Managing Director

vor 2 Wochen

Zurich, Schweiz Haworth International Vollzeit

**Job purpose**:
**A glimpse of your daily mission**:

- Lead and grow Haworth Switzerland and its product lines with full P/L responsibility. Own the KPI's linked to the achievements. Exemplify economical use of resources.
- Continuously improve processes and operations by means of IT infrastructure.
- Encourage and develop agile teams and foster resourcefulness and forward-looking attitude in view of changing consumer behavior.
- Develop and implement business strategies and objectives in close collaboration with international peers. Understand the dynamics of the business to effectively translate insights into innovation and program execution.
- Ensure effective sales force with customer centric approach. Drive sales and profitable growth in key areas through all sales channels.
- Act as ambassador for Haworth and create new ideas and concepts to improve proximity to customers and long-term relationships.

**Your Qualifications**:

- Master's degree in Business Administration.
- 10+ years of leadership and sales experience required, preferably within office furniture. Strong local network within ecosystem or ability to develop high level relationships within relevant industries.
- Visible change agent and transformational leader in a local vs multinational environment with effective collaboration across multiple layers. Strong relationship management and interpersonal skills.
- Strong financial acumen with the knowledge of P/L drivers throughout the value chain.
- Agility and flexibility to changing market environment, consumer behavior and trends. Ability to think critically, provide and follow through on solutions.
- Solid project management and organizational skills to drive a cross-functional team to deliver sustainable results.
- Ability to multi-task and maneuver between high level strategic thinking and detail orientation.
- Clear, frequent, candid communication and presentation skills.
- Full IT literacy.
- Fluency in German and English is a must, French is a plus.

**About us**:
Haworth is one of the world's largest manufacturers of office furniture, providing solutions for tomorrow's customers worldwide. At the center of our work is the human being: What does a person need to work, what pushes them, motivates them and what makes people feel comfortable at work? Only if we can answer that question, we are able to introduce designs to our customers that will make them achieve their goals. To stay one step ahead, we invest in our own research, have a worldwide network of interesting partners and are part of think tanks around the world who are trying to think ahead. The family-owned company, headquartered in Holland, Michigan/United States, employs more than 8.000 people and is represented in more than 150 countries in Asia, Europe and America with subsidiaries and partners.

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