Regional MNC Sector Head Life Science Healthcare

<div><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) manages the flow of goods and information across a customer's global supply chain utilizing air / ocean / ground transportation, customs brokerage services, and dedicated warehousing/distribution centers. We are part of Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) Group, the world’s leading logistics provider with operations in over 220 countries. </span></div><div style="display: inline;"><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We have an exciting opportunity for an <strong>Regional MNC Sector</strong> <strong>Head Life science, Healthcare </strong>located anywhere in Europe who will shape the strategy & agenda for regional/ global sector development in close collaboration with key stakeholders across the different functions and Business Units. </span></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="695" style="width: 521pt; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody><tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="152" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 15pt;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">General Information</span></em></strong><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"=""></span></p> </td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt;"></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 9pt;"> <td width="152" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 9pt;"></td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 9pt;"></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="152" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 15pt; border-color: windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt medium; border-image: initial;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Role Title</span></strong><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"=""></span></p> </td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt; border-color: windowtext windowtext currentcolor currentcolor; border-style: solid solid none none; border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Regional MNC Sector</span></strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <strong>Head Life science, Healthcare </strong></span><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"=""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="152" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 15pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Location</span></strong><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"=""></span></p> </td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: initial;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Frankfurt / Flexible location across Europe</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="152" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 15pt; border-color: currentcolor windowtext; border-style: none solid; border-width: medium 1pt;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Overall Role Purpose</span></strong><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"=""></span></p> </td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt; border-color: currentcolor windowtext currentcolor currentcolor; border-style: none solid none none; border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-image: initial;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Drive business development within the sector through executing on the growth plan.</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="152" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 15pt; border-color: currentcolor windowtext; border-style: none solid; border-width: medium 1pt;"></td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt; border-color: currentcolor windowtext currentcolor currentcolor; border-style: none solid none none; border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-image: initial;"></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="152" rowspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 15pt; border-width: 1pt; border-style: solid; border-color: windowtext windowtext black; border-image: initial;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Reports to</span></strong><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"=""></span></p> </td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt; border-color: windowtext windowtext currentcolor currentcolor; border-style: solid solid none none; border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium;"> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">VP Head of Business Development Europe</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor;"></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;"> <td width="152" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 114pt; height: 15pt;"></td> <td width="543" nowrap="" valign="bottom" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 407pt; height: 15pt;"></td> </tr> </tbody></table><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Differentiator</span></em></strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></p><ul> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Senior visionary for the sector functioning at global/divisional level in close collaboration with the other Business Units</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Drive innovations into the Business Units to meet and exceed sector customer expectations</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Develop and drive the implementation of the sector strategy that has long-term positive impact on business results aligned with global and functional objectives</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Develop strong, trusting functional, cross-functional and cross-BU relationships with senior DHL business leaders </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Provide business rational to influence others across DHL </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Close collaboration with Product community, country CEOs and Heads of Marketing & Sales</span></li> </ul><p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Tasks and responsibilities</span></em></strong></p><ul> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Define, own and communicate the sector strategy in line with overall business strategy, objectives, guidelines and policies for the division</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Drive divisional initiatives aligned with sector strategy. Provide input to support network investment opportunities to ensure suitable ROI </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Proactively monitor industry intelligence and competitor activities. Communicate key aspects back to the business and consider impact on own divisional strategy </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Drive best-in-class business development, account management and sales activities for sector customers (prospects and existing)</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Define sector marketing plan aligned to functional and divisional objectives, determine research priorities. Differentiate marketing plan for different sales channels and sub-sectors </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Identify key trends in the sector/ industry, translate & ensure development of innovative solutions together with stakeholders</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Benchmark sectors value proposition against operational execution and customer expectations. Engage stakeholders accordingly. Steer innovation across sector </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Build world class sector community within the BU and across the other BU. Share knowledge and receive feedback from the community to enhance sector development</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Drive the development of profitable volume growth within the sector in close collaboration with Product and focus country SMT</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Actively guide the RFQ process and give guidance and support as necessary</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Responsible for the management of sector bid calendar. Effectively communicate to the stakeholders both directly and via the commercial leads </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Have strong oversight of all global Multi National Customers (MNC) as well as support developing strategic accounts within BC</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lead team of regional Sector Heads, MNC GCMs and RCMs globally, incl. team formation, account allocation & travel approvals. Define trainings/ coaching/ monitoring activities for MNC GCMs and RCMs</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Input to annual budget process as well as monitoring and delivering against it </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Give guidance and support to country-based sales staff as part of driving growth in the sector </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Provide global sales collateral to support customer facing sector activities </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Support global and regional customer events within own division as well as cross-BU</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Drive senior customer engagement (i.e. actively visiting customers)</span><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lead multiple teams both directly and indirectly </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Develop short to long-term (1-5 years) plans for optimizing the organization, function, or job-family and the talent required to execute strategies</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Strong oversight of a succession planning program to support sector objectives</span></li> </ul><p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Your Profile</span></em></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><ul> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Master's degree in Logistics, Business Engineering, Business Administration or relevant field</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">More than 10 years within logistics industry at management level with a proven track record of Chemicals and/or Life Science Sector knowledge (at least 5 years)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Solid knowledge of transport and forwarding products, services and applications</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Strategic thinking and challenging of the status quo, including improvement ideas</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ability to build and sustain effective relationships with stakeholders</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Leadership skills to foster an environment for learning, growth and development</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Strong communication, customer / project / change management and negotiation skills</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> <li style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fluent in English (verbally and in writing)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li> </ul><p style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Interested?</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Delivery, sans-serif; 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