develop and grow a cost efficient and competent organization needed to deliver strong business results and ensure professional customer relationship management. The role is located in greater Strasbourg region and reports to the CEO.
Responsibilities
Leading the business
- Overall responsibility for the country, including P&L ownership
- Development of effective multi-channel sales, product launch and after sales strategies tailored to the local market aligned with the company’s global strategy
- Lead the further development of long-term strategic partnerships between the company and major national key-accounts.
- Further strengthen the corporate brand among key-target groups – including professionals and private consumers
- Optimize professional key-account processes and tools, including the implementation of state-of-the art sales instruments
- Identify and utilize opportunities for innovation and growth in a highly competitive market
- Drive initiatives in digitalization and process optimization to improve overall efficiency
Leading the people
- Ensure right competences and capabilities (recruit, retain, exit)
- Drive the development and growth of the local organization
- Actively strive to foster a positive “spirit” and performance-oriented behavior within the company
- Foster synergies and collaboration between the national team and HQ
Qualifications required
- Excellent management expertise with proven track record in developing and implementing growth strategies
- Specific, proven experience in driving business growth in The Netherlands, managing an extensive multi-channel sales model
- Deep understanding of premium product sales, marketing and service operations.
- Familiarity with the European bathroom industry is an advantage
- Strong financial understanding, leadership and communication skills as well as business acumen
- High personal drive and decision-making ability as well as result oriented and driven by performance
- Fluent in French and English, German is an advantage
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
For one of our international portfolio companies, a leading manufacturer of premium bathroom products, headquartered in Germany with subsidiaries across Europe, we are looking for you.
As the General Manager Netherlands, your key responsibility is to manage and lead the company in all aspects, establishing and maintaining a sustainable profit level. In this role, you develop and implement relevant business strategies to strengthen the company’s position in the market and establish a performance-oriented culture through personal and strong leadership. Furthermore, your core task is to develop and grow a cost efficient and competent organization needed to deliver strong business results and ensure professional customer relationship management. The role is located in greater Amsterdam region and reports to the CEO Germany.
Responsibilities
Leading the business
- Overall responsibility for the country, including P&L ownership
- Development of effective multi-channel sales, product launch and after sales strategies tailored to the local market aligned with the company’s global strategy
- Lead the further development of long-term strategic partnerships between the company and major national key-accounts.
- Further strengthen the corporate brand among key-target groups – including professionals and private consumers
- Optimize professional key-account processes and tools, including the implementation of state-of-the art sales instruments
- Identify and utilize opportunities for innovation and growth in a highly competitive market
- Drive initiatives in digitalization and process optimization to improve overall efficiency
Leading the people
- Ensure right competences and capabilities (recruit, retain, exit)
- Drive the development and growth of the local organization
- Actively strive to foster a positive “spirit” and performance-oriented behavior within the company
- Foster synergies and collaboration between the national team and HQ
Qualifications required
- Excellent management expertise with proven track record in developing and implementing growth strategies
- Specific, proven experience in driving business growth in The Netherlands, managing an extensive multi-channel sales model
- Deep understanding of premium product sales, marketing and service operations.
- Familiarity with the European bathroom industry is an advantage
- Strong financial understanding, leadership and communication skills as well as business acumen
- High personal drive and decision-making ability as well as result oriented and driven by performance
- Fluent in Dutch and English, German is an advantage
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
As a member of AURELIUS’ Private Equity team you will be actively engaged in all stages of the investment process. In this role your responsibilities will include identification, evaluation and execution of potential new investments. Furthermore, you will lead the due diligence, undertaking market assessments and the evaluation of company performance, business models, deal structures and value creation concepts. The position will involve deal negotiation, as well as support on financings and exits.
Responsibilities
- Sourcing and identifying potential investments
- Participation in due diligence activities relating to the investment process
- Analysis of financial and management accounts, models and reports
- Evaluating business models; developing strategic concepts; conducting corporate evaluations
- Negotiating and completing transactions
- Planning and executing financing and business sale strategies
- Building up investment team in Italy
Prerequisites
- Business degree or comparable education
- 10+ yrs. years of relevant work experience in private equity small or mid-market investments
- Experience with platform or ‘buy & build’ investing, comfortable completing a high number of add-on acquisitions
- A developed sourcing network within a relevant geography (Italy)
- Proven experience in several successful company transactions
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to connect with and build trusting relationships with management teams, colleagues and advisors
- Leadership experience, ability to manage a deal team efficiently and effectively
- A superior analytic capability, strong financial skills, and a deep and intuitive grasp of business models and industry structures
- Down-to-earth result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong team work
- Communicative, pro-active, high-energy, and persistent with strong entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial personality
- A structured, quick and creative thinker, strong process management skills, attention to detail
- Commercially astute with good risk assessment capabilities
- Fluent in Italian and English, further language skills welcome
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
As a member of AURELIUS’ Private Equity team you will be actively engaged in all stages of the investment process. In this role your responsibilities will include identification, evaluation and execution of potential new investments. Furthermore, you will lead the due diligence, undertaking market assessments and the evaluation of company performance, business models, deal structures and value creation concepts. The position will involve deal negotiation, as well as support on financings and exits.
Responsibilities
- Sourcing and identifying potential investments
- Participation in due diligence activities relating to the investment process
- Analysis of financial and management accounts, models and reports
- Evaluating business models; developing strategic concepts; conducting corporate evaluations
- Negotiating and completing transactions
- Planning and executing financing and business sale strategies
- Building up investment team in the region
Prerequisites
- Business degree or comparable education
- 10+ yrs. years of relevant work experience in private equity small or mid-market investments
- Experience with platform or ‘buy & build’ investing, comfortable completing a high number of add-on acquisitions
- A developed sourcing network within a relevant geography (Benelux)
- Proven experience in several successful company transactions
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to connect with and build trusting relationships with management teams, colleagues and advisors
- Leadership experience, ability to manage a deal team efficiently and effectively
- A superior analytic capability, strong financial skills, and a deep and intuitive grasp of business models and industry structures
- Down-to-earth result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong team work
- Communicative, pro-active, high-energy, and persistent with strong entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial personality
- A structured, quick and creative thinker, strong process management skills, attention to detail
- Commercially astute with good risk assessment capabilities
- Fluent in Dutch and English, further language skills welcome
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.