Job Description
Overview
Purpose of the Position:
The General Manager for the Mobility, Transportation, and Military Business will be responsible for driving growth, operational excellence, and strategic leadership within our battery, reliability and defense testing sectors. You will be responsible for financial performance in line with budget, manage operations for our Dongtan, Sandan and Daegu testing laboratories, ensure customer satisfaction, and foster a safety-first culture while focusing on long-term strategic and organizational development.
Core Responsibilities
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and inspire a safety-first culture, ensuring all employees and operations prioritize safety.
- Embody Element’s values of Care, Integrity, and Progress, fostering these in the team.
- Responsible and accountable to drive and deliver the annual Business Plan commitments including revenues, profit, working capital and operational performance.
- Overall EBITDA responsibility of $4M (2025 target with a potential to be expanded in the future).
- Responsibility of 50 employees.
- Lead the overall organization through a cadence of setting budgets, hitting targets, closing customer deals, growing revenue, increasing profitability, managing safety and quality.
- Attract, develop, and retain talents to ensure proper staffing levels and skill sets to deliver sustainable business results.
- Responsible for capital equipment and facilities planning. Prepare and submit accurate plans and forecasts as required, maintain acceptable levels of working capital, and determine and execute corrective actions necessary to achieve plan goals.
- Responsible for collaborating effectively with support functions and systems including Quality, Safety, Security, Finance, Human resources, Business Improvement, and Service Excellence.
- Build and execute short- and long-term business plans and strategies to include operational goals, equipment needs, innovative operational and client solutions aligned with staffing for the location.
- Work in conjunction with long term group growth goals, develop and implement strategies based on geographic business industry knowledge, changing market conditions, technical capability and expertise, and capital expenditures.
- Promote a customer centric culture through regular interactions with customers driving one of Elements core values of Customer Care throughout the organization including oversight and implementation of customer corrective actions plans, while continuously working to improve net promoter scores throughout the site.
- Lead a culture focused on continuous improvement in the areas of being a zero-injury workplace, operational excellence, colleague engagement, and delivering sustainable results.
- Build and maintain a culture that promotes teamwork, coaching and collaboration.
- Lead and manage the team, communicate goals and objectives, provide direction, motivation, and engagement to colleagues.
Skills / Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Preferably 8+ years’ management experience managing a large organization, with 40+ employees and 4+ direct reports.
- Proven track record of P&L success and business development; could include sales growth, marketing strategies, negotiating and closing deals, process improvements, innovation, setting budgets, hitting targets, and profitability, growing and developing teams, managing safety and quality, and engaging and developing teams.
- Strong customer engagement experience preferred with both direct contact with customers and leading an organization to best serve customers.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to proactively identify financial challenges, analyze available information and identify innovative solutions.
- Must be able to effectively trouble shoot and resolve day to day business challenges.
- Must have a strong ability to partner with colleagues and departments (e.g., Operations, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Human Resources, Finance)
- Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects and requests simultaneously, within an intense, deadline-driven environment to deliver business results.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively motivate and influence others, as well as being able to articulate and effectively adjusts style, message and approach to the audience.
- This position is expected to be onsite at our locations in Dongtan
Company Overview
엘레멘트는 세계에서 가장 빠르게 성장하는 시험·검사·인증(TIC) 기업 중 하나입니다. 전 세계적으로 우리는 30개국 270개의 시험소에서 활동하는 9,000명 이상의 뛰어난 인재를 보유하고 있습니다. 우리는 오늘보다 더 안전한 내일을 만들려는 야심찬 목표를 공유하고 있습니다.
우리는 고객이 제품, 재료, 프로세스 및 서비스가 안전하고 규정을 준수하며 목적에 부합하도록 지원합니다. 초기 R&D부터 복잡한 규제 승인 및 생산에 이르기까지 과학자, 엔지니어 및 기술자로 구성된 당사의 글로벌 시험소 네트워크는 고객이 제품 품질, 지속 가능한 결과 및 시장 접근에 대한 확신을 얻을 수 있도록 지원합니다.
우리는 당사의 글로벌 영향을 자랑스럽게 생각하지만 엘레멘트에서 일하는 것이 작은 회사의 일원으로서 일하는 것처럼 느껴질 수 있습니다. 우리는 귀하가 자신의 경력을 주도할 수 있도록 권한을 부여하고 우수성과 정직성을 성장과 발전으로 보상하고자 합니다.
세계 각국의 다양한 산업은 당사의 케어, 세세한 주의, 그리고 작업의 절대적인 정확성에 의존하고 있습니다. 더 안전한 세상을 만들기 위해 우리가 해야 할 역할은 우리 조직을 훨씬 뛰어넘는 중요한 일입니다.
Diversity Statement
엘레멘트에서는 언제나 사람을 최우선으로 생각합니다. 우리는 "세계에서 가장 신뢰할 수 있는 테스트 파트너"라는 비전을 바탕으로 기회의 균등과 다양성, 포용성을 강조하고 있습니다.
지원 자격을 갖춘 모든 지원자는 연령, 장애, 인종, 성별, 결혼 여부, 인종, 종교, 부양가족의 책임, 성적 지향, 성 정체성 또는 기타 특성과 관계없이 해당 준거법에 따라 객관적인 업무 관련 기준을 바탕으로 채용 고려 대상이 됩니다.
