Fast Facts
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Expertise: Business development, energy industry knowledge, marketing, partnership management, cross-cultural communication -
Location: Salzburg, Austria -
Level: Professional -
Languages: Fluent in English and Spanish; Portuguese is a plus
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Your Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted sparring partner to senior leadership, providing consulting, coaching, and end‑to‑end HR lifecycle support.
- Drive change and organizational development initiatives, including org design, workshops, and transformation projects.
- Lead and support talent management processes such as succession planning, career development, and capability-building measures.
- Oversee HR controlling activities, including FTE planning, KPI‑based performance steering, and collaboration with Finance.
- Contribute to or lead global HR projects (e.g., engagement surveys, job grading) and ensure effective cooperation with the works council.
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Your Responsibilities
- Develop segment strategies in close collaboration with Sales, Service, Product Groups, and R&D, ensuring a deepunderstanding of customer and dealer needs
- Drive market entry of innovative product, generating market needs, identifying test customers, and creating strong market pull
- Build deep industrial segment knowledge —particularly within global megatrend and renewable sectors and develop tailoredoffering packages for products and services
- Train and enable the sales organization on segment-specific requirements to ensure successful go‑to‑market execution
- Track and steer must‑win initiatives defined by the management team, ensuring clear performance visibility and progress
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leadership & Collaboration: Setting priorities, allocating resources, ensuring goal achievement, driving cross‑functional collaboration across global development teams and product lines
- Standards Development: Creating, aligning, and maintaining global product‑specific and cross‑product‑line standards, including continuous improvement of internal approval processes (PNORMEN)
- Process Excellence: Establishing and optimizing a robust, efficient standardisation process that ensures high quality, clarity, and consistency of standards
- Norm Program: Managing all technical and organizational Product Line Loader Cranes requirements of the M‑Files norms program, ensuring system optimization, data quality, and supporting users through trainings
- Global Impact: Enabling uniform, efficient standards, improving development efficiency through reuse, strengthening lifecycle-wide collaboration and building a future‑proof standardisation framework
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Your responsibilities:
- Responsible for the coordination of the hydraulic engineering discipline group for R&D projects on davits in the marine industry.
- Technical support of hydraulic discipline engineers, optimizing technical department processes, considering customer requirements, and international standards and regulations.
- Set up standards for main hydraulic system design and support their development, ensuring compliance with system requirements derived from relevant standards and regulations, such as functional safety.
- Support the development of cost efficient and modularized subsystems, in cooperation with the responsible partners.
- Cooperate with the hydraulic discipline engineers to ensure assigned projects meet customer and company’s objectives.
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the harmonization of procurement- and material-related data across different ERP systems (SAP, Infor LN, Microsoft Axapta)
- Assist in identifying consolidation and volume-bundling opportunities across Marine & Wind Cranes, Marine Handling Solutions, and Boats & Davits
- Prepare and analyze spending patterns to enable material and supply chain optimization
- Support cost‑saving and design‑to‑cost projects by analyzing BOM (Bill of Materials) and preparing cost overviews. You will closely collaborate with the lead buyers and other project team members
- Support in creating project documentation such as presentations, templates, dashboards, and reporting materials
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Your responsibilities
- Conduct global service assignments and on-site commissioning of marine equipment
- Lead factory acceptance tests and train service technicians
- Provide first-level technical support to end customers and service partners
- Analyze and resolve technical issues, preparing repair and solution proposals
- Collaborate on technical reports and implementation of improvement measures
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as the main contact for retrofit and modification requests from customers, dealers and service partners
- Translate customer needs into clear technical solutions in close cooperation with design teams
- Develop and prepare retrofit and modification offers, including service kits
- Manage projects from initial inquiry through successful completion
- Build in-depth knowledge of PALFINGER marine and wind cranes to create effective solutions
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and govern global end-to-end business processes
- Act as decision authority for process standards and deviations
- Drive business impact, with success measured through defined performance KPIs
- Ensure systems and data consistently enforce desired process outcome
- Lead cross-functional change across regions without line authority
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the Procurement Process Organization with project management tasks
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee after-sales projects from initiation through to successful handover
- Serve as primary point of contact for technical and contractual topics
- Ensure compliance with agreements and manage related documentation
- Support NCR processes and coordinate with service branches for project execution
- Maintain and update project data using internal tools (e.g., PALdesk)
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and manage projects, ensuring timely delivery of agreed objectives and results
- Drive continuous development and rollout of standardized process templates across the group
- Oversee release management, including implementation of RFCs, testing, and hypercare
- Coordinate technical implementations with internal and external partners (e.g., SAP S/4 HANA)
- Organize and ensure 3rd level support, including SLA management for 2nd level services
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaboration in the Corporate Marketing & Communications department – within the External Corporate Communication team, with a focus on Public Relations
- Assisting in the creation of press releases and content planning (research, writing, and production) as well as presentations for the Executive Board and Management Team
- Editorial tasks such as research, text creation, editing, and translation of texts
- Supporting the organization of internal and external events
- Contributing to the daily operations of the Corporate Communications department
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the international CPQ rollout across product lines, regions, and distributors, including supporting distributors in integrating the system into their processes and deploying it to their sales partners
- Ensure CPQ features are available throughout the entire sales structure
- Plan and conduct training sessions, workshops, and webinars for internal and external users
- Maintain ongoing communication with users to gather and relay feedback, while closely collaborating with the Product Owner and regional sales organizations to drive continuous tool improvement
- Develop rollout plans, coordinate schedules and resources, and monitor progress to provide timely updates to management
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Your Responsibilities:
- Provide disciplinary leadership and development for a team of technical experts, fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture.
