Group Director – Forankra Group, Axel Johnson International, Gothenburg

Forankra Group is part of Axel Johnson International, a global industrial group that acquires and develops companies in strategically selected niche markets. Primarily markets offering technical components and industrial process solutions. The group comprises 170 companies in 30 countries. As a family-owned company, Axel Johnson International has a fast-changing, value-driven, and entrepreneurial culture. Our core values are evident in everything we do and are an important guide for both companies and people: Being far-sighted - Making things happen - Being good to work with.

Today, the Group has six business areas in which Forankra is part of Transport Solutions

Forankra offers products and customized solutions in cargo securing, lifting and cargo optimization throughout the entire transport chain for all types of land, air and sea transport.

Forankra Group consists of five companies in Sweden, France, Spain and Poland and has a turnover of SEK 750 million with good profitability.

The role as Group Director

The group applies a decentralized management model and your mission will be to coordinate the strategic work regarding business development, acquisitions, digitalization, branding, sustainability and other strategic initiatives in an overall, yet close and active way. You lead the board work in each subsidiary and have full responsibility for the results. As a key role in the management of the business area Transport Solutions, you also contribute both strategically and tactically to the business area's two other divisions.

You report to Business Area Manager Erik Eklöv and are a member of the management team of the business area together with finance, M&A, Sustainability and Digitalization. Location is at the business area office in central Gothenburg. Extensive travel in Europe and Asia. Forankra's Swedish operations are located in Vårgårda and Gothenburg.

Your profile

• Experience in leading managers in an international business environment
• Substantial experience of creating international growth in relevant B2B industries e.g. transport, logistics, light industry, automotive OEM
• Experience from working in medium-sized entrepreneurial or family businesses is meritorious
• Experience of trading business is meritorious
• Relevant university degree in business administration, technology or equivalent
• Accustomed to having English as a working language
• Experience of running extensive corporate projects such as digitalization, organizational development, streamlining and continuous improvement

Your personality

• Good strategic ability, holistic approach – analysis, alternatives and consequences Ability to influence and work through other managers in different business cultures
• Communicative and high ability to adapt information to different situations and receivers
• Business- and growth-oriented
• A leadership style that works in a decentralized corporate culture

Please submit your application with CV and personal letter via www.maquire.se no later than the 6th of June. If you have any questions, please contact Per Synnes 0702-99 15 30 or Åse Torbjär Granath 0763-38 87 97. Feel free to call even outside regular office hours. Selection and interviews are ongoing so take the opportunity to apply as soon as possible.