BU Director

Are you commercially minded operations leader with full P&L experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment?

We are looking for Business Unit Director to drive our OSA business into its next phase of profitable growth.

This role will have overall responsibility for the OSA business, including P&L, operational excellence, scaling of operations, people and culture, and site performance. Market access and front-end sales are supported by the Group's global sales organization. The core mission is to build an operation that can scale efficiently and profitably.

Reporting to the Division President and serving as a member of the divisional management team, the successful candidate will be a visible leader locally and an active contributor within the international group. A key priority will be to guide the transition from a founder-led organization toward a scalable, digitally enabled, sustainable, and performance-oriented structure.

Key responsibilities

Operational Excellence and Scaling

• Hold overall accountability for site performance and ensure close alignment among Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and support functions.
• Scale production, supply chain, planning, engineering, and quality to support growth while improving cost, delivery performance, and quality.
• Lead the digitalization of operations, including planning, production control, and inventory management.
• Elevate operational KPI framework (e.g., on-time delivery, lead time, inventory turns, cost per unit, quality, and safety), with a regular performance review routine.
• Drive system support (ERP/MRP, planning, and BI tools) so decisions are timely and fact-based.
• Set business-driven inventory and assortment strategies: what to stock, where, and at what level, balancing service level against working capital.
• Build a lean, continuous-improvement culture with disciplined execution across the site.
• Ensure compliance with Group policies, governance, quality standards, and EHS requirements.

Business Leadership and Commercial Alignment

• Take full P&L accountability and lead the overall performance and profitable growth of the business.
• Develop and execute the business strategy in alignment with the Group's objectives.
• Partner closely with the Group's sales organization through Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to align demand, capacity, and delivery performance.
• Translate market and customer input into product, capacity, and operational priorities.

Organization and People Leadership

• Lead, align, and develop the local management team and wider organization.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, customer focus, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Lead organizational change and ensure clear communication and engagement throughout the transformation.
• Strengthen leadership capability, organizational effectiveness, and succession within the business.

Change Management and Integration

• Guide the transition from a founder-led business into a member of an international group while preserving valuable customer, product, and entrepreneurial strengths.
• Replace founder-dependent, informal decision-making with transparent processes, data, and systems.
• Own the implementation of the Group's governance, processes, standards, and ways of working.
• Act as a visible, credible, and trusted leader across the organization.

Requirements

• Relevant university degree, preferably in engineering, business, or a related field.
• Proven track record leading and scaling manufacturing operations with overall business or site responsibility, ideally in industrial or engineered equipment.
• Hands-on experience of digital transformation in operations, such as ERP/MRP implementation, KPI frameworks, and data-driven decision-making.
• Strong supply chain and inventory management skills, including working-capital optimization.
• Background in lean and operational excellence methods.
• Strong track record of improving profitability through operational performance.
• Strong business judgment: turns operational data into