Production Engineering Manager

Nexxiot is digitalizing freight asset management with technology that now oversees the world’s most extensive network of connected intermodal containers and railcars.

Clients gain access to unparalleled real-time data, which streamlines fleet management and automates logistics processes. Nexxiot devices, built for resilience, withstand extreme conditions and provide long-term, detailed insights into cargo events, including impacts, delays, safety and security incidents, and loading activities.

Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Nexxiot’s influence extends globally. Our team, comprised of industry experts, operates from offices in Europe and North America and maintains a presence in a majority of depots, ports, and rail yards.

To learn more about how Nexxiot is leading the value generation for the rail industry, please visit www.nexxiot.com.

Job Description

Nexxiot’s growing business and corporate development team is pivotal in establishing our company as a global market leader in digitizing the supply chain. We provide our commercial teams with the required strategic insights and tools to capture global accounts while continuously professionalizing our organization and ensuring the necessary funds for continued growth are available.

Working hand in hand with the Head of Corporate Development and the management team, you identify market opportunities, assess competitive movement and continuously refine our strategy. You also work on our financing efforts and our dialogue with the board of directors, investors and shareholders. You are responsible for gathering and developing ‘use cases’ and business case perspectives for our clients, thus accelerating the sales cycle by covering strategic topics for our sales team when cracking new accounts.

Your main responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Support the Head of Corporate Development and the executive leadership team in developing Nexxiot’s corporate and individual market strategy.
• Promote Nexxiot’s growth strategy through identification, assessment and execution of potential mergers, acquisitions, investments and joint ventures.
• Support corporate development projects by creating analyses, assisting the execution of projects and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Develop financial planning tools and pitch presentations for the board of directors, shareholders and prospective investors.
• Provide timely, accurate and complete reports on the profitability and operating condition of the company, including recommendations for improvement to drive cost efficiencies or increase revenue.
• Conduct research to identify new market segments and customer needs and build a knowledge base.
• Make Nexxiot’s value proposition tangible to decision makers, showcase business value and enable account managers to close deals.
• Conduct business meetings with prospective clients with a focus on developing their specific business cases based on the Nexxiot solution.

Desired Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor and preferably a Master, ideally in business.
• You have at least 3+ years of work experience (preferably in Consulting or Banking).
• You are a natural self-starter with a flexible mindset, keen to take responsibility and pursuing your targets with passion, ambition and persistence.
• You are able to remain calm even under demanding situations.
• You are strong in conceptual and analytical thinking yet customer oriented and very emphatic, able to understand customers perspective in detail and derive tangible opportunities and business cases.
• You are confident in managing stakeholders of all levels and have an intuitive sense for ownership.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, German is a plus.
• Excellent skills in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience in a start-up and/ or other fast-growing and dynamic environment is a plus.
• Ability to analyse and review key figures and to identify relevant and valuable information.
• Willing to travel (approx. 10%).