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Our team in Essen currently has an opening for a Global Director Technical Services BSP (m/f/d)

YOUR ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Global Director Technical Services BSP will be primarily responsible for identifying and delivering commercially and operationally realistic, best practice, technical and operational solutions to site specific issues.
• The role will involve the design, delivery & implementation of site-specific improvement strategies in recognition of change management.
• A strong technically minded professional with working knowledge in the EPC services industry, the successful candidate should be able to demonstrate.
• Proven Experience in Technical Services. This role requires an exceptional professional who has working knowledge and experience of the EPC services industry and key factors affecting it.
  Exceptional customer service.
• Leadership and Best Practice. Be a naturally engaging, articulate and positive leader who can drive outstanding performance through others, whether direct reports, the wider team or service partners.
• Strong Contractor Management Skills. You should be comfortable working with changing evolving service contracts and ensuring best value and performance.
• You will be monitoring closely the KPI performance of contractors and in-house teams, ensuring industry best practice and the highest standards for Brenntag.
• Build transparency along each individual sub-projects and project steps for all relevant stakeholders and coordinate any alerts that may arise.
• Deal with the large investment of a complex projects, including financial, operational and time challenges.
• Drive concept development including specifications and make-or-buy-decisions.
• Provision of SCS project and equipment standards, scope definition, guidelines, best practices including AIPS and maintenance.
• Standardization of project management tools, templates and processes.
• Act as custodian of global steering via KPI benchmarks.
• Build a sustainable Risk Management system for all projects.
• Define functionalities, capabilities of IT tools.
• Enable the team to respond, ideally in an early stage, to future activities. Create synergies and integrate the new assets into best-in-class processes and structure.
• Position himself / herself as a respected service provider and trusted business partner to the operational excellence team, the business, and its regional leadership teams.
• Lead, delegate and execute contract control transparency, cost control and cost planning and project scheduling and project planning.
• Effectively manage the demand on sustainable deliverables. That includes building a positive fast-paced spirit, developing a strong team and deliver sustainable results.
• Analyze, develop, and maintain transparent processes to meet current and future needs of the operational sites and application laboratories. Delegating procedures where necessary.
• Identify and drive cost and time gaps and traps in partnership with internal and external stakeholders for present and future projects.
• Manage and enable the local team to respond effectively to present and future challenges: increase of project complexity, need for a larger transparency, and alert system and impact of digitalization.
• Ensure collaboration and alignment with the respective BES counterpart.

YOUR PROFILE

• The relevant candidate has a proven career track-record of +10 years in a capital equipment, large-scale project, EPC, or Petro-chemical industrial environment with high profile organizations.
• The new incumbent ideally has a successful working experience in a leadership role, with focus on Manufacturing and Operations. Financial acumen and Commercial Project Management experience within an international organization is highly desired.
• The future incumbent should dispose of sound experience of building a central best in class method plants and should bring in strong leadership experience and qualifications. In particular, the person should have the following experiences and qualifications.
• 15+ years of professional working experience in project management in EPC and construction, ideally within the chemical industry.
• Experience in developing a project management team to top performance, through excellent leadership and communication skills; proven ability to recruit, motivate, develop, retain, and lead his/her team.
• Strong project control and finance leadership background from a highly professional and international industrial company with relation to plant engineering, construction, automation, process industry, etc.).
• Familiar to work in a global/multinational and corporate environment and to gather a considerable part of his experience in comparable, technical, and capital-intensive dominated environments.
• Ability to successfully develop and roll out a sustainable supply-chain/ manufacturing-strategy, and consequently developed and led successful sites in the relevant industries.
• Demonstrated effective team-relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders. Understanding the demand of an organization and their dependence on reliable delivery.
• Deep understanding of the essential principals of the broader value and supply chain management in relevant industrial industry sectors.
• A senior level technical manager by nature and background, who is experienced in-, and able to act, to deal and to operate at general management level.
• An executive who has a (technical) strategic vision and approach but who is also open for- and able to understand and deal with more in-depth technical matters.
• Education: A university degree or post-graduate degree in one of the following disciplines is required:
  Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/Chemical Engineering.
  Skills/Competencies
• Strong and transparent leader, who is in line with Brenntag’s corporate culture, values, and core competencies.
• Senior authority and personality with persuasiveness and excellent communication- and negotiation skills, who is accepted at all levels of the Brenntag organization (Executive Management Board, global operational-team, operational leaders, suppliers, and other internal and externals stakeholders).
• Will be instantly credible professionally and will inspire passion and trust. Even the future incumbent must be an active change agent, his/her style and posture will remain positive and not conflictual.
• Co-operative team-player, straightforward, will lead by example. Conviction as a service provider to the business, intrinsic interest to understand the operational businesses.
• Possesses natural leadership and real capabilities to convince and engage people in a change journey in a growing and developing environment.
• The future leader must be analytically gifted, with excellent quantitative skills and a strong ability of strategic thinking. At the same time, the role requires a pragmatic, business-minded and roll-up his/her sleeves mentality.
• Action-, data- and results-oriented self-starter, driven, dynamic and follow-up attitude.
• Engaged, committed and transparent with highest level of integrity and professionalism.

INTERESTED?

We look forward receiving your application.