Group Leader Sustainable Material Solutions mfdiverse - REF81555H

You are passionate about sustainability and want to drive this topic forward from material perspective.

Your main tasks will be:

• Leadership and Strategy: Lead a highly motivated team with a strong strategic focus fostering a collaborative and innovative environment
• Provide a Sustainability Platform: Create and expand a platform where various organizational elements and activities related to sustainability converge ensuring seamless integration and coordination
• Point of Contact: Serve as the primary material point of contact for Purchasing Sustainability Tires R&D Tires Business Areas and Manufacturing facilitating effective communication and collaboration
• Strategy: Develop and implement strategies to achieve our sustainability goals beyond 2030 working closely with Purchasing Sustainability Tires and related MDI functions
• Representation and Reporting: Act as the representative for SMS and MDI to external stakeholders reporting progress on sustainability transformation to various groups including the Tire Board
• Innovation and Development: Promote the development of sustainable material technologies in collaboration with strategic partners leading/supporting initiatives such as lighthouse projects
• Support and Guidance: Provide reporting analyses and basic definitory guidance to other organizational elements advancing necessary system solutions and processes

Qualifications :

• Background: Academic degree in e.g. Natural Sciences or Business Administration
• Experience: Several years of working experience in a leadership role and/or in a role with strong strategical focus
• Experience in crossfunctional coordinating role preferred
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in rubber chemistry
• Strategic Thinking: Strong strategic thinking abilities with a focus on driving transformation towards sustainability
• Lifecycle Knowledge: Good knowledge of product and material life cycles
• Change Management: Highly motivated to tackle the challenges of active change management
• Networking: Exceptional networking skills and the ability to establish strategic partnerships
• Business Acumen: Good understanding of our business environment and a willingness to engage in topics beyond core R&D areas
• Communication: Excellent communication skills and a keen interest in representing SMS in meetings up to the Tire Board level
• Language skills: Fluent English language skills (written and spoken)
• KnowHow: Comprehensive understanding of IT and specification landscapes
• Curiosity: High curiosity regarding internal and external developments and opportunities related to sustainability

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

Additional Information :

We offer the following benefits:

• Potential to an out of Tarif salary contract
• 30 days of paid vacation per year
• Attractive career development opportunities
• We offer balanced working conditions by doing mobile work working parttime flexible working time as well as Sabbatical options
• CrossBorder mobile work options up to 40 days per year from other EU countries
• Company Pension plan
• Attractive employee benefits with discounts
• Diverse offers that support a better workfamily balance (e.g. company childcare places and free emergency care for your children)
• Discounted offer for accessing sport facilities across Germany via Hansefit
• A highly diverse environment across our location
• A new canteen on site with a variety of lunch options

If this sounds like a perfect match for you and if you want to become the next supporter of our core values: Trust for one another passion to win and freedom to act  we are looking forward to receiving your application.

Diversity Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age gender nationality cultural background disability religion ideology or sexual orientation.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime