Job Description
Purpose / Role
- To lead the organization and continuously enhance its value. Provide direction and leadership to the team to execute and achieve the growth and profitability plans.
Key Aims and Objectives
- The role is responsible for leading the organizational growth and profitability and continuously enhance value of the enterprise.
- The role is expected to deliver company’s revenues and profits as per the agreed AOP in line with the growth plan.
- Another key objective of the role is to ensure organization health and engagement are also achieved along with the profitability goals.
Roles & Responsibilities
Revenue, Growth, and Profitability:
- Builds the annual operating plan (AOP) in line with the long-term growth goals.
- Understands key segments the organization operates in and creates plan for each segment and its revenue drivers to maximize revenue and profitability.
- Understands key cost drivers, benchmarks, and achieves control/ budget thresholds in line with the AOP.
- Leverages existing customer relationships to target higher wallet share. Acquires new customers to achieve growth in revenue leveraging existing infrastructure.
Operations:
- Ensures operations are run smoothly, efficiently and in-line with customer expectations. Creates, tracks, and improves operation metrics.
- Drives process improvement to enhance productivity, achieve efficiencies and reduce costs / wastage. Leverages existing infrastructure and team to deliver and manage more volume.
- Builds benchmarks, controls, and reduces cost of operations.
Business Development and Customer Service:
- Builds the customer acquisition strategy and leads the business development to acquire new customers in line with the revenue growth requirements and AOP.
- Drives the customer service to deliver high level of customer satisfaction. Builds plans for revenue growth from existing customers.
- Reviews and analyses the profitability and potential of the services portfolio. Drives commercial decisions on addition or deletion of services.
Leadership, Culture, Team Management, and Human Resources:
- Provides Leadership and leads by example.
- Builds a high performance, and high engagement culture. Creates pipeline of Leaders and Managers by driving continuous learning & development and mentoring.
- Creates organization health goals and drives the team to achieve them.
Finance, Control, and Governance:
- Supervises the function to ensure control and performance in line with the AOP. Builds rhythm for regular audits, process improvements, and cost control.
- Ensures all reporting and data presentation meets the standards required across target audience i.e., Board of Directors, Group Management Committee (Mancom), etc.
- Ensure legal and regulatory compliance in respect of all operational aspects of the business. (Organization, Federal, State, Local authorities, etc.).
Experience, Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude
- Prior experience of leading as a CEO/ General Manager with experience of managing multiple functional teams. Experience of working in the Logistics industry essential. Overall experience of 15 - 20 years. Ideal age 45 years.
- Management Graduate
- Experience of managing Profit & Loss (P&L) and delivering revenue growth and profitability.
- Significant experience of leading, building, and managing teams. Experience of engaging and motivating people.
- Experience of managing all stakeholders.
- Deep knowledge of Logistics operations, industry rules & regulations, relevant government authorities, and Nigeria way of working.
- High level networker and ability to leverage partnerships/ assets for better customer service.
- Mature, high EQ, and strong commercial judgment
- Strategic thought process combined with execution ability.
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Structured approach, problem solving ability and analytical skills
- Positive, strong work ethics, and ability to prioritize.