CERTANIA

Chief Growth Officer

CERTANIA

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Revenue growth: Lead sales initiatives across CERTANIA Group portfolio companies, including lead generation and sales campaigns.
  • Develop sales structures and systems.
  • Improve pipeline visibility and data transparency.
  • Establish and manage professional sales controlling.
  • Develop and implement a systematic value-creation framework with levers in pricing, sales, cost management, digitization and operational excellence.
  • Work directly with portfolio company management teams to plan, implement and manage specific performance initiatives.
  • Support and lead turnaround and restructuring measures in close coordination with local entrepreneurs.
  • Co-responsible for measurable results – focus on execution rather than concepts.
  • Act as a sparring partner and coach for founders and technical CEOs on strategic, organizational and financial matters.
  • Manage post-merger integration (PMI) of new acquisitions across organization, governance, systems and culture.
  • Develop a scalable integration playbook for future acquisitions.
  • Ensure the rapid integration of new companies into the CERTANIA structure and the realization of planned synergies.
  • Identify and realize group-wide synergies (e.g., procurement, IT, shared services, talent, sales).
  • Support the CEO in building a scalable European organizational structure.
  • Design and prepare high-quality management and investor presentations (e.g., for advisory board, shareholders, banks and potential acquisitions).

Requirements

  • Degree in business, engineering or related fields; MBA preferred.
  • 7–12 years of experience at a leading strategy consultancy (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Roland Berger) or within a corporate group with responsibility for transformation, integration or operational performance.
  • Proven track record in turnaround, integration or transformation programs.
  • Combination of analytical strength, implementation discipline and leadership ability.
  • Experience working with and supporting founders and technically oriented entrepreneurial personalities.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills: conceptual strength, storylining and PowerPoint proficiency at consulting level.
  • Experience in the TIC sector or related industrial services is a plus.
  • Fluent in English; additional European languages are an advantage.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Flexible working hours
  • Professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
sales initiativeslead generationsales campaignssales controllingvalue-creation frameworkpricingcost managementpost-merger integrationintegration playbookoperational performance
Soft skills
leadership abilityanalytical strengthimplementation disciplinecoachingpresentation skillscommunication skillsconceptual strengthstorylining
Certifications
MBA