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About the role
- Senior Manager shaping global production footprint and strategy in Operations Transportation. Leading a team to ensure effective strategy execution and collaboration with senior executives.
Responsibilities
- Shape the global production footprint and drive strategic direction within Operations Transportation
- Execute the strategy across Global Operations Transportation and initiate global strategic operational activities
- Take full line management responsibility for a dedicated team, fostering development and ensuring high performance
- Work closely with Global Operations management leaders as well as international senior executives and directors to ensure seamless alignment through strong collaboration with all relevant stakeholders
- Define strategic projects in collaboration with the Operations Transportation leadership team
- Implement harmonized processes across the group to ensure effective strategy execution
- Organize and continuously improve the group-wide strategy execution process
- Anticipate future requirements and drive continuous improvement of processes and systems in collaboration with relevant teams
- Develop and disseminate best practices and frameworks to strengthen strategic thinking across the organization
- Ensure and maintain high governance standards
- Initiate and manage global strategic activities within Global Operations Transportation to achieve operational excellence
- Coordinate global production footprint analyses and optimize the production setup
- Collaborate with Business Units to define the most efficient global operations setup to meet worldwide customer requirements
- Analyze optimal production targets and footprints for new products and market growth
- Promote cross-functional knowledge sharing to develop optimized production layouts and guiding principles for standardized, product-type-specific layouts
- Assess the commercial impact of decisions related to production footprint and layout
Requirements
- University degree with a focus on production or manufacturing engineering
- At least 5 years of experience in procurement and/or category management within an international corporate environment
- Solid project management expertise with the ability to design, structure, and successfully execute projects and activities in a complex, cross-functional matrix organization
- Proven experience leading demanding, cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives – including effective planning, active issue tracking, and proactive communication of progress against defined milestones
- Extensive experience managing global and strategic projects as well as implementing international, cross-functional activities
- Strong leadership skills combined with coaching and mentoring capabilities to develop teams and ensure effective people management
- Excellent command of English and at least good proficiency in German, both written and spoken
Benefits
- Flexible, trust-based working hours (depending on the position), plus 30 days of vacation
- Hybrid working model (4 days on-site in Ludwigsburg, 1 day remote) – for employees with children under 12: 3 days on-site, 2 days remote
- On-site company restaurant
- Reserved places at a nearby private daycare center (spots available for children under 3 and over 3)
- Modern company pension plan as a supplement to statutory retirement benefits
- Additional private health insurance (e.g., dental coverage)
- Access to numerous discounts via our Corporate Benefits portal (e.g., travel, fashion, insurance, and more)
- Mobility benefits: subsidy for the Deutschlandticket, JobRad bike leasing, and electric vehicle charging stations in the complimentary company parking garage with a special company charging rate
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