An established Belgian company with a rich history dating back to 1969. As a family business, built over two generations, the organization has gained a strong reputation thanks to its craftsmanship, quality-oriented approach, and sustainable relationships with customers and partners. From a strong market position, the company develops and commercializes high-quality interior products through an extensive network of specialized retail partners.
The organization combines a deeply rooted entrepreneurial culture with values such as accessibility, respect, commitment, and entrepreneurship. Today, the organization is on the eve of a new growth phase, where further professionalization, commercial expansion, and sustainable value creation are central. To shape this next phase, the organization is looking for an entrepreneurial Managing Director.
This role combines the strategic responsibility of a Managing Director with the entrepreneurial, market-oriented involvement of a business builder.
What you will do.
- Take ultimate responsibility for the further development and growth of the organization.
- Provide direction for the next phase of professionalization, commercial expansion, and sustainable value creation.
- Determine and realize the strategic objectives of the company, successfully connecting vision, people, and resources.
- Translate opportunities into concrete initiatives and create support for further growth.
- Strengthen the organization's market position and build sustainable relationships with customers, dealers, and other stakeholders.
- Actively invest in further developing the existing dealer network and simultaneously seek new commercial opportunities, markets, forms of cooperation, and ways to grow the organization.
- Be a visible and engaged ambassador of the company, actively maintaining contacts with customers and partners, representing the organization at relevant trade fairs and networking events.
- Play an active role in further developing strategic relationships and key accounts.
- Play an active role in further developing the product range, contributing ideas about future collections, material choices, and market developments in close collaboration with external partners, designers, and suppliers.
- Lead the daily operations of the organization and continue to build a culture of commitment, ownership, and collaboration.
- Invest in people development, safeguard knowledge within the organization, and create the necessary structure and scalability to enable future growth.
- Be a strategic sparring partner for the shareholders regarding investments, innovation, business development, and future growth trajectories.
- Identify opportunities, create synergies, and help build the organization of tomorrow.
- Effortlessly switch between strategy and execution and derive energy from achieving ambitious goals.
What they ask
- An entrepreneurial leader who feels at home in an environment where strategy and execution go hand in hand.
- Broad management experience and knows how to grow an organization without losing touch with daily reality.
- Strong commercial affinity with a healthy business perspective and understands how sustainable growth is achieved by connecting people, customers, and opportunities.
- Comfortable in a context where you do not steer from the sidelines but are visibly present within the organization and remain actively involved in the business.
- Experience gained within a production, retail, interior, trade, or other entrepreneurial environment.
- Combines strategic thinking with the pragmatism to actually get things done.
- Knows how to provide direction, set priorities, and involve people in change, without losing sight of the human approach.
- Natural curiosity for new opportunities. Enjoys thinking about commercial growth, new markets, collaborations, and future developments.
- Senses where opportunities lie and knows how to translate them into concrete actions and results.
- Pronounced affinity with interior, design, materials, and product development.
- Sufficient sense of aesthetics, quality, and market trends to be a valuable sparring partner in the development of new collections and concepts.
- Understands the importance of starting from the needs of customers, dealers, and end-users and knows how to translate commercial insights into a strong and distinctive offering.
- Combines entrepreneurship with accessibility. Easily builds trust, communicates openly and clearly, and succeeds in uniting people around a common goal.
- Attracted to an environment where ownership, commitment, and initiative are central and where you can truly make an impact on the further development of the organization.
- More than a specific sector background, the organization is looking for a leader who can connect people, achieve commercial growth, and derives energy from further developing an ambitious organization.
Practical
- You will join an established Belgian company with a strong brand, a rich history, and clear growth ambitions.
- You will be given the space, autonomy, and responsibility to help guide the next growth phase of the organization, in close collaboration with an entrepreneurial shareholder group.
- For candidates who derive energy from building, entrepreneurship, and achieving tangible impact, this role offers an exceptional opportunity.
- For this position, the organization is open to collaboration on an employed or self-employed basis.
- You can expect an attractive remuneration package, tailored to your experience, expertise, and responsibilities, with the possibility to grow as the organization realizes its ambitions.
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