Geocycle, Business Development & Strategy

Job Description

Responsible for developing relevant business initiatives to achieve the long term and short-term targets for the Geocycle business. Support to deliver targeted volumes of Alternative resources with optimized cost to ensure overall cost reduction in manufacturing process
 
MAIN ACTIVITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
Health & Safety:
  • Adhere to and enforce relevant legislation and policies and ensure that the highest degree of safety and safe working practices are maintained.
 
Functional:
  • Accountable for developing and implementation of Geocycle commercial strategy to aligned to midterm and long term vision.
  • Ensure material delivery as per target, across various categories of waste streams ensuring
  • Negotiate short term and long term contract for source security at targeted cost, to ensure value creation within business.
 
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY
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  • Develop appreciate supply chain for each waste category support least cost delivery to plant
  • Inbound Logistics scheduling to maintain required stocks for operations without exceeding working capital targets
  • Asset Utilization Management of direct plant assets and of site assets (water wells, electrical and utility assets)
  • Compliance with running local, state and federal environmental regulations
  • Country CAPEX portfolio management including project design, planning, execution and Capex cash management
  • Budget planning, regular forecasting and reporting of actuals to the Finance function
  • Sourcing and Production planning and asset utilization planning, contributing to the S&OP
  • Safe operations within plants to process with inbound alternative material meeting internal acceptance criteria for the cement operations.
  • Ensure compliance of business Commercial process to internal/ external protocol
  • Capex planning and execution for plant maintenance and development towards cost optimization and long term sustainability of its competitiveness, giving inputs to the Strategic review process
Benefits
  • Competitive pay
  • Financial support for adjustment in Nigeria
  • Health Insurance for you and 4 dependents
  • Training opportunities – local and global

Personal Specification

  • Management degree/Engineering degree
  • Technical Skills: Sound understanding and sharp acumen on commercial processes. Good negotiator with relevant know how on business financial matrix.
  • Overall understanding of cement manufacturing
  • Experience: 15 years’ operational experience in commercial activities
  • Sound understanding of B2B/B2C marketing and product management
  • Confirmed experience in Sales, Planning, Logistics and Project management, and overall retail operations.
  • Solid business understanding (construction materials) and business acumen
  • Sound customer orientation awareness
  • Finance Knowledge (i.e. Income Statement, Balance Sheet etc.)
  • Solid analytical skills to run/interpret complex and detailed analysis
  • IT skills to develop, use and maintain analytical tools (i.e. QlikView)
  • Ability to define, launch and embed functional Sales skills framework
  • Ability to define and develop career progression for Sales Field Force

Employer

Sector

Construction, Heavy Goods Manufacturing and Aggregates

Function

Engineering

Country

Job Level

Mid-Senior Level

Salary

Competitive