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Position |
Investment |
Country |
Sector |
Duration |
3410 |
Benelux Director |
no |
Netherlands (The) , Rotterdam Area |
Electrical specialties and advanced materials |
Permanent position Full time |
Opportunity
The company is seeking a commercially driven leader to accelerate growth across the Benelux region. This role is designed for a high-performing, sales-focused executive with a strong track record in complex industrial markets.
The GM/MD Benelux region will act as business developers, key account strategist, and regional growth architect with full responsibility for delivering top-line impact in one of Europe’s most important regions.
Objectives
- The GM/MD Benelux is managing the headquartered site near Rotterdam with a branch in Belgium.
He/she acts as Sales Director for Benelux (Netherland, Belgium, Luxembourg) and ensures an efficient NL/BE-wide collaboration (coherency of policies implemented, etc).
- Main challenges of the position:
- Driving Growth: Expand market share and grow revenue in a competitive and mature market.
Key strategic growth levers for the region in the coming years include:
· Unlocking new potential in the Motor Maintenance Systems segment, shifting from product-based sales to high-value service offerings and long-term customer partnerships;
· Driving sales of advanced Power Transfer technologies in renewable energy markets, especially wind and hydro, as demand for reliable, high-performance carbon solutions increases;
· Strengthening strategic relationships in the semiconductor ecosystem;
· Expanding into the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors, particularly in Belgium, by offering engineered carbon and ceramic solutions that meet stringent safety and operational requirements;
· Capturing growth in power electronics applications, supplying components for inverters, converters, and drives across manufacturing, mobility, and automation industries.
- Strategic Alignment: Ensure local execution aligns with global group strategy and BU objectives.
- P&L Responsibility: Manage profitability while balancing operational costs and investments.
- Team Leadership: Implement modern management aligned with the group`s standards, unifying and engaging the teams in the Netherland and Belgium under a single company Benelux banner, facilitating collaboration between departments.
- Customer Proximity: Maintain strong relationships with key customers and identify new opportunities.
- Operational Excellence (for Motor Maintenance System segment only): Ensure efficiency in local operations, supply chain, and quality.
- Regulatory Compliance: Navigate local legal, fiscal, and environmental regulations.
- Cross-BU Coordination: Facilitate collaboration across Business Units and shared services.
- Major responsibilities:
A highly operational position in which the leader will spend most of his/her time on sales activities/excellence.
- Acts as the Country Sales Director, managing in direct the sales team (circa 6 people) in coordination with the Business Units, defining the sales strategy and growing the top line, visiting customers.
- Manages the Sites Management committee, communicating strategic direction, and supervises and ensure transverse collaboration for the following functions: Sales, Finance, Human Resources and IT.
- Manages activities to achieve a global performance (financial, business, human, etc)
- Organizes activities according to budget, reports monthly status.
- Guarantees staff performance, managing and developing the teams, providing guidance for achieving objectives, facilitating `lateral` cooperation between departments.
- Implements continuous improvement actions, focusing on performance, with clearly defined performance objectives set for every level of the team in question
- As the Group`s representative, together with the HR deals with internal organizations and external bodies (local authorities, etc.).
- Ensures legally required standards are met. Be the Legal Representative locally
Duration
Permanent position
Full time
Start
Q1 2026
Main business activity
The company is a fully owned subsidiary of a global company ((1B+ € in revenue), expert in electrical specialties, equipment and solutions for high-tech industries. The company has a branch in Belgium.
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