Group Ceo South Africa

4 days ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa HR Legend Full time
Introduction

You can choose to reside in either South Africa or East Africa, as you will have several countries reporting to you. If you choose South Africa, you will need to travel extensively throughout Africa, especially during the first year.

Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, the Group CEO is responsible for overseeing all functions of our Client's warehousing and logistics in Africa. The Group CEO will supervise and manage the CEOs of each country's operations, ensuring compliance with applicable rules and regulations, ESG, health and safety requirements, prerequisite certifications, and customer-centric requirements. The Group CEO shall keep the boards of the Services Company and Holding Company appraised on the status of these functions, in addition to keeping them abreast of commercial developments in the cold chain business.

The individual will work closely with the Board in implementing the portfolio business plans for the various countries and the approved budgets and is responsible for cascading and providing strategic guidance and direction to the management teams and the organizations to ensure that the Company achieves its financial vision, mission, and long-term goals.

The GC will be responsible for dictating and overseeing commercial implementation of the various country business plans, working closely with the country CEOs to set milestones, optimal product offering and identification of clients and pricing structure. This includes taking responsibility for each country's organization structure, the company governance structure, company culture and resourcing.

The GC is responsible for the Group's P&L, Balance sheet, and Cash flows of the Cold Solution entities. More specifically, revenue generation through customer acquisition and retention, cost management, efficient use of company resources, and sustainability of cash flows.

The individual is expected to be a high achiever, experienced, dynamic, self-starting, and a decision-maker. They will assist each country CEO when communicating with government officials, in international dealings, and in any public relations activities.

The GC will be responsible for the overall brand of the organization by ensuring utmost integrity and lawfulness, ethics, and international best practices in day-to-day operations.

Duties & Responsibilities

As the GC, you will have responsibility for the list of duties below which make up the primary role. Please note the list is not exhaustive and that you might from time to time receive extra duties given to you by the Board of Directors.

Strategy and Financial Activities

  • Study the business plan and work with the board to develop long-term and short-term strategic plans to meet the overall objective of the business.
  • Drive the commercial developments and advise the board on arising opportunities, threats, and material external factors that would affect the strategy.
  • Work closely with the Country CEOs and Group CFO to develop financial plans, budgets, and forecasts in line with the business plans and the board-approved strategic plans.
  • Work closely with the Group CFO to manage, monitor, and report financial performance to the board including overseeing audit & annual report preparation and presentation.
  • Work closely with the Group CFO and the Board in managing all debt and debt-related activities.
  • Ensure that all business enterprises are fully integrated for reporting purposes, IT and financial.

Customers and Business Development

  • Work closely with the Business Development Managers and Country CEOs to grow the organization through the development of a customer pipeline across the Food and Pharmaceutical sectors.
  • Design and refine all the value-added services and value propositions to customers and brand the business as excellent in customer experience.
  • Oversee the development and effective implementation of a marketing strategy to attract and retain customers in addition to achieving market dominance in the cold chain businesses. Approve all marketing collateral used on behalf of the entities.
  • Proactive acquisition and retention of clients with a breakeven objective as per the Business Plan.
  • Leverage networks and contacts for cross-boundary and international business development activities.
  • Work collaboratively with the other CEOs to facilitate cross-boundary dealings.
  • Drive business development for both the Warehouse and Logistics entities to a level that they all generate Income as standalone businesses.
  • Occasionally carrying out customer visits and going through customer feedback to keep abreast of customer satisfaction.

Employee Relations and Leadership

  • Work closely with the Human Resource Manager to attract, hire, and retain a high-performance management team.
  • Manage the company's organizational structure and develop integrated and innovative HR solutions across all entities.
  • Develop and uphold the company's culture.
  • Work with the Human Resource manager to promote the wellness of staff and implement policies in line with labour legislation and health and safety guidelines to create a diverse and positive working environment.
  • Provide company-wide leadership to ensure employees meet and exceed set strategic goals.
  • Set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for senior management staff and perform regular performance appraisals to retain performing staff and remedy underperformance.

Risk and Compliance

  • Identify, Quantify and Minimize risks to the Company across all entities and report comprehensively to the board on all possible exposures.
  • At all times be aware that the Business and its activities are regulated by various authorities and ensuring compliance.
  • Oversee the development, roll-out and continual review of a Business Continuity Plan.
  • Oversee the negotiation and sign off of material contracts and agreements on behalf of the entities.
  • Maintain the quality of products, services, customer support, and level of service inline with service level agreements and other retention strategies.
  • Ensuring effective internal controls and information management systems are in place.
  • Familiarize with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) requirements of the Company and specifically CCSEAF and its investors, ensuring that there is adequate monitoring and reporting as per required standards of the same by designated staff.
Desired Experience & Qualification
  • The role encompasses at least four countries and could be based in a city convenient to oversee all activities.
  • The GC must be willing to initially undertake significant travel throughout East Africa.
  • The GC is expected to be hands-on in their duties, proactive, and is required to regularly co-operate and communicate with the Board of Directors.
  • You must have previous experience either working in Africa or overseeing a country in Africa.
  • Previous experience in managing a business at an executive level in either cold storage, warehouses, or logistics is absolutely essential.
Package & Remuneration

Executive package (R2M - R4M) +++ as guaranteed package + bonus + shares

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