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Vice President, Merchant

FULL TIME

October 4, 2024

Join us as Vice President, Merchant and be a member of our Handling leadership team! You will join our Propulsion & Handling division in Kongsberg Maritime. In this role you will continue our success and grow our deck-machinery footprint into the high-volume segments for the world largest maritime markets.
In this role, you will contribute to formulating the business strategy and ensure its execution for your product segment. You will be accountable for profit and loss through strategic leadership of product management, engineering, and delivery, which includes project management, procurement, and supply chain. You need to work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure a growing, diversified and profitable portfolio. You will interact and cooperate across Kongsberg Maritimes to build your competence, business understanding and network.
As a leader you are inspirational, encourage people and teams. You thrive to enable teams across borders being both customer-and people-oriented. It should lead them to feel inspired and empowered. You will take an active and leading role in delivering successful business performance, putting in place the enablers needed for the segment to improve, grow, and succeed in the maritime market.
Innovate for a better world with us. Protechting People and Planet drives every solution.
Key accountabilities

Contribute to the business unit strategy and ensure its execution
Profit and loss accountability for the segment
With a lifecycle perspective, ensure a profitable and diverse product portfolio
Ensure capability and capacity to deliver according to expectations, including a reliable and sustainable supply chain
Manage and secure the orderbook delivery schedule, quality, revenue, margins and risks, including their financial impact
Actively represent the product line and manage our stakeholders
Through empowerment, ensure ownership, curiosity and can-do attitude at all levels
Through transformational leadership create a diverse and proactive environment, across the functions, with a focus on developing teams and individuals

Qualifications and experience

Experience from the maritime or naval industry in a leadership position within project management, customer facing or engineering/operations role.
Solid team management experience and demonstrated capability to drive efficient resource utilization and leadership of people, across different functions.
Financial and commercial experience, such as budgeting and customer negotiations.
Good communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

This employment may require security clearance by the Norwegian National Security Authority, clearance through Civil Aviation Authority or a background check. Please note that this might affect the offer process or employment.
You are able to

Deliver strategic leadership to ensure a clear innovation culture with focus on developing people and technology
Leading leaders, enabling common goals and inspiration across functions and cultures
Focus on bottom-line results and execute business driven plans with commitment and determination

Work location: Preferably Rauma, Finland. Ålesund, Hjørungavåg, Brattvåg in Norway or Gateshead, in UK are an option for the right candidate.
Point of contact
Marte Tyldum, Senior Vice President Offshore Handling Systems, marte.tyldum@km.kongsberg.com
Kongsberg Maritime is a technology pioneer, enabling a more sustainable future for our oceans. Our zero-emission integrated technologies advance the maritime industry and solve our customers' toughest problems. With unmatched competence, domain knowledge, innovation, and market reach, we are the trusted maritime partner. Headquartered in Kongsberg, Norway, the company has manufacturing, sales and service facilities in 35 countries
Our Propulsion and Handling division delivers world class products for propulsion, handling systems, motion control and waterjet for all marine industry sectors including merchant, offshore and naval. Our products enhance operational efficiency and deliver safe, secure, reliable and sustainable products to our valued customers.
Protechting people and planet

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