Professionals at STS Group

So, what brought you to STS?

• I joined STS because it was a new company in Miedzyrzecz.
• I knew that if I got a job here, I would be able to develop together with it and gain new experience.

What does a typical day look like? What is your greatest everyday challenge?

• My duties include, among others, conducting internal audits, creating instructions as well as other tasks from superiors
• My day at work is always different.

Do you see the impact of your work in everyday life?

• Of course, I believe that my work has an impact on everyday life.
• An example of this is that I can improve the production process by increasing production efficiency.

What makes you feel proud of your work?

• By appreciating my ideas and putting them into production processes, I feel proud of my work and therefore motivate me to continue.

So, what brought you to STS?

I joined STS in 2015 as Trainee in the Sales department. It was the opportunity to face in the Automotive Field, where Turin’s Area has a deep Culture. It is now five years and I think that STS has the right dimension for a young professional growth. It is a multinational reality with defined procedures, but in the meantime allows you to interact directly with all the people and departments.

What does a typical day look like?

One of the most interesting aspects of my job is the variety, of course dedicated to the commercial aspects as quotation to be submitted and for that reason every day has its own process. Some days are as you have planned and some others are shaped on the ‘last minutes’ priorities given from our main stakeholders.

What is your greatest everyday challenge?

Everyday some ‘opportunities’ occurred. The possibility to deal with and to solve them it is for me the best daily challenge I am facing. This is related to pure commercial aspects (forecast issue, pricing and margin matter) as well as relationship with customers and colleagues.

Do you see the impact of your work in everyday life?

Everyone of us is a gear of the STS engine. I started as Key Account Managers Support and in this period I had the possibility to get in contact with all STS departments following 360° all the processes. These relationships and know-how are helping me in everyday life as Key Account Manager. The support of STS team is giving an added value in reaching my professional and personal goals: Business acquisition and Customer satisfaction.

What makes you feel proud of your work?

We are starting from a drawing that at the end will become finished part. To get it in my hands, to be aware about the time dedicated to its realization, the difficulties faced with the customer, and at the end customer satisfaction as well as STS target achieved, these are representing for me very important aspects for which I am really proud.

The acoustics aspects are everyday more fundamental and the studies, tests and the simulations that our Technicians perform in Santhià laboratories are key-phases to reach better driver comfort.   

So, what brought you to STS?

STS is a renowned global supplier, and to be part of this team added up a possibility to growing up with the company, using my skills, and experience, made me decided to face the challenge to be the new STS Head of Finance in Brazil.

What does a typical day look like?

As a Head of Finance, I have some daily routines as follow up banks, payments, control the expenses, the improvement the controls and support the company in everything else that can impact the business development.

What is your greatest everyday challenge?

My greatest challenge everyday can be resumed in three main lines:

• Deliver customer facing quality and efficient financial services;
• Provide reliable and accurate results with “No Surprises“;
• Drive business improvement processes.

Do you see the impact of your work in everyday life?

Yes, I can see the reflex of my work day after day, in the process, in the business, in the team, everything that we perform generate impact, I can say that I feel happy with what I can see currently, but I believe that I still have too much to perform to the business development in the STS.

What makes you feel proud of your work?

Proud to feel that I am an important part of something very special, that I call STS team.

So, what brought you to STS?

STS opened a position for a thermoplastic engineer in China. STS China is one of the leaders for the exterior SMC parts. With the new market regulation for the emission reduction BU China have been developed several hybrid projects which combined SMC and thermoplastic to offer lightweight solution to their customer. The mission is to support STS China for the development of the thermoplastic’s projects, and to be kind of technical interface between Europe and China. It is an amazing opportunity for young engineer. Professionally point of view, China is one of the most powerful country in the world and is developing very fast by pushing the innovations and new technologies. As automotive supplier we must follow this mindset and propose innovative solution on time. Personally, it is the chance to discover a new country and a completely different culture. China has a very rich heritage, and people are always happy to talk about it. After 9 months in STS China I can just say that I am looking forward for the next months.

What does a typical day look like?

The good thing is there is no typical day! Every day is different. With my position I can work on very different topics, process, design or even innovation topics.

What is your greatest everyday challenge?

To fulfill our customer expectations and their challenges. One of my projects was to develop a new design solution for top deflector. After several discussion with customer and different design proposal we found a solution which is feasible in term of process and respect the customer requirements. As a foreigner, it is also important for me to understand, what Chinese customers are expecting and to learn how to work with them. For this challenge the engineering team members teach me and support me every day.

Do you see the impact of your work in everyday life?

I am learning everyday something new. About the culture, the working methods, the new technologies …