Managing Director
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Managing Director – Damen Marine Components
Damen Marine Components (DMC) is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Managing Director to lead its international organization based in the Netherlands (Hardinxveld-Giessendam), Germany, Poland, China and other key markets. As the driving force behind DMC's operations, commercial growth and strategic development, you will combine strong leadership with business acumen, technical credibility and a highly approachable leadership style.
The Opportunity
As Managing Director, you hold full responsibility for the company's performance, including profitability, growth, operational excellence and customer satisfaction. You will lead the next phase of DMC's development by strengthening execution, accelerating innovation and ensuring sustainable growth while maintaining DMC's entrepreneurial culture. Working closely with both local management teams and the Damen Maritime Ventures Division, you will successfully balance commercial ambition with corporate governance.
What Success Looks Like
· Being experienced as a visible, approachable and accessible leader who is in it for the long run.
· Delivering sustainable growth, profitability and strong cash flow.
· Strengthening operational performance across production, sales and service activities.
· Driving innovation and digital transformation.
· Building a high-performing, engaged and internationally connected organization.
· Developing trusted relationships with customers, stakeholders and the wider Damen Group.
· Ensuring DMC remains a leading and reliable partner within the marine components market.
The Ideal Candidate
You are an experienced business leader with a proven track record in managing complex international organizations. You combine strategic vision with hands-on execution and are equally comfortable discussing commercial opportunities, operational performance and technical challenges. You are decisive, pragmatic and able to create clarity, focus and momentum.
Key attributes include:
· Proven P&L responsibility and (>5-10 years) experience delivering business growth.
· Strong understanding of manufacturing, marine components or technology-driven businesses.
· Commercially savvy with a strategic mindset.
· Authentic people leader.
· Skilled stakeholder manager who builds trust and alignment.
· Readiness for a long term commitment.
· International leadership experience and cultural awareness.
· Ability to drive change while preserving engagement and accountability.
Leadership Style
The successful candidate inspires confidence through clarity, integrity and execution power. You value analytics and show to be courageous in decisions . You create an environment where collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement thrive, while maintaining a strong focus on customer value, operational excellence and long-term business success.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a respected international business and play a key role in shaping the future growth and success of DMC organization within the Damen Maritime Ventures division and broader Damen group.
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Core Responsibilities
The Managing Director holds full responsibility for the company's performance, including profitability, growth, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction. They will lead the next phase of development by strengthening execution, accelerating innovation, and ensuring sustainable growth while maintaining the company's entrepreneurial culture.
Requirements
The ideal candidate is an experienced business leader with over 5-10 years of proven P&L responsibility and a track record in managing complex international organizations. They must possess strong manufacturing or technology-driven business expertise, combined with strategic vision and authentic leadership skills.
About Damen
Industry: Shipbuilding
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible. Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world. In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation. We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity. We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.