Gothenburg, SE Gdansk, PL Kristiansand, NO Kaarina, FI Hamburg, DE Helsinki, FI
Vice President, Service Projects
MacGregor is a global company that operates in 30 countries with 2000 employees. We provide sustainable cargo and load handling with a strong portfolio of products, services, and solutions to the maritime and offshore industries. Our solutions are found in over half of the world's merchant fleet.
We believe MacGregor is a great place to work and we are looking for innovators with an international mindset to join our team and help us create lifetime value for our customers.
MacGregor – Let's shape the future together
Are you adaptable to evolving challenges? Do you thrive in guiding your team toward shared success in growing the business? Looking no further, MacGregor Global services Division (GSD) is looking to hire a Vice President, Service Projects with strong business experience.
The purpose of this role is to achieve global growth in service projects through sales leadership and efficient project execution, while managing P&L and KPIs, and coordinating with key stakeholders.
As a Vice President, Service Projects, your day-to-day responsibilities will be implementing the GSD strategy for profitable project growth, planning and executing global project growth, ensuring project organization performance and people management, and identifying and capitalizing on potential to increase project revenue and margins. In addition, you will drive the evaluation, change, and continuous development within your area.
More tasks and responsibilities
- Establish, maintain and improve good customer relations globally
- Communicate actively with regional leaders and sales teams, as well as with the full GSD leadership team
- Develop skills and competences of the project organisation
- Keep up the teamwork within the business by continuous dialogue, and sharing information
- Contribute actively to the GSD management team discussions
This role is part of Service Division Management team and reports directly to the Senior Vice President, Global Service Division. The position can be based in any of the major GSD locations in Europe: Gdansk, Goteborg, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaarina or Kristiansand.
What you'll need to succeed
Knowledge of global project management, understanding of the customers’ business, our industry, economic trends, and competition are essential for this position. We are looking for a senior executive with experience in successfully growing business in a global matrix, who demonstrates extensive, broad-based business knowledge and who has a growth mindset, and ability to see possibilities. As a person, you are a global leader, customer-focused, results-oriented and you have proven leadership skills in change management and cooperation.
Ideally you have
- Master's or Bachelor's degree, or comparable professional qualification
- Minimum 10 years of experience in marine industry with increasing responsibilities, preferably in Projects
- Minimum 5 years of management and leadership experience
- Ability to think strategically
- Ability to lead performance with improvement mindset
- Commands respect and credibility, stemming from both experience and personality
- Role model in MacGregor core behaviours
- Positive can-do attitude
- Willingness to travel globally
- Fluent in English language - both verbal and written
Why MacGregor?
Our people are behind every success. People create the technology and product lifecycle solutions that make us great, our people are the ones who innovate, and people drive our business forward. With us you will be part of an international collaborative working culture with challenges and opportunities to further develop yourself professionally. We enable sustainable global maritime operations by maximizing efficiency in cargo and load handling.
Values guide our work
- Integrity steers all our thinking, behaviour and the relationships with our customers and other stakeholders
- Quality is valued in our processes, products and services and helps to improve our customers’ performance and our own competences
- Safety is essential in everything we do
MacGregor is an equal opportunity employer. We recognise that diversity is key to our continued success, and strive to maintain a fair and equitable recruitment process for all applicants.
Additional information
Do you have questions regarding the role? Please contact Seppo Heino, Senior Vice President, Global Service Division: seppo.heino@macgregor.com.
Unfortunately we do not consider CVs sent per email.
We will reviewing applications on a rolling basis. Therefore, if you are ready to step into an exciting new role where you can make a significant impact and contribute to the success of MacGregor, apply today!
Application deadline: 15.06.2025.