Head of Business Unit - Sensor Technology (a)

About the job

• You lead one of our most important business units with several product groups and clear entrepreneurial responsibility.
• You ensure that strategy does not remain on slides but becomes visible in the market.
• You further develop our portfolio and bring innovations to where they are truly needed by the market.
• You expand our international presence and consistently drive profitable growth.
• Together with the business unit sales and marketing functions, you ensure that we are clearly positioned and convincingly present in the market.
• And you are part of a management team that discusses openly, challenges itself, and moves forward together.

• You are an entrepreneurial-minded leader with the ambition to achieve results.
• You have a completed technical university degree and have complemented your profile with solid business management knowledge.
• You have led business areas with P&L responsibility and know how to increase performance – ideally in electronics, sensor technology, or mechanical engineering.
• You understand markets, recognise opportunities, and can translate technologies into successful, scalable solutions. You combine strategic foresight with clear implementation strength.
• You lead people with energy and clarity, build trust, and inspire teams to achieve more together. You move confidently in an international environment and communicate fluently in English.

• Infrastructure & Equipment: Depending on the location, there are free parking spaces, changing rooms with shower facilities, discounted clothing, and other advantages.
• Catering: We provide affordable, good-quality catering, special offers for night shifts, and fruit and mineral water for in-between.
• Work-Life Balance & Family: We support families and design working hours as flexibly as possible. And very importantly: unforeseen events and difficult times also have a place with us.
• Events: We also like to celebrate events. For example, at our legendary summer parties or joint Christmas celebrations. Or on our team outings. And we are quite competitive at sports events too.
• Care & Bonuses: We say thank you for long-standing company loyalty or special commitment in job referrals externally. We appreciate special effort and give something back.
• Health: We have high standards in occupational safety and support our employees with health offers to stay fit and healthy.
• Social Benefits: Depending on the location, we support our employees with attractive conditions for pension, accident, and special leave.
• Young Talent: We equip our professionals of tomorrow with top training. But there are also other experiences best had when young. Joint camps with various sports and group activities, for example.
• Knowledge & Learning: In addition to language courses, we offer company-specific further training depending on the professional field. And so that one hand knows what the other is doing, we enable assignments in other work areas.
• Discounts & Reductions: Depending on the location, our employees benefit from special conditions and discounts in the areas of sport, leisure, and clothing.

The Baumer Group is an internationally leading manufacturer of sensors and measuring instruments for factory and process automation. We owe this success to our approximately 2,800 employees worldwide, who are always searching with passion, expertise, and commitment for the best solutions for our customers.