- Oversee the implementation and global rollout of a company-wide PLM solution, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder requirements.
- Coordinate the integration of PLM, working closely with the Process and Data Organization (PDO).
- Lead process optimization initiatives across departments, ensuring efficient and scalable solutions.
- Manage external service providers, including contract governance, performance monitoring, and budget control.
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Perform quality control and product certification of supplier components, ensuring full compliance with technical and quality requirements, and support supplier audits and development activities in close cooperation with Global Supplier Quality Management
- Define, monitor, and report supplier quality KPIs, actively driving corrective and preventive actions to ensure sustainable continuous improvement
- Build and maintain strong, collaborative supplier relationships, leading joint improvement initiatives, including root cause analysis and structured problem-solving methodologies
- Contribute to the optimization and harmonization of quality management standards and processes across the organization
- Actively participate in optimization and transformation projects to support business growth, efficiency, and operational excellence
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the preparation, analysis, and improvement of regular financial reports including monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc reporting
- Participate in budgeting and forecasting processes by providing analytical insights and data support
- Contribute to IT-Controlling and efficiency projects by helping develop standards and optimize cost allocation systems
- Assist in managing intragroup service relationships and in further developing internal cost allocation models
- Process, clean, and analyze large data sets to ensure accuracy and provide meaningful financial insights
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- Consult and support business processes with focus on SAP EWM, SAP MM (Purchasing), and SAP TM
- Design, document, implement/customize, and optimize logistics processes in alignment with the Process & Data Organization
- Participate in and contribute to specification workshops for new business requirements
- Coordinate and collaborate with external implementation partners, acting as an interface between PALFINGER and external teams
- Independently manage tasks such as leading work packages or (part) project leadership, including preparation and reporting of workshops and project meetings, as well as handling incidents in assigned modules
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Your responsibilites
- Manage and deliver SAP S/4HANA implementation and rollout projects using SAP Activate and leading ERP project management practices
- Achieve results on time, within budget, and at the highest quality standards with clear project milestones
- Lead and coordinate interdisciplinary, cross-functional, and international project teams, including external technology integration partners
- Identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks, manage change requests, and maintain strong stakeholder communication
- Prepare and present management reports, PMO status updates, and steering committee materials for executive decision-making
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and consult EMEA markets to drive After Sales growth and profitability
- Strengthen and support distributor networks across the region
- Increase market penetration of service products through strategic initiatives
- Drive retail performance via targeted actions and continuous monitoring
- Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and external partners
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage ERP rollout projects and sub-projects, including work packages and change implementations
- Organize, prepare, and follow up on project meetings and workshops
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and external partners for project execution
- Oversee ERP support coordination, handling 2nd and 3rd level support for INFOR LN Financials
- Ensure timely resolution of support requests from EMEA and APAC regions
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Implement, develop, and optimize master data management systems with a focus on data governance and process standardization
- Define and maintain data standards and policies to ensure consistency and alignment across all business areas
- Monitor and improve data quality through routine audits, cleansing activities, and compliance checks
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance data-driven processes and support system integrations (ERP/CRM)
- Maintain comprehensive documentation, training, and user support to promote best practices in data management
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and develop the IE/ME team and ensure high‑quality IE master data (BOE, BOP, M‑BOM)
- Plan and optimize production capabilities and capacities as well as investments in manufacturing equipment, tools and infrastructure
- Conduct time studies, cost analyses, and productivity reviews and support implementation of new technologies and engineering changes
- Deploy the PALFINGER Production System (PPS) and strengthen Lean culture across the plant
- Establish Shop Floor Management and drive continuous improvement projects ans develop and maintain the Overall Plant Concept (OPC) and optimize value streams and Monitor KPIs and track improvements via the Plant Saving Tracker (PST)
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop training strategy, concept (approach, methodology, tools, training process) for implementing network of business processes in the functional organizations in course of the SAP S/4HANA transformation program
- Define enablement and change management principles and strategy
- Define training tools and systems and their setup for the proper planning and execution of the trainings
- Coordinate the development, sequencing and execution of the trainings in close collaboration with ICT and the Process and Data Organization
