Global Application Director Glass - Nivelles, België - Lhoist

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Nivelles, België

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Sophie Dubois

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Sophie Dubois

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Beschrijving

Location:
Business Innovation Center, Nívelles_

  • Travel: 3050 % initially limited to Europe. Remainder Lhoist geographies (US, Latin America and Asia) in a 2nd phase depending on market development and maturity_
  • Reporting to the VP Commercial Europe_
The Role


The focus of the role is to evolve and expand the Lhoist offer to meet existing needs and future market requirements.

Objectives

  • Providing advanced technical expertise to our teams and customers worldwide with focus on Europe
  • Establishing, developing and maintaining a close relationship with key stakeholders,
  • Coordinate the efforts in lobby and standardization relevant to the covered market
  • Identifying relevant partners to cooperate with,
  • Creating functional strategies and specific objectives and develop budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure.
  • Manage the EU New Business and Innovation Forum
Experience / Background

  • 15 years of professional with at least 5 years of experience in a container/float glass company as Technical Director or R&D Director
  • Expertise and/or experience with regards to sustainability and CO2 challenges
  • Strong technical/scientifical skills combined with marketing ones and customer centricity
  • Management of technical and/or advanced support to commercial teams
  • Previous exposure to different countries and continents in a medium/large Multinational company
Behavioral skills

  • Strong influencing skills: must be able to establish positive dialogue and be able to convince internal stakeholders (LHOIST sales teams across EU) as well as external (clients, investors, contractors, centers of influence authorities, research centers, standardization bodies, etc.)
  • Strong leadership skills & Team Player (cross cultural): ability to thrive in a multicultural environment
  • Business Acumen
  • Innovation management
  • Strategic Ability
  • Customer oriented, negotiation skills with external authorities
  • Able to operate in a complex environment
  • Open minded and able to interact with different cultures
  • Demonstrates a balanced, realistic, rational attitude towards business challenges
  • Establishes high service, quality and efficiency standards
  • Fluent in English and preferably French as well (any other European language is an asset)
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