General Manager Middle East

Passionate people create exceptional things

Did you know that the solutions we develop are a key part of most industries? Electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more.

We´re everywhere! Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations. With our inclusive and caring environment, you get the support and inspiration you need to grow.

Here, your ideas are embraced, and you never stop learning. Interested in being part of our team?

Join us on our journey for a better tomorrow.

The Role

The Specialty Rental Divisions’ worldview is to enable our customers, our people and our societies to flourish in an increasingly complex world. Our vision is to remain the world’s most trusted partner by solving complex industrial challenges with specialized agile solutions. Those are designed and implemented by passionate people who continually strive for new best ways.

As Akram Tamari will take up the position of General Manager Middle East Region with Power Technique Business Area, we are now looking for his successor.

The mission

Your mission is to continuously deliver specialized agile solutions. In so doing, you contribute to securing the present and future success of our customers, enabling smarter use of natural resources, while improving both safety and quality of life.

The strategy

You will explore opportunities, expand our business and excite customers with flawless solutions. You will further develop our diverse and inclusive culture that inspires, empowers, energizes and rewards.

Business Strategy

Explore – look for new ideas to investigate, experiment and try out in order to increase potential, including geographies, segments, products, concepts, business models and structures.

Expand – improve conversion within the explored market to increase opportunities and close deals. Focus on both continuous improvement and quantum leaps.

Excite – relentlessly evolve the customer experience. How can we keep improving our interactions (digital, virtual or physical) with the many different roles we work with inside a customer?

Organizational Strategy

Empower – inspire and align your employees, giving them the freedom to act, in order to accelerate change.

Energize – excite your teams and use each person’s full potential with the ambition to boost effectiveness.

Engage- drive a growth mindset and a desire to improve, so that innovation occurs everywhere.

In this position you will drive business growth – customer experience development – operational efficiency – fleet size and investment – people resources, development & culture – profitability – digital transformation – report to the President of the Specialty Rental Division.

What you can expect from us?

As General Manager you will drive sustainable profitable growth in the rental organization that includes The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, and Egypt; with around 90 employees and with an estimated turnover of approximately 45M USD.

In this position you will drive business growth – customer experience development – operational efficiency – fleet size and investment – people resources, development & culture – profitability – digital transformation – report to the President of the Specialty Rental Division

What we expect of you?

Experience Requirements

The successful candidate should have solid sales & marketing experience and preferably experience in rental operations.

University degree – technically or commercially oriented – or similar through experience.

You have awareness of local cultures and international business environments.

The candidate shall have a good command of English, good knowledge of the Way and should have excellent financial skills.

Personality Requirements

Competency is more than ever a combination of knowledge, experience and attitude.

Key Behaviours Of Our Candidate Are

Strong entrepreneurial and leadership skills, sound commercial awareness and drive for success.
An achiever who comes with solutions to make things happen and who can transform the mission into strategy, the strategy into action and delivers the promise
A team player and people manager who engages and empowers the team to take action nurtures a culture of curiosity and creates trustworthy and fair relations with all stakeholders
A resilient leader who can cope with change in an ever faster-moving digital landscape and who can spread this attitude of self-sufficiency
An innovative “new best ways” person with a positive, flexible and responsive mindset who embraces and promotes the digital transformation
You are a challenger: open-minded with a global mindset, curious to understand and learn new perspectives

City

Abu Dhabi

Recruiter

Lode Gryson

Hiring Manager

Tim Andrew Last

Last Day to Apply

30 Oct 2022

Diverse by nature and inclusive by choice

Bright ideas come from all of us. The more unique perspectives we embrace, the more innovative we are. Together we build a culture where difference is valued and we share a deep sense of purpose and belonging.