Element has an opportunity for a Cluster General Manager for a senior management role in our organization. This role will be responsible for leading growth in the Energy Europe business covering the Netherlands, Milan and Germany labs.

Under general direction, you will plan, organize, coordinate and direct growth, operations, and programs to maintain short and long term financial and organizational viability, while fulfilling commitments to customers. 

• Lead and inspire a culture of safety first
• Exemplifies Element values of Care, Integrity, and Progress with team
• Responsible and accountable to drive and deliver the annual Operational Plan commitments including revenues, profit, working capital and operational performance
• Overall EBITDA responsibility of $15m
• Responsibility of 150 employees
• Lead the overall organization through a cadence of setting budgets, hitting targets, closing customer deals, growing revenue, increasing profitability, managing safety and quality
• Attract, develop, and retain talents to ensure proper staffing levels and skill sets to deliver sustainable business results
• Responsible for capital equipment and facilities planning. Prepare and submit accurate plans and forecasts as required, maintain acceptable levels of working capital, and determine and execute corrective actions necessary to achieve plan goals
• Lead a culture focused on continuous improvement in the areas of being a zero-injury workplace, operational excellence, colleague engagement, and delivering sustainable results
• Build and maintain a culture that promotes teamwork, coaching and collaboration
• Lead and manage the team, communicate goals and objectives, provide direction, motivation, and engagement to colleagues
• Improve employee engagement through listening to employee feedback and create focused strategies and action plans
• Responsible for collaborating effectively with location support functions and systems including Quality, Safety, Security, Finance, Human resources, Business Improvement, and Service Excellence
• Build and execute short- and long-term business plans and strategies to include operational goals, equipment needs, innovative operational and client solutions aligned with staffing for the location
• Work in conjunction with long term group growth goals, develop and implement strategies based on geographic business industry knowledge, changing market conditions, technical capability and expertise, and capital expenditures
• Promote a customer centric culture through regular interactions with customers driving one of Elements core values of Customer Care throughout the organization including oversight and implementation of customer corrective actions plans, while continuously working to improve net promoter scores throughout the site

• Preferably 8+ years’ management experience managing a large organization, with 40+ employees and subordinate managers/supervisors
• Proven track record of P & L success and business development; could include sales growth, marketing strategies, negotiating and closing deals, process improvements, innovation, setting budgets, hitting targets, and profitability, growing and developing teams, managing safety and quality, and engaging and developing teams
• Strong customer engagement experience preferred with both direct contact with customers and leading an organization to best serve customers
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to proactively identify financial challenges, analyze available information and identify innovative solutions
• Must be able to effectively trouble shoot and resolve day to day business challenges.
• Must have a strong ability to partner (changed from coordinate) with other colleagues and departments (e.g., Operations, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Human Resources, Finance)
• Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects and requests simultaneously, within an intense, deadline-driven environment to deliver business results
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively motivate and influence others, as well as being able to articulate and effectively adjusts style, message and approach to the audience
• This position is expected to be onsite at either our Breda or Milan Lab.  Ability to travel up to 25%

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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