Are you able to lead an organization with an inspiring vision and ensure a benchmark level performance in a global company? Are you an inspiring person willing to lead and coach leaders to enable their teams to make things happen in a fast-paced environment? Do you have the business acumen needed to work with different stakeholders and authorities in order to grow your team? At our Development Center in Pavia, you will have the opportunity to manage a highly capable team of engineers that take part in making Infineon the global leader in power semiconductors. As Head of the Development Center (DC) in Pavia, you will be part of the Management team at Infineon Italy (IFI). Moreover, you will be responsible for ensuring that operations and performance run smoothly in coordination with all internal and external stakeholders. In your new role you will: - Define, maintain and implement a vision and development strategy for the DC in alignment with the IFI Management team and Infineon HQ. This includes driving organizational development, defining roles and responsibilities and development plans for key employees; - Represent Pavia and Infineon with local authorities in coordination with IFI Managing Director, contributing to the IFI Management team living leadership principles, culture and supporting corporate processes; - Be responsible for business continuity and managing facilities ensuring a scalable, optimized and flexible space management as well as infrastructure availability in coordination with other functions; - Ensure compliance of the DC with applicable laws and regulations, corporate and local, with special reference to Health & Safety topics; - Be responsible for budget planning and controlling, ensuring cost efficiency at a competitive regional level, plan and provide for site CAPEX, supervise procurement activities and maintain relations with key partners; - Support R&D excellence by achieving KPIs, customer satisfaction, complexity reduction, effectiveness, best practice sharing, project management excellence, risk management; - Manage employee satisfaction, mentor and support leaders to achieve ambitious performance targets and establish a team with know-how and potential for the business units (BUs) strategy and future development; - Maintain relations with research institutes and universities in order to access state-of-the-art competences and talent, explore and manage local funding opportunities in alignment with Corporate, BUs and other departments. You know how to make use of your team’s potential and motivate them to achieve top results and performance while enabling a culture of open and honest dialogue. You demonstrate strong communication skills and know how to establish lasting relationships and networks. Furthermore, you put internal and external customers at the heart of your thoughts and actions. You actively look for the ideal solution and contribute to putting decisions to work as soon as they are taken. You are best equipped for this job if you have: - At least 10 years of experience in people management, with a solid previous experience as site manager and/or managing a mid-size organization; - At least 15 years of experience in a B2B electronics environment, preferably in the semiconductors industry; - A Master degree in Engineering, preferably Electronics, or Management ; - Experience in quality improvement cycle, audit certification and project management semiconductor product development is a plus; - Knowledge of local applicable rules, mainly in labor and Health & Safety laws, and overall culture and environment ; - Fluency in Italian and English German knowledge is a plus.