Duties and Responsibilities:

• Turnover and profitability responsibility
• Developing and implementing market relevant strategies and activities
• Key face to customers, ensure that agreed sales targets, customer and logistics service levels are achieved or exceeded within agreed budget costs and framework of the business
• Ensuring development of local teams
• Ensuring that all internal & external directives & rules are followed
• Key contact point for central reporting
• Monitoring of competitor activities/market trends.
• Oversee supply chain parameters (stock, costs…)
• Develop brand penetration

Major Challenges:

• Complexity of the role driven by matrix interaction
• Budget constraints
• Support level from share services.
• Wide spread of tasks from strategic to very operational Delays in service delivery by GS causes a ripple effect on sales development
• Talent development competence for the team
• Strong local cultural specificities

Personal Characteristics:

• Team Player
• Communicative
• Well Structured
• Dynamic
• Integrity & Honesty
• Skills builder
• Brand builder
• Conflict resolution
• Keen attention for detail
• Good listening skills
• Adaptation to Change

Qualifications

Education

• Post Graduate Degree in business management or equivalent

Experience

• Business / P&L management
• Sales & marketing
• Project management
• Large (> 15) team management
• Complexes environment with need of strategy and structure shaping
• Multinational working experience

Skills

• Strong leadership qualities
• Financial & strategic planning skills
• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills
• Negotiation
• Strategical and analytic
• Good interpersonal skills
• Strong work ethic