In 2024, the Industrial Solutions & Projects Business Group will separate from the Nexans Group to become an independent company.
Our future company, which will become a reality at the end of 2024, boasts double-digit growth, prospects for expansion in sectors at the heart of the energy and industrial transition, with an international presence close to our customers.
We manufacture and design cables and complex solutions for our industrial customers. With a balanced presence between Western Europe and Asia, and recent investments in Poland and the United States, our human-scale company is a local player with a global reach.
Over the course of this year, we will be working together to define our identity, values and working methods in line with our culture, our size and our ambitions, while building on our century-old industrial culture, the solidity of our technical skills and our proximity to our customers. Speed, responsiveness, simplicity and pragmatism will be at the heart of our approach.
As part of our separation, we need to set up our own support teams for the central functions: Finance, Human Resources, Information Systems, Purchasing and Legal. More than 50 positions are being created to form new, autonomous teams.
Given the innovative nature of our approach, and our desire to completely redefine our support needs and imperatives, each of these new positions offers a unique opportunity to have a direct and visible impact on the future of our company.
Function : Operations
Location: Courbevoie, or based on an ISP site
N+1 : ISP BG VP Industrial Operations
Business Group Turnover around 700 M€
16 Plants (all fully managed by the BG): in FR GE IT DK PL MA KOR CN US
Role expectations :
In close collaboration with the BG Management, the Innovation & Sustainability Manager positions himself as a business partner to lead new projects and promote innovation and sustainability initiatives.
- Drive product innovation, services, and digital-related solutions and their industrialization in coordination with Plants and BUs management
- Manage and develop any dedicated teams, as well as teams from plants reporting directly or functionally
- Define the monitoring process and planning of the centralized tests / qualifications of the BUs and ensure their proper execution
- Ensure the realization of strategic R & D projects with a planning focus on "time to market"
- Ensure coordination for the industrialization and deployment of new processes
- Ensure the harmonization of materials, design and process used in the plants and optimize available resources
- Set up the process necessary for the quality, the industrialization and the transfer of technology between plants in coordination with BUs and BG
- Coordinate technical activities of the different sites and put in place the appropriate management routines
- Ensure that the process of transmitting know-how and protection of intellectual property is carried out in accordance with the interests of the company.
- Initiate and drive changes towards a result-driven culture where individual responsibility and cross-functional teamwork in project management and agile mode are encouraged
Areas of responsabilities :
- Sponsor and sustain long term R&D projects
- Facilitate sharing of experience and best practices between R&D managers
- Organize the bi-annual BG R&D Commitee
- Cost benchmark and harmonization of costing method
- Set up and monitor an R&D performance scorecard in order to improve efficiency, resource balance an improve TTM and Hit rate
- Work with Plants and Purchasing dept to search for new raw materials to improve competitiveness and sustainability
- Search for new technology to support the innovation through new production processes, AI, modelling and digitalisation
- Manage Intellectual Property (Patents and Compound recipes)
- Invest in Standardization Committees
- Look for R&D funding and collaboration with Institutions and Universities
- Manage CSRD Environment
- Coordinate PEP ecopassport for products
- Monitor GHG and animate improvement plans
- Manage EAC (Energy Attribute Certificates)
- Coordinate of REACH and Conflicts Mineral regulation
Required skills :
- Education background : BAC + 5, Engineer or PhD
- Cable industry background of 5 years
- Good interpersonal skills are essential to enable him / her to work effectively with different teams in order to optimize time to market.
- Strong strategic orientation in the technological fields
- Strong previous operational experience in terms of business and engineering (previous engineering experience in a global organization is a plus)
- Result-driven
- Ability to lead change and inspire by example
- Leadership – Team Management with ability to embark teams to work in cross functional teams
- Proven track record in Project Management and agile methodology experience.
- Fluent in English, German is a plus.
