Managing Director, Market, Local & Long-Distance Transport

The Company is seeking a Managing Director for Market, Local and Long-Distance Transport to lead its market-oriented direction, including strategic positioning, market share growth, product responsibility, and profit and loss performance. The role will advance a customer-focused passenger transport strategy, develop product and business model strategies, identify new business opportunities, and improve the digital customer journey, customer retention, and customer information. The Managing Director will oversee products against performance criteria, coordinate interfaces across the organization, and pursue public-sector contracts. The position also involves strengthening competitiveness and leading major organizational transformation. Candidates should bring substantial leadership experience in a comparable senior executive role, ideally in rail, and a record of success in revenue, market, and product development. Required expertise includes cost optimization, efficiency improvement, strategy and sales in both consumer and government contexts, customer service, and stakeholder management. Experience implementing reorganizations or major transformations is essential, along with knowledge of relevant market conditions and operational processes. Applicants must hold a university degree, be fluent in German and English, and demonstrate strong communication, social, and intercultural skills, as well as expertise in diversity and equality.