If you want something with full conviction, then it is a clear ABSOLUTELY YES! And no compromises. No stalling. No standing still. Especially not when it comes to becoming a leader. This is exactly where our Future Leadership Program comes in: Festo Fast Track offers highly qualified academics with clear leadership aspirations the leap into management. In just 18 months. Without compromise. In the fast lane: ABSOLUTELY YES! Welcome to the Festo Fast Track.
It starts at Festo Fast Track: your leadership journey in the fast lane. Because the door at Festo has never been so wide open. Your personal mentor at executive level will accompany you on this journey. And ensure that after 18 months you are perfectly prepared for your subsequent position in a leadership role. Our Management Board members will assume the patronage of the program so that, after 18 months, you can take the lead without compromise. And this is your journey:
Get to know your team
You start the first two weeks directly in your department and get to know the people, tasks and processes behind it.
Operations weeks
The next two weeks will be spent in production: Here you will learn about our products and processes and expand your network in the operational area.
Deep dive and projects
In the following nine months, you will dive deeply into your specialist area: with your own valuable tasks and projects. And the good feeling of making a real impact.
Stay abroad
Your leadership journey will now continue internationally: You will spend three months in a foreign location. Because the Festo network knows no boundaries when it comes to leadership.
Change of perspective
You will spend the last five months in a cross functional area, developing a valuable network and logical interfaces for your future area of responsibility.
Leadership position
After 18 months in the Leadership Program, you will start your follow-up position in a leadership role. ABSOLUTELY YES!
"We are looking for people with clear leadership ambitions for our leadership program. Concentrated female power is also welcome because we believe that a working world run equally by women and men is an even better one.
But what counts most for us is the inner attitude: your clear ABSOLUTELY YES! I want to lead. With a focus on performance – but without cutting corners. With heart and soul, so that the next generation of leaders can carry on our special corporate culture."
Dr. Sebastian Beck
Member of the Management Board Finance and Human Resources
"I have already had many ABSOLUTELY YES! moments since I took over the project management for our leadership program. It was, for example, a very special moment for me when our Management Board assumed the patronage for the program. That showed me that we really mean it. This is not just another leadership program – it is a real game changer. For me. For Festo. And for all the people who will become Festo's next generation of leaders with this program. ABSOLUTELY YES! I am looking forward to everything that is yet to come."
Ulrike Brand
Program Lead Festo Fast Track
Click Apply now and send us your online application.
If your application for Festo Fast Track has aroused our curiosity, convince us of your motivation, professional qualifications and personality in an initial interview with the HR department.
In an online test, you can show us that you are a perfect fit for our leadership program.
In another interview you also win over the colleagues from the department for yourself.
You pass our Leadership Skill Check with flying colors, confirming that you and our leadership program are a perfect match.
Your first Festo Fast Track ABSOLUTELY YES! moment: you sign our contract offer.