General Manager BeLux

Powerdot started with the vision that charging your car should be as easy as charging your smartphone. And so for that to happen, chargers need to be available where people naturally spend their days.

Our mission? ⚡ is as simple as ambitious - Accelerate Sustainable Mobility by investing in, installing, and operating EV chargers with a cutting-edge business model. We help businesses find the right charging solutions for their customers. Today, we are leading the charge in the EV revolution with over 8,000 charging points across multiple countries.

Who are we? 🤝 Firstly, we are Partner Obsessed creating bespoke solutions to better serve our partners’ customers. 💡 Secondly, we love the challenge of making EV charging simpler, readily available, and integrated with diverse retail and service experiences. 📈 Finally, we are all about growing, expanding our network, our partners’ businesses, and the professional development of our team, all while driving the EV ecosystem forward.

Who are you? We are looking for a General Manager to lead our expansion in Belgium and Luxembourg (BeLux). They will drive growth, optimise operations, and ensure high service delivery standards in the BeLux region.

Responsibilities:

1. Business Development

• Define strategy and market positioning to secure 150 locations within the next two years.
• Develop sales decks and pitches to drive growth.
• Directly manage a team of 2 business developers.

2. Account Management

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with location owners to ensure station upgrades, contract extensions, and the launch of cross-marketing initiatives.
• Recruit a dedicated account manager for the BeLux region, contingent on meeting business development targets.

3. Deployment

• Oversee and manage a Deployment Operations Coordinator to streamline and optimize the deployment process, ensuring targeted roll-out speed.
• Establish and nurture relationships with local Grid Managers.
• Select and manage reliable, high-quality service providers for installation and engineering.
• Maintain and enforce high standards of quality for all station installations.

4. Utilization

• Work with the Global Performance Team to maximize station traffic through partnerships with local EMSPs (user-facing charge-point aggregators) and fleets.
• Ensure stations operate at peak performance, maximizing uptime and enhancing the user experience.

We believe you’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• Experience in a business or operations role in a hypergrowth scale-up
• Experience directly managing a team 
• Tri-lingual : English, French and Dutch
• Strategic mindset with ability to define value proposition, go-to-market strategy, sales funnel, sales messaging
• Delivers compelling sales pitches, both written and orally
• Obsessed with operational streamlining, optimization and automation
• Data-driven decision-maker
• Self-starter, owner of his topics and goes the extra mile to deliver 
• Problem-solver and result-oriented
• Highly adaptable and versatile, and able to equally master diverse topics and build in-depth expertise across all
• Curious and willing to get into the technical details of a business driven by hardware and infrastructure
• Team-player, constructive and collaborative, with the ability to influence even when not in a management position
• Able to commit and deliver, even when in disagreement
• Leadership with humility

 Please note that this position is based in Brussels 

Get to know our benefits!

• Private health insurance 
• Gym pass membership
• Flexible time (you own your time)
• Annual offsite - this year it was in Tróia, don’t miss the next one!
• Recurrent team buildings in our local teams

Last but not least, at Powerdot we strongly believe that the best solutions and the most innovative ideas come from the coexistence of people with different backgrounds that reflect the diverse world we live in. We seek for a culture of diversity and inclusion - a culture where equal opportunities and mutual respect prevail and where everyone has the opportunity to speak up, challenge the status quo and make the difference.