- Build network and facilitate collaboration among stakeholders of training and enablement within the project and in the local organizations (Train the Trainer)
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own and continuously develop the global internal communication strategy in alignment with Corporate Communications, brand, and Reach Higher 2030+; define tone of voice, governance, standards, and processes
- Steer global editorial and topic planning, ensure clear narratives, messaging consistency, and language guidelines; simplify communication by focusing on strategic relevance and impactful storytelling
- Own and coordinate the global internal communication ecosystem, including the intranet and collaboration platforms, ensuring a well‑orchestrated push‑and‑pull communication model across global, regional, and local levels
- Lead internal communication for major initiatives, change, and crisis situations; empower leaders as communicators through clear guidance, tools, and formats in close collaboration with Corporate Communications and HR
- Act as a strategic partner to Management, HR, and regional hubs; lead and develop the global internal communication team, fostering a culture of performance, accountability, and innovation
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and evolve global Sales/O2C process standards, including governance rules and KPI set, to drive continuous improvement and alignment across regions
- Identify and coordinate process experts worldwide, execute advanced training programs, and ensure knowledge transfer across regions
- Build up a solid foundation for Process Performance Monitoring to enable process integrity and compliance by monitoring process performance via KPIs/PPIs, analyzing deviations, and initiating corrective improvement measures
- Manage global rollout tasks in course of roll-out projects, ensuring consistent implementation and expected business impact across entitie
- Define system-related process requirements for O2C processes (SAP SD) validate changes (incl. testing coordination) and conduct rollout changes within the global change-control framework (RFC process)
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Analyze financial and operational performance of business areas – with a focus on ICT and Process & Data Management – to identify improvement opportunities
- Act as a strategic partner to functional managers, supporting business development, decision-making, and performance monitoring
- Lead efficiency and process improvement projects, develop standards, and design optimized cost allocation systems that add measurable value
- Develop, implement, and harmonize controlling standards to ensure consistency across the group
- Coordinate key financial processes such as budgeting, target setting, and monthly closing, while driving performance improvement initiatives in collaboration with Service and After Sales teams
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- You govern the global Service process landscape, ensuring quality, consistency, lifecycle management and documentation approvals
- You own the global Service change request backlog, coordinating cross‑process input, supporting prioritization and conducting structured impact evaluations (business value, profitability, Clean Core, scalability)
- You design and maintain cross‑system roles and authorization concepts, ensuring SoD compliance and alignment with global governance standards
- You support the implementation of global process templates and operational changes, coordinate incidents and govern justified exceptions while minimizing process customization
- You coordinate Service reporting requirements, ensure end‑to‑end process KPI definitions, and act as a governance and quality gate between business stakeholders, process experts and the data & analytics organization, driving effective communication and end‑user enablement
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and maintain security standards, architectures, and baselines for on-premise Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Purview and Azure environments, including privileged access and Zero Trust principles as well as Email and Communications Security
- Guide, steer, and supervise third-party service providers responsible for implementing and operating security configurations, ensuring alignment with internal policies and best practices
- Govern identity and access management, including privileged access management, conditional access, and continuous improvement of Zero Trust capabilities
- Support and coordinate security monitoring and incident investigations using Microsoft audit and logging tools, SIEM platforms, and endpoint detection solutions
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to design secure network and cloud architectures, including firewall and secure access solutions, and ensure regulatory and policy compliance
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Take ownership of the operational performance and scalability of PALFINGER’s global network of onsite training centers, ensuring excellence in execution, quality, and efficiency with tangible business impact
- Act as the operational counterpart to the Global Training Strategy & Digital Enablement function, ensuring disciplined execution of the global training strategy across training centers and regions within the globally defined standards and governance
- Inspire, lead and develop the EMEA training organization across Sales/Service/Technical and Installation Training — building a culture of performance, accountability, and continuous growth
- Provide functional leadership to training centers in APCA, LATAM, NAM and MARINE in strong cooperation with Global Training Strategy & Digital Enablement driving consistent execution, performance management and best-practice transfer at scale
- Shape the future of PALFINGER’s training network by driving business cases, capacity growth, and operational excellence initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement, safety, and quality through standardized processes, facilities, and equipment management across all global centers
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