Horizontals Director Worldwide

**A**re you brave enough to challenge yourself?**

Join our team as **Horizontals Director worldwide (f/m/d) **and help us digitalize the future.

Our hybrid work model allows you to flexibly work from home, at customer sites or on-site at any of our locations in Europe.

**How are you shaping the world of tomorrow? Challenging and future-oriented**
- Responsibility of DI PA SW HZ division worldwide including financial performance (P&L) of all the horizontals.
- Managing and mentoring a team of Horizontal (HZ) heads, each responsible for a process industry sector identified as strategic by the DI PA SW management team.
- Ensuring / managing the following for each of the Horizontals (strategic process industry sectors):

- Holistic, integrated positioning of existing DI PA SW and other relevant Siemens
- An assessment of the competitor and substitute landscape.
- An understanding of which solutions are scalable and of high value and which
- and opportunity cost.
- Identifying requirements for the further evolution of DI PA SW and other relevant
- Siemens offerings, through market analysis, industrial advisory boards, etc.
- Pre-competitive co-creation and co-funding alliances to direct development of
- solutions with a strong focus on applicability and usability of DI PA SW portfolio
- elements and associated workflows.
- Well structured, productive interaction with the relevant VM organisations in Siemens
- Work with S&M in defining and coordinating sales campaigns including support for
- regions in form of collateral and training.
- Support the sales team through business and technical understanding of the process
- industry sector combined with how to position relevant elements of the DI PA SW
- broader Siemens portfolio to address customer needs.
- Gathering customer feedback per process industry sector.
- Industry expertise advising both service delivery teams and product development
- teams with key technical, industry specific knowledge.
- Increase and ensure scalable growth in these industries in close cooperation with PA S and partners.
- Strong alignment with global roles in the wider DI PA organization responsible for process industry sectors.
- Alignment with global roles in the DI SW organization responsible for process industry sectors.
- Close cooperation with product management and portfolio management on customer's requirements and new software capabilities based on the business case.
- Enablement and motivation of managers: coaching of strategic business development skills.
- Based on many years of management experience in the software environment, optimization of internal processes in the horizontal team and sub-teams.
- Active support/moderation of strategic relationships with key customers at C-level.
- Establishment of a professional leadership culture and ensuring long-term development of talented employees at management and employee level.
- Budget management, team organization and all other tasks as a responsible manager.

**How do you become part of our team? With a lot of drive and passion**
- The foundation of your profile is an academic degree in engineering, computer sciences or equivalent qualifications from reputable university or college.
- As Head of Horizontals worldwide, you are very strategic, conceptual, analytical, and customer-oriented, have a stylish and self-confident appearance. Due to your intercultural managerial skills, you can assert yourself very well and represent the interests of your department.
- You have very good knowledge in the conception, design, implementation, and improvement of overarching strategies, encompassing portfolio management, pre-competitive industrial alliances and G2M strategies, for one or more process industry sectors.
- Several years of proven experience in abovementioned conception, design, implementation, and improvement of overarching strategies for one or more process industry sectors.
- Very good knowledge of the market and its challenges within the area of experience as well as ideally appropriate contacts in the industry up to the management.
- Very good social skills in building customer relationships as well as high social competence within internal matrix organizations.
- Efficient task and time management, high result, and quality orientation as well as experience and knowledge of strategic business development approaches.
- High customer orientation and enthusiasm in the team as well as in the market, a strong power of persuasion, complemented by a high degree of creativity and combined with a proactive decision-making ability.
- Excellent presentation skills, rounded by fluent level in both English and German.

**What we offer.**
- 2 to 3 days of mobile working per week as a global standard
- Attractive remuneration package
- Development opportunities for both personal and professional growth
- 30 leave days and a variety of flexible working models that allow time off for yourself and your family
- Share matching progra