General Manager (Cameroun)

Our client operates in the agri-food sector

Tasks   

• To coordinate and ensure the short-, medium- and long-term effectiveness of all operational departments within the Group;
• Define the Group's global and coherent strategy;
• Supervise its execution in order to achieve the Group's profitability targets;
• Adapting the Group's orientations in line with market demand, vision and requirements.

Activities 

Management of financial resources 

• Defining financial policy, monitoring its implementation and interpreting variances;
• Supervises accounting and the preparation of the parent company and consolidated financial statements, ensuring their conformity and reliability;
• Manage cash (outstanding payments, receivables, financing, overpayments), investments and relations with banks;
• Supervising management control: planning, budgeting, reporting;
• Tax: ensuring that taxes and contributions to which the Group is subject are regularly declared, paid or repaid in accordance with the official tax and social security schedule;
• Customs: take appropriate internal measures to reduce the risk of tax adjustments.

Management of material resources & supply chain 

• Works with the Operations Department to define the logistical and material resources needed to run the Group;
• Supply chain management;
• Planning and procurement - Logistics - Logistics operations and infrastructure - Industrial processes.

Human resources management 

• Participating in staff recruitment;
• Defining key performance indicators for operational managers;
• Leading the management team.
• Sales and Marketing Strategy
• Defines and monitors the implementation of a coherent marketing mix;
• Validates sales targets and the annual marketing plan;
• Coordinate actions to ensure targets are met;
• Building loyalty and monitoring key account customers;
• Assessing the scope of all communication activities prior to implementation;
• Oversee the definition of the distribution strategy and ensure its implementation.

Quality, Risk, Audit and Internal Control 

• Drawing up risk maps and formulating proposals to manage them;
• Validating procedures and monitoring their implementation;
• Guaranteeing the effectiveness of the internal control system;
• Putting in place an a posteriori control system;
• Ensuring the protection of people and property;
• Coordinating all phases of the audit;
• Assessing the relevance of the auditors' recommendations before they are implemented.
• Group Organisation and Financing
• Propose a charter defining the Group's external financing conditions (Equities - Bonds);
• Participate in defining the Group's financial resources management policy;
• Propose an organisational structure suited to the Group;
• Ensuring the standardisation of practices within the Group;
• Oversee the overall assessment process for the Group's employees.

Technical skills

• Knowledge of accounting regulations;
• Knowledge of the basic rules of social legislation;
• Knowledge of the administrative and financial functioning of an industry;
• Know how to apply regulations;
• Know how to use specific software (SAGE SAARI, SAARI, etc.);
• Seek out information and apply it;
• Be rigorous and methodical, available at peak times;
• Proficiency in the use of the Microsoft Office suite
• General and cost accounting, operational management control;
• Mastery of financial analysis techniques;
• Investigative skills, ability to summarise and analyse.

Personality traits

• Organised and methodical;
• Ability to respect confidentiality;
• Ability to manage stress and be responsive;
• Ability to take initiative and set priorities;
• Ability to delegate;
• ability to listen and enlighten.