Job Responsibilities

​· Drive development and engineering product- & solution designs incl. changes related to customer needs incl. continuous improvement, quality, carbon out and cost improvements, securing right priorities and business impact, running within budget frames.
· Actively support development and execution of BU product areas strategies, and contribute to an increased innovation level through the global Heartbeat process 
· Secure team engagement and stakeholder management across the organization locally, as well as globally. Thriving in a matrix is a must.
· Be an active member of both local China Hydronic S Leadership team, as well as Hydronic S RD&E Leadership team.
· Lead, developing and maintaining people competences through a Growth Mindset approach.
· Secure a common Hydronic S product- and solutions knowledge according to product- & solutions road maps, new customer needs and existing portfolio.
· Manage temporary deviations for management approvals when necessary.
· Lead design, engineering and development issues and efforts related to quality issues affecting customers, manufacturing, or originating from suppliers.
· Support to perform root cause analysis for product designs based on quality issues.
· Secure steering of prioritization of customer requests, variants and change controls, ensuring the right balance between available resources and decided activities.
· Coordination of global RD&E activities, must-win-battles and networks with other RD&E and ETO locations. Silkeborg, Kolding and Nordborg in Denmark, Trata in Slovenia, and Tuchom in Poland.
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Background & Skills

​To qualify for this role, you should have developed and demonstrated solid and effective leadership skills. You do well both as a people manager as well as in providing strategic leadership in a matrix with the ability to translate strategies into concrete actions and execution. To take our China RD&E organization to the next step on our transformational Hydronic S journey, you need to be a good networker, and you actively utilize your internal network to move forward towards reaching our ambitions. You navigate well in the political aspects internally in Hydronic S China, towards global peers and other stakeholders. This with a holistic mindset working across the value chain.

​We are looking for an accomplished communicator with good presentation skills capable of distilling and communicating high-level topics towards all parts of the organization, as well as towards customers, securing a clear focus on the value we bring in the organization of RD&E.
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Additionally, we would like to see:
· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electronic or mechanical engineering or similar education
· A true collaborative mindset as this role requires effective collaboration with the individual business units, manufacturing, procurement and experts in the greater organization of Hydronic S (leading without formal power)
· A confident leader who feels comfortable in working with global teams and reporting into high-level leadership teams
· A passionate, motivated and fast-learning mind-set
· A goal-oriented, well-structured and independent working style
· A collaborator with effective communication as well as mitigation and problem-solving skills
· Proven record of international leadership & team engagement
· Solid experience in Product Design including managerial & leadership responsibility 
· In-depth experience with development, verification and validation of mechanical & electronic control products and holds a track record in utilizing quality tools
· Familiar with cross functional teams in multiple locations and global relationships
· Willingness to travel within China and to some degree abroad
· Fluency (in word and writing) for the English language.