Job: General Manager - North America
Location: Peak Scientific USA, Billerica, Massachusetts with 20/30% travel
Remuneration package: Competitive salary + comprehensive benefits
Country: USA
Job type: Full Time
Peak Scientific is actively reshaping the global laboratory gas generator market through innovative product design and world class service. 90% of our products are sold overseas. With offices around the world and major opportunities for future growth, these are exciting times for this market leader in gas generators. Our products offer superb technical performance and are smoother, quieter and more efficient than anything else in the market today.
As General Manager – North America reporting to our Sales Director & Chief Commercial Officer - Service (CCO), your remit will be to oversee and facilitate the growth of our North American business unit. Substantively this will involve business development but will also include strategic management of all business functions. You will make a significant contribution to business growth in an environment which is fast-paced, lively and perpetually challenging. In addition to engaging with the board of directors in strategy planning whilst developing a high-performing management team, other key accountabilities include:
- maintaining strong relationships with and increasing sales across all channels
- P&L responsibility
- Structure development through personnel and regional offices
- developing new routes to market
- building strong internal relations with key personnel globally to ensure a collaborative approach.
Educated to Degree level with extensive commercial acumen and business development-driven, you have an exceptional leadership track record, underpinned by experience of managing and driving a large team (50+). With overseas experience and having delivered significant business growth, you’re highly commercially driven, with knowledge of marketing strategies, and always achieve targets and profit margins. Resilient and effective in the face of pressure, you also have:
- extensive experience of operating and negotiating at senior level
- strong communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- the drive and passion to achieve success for you and your team.
Peak Inc. is the rapidly expanding North American arm of Peak Scientific, with its main US office located in Billerica, Massachusetts, and plans for significant further growth over the next few years. You would be joining a North American team of around 50 staff, including dedicated sales and field service engineer teams covering the whole of mainland US and key territories in Canada. Peak Scientific is a global leader in gas generation for analytical laboratories, operating worldwide with sales in over 120 countries and offices in every continent. It is a challenging, dynamic and energised environment, with unlimited opportunities for personal and professional growth. If you are open-minded, driven and quick to learn we want to speak to you.
We recruit individuals who fit our culture and values. The atmosphere is fun, friendly but with a high degree of professionalism and a non- corporate feel. We respect our colleagues, customers and suppliers and we offer freedom to act, to challenge the status quo but to also take responsibility. If you have what it takes to be part of Peak, please click APPLY!