Head of Construction France

**The Senior Director Construction, is overall responsible for the coordination, execution and completion of projects in the region. This role is also responsible for coordinating construction, Region best practices, while guiding and motivating the team.**

**Specific Responsibilities**:
Following the creation of the above-mentioned foundation the Senior Director Construction will be responsible for task such as:

- Support the overall strategic orientation of Vestas, in the region
- Ensure safety performance and focus in both Vestas’ employees and subcontractors.
- Handle the performance of the project portfolio, by constantly monitoring the projects key performance indicators, to guarantee financials, time, quality and safety
- Cash collection according to payment schedules, developing the required meeting and negotiations with customers to ensure revenues and cash targets every quarter.
- Contract Management securing the right communication with customers and suppliers, handling claims properly, coordinating and assessing potential claims with Legal.
- Quality Management securing the right culture of quality, coordinating with other functions any quality improvement needed.
- Risk Management by continues assessment of the project portfolio, developing solutions together with all the internal and external stakeholders.
- People Management by defining the right organization, right people, right competences and resources to meet short, mid and long-term construction goals.
- Customer management participating in meeting with key customers, participating in marketing and technical events representing the region management team.
- Supplier management in coordination with Procurement team, ensuring that our suppliers have the right competences, safety & quality culture and ethics.
- Ensure that projects communication is adequately handled internally and externally.
- Guarantee the right reporting and forecasting of time progress and financial performance of each project with transparency, reliability and accuracy.

You will reports to the Senior Vice President Construction & Operations of the region, have12 Project managers and senior project managers direct reports and approx.. 120 employees indirect reports and other key stakeholders: Sales, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Legal and Finance to deal with

**Ideal Qualifications & Experience**:

- Experience with working in an international environment.
- Experience with supervising complex contracts, etc.
- Project management skills, including the ability to supervise multiple tasks simultaneously and supervise complex, cross-functional teams.
- High degree of professionalism and ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels
- Demonstrated ability to develop and encourage innovation management efforts to promote adoption of new processes, and industry best practices and solutions.
- Proficient English, both orally and in writing. Other languages are an absolute advantage.
- A relevant business or engineering education at Master Level is required.

**Leadership & Management Behavioural Competencies**
The Senior Director Construction is be expected to coordinate business initiatives that will motivate the organization/team to achieve stretched business goals and build innovative function by:

- Communicating a compelling and inspiring vision for the business to the organization that encourage leaders and staff equally.
- Identifying, assessing and, if needed, recruiting qualified specialists able to deliver on the company growth plans across the region.
- Building the organization’s capability to best practice across the region.
- Intellectual capacity, thinking creatively, ability to maintain an overview when needed, but also detail-oriente, methodical skills and the ability to complete tasks without sacrificing coherence
- Good coaching skills and a desire to participate in the development of people and good leadership skills and experience, high flexibility and willingness to adap, open, straightforward, and unpretentious style
- Independent, creative, and enthusiastic natural initiator with an interest in streamlining processes

**About Vestas**
Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore.
Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 145 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field.
With 29,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution - today, tomorrow, and far into the future.
Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social