A Snapshot of Your Day
Your day begins with a team stand-up meeting where you align with cross-functional teams on the day's priorities and ongoing projects. You then dive into analyzing operational performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement, and strategizing on how to enhance efficiency via automation. Mid-morning, you meet with key stakeholders or external customers to discuss project updates and address any challenges. After lunch, you focus on hands-on collaboration with your team, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring that operational processes are running smoothly. In the afternoon, you participate in a brainstorming session to explore innovative solutions for scaling the business. Your day wraps up with a review of the day's achievements and planning for the next steps.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Oversee all stages of the operations life cycle, from planning to execution, evaluation, and maintenance.
- Take full ownership of the operational processes, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and aligned with business goals.
- Motivate and convince stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
- Analyze operational performance, market trends, and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement.
- Monitor e-commerce operations, feeding learnings back into the process for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Collaborate hands-on with cross-functional teams, contributing to troubleshooting.
- Factory (supplier) management: Maintain relationships with key Siemens Energy executive units globally, negotiating terms to support strategic goals of the e-commerce platform.
What You Bring
- Proven experience as a Head of Operations, Senior Operations Manager, or a similar role with full ownership in a fast-growing business or startup environment.
- Cross-functional leadership experience: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, promoting collaboration across departments; strong personal drive, and the ability to motivate and convince stakeholders.
- Knowledge in B2B Ecosystems: In-depth understanding of B2B customer and stakeholder relationships; technical knowledge and experience in operational processes.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a solution-oriented mindset: Comfortable with changing roles, limited resources, and rapid growth, with a hands-on approach to problem-solving. Background in startup environments is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyze operational performance and market trends.
- Experience in decision making under uncertainties: Skilled at making effective decisions in complex, uncertain situations, balancing data-driven insights with sound judgment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (English / German).
About the Team
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 94,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
- We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
- We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
- The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
- In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
#LI-AB3
https://jobs.siemens-energy.com/jobs
