Country Manager
Santa Clara, California, Us
• Manage business activity of Hitachi Israel as a P&L unit, leading the Middle East regional activity (Greece, Cyprus, Malta). • Create and lead the business strategy, manage work plans and meet profitability and turnover targets. • Integrate unique and innovative solutions, create partnerships, enter new sectors and lead the business development efforts; identify and follow up on growth engines. • Implement an effective business management culture to motivate and engage the professional team: engineering, technical support, finance, marketing and sales. • Change the organizational structure, map the company's manpower and expand the team in accordance with business needs and challenges. • Set up and expand a sales system – implement progressive work methods to further develop the activity. • Conduct risk analysis and lead technological innovative approach, to support the implementation of the IT strategy, in compliance with the relevant regulations. • Identify and analyze technological business needs and adapt the infrastructure architecture including various cloud platforms – to the financial digital and applicative arena as well as other sectors. • Starting position: Israel CEO, quickly promoted to Middle East regional manager (Greece, Cyprus, Malta). 70% growth in sales turnover and number of clients. Ranked 1st in Europe and among the highest worldwide in employees' satisfaction surveys (50% improvement comparing to previous survey).