Regional Managing Director DACH (gn) Personaldienstleistung - Schwerpunkt Österreich

We are looking for an experienced leader – a Regional Managing Director DACH (gn) Personaldienstleistung with a focus on Austria. For our customer, a well-established staffing group with a home base in the DACH region and over three decades of industry track record.

You lead today a country organization, a service line or a sales cluster in the staffing industry. You know the industry from within, have won customers, built teams, and generated growth. Now you are looking for the next career step – with full P&L responsibility over a whole region, direct owner proximity, and a compensation logic that rewards entrepreneurial thinking.

Our customer is a staffing group with over three decades of market anchoring in the DACH region. Besides the German market, Austria has a broad customer base in a very strong position with much perspective for new services beyond the temp business. Switzerland possesses as a market much potential and already has large customers as references. From this strength, the group is actively building its DACH position and developing itself strategically towards integrated HR services with expanded modern AI-supported offerings. The ownership structure is stable, leadership is clear and lean, and the ways are short.

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Your Task

You will take over overall responsibility for the DACH region with a primary focus on Austria. Your mandate is business development-oriented: defend and expand the existing market position in your home market, find new levers in the further DACH markets, and establish additional service lines throughout the region. You will report directly to the Group CEO, sit at the strategic table of the group, and shape with it where the company will develop over the next few years.

Your Key Tasks at a Glance

• Defend and expand the Austrian market position – win new customer segments, further develop the business beyond the classical blue-collar market (e.g. grey collar, specialized industries, higher value-added segments)
• Strategically reposition the further DACH markets and find commercial levers
• Built-up new AI-driven service lines (Permanent Recruiting, RPO, BPO) as additional growth motors and margin drivers for the entire region
• Take over and develop local leadership teams – with a clear focus on sales and business development power

Qualifikation

What You Bring

• Multiple years of line responsibility in the staffing industry – as Country Manager, Cluster Head, Sales Director, Head of Business Development or Business Unit Lead at an established mid-cap or global player in the DACH region
• First real P&L or budget responsibility – you have already led a business with relevant turnover volume and a team from multiple locations
• Real market experience in Austria – you know the AT industry players, customer logic, and commercial levers in the Austrian staffing market. Austrian citizenship is not required, but a deep understanding of AT is
• Track record in B2B sales and business development – growth generated, customers won, sales structures built up. You still sell yourself and love it, not just reporting on sales
• Experience in building new service lines and digital transformation of organizations
• German negotiation secure, English secure; further DACH-relevant language skills are welcome
• A entrepreneurial personality with drive – you win employees, customers, and owners alike for your cause

Benefits

We Offer

• Full P&L responsibility for a business that accounts for a substantial portion of the Group's turnover – with Austria as the power center
• Direct reporting line to the Group CEO and seat at the strategic table of the group leadership
• A clear career path towards expanded group responsibility – this role is explicitly designed as a springboard
• Hybrid work model – you choose your on-site location freely within the DACH region; regular travel activity in the region belongs to the role
• Entrepreneurial compensation: fixed + year-variable compensation based on country targets + mid-term incentive with real participation logic (multi-year)
• Estate-owner context with short decision-making paths instead of corporate bureaucracy

We Promise

A confidential, professionally conducted process. You will receive from us in advance a deep insight into the company, the mandate, and the owner constellation. Only after your explicit consent will documents be sent to our customer.

We look forward to the exchange. Please upload your CV/profile beforehand so that we can assess the fundamental match.

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