Vacancy Title: Country Manager (Greater China)
Vacancy Location: Shanghai
Engagement Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Your Company
Survitec are the world’s largest survival technology provider. For over 166 years, we have been protecting lives in the air, on land and at sea, through the design, manufacture, and servicing of Survival Technology.
Today, we are a global community of 3,000 professionals with presence in 96 countries partnering with our customers to provide innovative solutions that reduce risk and help keep you safe.
That is why the world's leading maritime, defence & government, energy and aerospace organisations trust us when it matters most and why we have been awarded the Gold Award by the UK Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
Your New Role
This role leads operations to best in class standards for a strategically important geographical group of business units. The role actively manages and deepens relationships with customers and provides an excellent customer experience throughout operational delivery. It focuses on translating mission, vision and values into operational excellence; it sets operational priorities, analyses and drives performance and motivates people to deliver operational excellence and financial performance.
What You Can Expect from the Role
Key Responsibilities and accountabilities:
- Leading the development and implementing of operational plan for an important area of responsibility within Survitec, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities, and ensuring integration with the wider business strategy
- As part of the operational leadership team, participating in developing the overall business strategy and annual operational plans that optimise resources and deliver value to the customer
- Setting business unit operational priorities, analyses performance, motivates people to deliver and drives operational excellence. Delivers business growth through efficiency, appropriate margin and EBITDA and customer retention
- Identifying and communicates the actions needed to implement strategy and business plan within the business area; provides Survitec colleagues with a clear view of how operational plans support the broader organisation's mission, vision and values; motivates people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals
- Developing and proposes annual business plans, ensuring alignment with strategy. Recommends financial and headcount budgets; proposes business targets (e.g., revenues or other key performance indicators); and schedules key activities and projects, ensuring integration with other elements of the organisation
- Collaborating effectively with Commercial and Sales teams to ensure market growth strategy and plans are achievable and takes responsibility for providing excellent customer experience throughout operational delivery, taking an active role in managing and deepening the customer relationship
- Representing Survitec in a variety of industry and professional forums to promote the company brand
- Identifying and managing stakeholders up to management level, finding out their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions
- Managing and reporting on performance within the area; sets appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and holds them accountable for achieving these; takes appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives
- Ensuring all colleagues within the business area have effective personal development reviews and delivers a succession plan for all key roles
- Contributing to the definition of organisation structure by recommending reporting lines, identifying interfaces between elements of the organization, and recommending roles and responsibilities, to align with the corporate structure and organisation principles
- Evaluating the capabilities of staff within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implements Survitec’s formal development frameworks within the area. Coaches and mentors others to support the development of the Survitec talent pool
The Experience, Qualifications and Skills You Will Have
Essential Criteria:
- Educated to University Degree or Post-Graduate / Master’s Degree level qualification
- 10 – 15 years of general experience, providing expert competence
- 6 – 10 years of general managerial experience defining, planning, managing and organising resources in line with business strategy for short and medium timescales
Why You Should Work for Us
- Competitive base salary
- Additional day off to celebrate your birthday
- Management Training & Professional Development Opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Workplace Reward & Recognition scheme
How to Apply
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If you would like more information regarding this role before applying, please feel free to reach out to us via Linked In or via recruitment@survitecgroup.com.
Survitec is an equal opportunities employer. Our diverse global workforce protects lives, every single day. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive culture where our people feel valued appreciated, and free to be who they are at work. Because, to provide service and excellence to our customers we must mirror their diversity. But more importantly because it is the right thing to do.
