Global Director Technical Services BSP in Essen bei Brenntag

GLOBAL DIRECTOR TECHNICAL SERVICES BSP (M/F/D)

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.

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, automati