Head of Production & Business Development 80-100%

arwole - for a life with perspectives

Production with impact - economically successful and socially meaningful.

The arwole Stiftung in Sargans offers people with support needs diverse living, working, and development opportunities. In our work area, we combine professional services and market-oriented products with meaningful and development-promoting jobs.

For the leadership and further development of our work area, we are looking for an entrepreneurially minded and socially committed personality as

Head of Production & Business Development 80-100%

Your field of activity

You will lead and further develop the entire production work area including industry, mailing, ateliers, JA\UND?, bicycle workshop, and garden group. In doing so, you will consistently combine economic and entrepreneurial thinking with our social and agogic mission.

Your tasks:

• Technical, personnel, agogic, and economic leadership of the work area as well as leadership and support of the group leaders
• Responsibility for utilization, profitability, budget, calculation, and relevant key figures in close cooperation with the Head of Finance
• Active maintenance and further development of existing customer relationships as well as acquisition of new customers and orders
• Identifying and opening up new business areas, cooperations, and sales channels that combine economic potential with suitable work and development opportunities for people with support needs
• Further development of existing as well as development of new products and services, taking into account economic, market-related, and agogic requirements
• Further development of JA\UND as a proprietary product and sales area
• Assessment of new orders according to economic, qualitative, and agogic criteria
• Ensuring diverse and development-promoting work opportunities for people with different abilities and support needs
• Further development of the work area in the sense of the UN-CRPD and in close cooperation with the Agogics specialist department
• Active participation in the strategic and operational further development of the Stiftung as a member of the management team

You have a technical, industrial, or comparable education with business administration further training and several years of leadership experience. Equally important is a pronounced understanding of the social and agogic mission and the ability to combine this with entrepreneurial thinking.

In addition, ideally you bring:

• Experience in acquisition, sales, and business development
• pronounced entrepreneurial thinking and business administration understanding
• Experience in the development of products or services
• good network in industry and trade in the region
• high customer and market orientation
• understanding and enthusiasm for working with people with support needs
• experience or further training in the social or agogic environment is an advantage

What is decisive for us is your ability to connect people, the market, and profitability and to create sustainable work and development opportunities from it.

What awaits you

A versatile leadership task with great creative freedom and the opportunity to further develop an important area of the arwole Stiftung entrepreneurially and professionally.

You will work with committed employees and leaders and take on a function in which economic success and social impact belong directly together.

Have we aroused your interest? We look forward to your application via email to: personelles@arwole.ch

For questions, we are happy to assist you, Tel. No. 081 650 55 00.

Stiftung arwole

Alexandra Baumann

Head of Personnel

Grossfeldstrasse 9

7320 Sargans

www.arwole.ch