Global Director Technical Services BSP

Our team in Essen currently has an opening for a Global Director Technical Services BSP (m/f/d)

YOUR ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Global Director Technical Services BSP will be primarily responsible for identifying and delivering commercially and operationally realistic, best practice, technical and operational solutions to site specific issues. The role will involve the design, delivery & implementation of site-specific improvement strategies in recognition of change management. A strong technically minded professional with working knowledge in the EPC services industry, the successful candidate should be able to demonstrate. Proven Experience in Technical Services. This role requires an exceptional professional who has working knowledge and experience of the EPC services industry and key factors affecting it.
Exceptional customer service. Leadership and Best Practice. Be a naturally engaging, articulate and positive leader who can drive outstanding performance through others, whether direct reports, the wider team or service partners. Strong Contractor Management Skills. You should be comfortable working with changing evolving service contracts and ensuring best value and performance. You will be monitoring closely the KPI performance of contractors and in-house teams, ensuring industry best practice and the highest standards for Brenntag. Build transparency along each individual sub-projects and project steps for all relevant stakeholders and coordinate any alerts that may arise. Deal with the large investment of a complex projects, including financial, operational and time challenges. Drive concept development including specifications and make-or-buy-decisions. Provision of SCS project and equipment standards, scope definition, guidelines, best practices including AIPS and maintenance. Standardization of project management tools, templates and processes. Act as custodian of global steering via KPI benchmarks. Build a sustainable Risk Management system for all projects. Define functionalities, capabilities of IT tools. Enable the team to respond, ideally in an early stage, to future activities. Create synergies and integrate the new assets into best-in-class processes and structure. Position himself / herself as a respected service provider and trusted business partner to the operational excellence team, the business, and its regional leadership teams. Lead, delegate and execute contract control transparency, cost control and cost planning and project scheduling and project planning. Effectively manage the demand on sustainable deliverables. That includes building a positive fast-paced spirit, developing a strong team and deliver sustainable results. Analyze, develop, and maintain transparent processes to meet current and future needs of the operational sites and application laboratories. Delegating procedures where necessary. Identify and drive cost and time gaps and traps in partnership with internal and external stakeholders for present and future projects. Manage and enable the local team to respond effectively to present and future challenges: increase of project complexity, need for a larger transparency, and alert system and impact of digitalization. Ensure collaboration and alignment with the respective BES counterpart. Purpose of the position

Brenntag will align and optimize its landscape. Therefore, Brenntag will establish this new leadership position as Global Director Technical Services BSP. Brenntag is looking for a highly skilled Global Director Technical Services to deliver technical and operational solutions for the global organization.
The future incumbent will set up a best practice SCS and supports the organization in new and complex project settings.
The role solves a multitude of tasks in a broad context- focusing on both the current
business but also on new global projects and acquisitions.
The Global Director Technical Services BSP will be primarily responsible for identifying and delivering commercially and operationally realistic, best practice, technical and operational solutions to site specific issues. The role will involve the design, delivery & implementation of site-specific improvement strategies in recognition of change management.
A strong technically minded professional with working knowledge in the EPC services industry, the successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

Proven Experience in Technical Services. This role requires an exceptional professional who has working knowledge and experience of the EPC services industry and key factors affecting it.
Exceptional customer service.
Leadership and Best Practice. Be a naturally engaging, articulate and positive leader who can drive outstanding performance through others, whether direct reports, the wider team or service partners.
Strong Contractor Management Skills. You should be comfortable working with changing evolving service contracts and ensuring best value and performance. You will be monitoring closely the KPI performance of contractors and in-house teams, ensuring industry best practice and the highest standards for Brenntag.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Build transparency along each individual sub-projects and project steps for all relevant stakeholders and coordinate any alerts that may arise.
Deal with the large investment of a complex projects, including financial, operational and time challenges.
Drive concept development including specifications and make-or-buy-decisions.
Provision of SCS project and equipment standards, scope definition, guidelines, best practices including AIPS and maintenance.
Standardization of project management tools, templates and processes.
Act as custodian of global steering via KPI benchmarks.
Build a sustainable Risk Management system for all projects.
Define functionalities, capabilities of IT tools.
Enable the team to respond, ideally in an early stage, to future activities. Create synergies and integrate the new assets into best-in-class processes and structure.
Position himself / herself as a respected service provider and trusted business partner to the operational excellence team, the business, and its regional leadership teams.
Lead, delegate and execute contract control transparency, cost control and cost planning and project scheduling and project planning.
Effectively manage the demand on sustainable deliverables. That includes building a positive fast-paced spirit, developing a strong team and deliver sustainable results.
Analyze, develop, and maintain transparent processes to meet current and future needs of the operational sites and application laboratories. Delegating procedures where necessary.
Identify and drive cost and time gaps and traps in partnership with internal and external stakeholders for present and future projects.
Manage and enable the local team to respond effectively to present and future challenges: increase of project complexity, need for a larger transparency, and alert system and impact of digitalization.
Ensure collaboration and alignment with the respective BES counterpart.

