Director - BU Cooling

• Implements the Global BU strategy and adapts strategy for US and Canada.
• Responsible for market analysis.
• Creates Cooling budget together with CSO.
• Ensures achievement of defined financial targets for the Cooling BU in the market.
• Support sales team to achieve defined targets by working closely with sales management.
• Drives Marketing & Sales campaigns for products and solutions.
• Works and coordinates with Product Management on existing product life cycle.
• Drives product innovation and responsible for the roll-out of product innovation in US and Canada and acts as for HQ. 
• Improves the footprint of the Cooling BU in the US (Internet, E&P applications e.g. RiPanel, web-shop, tradeshows, white-papers, speeches etc.)
• Coordinates large projects in the region together with the team-members.
• Role measured by the target achievement of the regional BU in terms of BU sales and BU profit/loss (P&L).
• Coordination of Competence management within North America.
• Provides guidance and advice within the executive leadership staff towards successful business performance.
• Ensures that the Cooling BU is organized, staffed, skilled and directed (with HR support).
• Guides, motivates, and develops direct and indirect subordinates (with HR support).
• The position reports to the Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of Rittal LLC.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, computer science, business management, or economics. Additional technical training.
• 10+ years of leadership experience in relevant industries.
• Profound knowledge of Rittal’s industries, markets, competition, and trends.
• Understands how to position resources for most effective market penetration.
• Able to build up markets and grow market share. Excellent in building partnerships and finding synergies to ensure achievement of strategic goals.
• Profound understanding of channel management.
• Deep knowledge in the areas of strategy, planning, product management, vertical markets.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong international and intercultural communicator in verbal and written format.
• Analytical thinker.
• Strong leader who can create ambitious goals and motivate a team to follow and to commit.
• Winning personality with ability to convince others and to resolve conflicts.
• Highly customer orientated.
• Able to integrate into a matrix organization and to report in two reporting lines effectively.
• Initiative-taker who can set targets and follow up on his/her own in a highly energetic and purposeful manner.
• Ability to collaborate with Team.

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