Vice President - Government Relations & Public Affairs, Africa

Senior Sales Executive

Sales Manager

Logistics Manager

Process Industries, Sales Manager / Leader

Principal System Architect

Senior Test Engineer

Role Description <ul><li>The VP of Government Relations &amp; Public Affairs (GR/PA) Africa role aims to enhance business value by positioning our client favourably with governments and civil society in the Africa region. The plurality of Africa’s 53 countries, with their constituencies, cultures, interests, and agendas pose a significant challenge for effective government relations and public affairs, as does unbridled social and political change and substantial ABC issues.</li><li>Advises on political systems, government processes and key personalities within government and civil society for the countries within the region;</li><li>Sets up systems for collecting, interpreting and disseminating intelligence from politics, government and related sectors as reliable input for corporate and business decision-making;</li><li>Advises Our client’s corporate functions and business units on interpreting underlying nuances and cultural subtleties involved in government decision-making;</li><li>Anticipates potential issues from government systems for prompt escalation to Our client’s leadership;</li><li>Identifies significant country and regional political events and trends for inclusion in GR strategies;</li><li>Determines the impacts of regional government policies, tax, finance and regulatory developments on Our client’s business and advises on appropriate strategies and plans for response;</li><li>Assesses complex political and social systems and provides appropriate advice to the regional team.</li><li>The role is expected to maintain a robust understanding of the political environment and drivers for government and civil society stakeholders (local, regional and federal) and be in tune with the cultures, societies and nuances of the countries making up the region. He/she will:</li><li>Work closely with businesses and functions to secure opportunities and manage risks;</li><li>Engage with the government to shape regulatory frameworks and influence policy, advocating on behalf of and interests;</li><li>When decisions are considered, provide balanced perspectives that integrate business, functional, geographical, and temporal perspectives;</li><li>Work together with the business in developing a government-specific Customer Value Proposition that differentiates Our client from its competitors as a partner of choice;</li><li>Map relationships and engagements with government and civil society stakeholders.</li><li>The priority for the Head of GR/PA Africa is to support Our client by providing strategic advice to the business on the one hand and achieving a maximum degree of influence over the regulatory environment in which the company operates on the other, with the central objective of preserving and building the business value. In addition, the role monitors, identifies and influences the operating environment as affected by statutory, legislative and regulatory governmental actions, whether local, regional or federal, that may affect Our client’s operations.</li></ul> Key Responsibilities: <ul><li>The incumbent is expected to possess an understanding of the regional, country and local businesses, political trends and key decision-makers/influencers, and an understanding of the critical drivers for Our client’s Group success.</li></ul> He/she must: <ul><li>Deliver superior policy, country and stakeholder analysis and engagement plans that help to inform credible strategies, often on short notice.</li><li>Develop a robust regional strategy to manage government stakeholders, including identification, engagement planning and relationship management</li><li>Anticipate/monitor policy change and interpret political drivers. Identify business threats and opportunities arising from statutory, legislative or other regulatory governmental action, including mitigation activities.</li><li>Support business leaders in their engagements with decision-makers. - Devise and implement advocacy plans (setting out desired policy outcomes in support of business goals, developing position papers, running engagement programs, etc.) in cooperation with the businesses, functions and in-country resources. - Leverage the informal and formal workings of government, embassies and associations to support the delivery of our clients business objectives.</li><li>Ensure coordination and maximise synergies among GR/Public Affairs, other Non-Technical Risk functions, and the relevant businesses.</li><li>Share GR/Public Affairs best practices with business representatives and actively develop local resources in-country where practical.</li><li>Ensure absolute compliance with applicable government ABC, transparency and ethical standards, and Our client’s Group rules and policies.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Confident, trusted and mature individual with a minimum 12 years experience in a mix of strategic consulting, analytical, business, government /diplomatic and Regulatory Affairs/Government Relations and Public Affairs roles;</li><li>JD or Masters degree in a relevant area of study (International Relations, Political Science, Public Policy, etc.);</li><li>Ability to understand how technical language in legislative and regulatory proposals could affect Our client’s operations, identify business implications and synthesise policy documents;</li><li>A solid network of political stakeholders within relevant bodies throughout African countries;</li><li>High degree of discretion; unquestioned and uncompromising personal and business integrity;</li><li>Capacity to multi-task and manage complexity and highly fluid situations; - Ability to manage and deliver against compressed deadlines;</li><li>Strong influencing/motivating skills and ability to drive delivery through others;</li><li>Highly developed interpersonal skills, able to work effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels;</li><li>Experience in Issues Management and Crisis Management;</li><li>Good knowledge of governance and business control frameworks. Evidence of strong analytical skills</li><li>Can-do attitude in accomplishing what is necessary, either through own efforts or through others</li><li>Outstanding communicator; excellent command of English in written and spoken form required; advanced command of at least one additional African language (e.g., French) is a significant advantage.</li><li>Ability to work effectively in cross-cultural and diverse stakeholder environments. Good negotiator and coalition builder.</li><li>Considerable experience in African regulatory frameworks and processes is a requirement.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Achievement of Sales and margin: <ul><li>Develop and implement effective sales strategies to achieve and exceed sales targets.