YOUR PROFILE

The relevant candidate has a proven career track-record of +10 years in a capital equipment, large-scale project, EPC, or Petro-chemical industrial environment with high profile organizations. The new incumbent ideally has a successful working experience in a leadership role, with focus on Manufacturing and Operations. Financial acumen and Commercial Project Management experience within an international organization is highly desired. The future incumbent should dispose of sound experience of building a central best in class method plants and should bring in strong leadership experience and qualifications. In particular, the person should have the following experiences and qualifications. 15+ years of professional working experience in project management in EPC and construction, ideally within the chemical industry. Experience in developing a project management team to top performance, through excellent leadership and communication skills; proven ability to recruit, motivate, develop, retain, and lead his/her team. Strong project control and finance leadership background from a highly professional and international industrial company with relation to plant engineering, construction, automation, process industry, etc.). Familiar to work in a global/multinational and corporate environment and to gather a considerable part of his experience in comparable, technical, and capital-intensive dominated environments. Ability to successfully develop and roll out a sustainable supply-chain/ manufacturing-strategy, and consequently developed and led successful sites in the relevant industries. Demonstrated effective team-relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders. Understanding the demand of an organization and their dependence on reliable delivery. Deep understanding of the essential principals of the broader value and supply chain management in relevant industrial industry sectors. A senior level technical manager by nature and background, who is experienced in-, and able to act, to deal and to operate at general management level. An executive who has a (technical) strategic vision and approach but who is also open for- and able to understand and deal with more in-depth technical matters. Education: A university degree or post-graduate degree in one of the following disciplines is required:
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/Chemical Engineering.
Skills/Competencies Strong and transparent leader, who is in line with Brenntag’s corporate culture, values, and core competencies. Senior authority and personality with persuasiveness and excellent communication- and negotiation skills, who is accepted at all levels of the Brenntag organization (Executive Management Board, global operational-team, operational leaders, suppliers, and other internal and externals stakeholders). Will be instantly credible professionally and will inspire passion and trust. Even the future incumbent must be an active change agent, his/her style and posture will remain positive and not conflictual. Co-operative team-player, straightforward, will lead by example. Conviction as a service provider to the business, intrinsic interest to understand the operational businesses. Possesses natural leadership and real capabilities to convince and engage people in a change journey in a growing and developing environment. The future leader must be analytically gifted, with excellent quantitative skills and a strong ability of strategic thinking. At the same time, the role requires a pragmatic, business-minded and roll-up his/her sleeves mentality. Action-, data- and results-oriented self-starter, driven, dynamic and follow-up attitude. Engaged, committed and transparent with highest level of integrity and professionalism. Experience and Professional Qualifications

The relevant candidate has a proven career track-record of +10 years in a capital equipment, large-scale project, EPC, or Petro-chemical industrial environment with high profile organizations. The new incumbent ideally has a successful working experience in a leadership role, with focus on Manufacturing and Operations. Financial acumen and Commercial Project Management experience within an international organization is highly desired. The future incumbent should dispose of sound experience of building a central best in class method plants and should bring in strong leadership experience and qualifications. In particular, the person should have the following experiences and qualifications:

15+ years of professional working experience in project management in EPC and construction, ideally within the chemical industry.
Experience in developing a project management team to top performance, through excellent leadership and communication skills; proven ability to recruit, motivate, develop, retain, and lead his/her team.
Strong project control and finance leadership background from a highly professional and international industrial company with relation to plant engineering, construction, automation, process industry, etc.).
Familiar to work in a global/multinational and corporate environment and to gather a considerable part of his experience in comparable, technical, and capital-intensive dominated environments.
Ability to successfully develop and roll out a sustainable supply-chain/ manufacturing-strategy, and consequently developed and led successful sites in the relevant industries.
Demonstrated effective team-relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders. Understanding the demand of an organization and their dependence on reliable delivery.
Deep understanding of the essential principals of the broader value and supply chain management in relevant industrial industry sectors.
A senior level technical manager by nature and background, who is experienced in-, and able to act, to deal and to operate at general management level.
An executive who has a (technical) strategic vision and approach but who is also open for- and able to understand and deal with more in-depth technical matters.
Education: A university degree or post-graduate degree in one of the following disciplines is required:
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/Chemical Engineering.
Skills/Competencies

Strong and transparent leader, who is in line with Brenntag’s corporate culture, values, and core competencies.
Senior authority and personality with persuasiveness and excellent communication- and negotiation skills, who is accepted at all levels of the Brenntag organization (Executive Management Board, global operational-team, operational leaders, suppliers, and other internal and externals stakeholders).
Will be instantly credible professionally and will inspire passion and trust. Even the future incumbent must be an active change agent, his/her style and posture will remain positive and not conflictual.
Co-operative team-player, straightforward, will lead by example. Conviction as a service provider to the business, intrinsic interest to understand the operational businesses.
Possesses natural leadership and real capabilities to convince and engage people in a change journey in a growing and developing environment.
The future leader must be analytically gifted, with excellent quantitative skills and a strong ability of strategic thinking. At the same time, the role requires a pragmatic, business-minded and roll-up his/her sleeves mentality.
Action-, data- and results-oriented self-starter, driven, dynamic and follow-up attitude.
Engaged, committed and transparent with highest level of integrity and professionalism.

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