Managing Director Joints & Seals

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About Filoform

At Filoform, our purpose is to create innovative solutions that make the energy and telecommunications industry safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. We are a leading manufacturer of sealing and protection products, with a reputation for quality and reliability that spans decades. Based in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Germany, our key values include stability, responsibility, and creativity. We are committed to providing stable, long-lasting solutions that meet the needs of our customers. Our products are designed to withstand the toughest conditions and provide reliable performance year after year. We take our responsibility to our customers, our employees, and the environment seriously. We are committed to sustainable practices and always strive to minimize our impact on the planet. We are constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation, developing new products and solutions that help our customers work smarter, not harder. We believe that creativity is essential to staying ahead in a rapidly changing industry. Our team of experienced professionals is passionate about what they do and always looking for new ways to improve our products and processes. Collaboration is key to our success, and we work closely with our customers to ensure our products meet their specific needs.

Position Overview

The primary purpose of this role is to lead the Joints & Seals business for IPE. In this role, you will have full business leadership and accountability on the P&L, including responsibility for all Safety, Legal, and Compliance aspects of the business area. The focus will be on ensuring budget delivery and supporting future growth to align with the long-term strategy for the business. Leading your teams will mean personifying our CRH values with a growth mindset. The Managing Director Joints & Seals is a key member of the IPE leadership team.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Lead the Joints and Seals business
• HSE
  • Lead HSE for the division: Accountability for the Safety Performance and Improvement of all sites
  • Develop a Positive Safety Culture in the business
  • Adherence to all legal and corporate requirements relating to HSE
  • Responsibility for delivery of H&S improvement initiatives: Strategy, Structure and Results
  • Deliver HSE Metrics as determined in Annual review/budget process
• Governance and Controls responsibility
  • Full Legal and CRH/IPE Policy adherence of sites
  • Adherence to Financial standards, Policies and SODA
  • Adherence to ISO/other management compliance requirements as determined
  • Periodic Management reporting
  • Adherence to full Supply chain legal obligations
  • Institute robust business management processes and accountabilities
  • Deliver Periodic Business reporting as required by IPE
• HR responsibility
  • Talent Management
  • Succession planning
  • Appraisal processes
  • Employee training and development
  • Manage pay costs and headcount according to the budget
• Delivery of Budget
  • Delivery of all target metrics and financials as determined by the Budget process
  • Sales

Sales

• Volume and price increases to deliver allocated budget
• Continued Customer development and relationship building (especially key product lines)
• Customer Service [Metric TBC]
• Use of CRM [Metric TBC]
• Liaison with IPE Commercial Director to deliver Strategic Growth opportunities
• Deliver continued organic sales development targeting new geographic markets
• Developing new product lines to diversify risk profile of business (with Innovation)

Cost control

• Delivery of variable and fixed costs to meet the budget
• Year-on-year Margin expansion
• Operational improvement programmes in place
• Best in class S&OP [Metric TBC]
• Constantly improving production standards, with a structured Ops Excellence programme delivering measurable improvements
• Deliver formal Lean improvement programme
• Procurement
• Active cost and supply chain risk management in place
• Design and Delivery of subsequent Budget: Partnership approach with IPE

• Strategy
  • Strategic Sales Growth: Ensure plan and resource to organically grow the business in adjacent markets (Geographic and Product)
  • Innovation

Innovation

• Future proof Product line
• Provide innovation pipeline to both defend margin of current products and new revenue lines with suitable margin. New revenue lines to ensure continued growth of business
• Delivery of innovation pipeline using strong governance and methodology

Capex

• Provide Robust Governance to Capex Projects that result in On time, in budget delivery
• Build Capex plan that supports Sustainability, Growth and Margin enhancement agenda
• Lead the delivery of de-bottleneck and automate (where viable) production to meet future sales growth demands
• Delivery of Bagging Line / Automation project to agreed Timeline and Budget

• Design and Delivery of Strategic plan
  • Work with IPE Commercial Director and S&D Manager to build focused country-specific sales targets with resourcing in place to deliver
  • Ensure capacity constraints are addressed in a timely and most cost-efficient manner (connection with Capex plan)
  • Correct resourcing through value chain in place to deliver growth
• Supported by central IPE teams—requires close liaison with IPE functional team
• Long term Strategic planning and Strategy delivery (Playbook/Roadmap/Delivery)
• Carbon roadmap
• Relationship/handover Commercial Director
• Support to M&A delivery
  • Deal sourcing support (coordinated through IPE S&D)
  • Design of Acquisition cases, DD
  • Delivery of Integration and Synergies
  • Support Divestment processes as required
• Current Specific Activity

Current Specific Activity

• Lead and Deliver S&OP improvement
• Institute robust Metrics and business reporting
• Automated Bagging line project

Individual Competencies

• Strategic Mindset – Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies
• Excellent leadership skills – leads by example, drives the CRH vision and purpose across the business with a growth mindset
• Drive Results – Consistently achieving objectives, even under tough circumstances, pushing self and others to accomplish goals
• Cultivate Innovation – Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful
• Attract and Develop Talent – Attracting, selecting, and developing talent to meet the organisation’s goals and needs
• Be Resilient – Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations

Other (Key) Dimensions

Key stakeholders:

• MD IPE
• IPE Leadership Team
• CRH Europe, Group & Global stakeholders

What Filoform Offers You

• A culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion
• Highly competitive salary package
• Comprehensive secondary benefits
• Significant contribution to your pension plan
• Excellent opportunities to develop and progress within the wider CRH Group