Groupleader Steelwork EMEA

• An international environment
• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Global Opportunities
• A job at a work leader in intelligent intralogistics and material handling solutions, systems and technology.

The EMEA Group Leader Steelwork :

• is responsible for setting-up, leading, and managing all steelwork execution within EMEA.
• will tailor, develop, and implement the strategy and policy for EMEA Installations with respect to steelwork in a manner that is aligned and closely interacts with the wider EMEA Operations Strategy (Project management, Engineering, Procurement, & Installation).
• will generate a high-performance culture within the steelwork subdiscipline with a visceral intolerance for poor quality in everything the team undertakes. Modelling Kion and Dematic values, inspiring and supporting the team to deliver an industry leading service.
• should hold strong commercial acumen for value engineering steelwork associated with material handling systems and working closely with the Sales, Engineering, Procurement and Global Accounts teams offer the capability to expand both the customer base Dematic serves and alternatively the 3rd Party Supply chain that partners with Dematic to deliver industry leading solutions.
• will establish strategic goals for the steelwork discipline by gathering pertinent business, financial, customer service, and operational data to build compelling business cases for review and approval.
• Define ‘stretch’ objectives for the steelwork team identifying trends and options to reactively, and proactively, improve project outcomes across EMEA.
• Establish a EMEA steelwork knowledge centre to cross functionally support the entire EMEA strategic intent driving change and upscaling the maturity of Dematic’s steelwork capability in execution.

the role requires:

• a highly motivated credible leader, with extensive experience (10+ years) in leading large multi-site operations, with the proven ability to retain and attract the highest calibre of talent in EMEA.
• developing steelwork field engineers and supervisors to offer a step change in the operational capability across EMEA, whilst also collaborating effectively as a force multiplier supporting with relevant tasks alongside EMEA Engineering, Sales, and Procurement.

Accountabilities

• Develop, implement and maintain a cost-effective and appropriate operating model for steelwork in a time pressured EMEA environment.

• Build an industry leading steelwork team of field engineers and specialists that positively and proactively collaborate cross functionally across EMEA matrixed organisation to deliver exceptional value and dissolve siloes.

• Establish a EMEA steelwork installation COE for the retention, sharing and refinement of specialist steelwork knowledge

• Offer enhancements to the installation process of steelwork in execution to reduce the impact of non-conformance costs and the introduction of errors.

• Hire, retain, and manage a team of efficient and high-quality employees, ensuring all are trained, effective, and adhere to Dematic policies and procedures and other statutory requirements.

• Establish credibility to repeatedly deliver large scale multi- site steelwork operations across EMEA engaging multi-cultural teams across market boundaries to deliver optimal outcomes.

• Control a functional steelwork budget to ensure that training, talent acquisition, specialist equipment, and headcount are successfully balanced offering a positive contribution to the P&L.

• Develop durable mutually rewarding relationships with senior leadership members across functions, team members, clients and the market to enhance the profitability in steelwork installations across EMEA.