City Manager
Experience in the FMCG Industry is a must
Requirements
The best candidates should have the skill and experience in directing a city's bureaucracy to help the council make sound decisions. In addition, a qualified city manager must be a skilled to execute decisions and policies put forth by the council.
Soft Skills required:
- Excellent face-to-face communication and presentation skills
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills
- Effective leadership skills and experience managing large and small teams
- Willingness to learn from mistakes and give feedback on ways of improving
- Collaborative and team oriented
- Excellence on coordination, organizational, analytical and reporting skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Financial management in city government
- Ethics in leadership, making value-based decisions
- Experience with goal setting and program evaluation
- Negotiation experience to resolve complex and sensitive problems
- Hard worker and a hands on person
Education & Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years experience as City Manager in the FMCG Industry
- Deep knowledge of the FMCG Industry in Namibia
- Bachelors Degree
- Previous experience in operations
- Delegating authority and responsibilities
- Understanding of HR management best practices, staff facilitation, and strategic planning
Please, share 3 references of previous work with phone and email contact.
Your tasks and responsibilities
- Coordinate all business activities with Retailers and our team.
- Ensure a constant growth in sales through months in both branches.
- Client and Supplier facing management role.
- Measure performance of team members, and manage KPI and development.
- Prepare and manage monthly budgets and projections.
- Process and record expenses (petty cash and money transfer).
- Reconcile accounts daily with retailers.
- Control daily our cost against selling price to guarantee our margin.
- Lead customer centric approach to team.
- Hire and train field and customer success agents
- Overseeing the activities and performance of the sales team.
- Pay attention to the team reports on our products/prices and improve our offer.
- Communicate with the Marketing and IT department to run promotions.
- Develop marketing campaigns to boost sales.
- Monitor and maintain inventory levels.
- Schedule purchases and arrivals alongside the depot supervisor.
- Maintain supplier relationships.
- Implement sourcing strategies and processes.
- Lead efforts to implement strategies, processes and enforce compliance at the city level.
- Communicate and collaborate with your peers: City Managers.
- Takes ownership of the job position and ensures to complete given tasks in time and in full.
- Ensures to be proactive and self-organized.
- Shows initiative, excitement and promotes JABU brand.