General Manager: Central & East Africa

Job Description,

This role is responsible for the safe, efficient and profitable provision of explosives products and blasting services to customers within Central Africa. It leads site operations, customer contracts and relationships and, through relevant SMEs, provision of technical services and solutions to meet customer requirements. The General Manager’s responsibilities include implementing strategic plans and objectives, stakeholder engagement, financial management control, strategic leadership and driving organizational success to create a long-term competitive advantage, in line with the vision and mission of the Omnia Group and BME.

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, Overview,

This role is responsible for the safe, efficient and profitable provision of explosives products and blasting services to customers within Central Africa. It leads site operations, customer contracts and relationships and, through relevant SMEs, provision of technical services and solutions to meet customer requirements. The General Manager’s responsibilities include implementing strategic plans and objectives, stakeholder engagement, financial management control, strategic leadership and driving organizational success to create a long-term competitive advantage, in line with the vision and mission of the Omnia Group and BME.

, Qualifications,

Tertiary qualification in Mining, Engineering, Operations management or equivalent
Post graduate qualification in business management
Frontline management and Leadership development program
MBA (Advantageous)

, Experience,

10+ years’ experience in operations management within a mining/production environment, leading small to medium work groups.
10+ years’ experience in developing and maintaining customer relationships, P&L management and commercial management
Proven experience with driving adoption of new technologies and partnerships (Advantage)
Proven experience to mobilize large scale technology and business integration programs (Advantage)

, Duties,

SHERQ
Operations Management
Sales, Customer and Commercial Management
Revenue generation, Profit & Loss Management, Balance Sheet optimisation
People and Culture (Please Refer to attached spec for details)
Governance and Compliance (Please Refer to attached spec for details)

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for detailed duties.

, Job Competencies,

Possess unquestioned reputation for integrity, ethics, personal values and solid character
Builds the trust of others both internally and externally
Demonstrate innate business intellect, achievement orientation and competitive spirit
Exude confidence, yet be without strong ego needs; is self-aware and open to feedback
Show courage to make decisions, yet is patient to make the right ones
Model resilience and flexibility; adapts well to new circumstances and adversity