Technical Director

Job Family: Software

Req : 492528

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Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely collaborating with partners and customers, we care about the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With our Digital Enterprise portfolio, we provide and encourage companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Meaningful optimization for the specific needs of each industry, our outstanding portfolio supports customers to achieve greater efficiency and flexibility.

We are constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate groundbreaking future technologies. We have our global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and have around 75,000 employees internationally.

This role combines the critical functions of leading the EMEA Application Engineer team, providing technical information to the VP Siemens EDA EMEA, and representing our technical leadership within the European Leadership Team (ELT).

In doing so, the candidate must demonstrate strong technical and people capabilities, a broad knowledge of all EDA industry segments and competitors coupled with excellent communications skills and a proven ability to deliver results and on time.

The position can be further detailed as follows:

• Leading the European Field Application Engineers

• Manage a large and diverse, highly experienced, pan-EMEA team

• Engender a sense of urgency and lead the drive towards the technical uncovering of new opportunities

• Apply strong business orientation to focus the team on strategic and financial priorities

• Demonstrate analytical capabilities to predict, plan, and prepare for change

• Work across Siemens EMEA and world-wide technical leadership teams to plan most effective use of available resources

• Confidently represent Siemens EMEA technical team at European and Corporate management meetings

• Champion key issues and requirements and influence action through divisional management

• Represented in world-wide technical activities (Core teams, visiting AE, business planning etc)

• Provide timely industry and competitive updates to Mentors field adding commentary and insight where possible

• Help ensure EMEA successes are shared to motivate and educate the field

• Align with all Technical Teams across Siemens EDA (EMEA technical Teams, TSS Teams, PLM Teams)

• Align with all Portfolio Units (EDA Divisions) to ensure the technical requirements for EMEA are well represented and understood.

• Providing support to the VP Europe Sales

• Provide quarterly analysis and summary of the product level business, key technical, market, competitive and team issues at the ELT meeting

• Support VP in creating a high-quality MGR presentation and attend the events to provide technical backup and commentary. Provide executive summary of all worldwide presentations to ELT quickly after the event.

• Ensure the VP is aware of all critical and developing key issues and elevate them as needed to the appropriate divisional manager to closure

• Develop a broad and deep library of data and contacts from which to provide support for ad-hoc requests such a presentations, market, or competitive information

• Play a lead role in helping develop of the EMEA business plan and take specific ownership for the technical, market and competitive sections of the EMEA business plan

• Overall, be the go-to person for the VP for any issues relating to Siemens EDA products, customer applications, EDA market and competition, technical team, and technical event support

• Deep understanding of the market and business environment to influence strategic decisions at the Portfolio Unit level.

• Able to provide and communicate a vision on strategic technical market trends

• Periodically review organization structure to align competencies with business needs.

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Application Engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Maintain optimal team staffing to support…