</li><li>Identify and pursue new business opportunities within the assigned territory or market segment.</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing clients, addressing their needs, and ensuring customer satisfaction.</li><li>Conduct market research to stay informed about industry trends, competitor activities, and consumer preferences.</li></ul> Customer Relationship Management: <ul><li>Cultivate and maintain long-term relationships with key accounts and customers</li><li>Address customer inquiries and concerns promptly and professionally.</li><li>Collaborate with internal teams, such as marketing and logistics, to ensure smooth order processing and delivery.</li><li>Ensure prompt payment collection</li></ul> Sales Reporting: <ul><li>Prepare regular sales reports, including sales forecasts, pipeline updates, and market intelligence.</li><li>Present findings and recommendations to management to drive informed decision-making.</li><li>Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and implement marketing campaigns that align with sales objectives.</li><li>Represent company professionally with customers and vendors while conducting business according to the values of a world class organization. Promote a culture of</li><li>inclusiveness, teamwork and cooperation that allows the Johnsonville Way to thrive and prosper throughout the organization</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Minimum Diploma &amp; 3 years of sales experience in relevant industry preferred</li><li>Class 3 driving license and process own vehicle</li><li>Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills</li><li>Target driven and proactive attitude</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Achievement of Sales and Margin: <ul><li>Develop and implement effective sales strategies to achieve and exceed sales targets.</li><li>Identify and pursue new business opportunities within the assigned territory or market segment.</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing clients, addressing their needs, and ensuring customer satisfaction.</li><li>Conduct market research to stay informed about industry trends, competitor activities, and consumer preferences.</li></ul> Customer Relationship Management: <ul><li>Cultivate and maintain long-term relationships with key accounts and customers</li><li>Address customer inquiries and concerns promptly and professionally.</li><li>Collaborate with internal teams, such as marketing and logistics, to ensure smooth order processing and delivery.</li><li>Ensure prompt payment collection</li></ul> Sales Reporting: <ul><li>Prepare regular sales reports, including sales forecasts, pipeline updates, and market intelligence.</li><li>Present findings and recommendations to management to drive informed decision-making.</li><li>Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and implement marketing campaigns that align with sales objectives.</li><li>Represent company professionally with customers and vendors while conducting business according to the values of a world class organization. </li><li>Promote a culture of inclusiveness, teamwork and cooperation that allows the Johnsonville Way to thrive and prosper throughout the organization.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Minimum Diploma &amp; 8+ years of sales experience in relevant industry preferred</li><li>Class 3 driving license and process own vehicle</li><li>Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills</li><li>Target driven and proactive attitude</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Supervise logistics staffs to manage their daily operation for the team to achieve a predefined&nbsp;target.</li><li>Manage 3PL’s to handle any operation activities in DC team to meet customer’s requirement and ensure to achieve highest customer’s satisfactory (ECE : Extraordinary Customer Experience)</li><li>Liaise with 3PL’s to monitor DC Workload levels and take necessary actions to ensure the minimum overtime is required but still meet prescribed productivities and service goals.&nbsp;</li><li>Work with 3PL’s to deploy the continuous improvement process and Kaizen activities in DC operation using company OA requirement as a benchmarking.</li><li>Develop, maintain and review physical procedures and standard work for all functional areas of DC to ensure they are up-to-date and match with the actual operation.</li><li>Liaise with Global Trade Services and appointed customs broker to ensure all customs related matters are executed per local customs law/regulation.</li><li>Close cooperation with BU ITCOs for HS Code Classification.&nbsp;</li><li>Coordinate with related parties including company customs broker, DC Operation (3PL’s) and customers/customer’s broker to ensure that customs reports per Malaysia bonded regulation has been prepared and submitted on-time with 100% accuracy.</li><li>Manage carriers/forwarders (all modes; including air, ocean, truck and small package) to deliver shipments to DC/customers on-time. Monitor and be able to scrutinize and on freight spending especially those irregular high spending.&nbsp;</li><li>Manage DC spending to achieve CPC target.</li><li>Being responsible to provide an update to Corporate&nbsp;for any regular cost review.</li><li>Participate in any new system enhancements; e.g. S/4 Hana Implementation, etc. that is related to&nbsp;DC.</li><li>Support any Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Implementation and other requests from Bus/Corporate</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree in any fields with 8-10 years logistics working experience.</li><li>Hands-on experience on DC operation and process improvement. Experience managing 3PL’s&nbsp;would be an advantage.</li><li>SAP Experience on WM is preferred.</li><li>Working knowledge of import/export customs procedures and requirements including licensing,&nbsp;FTA and classification requirements. Experience on customs bonded and LMW is desirable.</li><li>Demonstrated personal leadership of DC teams, demonstrating organizational and management&nbsp;skills, and achieving quality results through team interaction and effective cross-group collaboration&nbsp;(internal and 3PL’s team)</li><li>Strong problem-solving capabilities and the ability to analyze data and use critical thinking to reach&nbsp;logical conclusions and decisions; results oriented; relies on fact-based logic for decision-making</li><li>Ability to communicate with senior management through well formulated presentations and&nbsp;discussions</li><li>Business acumen, a detailed understanding of business processes and the ability to&nbsp;institute/influence change management as needed.</li><li>Proven computer skills in Microsoft suite - Excel, PowerPoint, Word and etc.</li></ul>

