JOB CODE: GSJ-O-190918-051
Managing Director President & Representative Director （代表取締役）

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世界 15 ヶ国に約 1600 名の従業員を擁し、幅広い産業分野で生産ラインの自動化、省力化機器を提供、ウェブガイドシステムやテンションコントロールシステム、検査システム等で業界をリードしている欧州企業の日本法人が、代表取締役となる方を募集しています。
The company is a specialist for system solutions and automation technology on runningwebs and belts. The company ranks among the worldwide leading suppliers of control,guiding, and inspection systems for the textile, paper, corrugating, film, tire, rubber, nonwoven, and printing industries. Their broad product range comprises customized
solutions for web control, web guiding and spreading, web tension measurement andcontrol, cutting technology, measuring and inspection technology as well as print imagemonitoring.
THE POSITION
The Managing Director/President & Representative Director's main purposes is the overallmanagement of the subsidiary including but not limited to increasing its activities andstrategic development in all of the company's business segments, meeting the company's
financial targets by achieving sales, marketing and profitability objectives for the Japansubsidiary as agreed at Group level, and to be responsible for the day-to-day operation ofthe business as well as for the customer care.
SKILLS REQUIRED
Performance - The Managing Director/President & Representative Director should becapable of increasing revenues and achieving a sales performance above budgetary
projections. He should have a technical understanding as well as be able to develop
business proposals and to initiate and successfully conclude business transactions.
Customer Focus - The Managing Director/President & Representative Director must
imperatively be committed to a strong customer-oriented approach with a good trackrecord in identifying changes in customers' needs and converting them into profitablebusiness initiatives.
Team leadership -The Managing Director/President & Representative Director will show awillingness to lead from the front and take risks or initiatives that encourage others tostretch themselves within the corporate framework. The Managing Director/President &Representative Director should be able to show recognition for concrete achievements,
support and encouragement in the event of failures or mistakes.
Market Knowledge - The Managing Director/President & Representative Director must

understand the market players and be able to capitalise on this knowledge to seize
opportunities, which would persistently extend market shares with new and existingcustomers. The Managing Director/President & Representative Director must be able tounderstand the implications of market trends and to draw conclusions for appropriateactions. Ideal Candidates bring along a network of business contacts in industries using
control, guiding, and inspection systems.
Collaboration - The Managing Director/President & Representative Director will be able tobuild close partnering relationships with customers, distributors, partners (productcentres) and colleagues across different regions and business segments; and ensure thatthe mutual interests of all parties are met. The Managing Director/President &Representative Director will show an ability to recognise sources of conflict, such as
cultural, functional or geographic issues and act to resolve them.
Language skills - The Managing Director/President & Representative Director speaks andwrites fluently in the local language and English.
Education - The Managing Director/President & Representative Director will have atechnical degree preferably with electronic and/or mechanical engineering backgroundand/or a business administration degree with postgraduate technical qualifications, or hewill be a qualified industrial engineer with demonstrated technical understanding of theindustry.

This position requires approximately 5-10 years sales and marketing experience of this aminimum of 3-5 years of sales team management experience within a relevant
technology/industry's B2B with a solid record of accomplishment of selling technologicallyinvolved components or systems/sub-systems as well as market and leadershipexperience in Japan and a longer term commitment to the company. Ideally, he shouldhave several years of professional experience with high quality control, guiding, andinspection systems used in various industries (textile, paper, corrugating, film, tire, rubber,
non-woven, and printing industries) preferably with European companies. Furthermore,
the Managing Director/President & Representative Director should have professional
experience in sales, strategy and business development. The Managing Director/President& Representative Director will report to the Group COO.

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The Plaza F Bldg, 801
5-35-15 Narita-Higashi
Suginami-ku, Tokyo 166-0015
Japan
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