Head of Order Execution Middle East & Africa- Grid Technologies

A Snapshot of Your Day

As Head of Order Execution Grid Technologies Products – Middle East and Africa, you will lead Regional teams across these regions in ensuring seamless execution product projects across the regions. In your role you will be responsible for the end-to-end project management, including order execution, delivery precision, quality assurance, environmental health and safety (EHS) and logistics, ensuring the expected profit and quality level and high customer satisfaction, all in close collaboration with regional and global stakeholders across GT and SE.

Your day will be dynamic, involving strategic engagement with regional teams to assess risks, fine-tune execution approaches, and ensure the successful delivery of projects. You will work alongside cross-functional counterparts, such as finance teams, technical experts, and customers, to drive transparency, mitigate risks, and uphold timelines. By addressing challenges and fostering collaboration, you will play a pivotal role in achieving key business objectives, including revenue targets, optimized cash flow, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Regional Leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership to a regional dispersed team, ensuring excellence in project execution.
• Team Development: Empower and mentor regional project management teams, cultivating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
• Execution Excellence: Responsible for critical aspects of project execution, including order fulfillment, delivery management, quality control, logistics coordination, and adherence to EHS standards.
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify risks, devise effective mitigation strategies, and ensure transparency in project execution to prevent disruptions.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Foster strong relationships with regional stakeholders and customers, understanding customers, and addressing escalations effectively to consistently exceed expectations.
• Financial Stewardship: Leverage strategic insights to manage risks and opportunities, driving revenue growth, cash flow optimization, and improved financial outcomes.
  
  
  

What You Bring

• Educational Foundation: A university degree in electrical/electronic engineering or a related technical field.
• Industry Expertise: A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in project management, operations, or order execution, preferably within the energy transmission sector.
• Negotiation Acumen: Demonstrated ability to navigate complex global negotiations with successful outcomes.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrated ability to foster strong relationships with customers, bringing market insights leveraging sales/marketing acumen.
• Certifications: Project management certifications (e.g., PMI, IPMA) are an advantage but not mandatory.
• Leadership Excellence: Proven leadership and communication skills, with experience managing and inspiring multicultural teams across diverse geographies.
• Language Proficiency: Fluency in English is essential; proficiency in additional languages is a valuable asset.
• Adaptability: A willingness to travel internationally and adapt to varying regional contexts during project execution.
  
  
  

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. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

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 programs 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.
  
  
  

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