General Manager Product Company

General Manager Product Company

Are you ready to shape the future of industrial innovation and lead a world-class manufacturing hub in the dynamic Division of Portable Air? We are looking for a visionary General Manager to drive operational excellence, empower teams, and accelerate sustainable growth. This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact by steering strategic transformation and delivering high-value solutions across our powerful and growing portfolio.

Mission

As General Manager of the Product Company in Antwerp, your mission is to lead with purpose and impact. You will be responsible for shaping and executing a forward-looking strategy that ensures operational excellence, customer-centric innovation, and sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive strategic transformation by aligning local operations with global business goals, ensuring agility, competitiveness, and long-term value creation.
• Lead the manufacturing unit with a strong focus on operational excellence, quality, safety, and sustainable results.
• Empower and develop diverse talent, cultivating a high-performance culture rooted in trust, inclusion, and leadership by example.
• Develop and execute the local strategy aligned with the Division’s vision and Portable Air global objectives.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, leveraging digitalization, lean methodologies, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance productivity, quality, and responsiveness.
• Strengthen customer proximity by ensuring fast, localized, and value-driven solutions that meet evolving market demands.
• Manage cross-functional teams with a focus on competence development, engagement, and diversity.
• Champion sustainability and resilience, embedding Environment, Social and Governance principles into operations, supply chain, and product development to future-proof the business.
• Act as a strategic connector, building synergies across Product Company, Customer Centers, and Divisional teams to maximize impact and shared success.

To succeed, you will need

Experience:

• Proven experience in managing industrial operations.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of developing high-performing teams.
• Strategic mindset with strong execution capabilities.

Knowledge and Education:

• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies (Lean, Kaizen, 5S, etc.).
• Fluency in Dutch and English.
• University degree in Engineering, or related fields; MBA or Master’s degree is a plus.

Personality Requirements: 

• A passion for technology, relentless drive for results.
• People centric leadership and team player with the ability to effectively collaborate.
• You value high standards, always finding better ways and not compromising on quality. 
• You are customer-focused, and you embrace entrepreneurial thinking on all the way from identifying the customer needs to bringing the added value.
• You are resilient & agile and you find opportunities in an ever-changing environment.
• You are open-minded & collaborative to accept new ideas, can learn from mistakes, willing to work in team.
• You are result-oriented, with “can do” attitude ready to go beyond the job description scope to find the best solution. 

Why join us?

• Multicultural and collaborative environment
• Strong focus on talent development and continuous learning
• Opportunity to directly impact the strategy and results of a global business unit
• A culture rooted in strong values: Passion, Innovation, Sustainability, and Freedom with Accountability

Job location

City: Antwerp - Belgium