Responsibilities:<ul><li>Drive sales growth in the Process Industry within WMFTS India which consist of F&amp;B, Water &amp; Wastewater and Mining.&nbsp;</li><li>Lead by example and develop an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are accepted and encouraged.</li><li>Develop, articulate, and lead execution of long and short-term goals and strategies.</li><li>Construct and manage the budget around the business plan, own and report on your sector’s P&amp;L.</li><li>Drive growth through facilitation of vigorous customer strategy development, project planning, execution, and tracking.</li><li>Build customer relations through direct meetings in support of account managers.</li><li>Direct price positioning and profit margin.</li><li>Manage and drive team and individual performance development.</li><li>Monitor and review company’s project activities and ensure that they are brought to completion within scheduled period of time and budget</li><li>Provide effective management to organization’s business activities that have to do with its strategic and financial growth</li><li>Create new strategies for marketing and monitoring QC and QA measures</li><li>Build effective relationship with clients so as to maintain good revenue increase for the organization</li><li>Build long-term customer business relations right from the concept phase and ensure product standardization at customer sites.</li><li>Ensure harmonious working environment&nbsp;</li><li>Responsible for training and mentoring staff; motivating them for effective performance for the general growth of the company</li><li>Develop Process Industrial strategies to penetrate the market</li><li>Analyze and explore market trends; identifying new opportunities in assigned region</li><li>Coordinate with other teams like the marketing team to develop plans for launching new products, and implementation</li><li>Coordinate with other heads of departments, integrating objectives and ideas for organizational growth</li><li>Champion initiatives to develop, improve, and resolve issues with critical processes and technologies</li><li>Work with sales team to contribute to business growth.</li></ul> Requirements:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or equivalent experience. This must be from an accredited university or college</li><li>Ability to work under pressure and tight schedule</li><li>Creative thinking – The PI leader should possess the ability to develop and create new ideas, systems, and relationships for the success of the company</li><li>Decision making skills: He/she should have the ability to analyze information and evaluate results in order to make the best decision in solving problems</li><li>Planning skills: – The leader should have the ability to develop specific plans and goals to help in accomplishing tasks efficiently</li><li>Ability to tack complaints and resolve disputes and conflicts</li><li>Motivating skills: The PI leader should be able to encourage and build team spirit among staff, bringing about mutual respect and cooperation</li><li>Lead and communicate effectively with customers and colleagues to build strong relationships.</li><li>He/she must have pleasant personality and display managerial and leadership abilities</li><li>Ability to identify new opportunities and exploit them to the benefit of the company</li><li>He/she should have preferred background in Industrial, F&amp;B, Mining or Water and wastewater industries.</li><li>&nbsp;Possess excellent written and spoken English communication skills.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Interfacing with key OEM and other customers</li><li>Identifying potential technology disrupters (which often requires expertise in various technologies)</li><li>Integrating customer needs, compute industry knowledge, and business insight to create compelling visions around technology and product trends that will drive the organization forward</li><li>Influencing executive leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to invest in new technology and products to meet the next generation needs of our customers and the market</li><li>Working within a small geographically dispersed system architecture team to share subject matter expertise and best practices</li><li>Being an industry subject matter expert, collaborating closely with external customers as well as internal business development, strategy and engineering development teams</li><li>Driving high value development projects (hardware and high-speed signaling) that will require you to lead and interface with large groups</li><li>Manage the technical cooperation with customers and coordinate TE’s internal development engineering team to assure technical and functional feasibility from the eyes of the customer.</li><li>Ensuring we are following required industry standards while also helping to drive the strategy for new standards</li></ul>&nbsp;﻿Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. Having a dual bachelor’s degree in business or MBA is a plus</li><li>12 years experience in compute and/or networking industry system design and related technologies</li><li>In-depth knowledge of hardware and associated signaling environments. Technical expertise in high-speed signaling and engineering design</li><li>Familiarity with AI, compute, networking and storage architectures.</li><li>The geographically dispersed group requires that the candidate be self-motivating with the ability to take the initiative to accomplish tasks with limited direction</li><li>Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences</li><li>Effectively able to build relationships with external customers and industry leaders as well as internally across all levels, disciplines, and geographies</li><li>Ability to spend 25%-30% of your time traveling</li><li>Must reside in the Austin, TX area</li></ul>

