Vacancy title:
Country Manager - Uganda
Jobs at:
BurnDeadline of this Job:
Friday, December 22 2023
Summary
Date Posted: Friday, December 08 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
About the Role:
BURN is seeking a Country Manager to coordinate all activities in Uganda. Uganda is set to become BURN’s most important market in 2023, with multi-million-dollar distribution projects for wood and charcoal.
The in-country team leads will report directly and functionally to the vertical lead at HQ, and with a dotted line to the Country Manager. The role of CM will be coordination and operations alignment to ensure the business runs smoothly.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• To coordinate all local initiatives, tasks, and people activity ensuring things are done on time and in the right manner as guided by HQ.
• Facilitate cross-functional in-country team meetings.
• To engage local stakeholders including regulators where necessary and as guided by HQ.
• To coordinate any legal, audit and other issues that will require a local hand and as guided by HQ.
• The go-to person for OPCO issues including financial probity, employee & customer satisfaction.
• To develop and execute a localized pricing strategy that balances the affordability, willingness to pay and attractiveness of PAYGO services for the local market while ensuring the sustainability and profitability of our PAYGO business.
• To ensure the company participates in local relevant marketing and/or government events to promote the brand, and as guided by the relevant Global vertical Lead.
• To ensure employees are engaged and are doing what they are tasked to do per the KPIs from Global Vertical Leads.
• To ensure that the country teams are working in appropriate office facilities that are clean, safe, and conducive. Also ensures the safety of in-country field teams.
• Coordinate input of required data onto the weekly cash-flow tracking sheets and their prompt submission to Finance every week.
• Tracking actual spending versus planned spending as captured in the weekly cash-flow tracking template.
• To lead all the B2B sales within the country and manage the relationship with various local distribution partners to meet Burn’s B2B sales objectives.
• Helps to maintain the Burn Culture in the country and ensures diversity and inclusion.
COUNTRY MANAGER PILOT OBJECTIVES:
• Understand the extent to which the Country Manager reporting matrix drives the coherence of in-country activities and collaboration.
• Determine the extent to which the Country Manager model delivers enhanced visibility and control to HQ.
• Understand the extent to which the Country Manager will cultivate a climate for offering information and opinions and providing improvement opportunities. The higher this metric, the more engaged employees are with their roles, and the greater their output and productivity. Engagement Surveys + 360.
• To understand the extent to which the Country Manager impacts the team and individual accountability in the use of company resources.
Education Requirement: No Requirements
Job Experience: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months:
Level of Education:
Job application procedure
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