Managing Director

Job Description : MD KENYA ( EXPATS ONLY) Managing Director for a large complex company listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The role will be based near to Nairobi. The Managing Director is responsible for the overall business performance and reports directly to the Board. You are responsible to develop strategies to ensure that the Company remains competitive and a viable investment for the long term. You are responsible to resource, develop and implement strategies through your senior management team to ensure the respective business objectives are achieved. You are responsible for ensuring that the Company operates as leading examples of best business practices that focus on triple bottom line reporting. At times you will be expected to represent the organization at key National or International events especially in developing effective relationships with strategic business alliances. As the Managing Director you are ultimately responsible for leading the senior executives. The Managing Director is responsible for every aspect of the business. Through the effective interaction with their management team you will ensure that these operations run as a highly commercial business. Key focus areas include: • Developing further and implementing a cohesive, commercial and sustainable business strategy. • Formulating, the business strategy that delivers long-term sustainable and profitable growth and ensures that the Company remains a responsible corporate citizen. • Close consultation with the Company’s marketing department and international agents to ensure supply chain. • Being the ultimate arbiter for all decisions affecting the operations and staff. • Managing and where necessary developing formal frameworks for effective operations. • Drawing up and managing budgets that articulate the business strategy as well as monitoring performance against these budgets to ensure tight budgetary control. Key Responsibilities People Strategies • By possessing the requisite managerial skills and experience you will manage and be responsible for a large management team as well as fostering a co-operative, coaching environment that provides clarity of purpose, process, roles and responsibilities, against which individuals are held accountable. • Manage and where required develop a formal system of personal development for managerial and supervisory staff. • Ensuring the development of local talent through appropriate recruitment and capacity building programs. • Creating and fostering an inclusive and cooperative environment in which managers lead by allowing others to fulfill their potential and which encourages innovation, open mindedness and a willingness to continually learn. • Maintaining a conducive relationship between the Company and its employees. Commercial Focus • To maintain a strong commercial focus on existing products and to develop new opportunities for the business. • Overseeing the continual development and improvement of operations to maximizing production and maintaining the strictest possible control on costs of production and product quality. • Integrating market and customer feedback into all business areas. Operations Management • To oversee the multiple operations to ensure their effectiveness to meet the business and budgetary targets. • Working through the management teams to ensure managers are fully empowered to fulfil their objectives in terms of resources. Experience & Background Needed • A proven top management track record, preferably within an emerging listed environment. • Plus 15 years relevant experience with specific reference to financial management and control, budgeting, report writing and management of people. • Demonstrate experience in devising and implementing cohesive business strategies in a large operationally complex business. • Sound management skills; able to effectively marshal the abilities of a senior team behind a cohesive business plan. • Past experience in leading and facilitating change and change management interventions. • You will have a keen ‘political radar’ and an understanding of community and politics. Other Vital Qualities • Sound business planning ability, combining depth of operational knowledge with an ability to see the ‘bigger picture’, taking a wider business view. • Organised and structured work style with a clear sense of priorities. Rigorous time management, balancing between tactical and strategic needs. • Persuasive and credible. Able to present and convince effectively at operational and Board levels. • Effective change agent, articulating the need for change and energizing a team behind it. • Effective team builder. Able to harness the skills of a diverse senior team behind an agreed strategy. Build consensus on common operational frameworks, ensure smooth cooperation between different businesses. Adaptive and flexible management style. • Management development ability. Taking a proactive role in the professional development of the management team. Fosters local talent and plans retention and succession issues. • Culturally aware and sensitive. Astute to internal and external politics. Full expatriate package.

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