Overview:The job responsibility is for testing software and hardware products in the field of Industrial Automation. The role will be instrumental to manage and execute system and interoperability testing for various product lines working closely with a wide set of global employees, and engineering partners. The Incumbent will coordinate all the testing activities in India for the product working very closely with the Senior QA Manager- System Validation.Responsibilities:You develop and execute Test strategy in cooperation with the Engineering Center management stakeholders and analyze, structure and prioritize requirements according to project needsYou ensure you design test cases based on user stories and acceptance criteriaYou should strive for continuous improvements and expand test automation.You would drive the System Integration lab for multiproduct TestingYou would mentor junior test engineer and drive deliveryCarry out project planning and controlling in cooperation with the project team in an agile development environmentCoordinate and execute with other Validation office employees and project test team members to carry out continuous improvement measures according to lean principlesClosely partner on a global scale with, our Indian development service provider, Development team & product line management to drive the project delivery and management as well as local strategic initiatives.Define Project KPI, Track and manage them to closure. Define SMART Priorities and execute. Drive Self and Organization goals through his /her teamsRequirements:Education – Completed university studies from Tier 1 Reputed institute with focus on computer science, electrical engineering or communications engineering with extraordinary results, and having excellent business acumen.Experience –Atleast 4 years of experiencein Software testing test automation and in testing network management systems, preferably in an agile environment, and experience in the product development of embedded software and hardware, preferably network technology or telecommunications devices in industrial automationManaging a small test group would be added advantangePersonality – Strong communication skills and assertiveness in negotiations, entrepreneurial thinking, flexibility and willingness to travelFirst knowledge about lean and key performance measurementsLanguage proficiency – Fluency in English (written and spoken)

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