General Manager France (m/f/d) - Paris, full-time

General Manager France (m/f/d) - Paris, full-time

Paris, France

The Zumtobel Group is an international lighting group and a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, lighting components and associated services. With its core brands, Zumtobel, Thorn and Tridonic, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio of products and services.

Your job

Are you passionate about lighting solutions, inspiring leadership, and pushing a customer-centric culture across an organization? Ready to take full ownership of a key market and lead a team to lasting success while representing a product you can truly believe in?

As General Manager France for ZG Lighting France, you will take full responsibility for one of our most important subsidiaries, overseeing a team of more than 150 employees. With a high degree of autonomy and a strong focus on results and performance, you will drive the development of the business, strengthen customer relationships, and foster a culture where sales excellence and passion for our premium lighting solutions go hand in hand.

Our aesthetic, sustainable, and innovative lighting solutions are more than just products – they transform spaces, create unforgettable atmospheres, and set new standards in design and technology. This is your opportunity to combine your career ambition with a product portfolio that inspires both customers and teams alike.

Your Responsibility:

• Customer-Focused Sales Leadership: Empower your team to build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships. Ensure the sales force is highly effective, results-oriented and focused on expanding our market presence through direct selling strategies.
• Autonomous Leadership: Operate with entrepreneurial thinking and take full ownership of the subsidiary’s strategic and operational direction. You make decisions, set priorities, and ensure long-term success.
• Motivate and Unite: Bring leadership teams and employees together, foster a high-performance culture, and create an environment where everyone contributes to shared success.
• Sustainable Business Growth: Identify market opportunities, develop innovative approaches, and ensure the subsidiary consistently achieves profitable growth.
• Align Marketing and Sales: Strategically and operationally integrate these areas, creating synergies that accelerate success and enhance our market impact.

Your profile

• Sales-Driven and Results-Oriented: You have a proven track record of leading high-performing sales teams, delivering measurable results, and achieving excellent outcomes. You excel in implementing direct selling approaches, prioritizing close customer interaction and tailored solutions over wholesale models.
• Fresh Perspectives Welcome: We are intentionally seeking candidates from outside the lighting industry. Your experience in other service-related companies will bring new ideas, customer-centric approaches, and innovative strategies to drive our business forward.
• Leadership with Ambition: You bring leadership experience, ideally with P&L responsibility, and are ready to take the next step into a highly autonomous, impactful role.
• Passion for Aesthetics and Sustainability: You are inspired by design, innovative technologies, and lighting solutions that transform spaces and drive sustainable change.
• Expert in Transformation and Growth: You have experience in companies undergoing growth or change and understand how to effectively build and enhance teams and structures.
• Local Expertise and Language Proficiency: You have worked in France, understand the local market dynamics, and are fluent in English and French, switching effortlessly between both in daily collaboration with teams, clients, and partners.

The Zumtobel Group: A company with many benefits

• Competitive fixed salary with a strong variable component based on sales performance and business growth.
• Fully equipped Company Car.
• Executive Training & Coaching: Tailored programs to enhance leadership, sales strategy, and business acumen.
• Comprehensive health insurance

Make a Difference – And Let Light Lead Your Career.

This is your chance to represent a product that inspires and take your sales career to the next level in a role that offers autonomy, responsibility, and the opportunity to shape the future of a key market.

Are you ready to learn more about this unique opportunity? Send us your resume or approach me directly if you have any questions. We look forward to getting to know you and building a successful future together.

Learn more about our corporate company culture in our enlightening video - where we live light and thrive together!