Many companies give token lip service to terms like team, team leader, team member, and succeed or fail as a team.
The executive leadership at Steelcase epitomizes a team ethos in their actions and character -not- just their words.
Steelcase has retained Executive Advantage Group, Inc. to help them find their next mission critical team member.
If you are an experienced leader possessing the potential to deliver substantive impact against business objectives, the executive search consultants at Executive Advantage Group can help. We invite you to join our networking database.
After two substantial decreases in global consumption in the past decade, the office furniture industry has experienced steady growth over the past four years. Growth levels are forecast to rise further, with a 3.3% and a 6.8% change projected for 2014 and 2015 respectively. The Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association, BIFMA, posts even greater expectations. According to a [Mar 16, 2014] report, BIFMA projects the office furniture industry to grow by more than 10% in 2015. After a 2.8% estimated growth rate in US shipments for 2014, a $1B increase (from $9.6 to $10.6) is forecast for next year.While traditional drivers of demand have been strengthening, new forces of change have also helped spur growth. At this year’s Raymond James Investor Conference in Orlando, FL, Steelcase Inc. CFO Dave Sylvester noted that future industry fortunes will be driven by the changing dynamics of the modern workplace. Greater emphasis on teamwork and collaboration, mobile technology that allows people to work from anywhere, and a need for corporate employers to optimize real estate have led to new investments in the office furniture realm.
Of the major players in the global office furniture industry, Steelcase remains both the largest in the US, as well as outside of its home country. Its growth is fueled from different sources of revenue, and its scale allows the business to bring insights and resources to local markets beyond anything local competitors can offer. These factors place Steelcase as the best positioned in the industry to capture sales and market share growth, while also having meaningful diversity and fitness to withstand changes in the economy. Steelcase is the global leader in furnishing the work experience in office environments. They strive to unlock human promise by creating great experiences, wherever work happens. Their solutions amplify the performance of people, teams, and enterprises by creating places designed to augment human interaction – which creates value for an organization.
Have you ever experienced the good fortune of belonging to a great team? Exciting as it is, the experience is not common. For most high performance individuals, the relationships with other high performers are what thrills them.
Do you want to be part of a team that lives a common set of team and leadership values?
The ideal Chief Engineer - Global Product Engineering Team candidate is currently in a Global Engineering/Technical Executive role, responsible for managing the engineering/technical (technology) resources of a +200M PD&L, with a track record of above-industry average revenue and margin growth. Candidates possess 18+ years of Engineering leadership, with 10+ years of Engineering/Technical Executive leadership - translating to significant experience building, managing, and leading global Engineering teams. Extensive global work experience is desired. With a thorough understanding of the technological, product development, manufacturing, and market launch aspects of a highly creative, complex-solutions oriented business, this individual has a record of motivating and inspiring teams to achieve quarterly and annual PD&L objectives and business goals. Ideal candidates are detail-oriented and able to apply data driven decision-making. The desired candidate leverages user centric research to identify “insights” into customer needs – synthesize through design and systems thinking to provide elegant and meaningful solutions. While able to lead by example blending technical expertise with business, financial and technology acumen to develop big-picture vision over a multi-year time span, candidates should also be adept at recognizing and leveraging outside expertise. Ideal candidates are self-confident, disciplined, and adept at strategic, functional and tactical, level creative problem solving.
Ron E. Bates
Managing Principal
Executive Advantage Group, Inc.
Best and Quickest Contact Method is via email:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 408-384-9714
If you know of anyone that fits the Position Profile for our Client's Chief Engineer - Global Product Engineering Team role, please feel free to forward our contact information.
Send us your resume and we'll see how your unique career value proposition lines up against current retained search assignments. Are you like everybody else, or are you - the best of the best? Does your resume reflect this? Do you want a resume that's going to increase your exposure to great opportunities?
There is different future in front of you depending on how you answer those questions.
Ron E. Bates
Managing Principal
Executive Advantage Group, Inc.
Best and Quickest Contact Method is via email:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 408-384-9714
Please feel free to share the Steelcase
Chief Engineer role
with others...
