General Manager Specialty Rental North America

Our solutions are a key part of most industries - electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more. Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations.

Join us on our journey for a better tomorrow.

The Specialty Rental Divisions’ worldview is to enable our customers, our people and our societies to flourish in an increasingly complex world. Our vision is to remain the world's most trusted partner by solving complex industrial challenges with specialized agile solutions.  Those are designed and implemented by passionate people who continually strive for new best ways. We are looking for someone to build on this success and take ASR in North America to the next level.

What can you expect?

As General Manager you will drive sustainable profitable growth in the rental organization that includes USA, Canada and Mexico with around 300 employees and a turnover in excess of 200M Euro.

In this position you will drive business growth, both organic and inorganic - customer experience development - operational efficiency - fleet size and investment - people resources, development & culture – profitability – digital transformation  - reporting to the President of the Specialty Rental Division

The mission

Your mission is to continuously deliver specialized agile solutions. In so doing, you contribute to securing the present and future success of our customers, enabling smarter use of natural resources, while improving both safety and quality of life.

Specifically, you will accelerate the growth of our specialized temporary projects in air and steam and expand our offer to cover process cooling and specialty power. In support of this growth, it is expected that you will make strategic acquisition, develop a strong operational infrastructure and build a carefully selected rental fleet.

The strategy:

There are three key elements to our strategy, remaining highly specialized, developing the business through both continuous improvements and quantum leaps and continuously nurturing our strong culture.

Business strategy:

Explore – investigate and experiment with new ideas, business concepts and technologies, making us useful and relevant to an increasing number of segments and customers.

Expand – improve conversion within the explored market to increase opportunities and close deals.  Focus on both continuous improvement and quantum leaps.

Excite – relentlessly evolve customer experience. Increasing and improving our interactions (digital, virtual or physical) with the many different roles we work with inside a customer.

Organizational strategy

Empower - inspire and align your employees, giving them the freedom to act, in order to accelerate change.

Energize – excite your teams and use each person’s full potential with the ambition to boost effectiveness.

Engage - drive a growth mindset and a desire to improve, so that innovation occurs everywhere.

What we expect of you?

Experience requirements

The successful candidate should have solid sales & marketing experience and preferably experience in rental operations.

University degree - technically or commercially oriented - or similar through experience.

You have awareness of local cultures and international business environments.

The candidate shall have a good command of English, good knowledge of the Way and should have excellent financial skills.

Personality requirements

Competency is more than ever a combination of knowledge, experience and attitude.

Key behaviours of our candidate are:

• Strong entrepreneurial and leadership skills, sound commercial awareness and drive for success.

• An achiever who comes with solutions to make things happen and who can transform the mission into strategy, the strategy into action and delivers the promise

• A team player and people manager who engages and empowers the team to take action nurtures a culture of curiosity and creates trustworthy and fair relations with all stakeholders

• A resilient leader who can cope with change in an ever faster-moving digital landscape and who can spread this attitude of self-sufficiency 

• An innovative “new best ways" person with a positive, flexible and responsive mindset who embraces and promotes the digital transformation

• You are a challenger: open-minded with a global mindset, curious to understand and learn new perspectives

Country and city description

Houston, Texas,

Atlas Copco Specialty Rental

Great ideas reinforce sustainable development. That’s why at Atlas Copco Specialty Rental we promote agility by focusing on responsive actions, being able to adapt to any situation and doing so in a smart way. Our passionate experts do this together with our customers through providing them air, power, flow, steam and nitrogen solutions according to their needs. By teaming up with our customers we are making agility count.

We are a division of the Power Technique business area, headquartered in Boom, Belgium and offer specialty rental solutions under several brands around the globe.

https://www.atlascopco.com/rental

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