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Our client is a European tech group operating across mobility and renewable energy, with several complementary businesses spanning digital media, training, e-commerce, and software.The role focuses on their EV charging platform, a scale-up offering a leading consumer app, a roaming charging solution used across Europe, and a growing B2B SaaS platform for corporate fleets.As part of their international expansion, they are now appointing a Country Manager to build and lead the BeLux market.
Jobomschrijving
As Country Manager, your main responsibilities will be to :
Shape & own the BeLux market strategy
- Define the market vision and priorities for Belgium & Luxembourg, adapting the global framework to local realities.
- Build a deep understanding of drivers, barriers, competitors, and user/company behaviors to inform strategic decisions.
- Identify high-impact growth levers across B2C and B2B.
Accelerate B2C adoption & engagement
- Boost usage of the mobile app and charging access solution through creative, locally relevant activation.
- Work with Marketing on targeted campaigns and growth experiments; ensure seamless onboarding with Customer Success.
- Influence product developments by sharing market insights and feature needs with Product & Tech.
Drive B2B development & support fleet electrification
- Analyze fleet maturity and corporate charging needs to position the B2B SaaS offer effectively.
- Partner with Marketing & Sales to build a solid lead generation engine and qualify opportunities.
- Secure customer satisfaction and long-term usage through close collaboration with Customer Success and B2B Ops.
Turn strategy into execution & measurable results
- Own the BeLux KPIs and P&L: monitor performance, detect weak signals, and propose data-backed improvements.
- Deploy clear action plans and ensure cross-functional alignment for efficient execution.
- Be the operational link between market needs and central teams (Sales, Product, Tech, Marketing, CS).
Build and represent the brand in the local ecosystem
- Become the face of the company in the BeLux market: attend events, engage communities, and expand visibility.
- Develop partnerships with charging networks, installers, service providers, driver associations, and corporate stakeholders.
- Conduct initial discovery visits with prospects, validate opportunities, and coordinate handovers to internal Business Developers.
Prepare the ground for future local expansion
- Identify organizational needs as the market grows and contribute to planning a future local team (Sales, Marketing, etc.).
- Ensure continuous feedback loops to refine positioning, operations, and product-market fit.
The successful candidate will have the following qualities:
- Relevant experience in market development / new market launch / acceleration (ideally in SaaS, digital products, mobility, energy)
- Proven ability to adapt a global strategy to local dynamics and deliver measurable growth.
- Data-driven: confident with KPIs, dashboards, CRM, and translating field insights into action.
- Strong partnership-building mindset with companies, associations, and institutional stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial, hands-on, and autonomous, with excellent cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Deep understanding of BeLux cultural and business context; EV ecosystem knowledge is a plus.
- Fluent in Dutch and English.
Offering innovative hearing solutions to enable our customers to enjoy life to the fullest - that's our ambition. As number one on the Belgian market, we are constantly looking for talented and enthusiastic new colleagues. Working at Sonova Retail Belgium means working in a company which is part of the world's leading manufacturer of hearing solutions, the Sonova Group. In more than 90 countries, our hearing solutions improve people's lives. A career with us has therefore no limits!
Your responsibilities as Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Specialist:
As Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Specialist, you are a key partner for the business, hiring managers and HR. You ensure a smooth and professional recruitment process while proactively building talent pipelines and strengthening our employer brand within the audiological and retail market.
You will be responsible for:
- Managing the end-to-end recruitment process from intake to onboarding: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, candidate communication, selection support, offer follow-up and handover.
- Partnering with hiring managers and the HR Business Partner to analyze recruitment needs and translate them into clear profiles and hiring strategies.
- Developing and executing effective sourcing strategies via LinkedIn, job boards, social media, referrals, schools, universities and recruitment partners.
- Building and maintaining talent pipelines and a structured talent community, with a focus on audiological profiles, retail talent and hard-to-fill positions, through proactive sourcing, hunting and talent pooling.
- Nurturing relationships with potential candidates and engaging talent pools through targeted communication initiatives (e.g. newsletters and employer branding content).
