VP - Services and Solutions

This job will provide you with an opportunity to further your career alongside some of the best and most passionate technology experts from around the world in a leading company within the test, measurement and data analytics industry. You will be a strong contributor collaborating closely with colleagues from various business functions.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it’s how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

The position

We are currently looking for a Vice President Services and Solutions for our Physical Test Business Unit at HBK.

Our new Vice President will be responsible for strategy and execution for both the service business (services, calibration and repair) as well as the solution business (customized customer projects). The VP will have P&L responsibility and will ensure growth by defining and delivering attractive value propositions, expanding revenues in close cooperation with the sales teams and serving customers with the right cost, time and service performance.

This position is well suited for ambitious candidates that have experience in managing engineering/software teams, have a strong business sense and have managed teams in times of change. If you are looking for a challenge and master the art of understanding and managing in a complex environment, then this position might be for you.

Primary responsibilities
You will be working with/responsible for:

• Development of Physical Test Services and Solutions strategy, including value propositions, growth initiatives and execution plans
• Enhancement of the sales strategy and execution for the Physical Test Service and Solutions business in close colloboration with the commercial and marketing teams
• Delivery of the services (service, calibration and repair) and solution pojects to required cost, time and service performance, managed directly or indirectly with operations and product teams.
• Management of the P&L for the services and solutions business, carefully considering cost and growth trade offs.
• Driving functional excellence by identifying internal and external best practice, acting as a thought leader for the services and solutions function
• Building an engaged team that continues to raise the bar, while proactively supporting and complying with the Group’s policy on Code of Business Ethics and Health & Safety.

Professional qualifications

• Bachelor or Master's degree, preferably in STEM Sciences combined with MBA.
• Practiced leader with 10 to 15 years’ experience, leading diverse and global teams in complex organizations, preferred in areas of product management, operations or R&D in Manufacturing or Engineering companies
• Managed teams in matrix organizations, accustomed to performance management and talent development.
• Work from anywhere and available to travel globally to visit colleagues and customers, up to 20% of your time

Personal skills

• Lead by example, can develop and implement strategies that succeed from within clearly marked ethic and compliance boundaries.
• Culturally agile and can effectively lead and build bridges with cross functional teams that are geographically dispersed

• Can balance thought leadership with practical execution with a customer centric mindset and a passion to provide value to our customers
• Open minced, able to drive change, and influence and inspire in/outside of hierarchy
• Deliver on your commitments, every time

We offer
Freedom with responsibility is the framework for HBK’s employees. This allows for a good balance between work and family life and for constant development of professional and personal skills in an international and enjoyable working environment.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it’s how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

One company – HBK
On 1 January 2019, Brüel & Kjær and HBM merged their activities into a new company called HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær). With more than 3,500 employees worldwide and production facilities in Denmark, Germany, the UK, the USA, China and Portugal and presence in 80 countries, HBK is a leading player in the test and measurement area. For further info please visit www.hbkworld.com.

HBK is a division of Spectris plc, a UK-based productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company serving leading aerospace, automotive, medical, and other customers. Spectris plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Location: Virum, DK

Additional location:

• Maia, PT
• Darmstadt, DE
• Royston, GB