Country Manager Germany (VSS)

Are you eager to help shape the future of mobility and contribute to sustainability? Then Vossloh is the right place for you. Join our team and be part of innovative solutions that drive positive change in the transportation industry.

At Vossloh Switch Systems, our mission is clear : to promote green mobility through innovative rail infrastructure solutions. We are proud to operate in an environment where everyone can express themselves freely, collaborate, and take risks with confidence.

Our Top Employer certification reflects our commitment to continuously improving our processes and adapting to new digital challenges. We are accelerating our transformation to work more efficiently, share our expertise, and break down silos by collaborating with multicultural teams around the world.

We are currently looking for a Country Manager in the small entity of Laies located in Germany

Your responsibilities :

1) The MD represents the BU and the Group in the entity

He/she supports, deploys and enforces Group and BU policies and standards.

He/she guarantees the respect of Groupe’s compliance rules and the respect of laws and regulations of the Country.

He/she ensures that the interests of the Group are given priority over local interests.

He/she represents Vossloh in front of the Community: neighborhood, administrations, professional networks, politicians. He/she protects and develops the Company’s reputation.

He/she ensures the existence of a Sustainability roadmap responding to the Groupe’s ambitions.

2)The MD deploys the Corporate strategy in the Country

He/she understands and deploys the Group strategy in the country. It includes to put in place a local strategy deployment at Country level, with indicators and follow up aligned with the key objectives of the Group.

He/she ensures that Vossloh is in position to keep or develop its market share in the Country according to Group strategy.

He/she identifies and manages relevant stakeholders, builds relationship with Customers, policymakers, decision makers and key partners.

He/she identifies, secures membership and animates local industry associations and alliances.

He/she ensures visibility of the Company at fairs, seminars and events. He/she Secures that the company profile is optimized versus local needs.

He/she deploys the group communication strategy: identifies target groups, takes initiative to new contacts and engages with key stakeholders.

He/she makes sure that there is available capacity to execute on strategy.

3) The MD advocates for Customer’s satisfaction.

He/she leads the business and drives the teams to achieve flawless quality and absolute respect of committed timelines.

He/she cultivates a relationship of trust with the customers. He creates and sustains a strong culture of customer centricity among the teams.

He/she ensures that claims are treated with diligence and with the highest degree of professionalism.

4)The MD is accountable for risk management.

He/she ensures Safety of all the teams in the Country.

He/she ensures business continuity. He/she ensures that risks are analyzed and that there are related mitigation plans.

He/she ensures that crisis management protocols exist. He/she is the leader of the crisis cell.

He/she ensures that the Company’s assets are in a good state and maintained properly – machines, buildings, land.

5)The MD is accountable for performance and progress

He/she is accountable of the target achievement of all business performance indicators defined with BU/Group management.

He/she ensures that performance is measured, tracked, reported and analyzed with the right level of depth. Deviations have to be identified and corrected spontaneously.

Beyond execution, he/she ensures the existence of progress initiatives covering all components of performance.

6) The MD is a role model as a people leader and people developer. 

He/she is a model practicing the Group’s leadership principles. He/she embodies Vossloh corporate culture and leadership excellence. 

He/she is accountable for people’s engagement. He/she implements the conditions of a qualitive engagement of all the teams, based on corporate culture and psychological safety.

He/she creates a collective commitment towards the achievement of operational objectives. He/she grows teams and individuals in the execution of their mission. He/she develops managerial quality. 

He/she identifies the key competencies in relation to the business and its development and monitors development and succession plans accordingly. 

He/she develops habits of permanent learning, with regular practice of REX. He/she looks for internal and external benchmarks. He/she ensures that the Country participates to internal networks and shares spontaneously its best practices. 

He/she maintains a positive social climate and constructive relationships with the Unions.

He/she builds a multi-year plan of improvement of work conditions.

7)The MD is the legal representative of the BU in the Country.

He/she organizes and leads the formal events of Corporate agenda (board meetings).

Delegation of Power is officialized and approved by Central Legal Function.

He/she ensures the registration of the Company for qualification to tender processes. He/she identifies needed certifications and homologations.

Laies is a small entity (10 people / 8M€ of sales). He / she has also an operational role of supervision of client account managers (proposal development) and project management

Profile

• Education : Engineering degree

• 15 years of professional experience

• Strong background in trackwork and urban transportation systems (UTS), with in-depth knowledge of infrastructure project constraints such as site planning, cost management, and penalty handling

• Proven experience in P&L management and financial KPI monitoring

• Commercial mindset, with regular client-facing interactions

• Experienced functional leader for technical and sales teams, collaborating closely with teams in Serbia, Poland, and cross-functional departments (pre-design, supply chain)

• Fluent in English and German

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