- Ensuring a positive, consistent and professional candidate experience throughout the entire recruitment process.
- Coordinating audiology internships by aligning business needs, matching students with placements and ensuring follow-up with interns, supervisors and educational partners, including evaluations and feedback moments.
- Supporting and strengthening campus recruitment initiatives through partnerships with schools and universities, student engagement and participation in events.
- Coordinating student jobs by aligning with business needs and managing contacts with students and interim agencies, ensuring smooth planning, administration and onboarding.
- Developing and maintaining strong partnerships with schools, universities, training institutes and external recruitment partners.
- Planning and participating in recruitment events such as job fairs, campus events, presentations, speeddates and networking initiatives.
- Contributing to employer branding and recruitment marketing by creating and coordinating engaging content across different channels in collaboration with HR, Marketing and Communications.
- Monitoring recruitment performance and KPIs, analyzing results and continuously improving recruitment and sourcing strategies.
- Acting as a true Sonova/Lapperre ambassador towards candidates and external partners.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- A master's degree in HR, Communication, Marketing, Business or a related field, or equivalent through experience.
- Min. 5 years of experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, employer branding or recruitment marketing.
- Experience with end-to-end recruitment and proactive sourcing techniques.
- Affinity with campus recruitment, internships or collaboration with schools and universities is a strong asset.
- Fluency in Dutch, French and English.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple processes and stakeholders simultaneously.
- A proactive and hands-on mindset combined with creativity and strong communication skills.
- Experience with LinkedIn, social media and recruitment tools.
- A people-oriented, curious and positive attitude, with a strong team spirit and sense of ownership.
Internal Communications
- You create content for internal communications projects, using traditional and digital tools, that informs, educates and/or generates higher levels of engagement.
- You seek continuous feedback from the organization and align communications activities with the needs of our target audience.
- You work closely with colleagues in other functions, in ways that help the company achieve its aspirational goals, consistent with the company’s values that guide our behavior.
- You are responsible for the writing, editing and proofing of the internal newsletter, SharePoint intranet, TV-screens and assigned projects.
- You support the sales departments and marketing in their efforts to further expand their customer base.
- You assist in planning, preparing and coordinating internal events, ensuring not only good preparation, but also that everything runs smoothly during the event.
- You support the HR department in their employer branding activities.
- You own the media library and update it when needed with new promotion material.
- You own the stock of promotional items, gadgets, employer branding material.
External Communications
- You propose actions in line with the marketing & communications plan and budget, such as: content marketing, newsletters, video production, photography, keeping website /social media up to date with fresh story ideas.
- You write and coordinate press releases.
- You manage the backend of our company website and ensure content remains accurate and up to date.
- You monitor and analyse website performance using Google Analytics.
- You uplift our social media presence (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube), with a strong focus on LinkedIn.
- Organise and follow up conference and fairs attendance of AD people.
- Support in input of AU specific market data (build rates, model strategies, Lexikon etc.).
- Business related communication to our customers.
Brand governance
- You support brand-positioning efforts to enhance and protect our company brand.
- You contribute to the development of the most effective way to convey messages and product information in print and electronic media.
YOUR COMPETENCES
- You preferably have a bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, journalism or related field. Master’s degree is a plus. Or you are willing to follow the necessary training on it and have a strong interest.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a communications role or willing to follow the necessary training on it and strong interest.
- You are a creative all-around communications professional who likes to roll up his/her sleeves but can also think strategically.
- You have excellent writing and proofreading skills, capable of writing key messages.
- You are a real problem solver and can multitask without losing attention to detail.
- You have excellent project management skills.
- You understand social media and how to integrate it into a communications plan.
- You are familiar with Google Analytics and website maintenance or motivated to learn and grow in this area.
- You are a true team player who considers service to be highly important.
- You are proficient in using graphic platform CANVA, knowledge of Creative cloud is a plus.
- You actively explore and apply generative AI solutions to work more efficiently.