Sales Manager

Vice President - Government Relations & Public Affairs, Africa

Solution Account Manager

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Role Description: <ul><li>Reporting to the Regional Business Development Manager, Southern Corridor, the Sales Manager is responsible for developing and managing the country sales and marketing initiatives in line with Group strategy and ensure delivery of Plan/Budget Volumes, Margins and operational KPI’s in Zambia.&nbsp;</li></ul> Responsibilities: Financial: <ul><li>Achieve budgeted volumes and margins as per the annual Sales plans targets for Zambia.</li><li>Strict adherence to credit management as stipulated in the company’s standard operating procedures.</li><li>Timely debt collection from all customers and adhere hence to the signed off contractual agreement with all customers.</li></ul> Business Performance <ul><li>Manage sales and marketing activities, creating wide portfolio of clientele, tenders and propose shift in market strategies from time to time to meet the agreed budgets.</li><li>Provide Market intelligence insights by proactive involvement with various contacts to extract relevant information and through research to drive profitability.</li><li>Monitoring sales, stock, supply to the region for trading business and publish a management reporting on regular basis.</li><li>Share information with management critical for strategy and any new information on new projects and various opportunities in the market.&nbsp;</li></ul> Compliance <ul><li>Ensure the company is in compliance with legal and other regulatory requirements regarding sales in order to avoid any breach of law or policy.</li><li>Carry out proper mapping of policies, procedures and process parameters with accounting system</li></ul> Stakeholder Management <ul><li>Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.</li><li>Maintain close working relationships with the supply and logistics team to ensure proper planning of product to achieve business target satisfying the customers’ needs</li></ul> Requirements: Knowledge; Skills and Experience required for this Role <ul><li>University Degree in Business Development / Marketing /Commerce or related field</li><li>At least 5 years demonstrated experience in Oil Industry / Related Industry</li><li>Computer literate</li><li>Strong business negotiation skill</li></ul>

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>

Role Description: <ul><li>The primary focus of this position is to grow revenue of the companys business in Australia.</li><li>This will require a highly motivated sales professional with a strong business development and sales background in industrial cabling and connectivity solutions.</li><li>The industry focus for this role includes Factory Automation, Process Automation, Energy, Transportation, IT/OT convergency.</li><li>The successful candidate must be capable of working both independently and within a team to achieve outstanding results.</li><li>This position reports directly to the Solution Sales Manager, ANZ.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Build and maintain close relationships with customers of all levels ranging from operations to executives, evaluate customer’s needs, identify selling opportunities, reach out to potential customers, and close deals to meet the sales target.</li><li>Analyze competitors and keep track of the demand and competition (customer’s projects and competitor’s proposals) in the market, and strategically maintain as well as expand the market share to establish a sustainable sale with partners and customer.</li><li>Coordinate across parties including both technical and non-technical teams to best deliver products or services to customers and to professionally facilitate effective communications between parties. </li><li>Professionally apply sales-related tools/systems and document/report(e.g., quotation system, project tracking, sales forecast, company report, etc.) to improve sales productivity and to enhance company’s business.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Degree level or above in a relevant field – Engineering or other technical field and/or Business (marketing, administration, economics) or possess a track record in professional career relevant to accountabilities of the role.</li><li>Proven track record within a sales role in vertical markets like Discrete automation, transportation, process automation, oil &amp; gas, mining.</li><li>At least 5 years of experience in industrial cabling and connectivity solutions.</li><li>Experience in Solution Sales especially in System Integration (SI) and End User business with proven track record is preferable.</li><li>Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills. Good communication and presentation skills.</li><li>Ability to maintain and build close relationships with various customers.</li><li>Should possess own vehicle and driver license.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Act as a conduit between Global Architecture (Enterprise Architects) and the Engineering teams..</li><li>Work across/with Architects from different organizations.</li><li>Introduce/train teams with new technology.</li><li>Lead teams toward problem-resolution identifying, researching, &amp; coordinating with resources.</li><li>Evaluate new technologies and their applicability to the business.</li><li>Drive technical direction and architecture evolution via reviews and on-floor leadership.</li><li>Actively monitor the Business Unit system health and design and write proposals.</li><li>Proactively monitor new development to discover subsystems</li><li>Proactively research, monitor, learn, and assess industry/technology advancements</li><li>All other duties as assigned.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Strong understanding of programming languages, code, and database.</li><li>Expert-level knowledge in programming language(s); e.g., .Net, Java, HTML, Perl, C++, C#, PHP, etc.; or expert level in engineering discipline.</li><li>Expert in a plurality of the following technologies: Parallel and Distributed Processing Systems, Information Retrieval, Data Mining,&nbsp;NaturalLanguage Processing, Very Large Scale Databases, Declarative Languages, and High-Performance Computing.</li><li>Solid working knowledge in a plurality of the following areas: Network Design (LAN and WAN), Storage System Architectures,&nbsp;Service.</li><li>Oriented Architecture technologies, XML and XSLT, and Parallel Processing Architectures (such as SMP and NUMA).</li><li>Experience with a plurality of the following operating systems: Windows Server, UNIX (Linux), and z/OS.</li><li>Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.</li><li>Advanced problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.</li></ul>

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