General Manager at PUMA Tanzania June 2022

Job Position General Manager at PUMA Tanzania June 2022

Main Purpose:

• Provide leadership and direction to the country management team.
• Be fully accountable for all country operations as well as for the delivery of the financial business plans and KPIs.
• Create the conditions for sustainable, growth through developing and executing business plans.
• Be the visible PUMA representative for the market/ cluster for all external stakeholder interactions including government, vendors and media.
• Coordinate the market activities with LOB leads.
• Turn LOB policies and principles into workable market plans.
• Perform the role of assurance lead for HSE, legal and finance.
• Consolidate key market insight for both regulated and unregulated markets.
• Ensure that the customer is at the heart of everything that country/cluster teams do. Ensure all HSE, compliance and governance policies, principles and procedures are implemented and adhered to at all times.
• Role model the Puma Energy core values and ways of working.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Regional teams to develop cluster / country specific plans to create and maintain competitive advantage within the Retail, B2B, Aviation, Bitumen and Lubricants markets to grow customer numbers to meet the financial targets and associated KPIs.
• Ensure that the country depot and transport operations are optimized and structured to effectively serve the needs and demands of the customers.
• Fully accountable for country profit and loss and Balance Sheet.
• Work with the Region Supply Chain teams to provide accurate demand forecasts that will continuously meet country customer needs.
• Create conditions with associated HSE and Legal policies and procedures to ensure compliance that the country/cluster is selling and operating both safely and legally at all times.
• Work with HR and Financial business partners to ensure associated policies and procedures are implemented and adhered to throughout the country’s business operations.
• Represent Puma Energy as the official country spokesperson when influencing customers, local governments, vendors, trade associations and dealing with the media.
• Act as the Puma Energy representative and work with local chief legal counsel on any legal cases, for or against the company.
• Proactively lead the business development within cluster/country to identify new opportunities and grow wallet share with existing customers.
• Create conditions for all country colleagues to personally, and professionally develop their skills and talents to maximise their impact and opportunities within the organisation.
• Optimise and continuously improve the cost of doing business from both a capital and revenue expenditure perspective. Creating the conditions that all colleagues invest and spend wisely to ensure that our customers can afford to do business with us.
• Be the custodian of all compliance and corporate governance policies, processes and procedures to ensure cluster/country adherence at all times.
• To ensure exceptional implementation of Puma standards at all times across all lines of business. Influence new Global standards when gaps and new requirements are identified.

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Education:

• Bachelor degree or advanced college education with relevant experience.
• Post-graduate education in operational management or business administration is a plus.

Experience: 

• 10 years’ experience working at a senior level within organisations that have portfolios that may include banking, logistics, retail, aviation, lubricants or B2B operations, similar or related industries.
• 5 Years Previous experience as a Managing Director
• Business Experience:
• Leading Part of a Commercial Organisation
• Track record of sustainable growth in Puma Energy’s  related sectors
• Experience with dealing with financial statements. Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash-flow.
• Understanding of Entity and shareholding structures
• Integration following Mergers and Acquisitions
• Local Market Knowledge
• People Management Experience:
• Managing growth
• Managing change
• Growing people
• Driving and Implementing Change Experience:
• Public speaking and presenting
• Learning from failure
• Relationships Management Experience:
• Working with main board and executive committee level leaders
• External Stakeholder Management
• Working in a Matrix Organisation
• Experienced in selling, socializing ideas.
• JV Management

Skills:

• English: Spoken and written fluently.
• High level of commercial and financial acumen.

Technical Competencies:

• Risk Management
• Financial & Commercial Acumen
• Energy Industry Expertise
• Energy Sectors Expertise
• Business Plan Development / Implementation
• Stakeholder Management
• Successful Sales Techniques Understanding
• Technical knowledge of industry related technology
• Market Understanding
• Operations & HSSE Expertise

 

Leadership and Behavioural Competencies:

• Driving delivering results
• Customer and Partner Focused Innovation
• Instigating & Leading Change
• Peer Relationship
• Agility (Including cultural agility and dealing with cultural ambiguity)
• Inspiring Performance for Execution
• Aligning Business operations to Plans
• Building Effective Teams
• Accountability
• Judgement
• Influencing for Impact
• Authentic Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

 

Values:

• Work Hard: Puts in every effort to achieve goals
• Work together: Is a genuine team player
• Accountability: Is in charge of his business and responds for it to the Board
• Integrity: You are the custodian of respect of the rules in the Company

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

• Internal – Region / Country / Cluster teams (including Retail, Aviation, Lubricants and Bitumen), Global teams
• External – Key customers, Government authorities, Key vendors

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