Business Development Manager - Kenya
Employ Africa
- R Undisclosed
- Contract Senior position
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Kenya
- Posted 21 Mar 2024 by Employ Africa
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Job 2558001
About the position
Our client - situated in Kenya, has a vacancy for a suitably qualified and experienced.
Business Development Manager
Reporting to the Commercial Director (Africa), the successful candidate will be responsible for client current and future position in East Africa. The role will be responsible to maximize value for all its stakeholders and achieve its business strategy. This entails management across local and global supply chains, developing and implementing a sustainable business strategy to channel fresh subtropical fruit from East Africa into the markets.
Key Performance Areas
- Effectively documenting client Kenya strategy to align with client Group strategy.
- Continuously analysing and reporting on industry trends.
- Reporting on progress of client and East Africa against group strategy.
- Effectively documenting and formulating project and business plans.
- Facilitate technical engagement and assistance to Kenyan and Tanzanian growers.
- Generate avocado intelligence on the Easter Africa Avocado industry.
- Coordinate support functions including packaging, documentation etc, to ensure successful container deliveries.
Minimum Requirements
- A tertiary qualification in Agriculture, Commerce/Trade/Business or Marketing. An MBA would be advantageous.
- Minimum of 5-10 years senior managerial and sales experience within the export fruit environment.
- Knowledge of the fresh fruit production / marketing industry.
- Knowledge of the Middle and Far Eastern markets & customer base would be advantageous.
- Experience with working on fruit software systems and managing an ERP environment.
- A strong knowledge of Excel i.e able to do Pivot tables, V-lookups etc.
The Company offers a Total Guaranteed Remuneration Package.
Desired Skills:
- Excel
- Marketing
- MS Excel Pivot Tables
- Production
- Sales
Employ Africa
About the agency
EMPLOY AFRICA’s consultants bring a high level of expertise to the task of finding the best people for a project vacancy. We assist in attracting candidates, either by using our existing databases of candidates, networks in Africa or through strategic advertising campaigns. We then use our extensive recruitment expertise to create a shortlist of the best available
candidates.
The final selection recommendation will always be made by a selection committee consisting of our highly skilled recruiting personnel and the ultimate recruitment decision always rests with the client.
Recruitment Service consist of:
Executive search (head hunting high level / scarce skilled candidates)
• Participation in the selection process
• Conducting specialist recruitment
• Advertisement design and placement
• Assistance with the preparation of selection documentation
• Manage enquiries and acknowledge applications
• Short list applications and conduct first round interviews
• Conduct reference checks and skills tests*
• Present short-listed applicants for further consideration
• Arrange interviews with the short-listed applicants
• Assist with negotiations and advise unsuccessful applicants of the outcome.
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