Managing Director – Technical Industrial Company 100% (m/f/d)

About the job

Our mission at FoodTechScout AG: We connect specialists and executives from the food and FoodTech industry with the right companies. And vice versa.

Our client is an established company with many years of market presence and a broad customer portfolio. The company combines technical know-how with high service and customer orientation and stands for a pragmatic, entrepreneurially shaped culture.

We are looking for an entrepreneurially minded and technically skilled leader who will lead the company operationally, develop it economically, and unlock new growth potentials.

What can you achieve?

• Shape the company: You take on operational and strategic overall responsibility and sustainably develop the company further.
• Secure economic success: You are responsible for sales, results, and investments and steer the company with clear economic key figures.
• Strengthen market position: You maintain important customer relationships, open up new business potentials, and increase order intake.
• Lead and develop people: You promote your employees, create clear responsibilities, and live a binding, practice-oriented leadership culture.
• Optimise processes: You improve structures and workflows and strengthen collaboration between sales, engineering, service, and administration.
• Shape the future: You identify development potentials, implement improvements, and create the conditions for sustainable growth.

• Technical basic training (EFZ) with further education as a technician HF or a comparable qualification; alternatively a degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, or industrial engineering.
• Several years of professional experience in a technically oriented industrial environment, for example in mechanical and plant engineering, operational technology, or technical service.
• Profound technical understanding of industrial applications, technical products, and customer-oriented service processes.
• Experience in technical sales, service business, or managing demanding industrial projects.
• Proven leadership experience with responsibility for employees, budget, and economic results.
• Entrepreneurial thinking, decisiveness, and enjoyment of a practical leadership role.
• Strong customer and market orientation as well as good knowledge of the Swiss industrial market.

• A responsible managing director position with entrepreneurial scope for design.
• The opportunity to significantly shape the strategic and operational future of an established company.
• A technically demanding business environment with diverse customers and industrial applications.
• Short decision-making paths and a practice-oriented corporate culture.
• A long-term oriented leadership role with attractive conditions corresponding to the responsibility.

Would you like to take on entrepreneurial responsibility as Managing Director and actively shape the future of a company?

I look forward to your contact and a confidential exchange.

Manuel Lanz
+41 79 358 89 26