Country Manager – Executive & Senior Management Full-Time

Does the idea of being able to improve people’s lives excites you? If yes, this job could be perfect for you! An international power-solutions company with the aim of playing a role in making the world a better place, have an amazing job opportunity for a Country Manager to join their team in Maputo, Mozambique. They need you to build a customer focused team that can deliver quality sales for Mozambique, with a strong emphasis on getting the sales operations right and all supporting functions around it (marketing, operations, HR, technical support and finance). Does this job seem like the perfect challenge for you? Keep reading!

Your key job responsibilities as the Country Manager in Maputo, Mozambique will include:

• Define the sales strategy for Mozambique;
• Deep understanding of what make or break sales for the customers, tweaking payplans or other variables where necessary and hands on direct support to sales when needed;
• Organize the main functions in line with the strategy of the company: Sales operations, technical operations, customer care and debt collection, CRM, marketing and HR;
• Develop and build a world class team that knows how to operate in difficult circumstances;
• Understand the importance of quality of sales: the customer journey for years to come needs to be on your radar;
• Define a few but strong KPI’s for each department in line with the company strategy;
• Draw up the quarterly and yearly plans.

Requirements for this Country Manager job in Maputo, Mozambique:

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in a business to consumer commercial environment;
• Service oriented: improving the lives of our customer is and will be our main objective and this should excite you;
• Competitive: you want to do everything better than the competition;
• A team builder: you take care of your people and know how to deal with different cultures and different personalities in your team;
• A thinker and strategist: but without action you don’t see the purpose of a strategy;
• A motivator: you know how to get the best out of people;
• You thrive to learn from what everyone tells you about this new exciting business of changing lives;
• Good sense of humour.

The following are advantageous:

• Experience in Africa;
• Experience with CRM;.
• Experience working with rural communities

If you meet the above requirements for this Country Manager job in Maputo, Mozambique, we would like to hear from you! Please send your CV through to contact@initiateinternational.co.za today! If you do not receive any feedback within 7 days of your application, please be advised that you were not successful in making the shortlist.