• Establish Materials Testing Services in North America (NAM) with focus on the Automotive industry, and VOC testing by organic and acquisitive growth. • Responsibility for the strategic planning, business planning, budgeting and operational management of Automotive Materials Testing Services in the US. • Ensuring operation’s conformance with SGS quality standards, their optimized operational efficiency and adherence to the global Code of integrity and Operational Integrity guidelines. • Permanently observe NAM market for Automotive materials testing services, actively listen to customer needs and support regional deployment with a special emphasis on NAM expansion. • Support global Testing Services strategy by providing relevant market intelligence, technical support and trainings, especially on chemical (VOC testing) and physical testing. • Manage in close cooperation with the US C&P Manager the 17025 accreditation processes for the NAM materials testing operations. • Drive relationships with the management of North American OEMs regarding their test lab accreditation programs in order to grow the number of relevant OEM accreditations for the Materials testing laboratory network. • Report and keep track of planning and KPIs with focus on customer satisfaction and profitability. • Perform all duties in accordance with the SGS Code of Integrity.