Managing Director (Re-Advertised) at Emerging Talent

Emerging Talent is an international search firm, dedicated to the African marketplace. We use strategic recruitment methods to deliver hand-picked candidates that possess the right skills, experience and culture fit to ensure your organization blossoms.

You’ll be at the forefront of a talented and diverse team of almost 40 to refine and execute an ambitious growth strategy, as we seek to disrupt and transform the industry toward radically better building practices.

Summary

Emerging Talent is working with an award-winning social venture, to hire a visionary Managing Director to head up their safe, sustainable sanitation solution, who will lead an exceptional, mission-driven team and guide our strategy, operations, and expansion across Kenya.

Roles and responsibilities:

Strategy & Planning

• Continuously build insight into the business model, market position, broader climate, risks, and opportunities so that the organisation can successfully navigate towards our goal of serving urban areas throughout Kenya.


• Craft a clear and inspiring strategy with support from the Board and global leadership and drive implementation to serve 1M people across Kenya with inclusive and high-quality non-sewered sanitation services by 2026 Execution.


• Own the P&L, including setting and performing to revenue targets, innovating on revenue sources, and continuously refining the business model to reach our ultimate goal of break-even.


• Set annual objectives that directly tie to achieving our 5-year strategic goals, communicate them throughout the organization to guide our work year to year, and drive execution by building a culture and processes for recognition and accountability.


• Spearhead the delivery of impactful initiatives, implementing continuous improvements for service enhancement at both national and county office levels and ensuring that key performance indicators are met.


• Inspire the team to keep work moving forward by balancing competing priorities, making effective decisions, and generating innovative ideas in Government & External Relations.


• Build long term, trusting relationships with crucial external stakeholders, particularly government partners, that enable our operations and strategy to succeed.


• Secure formal partnerships and contracts with utilities, as well as national and county governments in order to expand and sustain our operations.


• Be the face of the organisation in Kenya and represent our brand to enhance our ability to achieve our mission.


• Actively network by using existing and newly established connections to build and enhance the company’s public profile at events, conferences, and speaking engagements.

Leadership, People, and Culture

• Model leadership behaviours and our values to build a positive, thriving team culture that enables a rapidly growing, high-performing team of 265 to succeed.


• Build an effective organizational structure that both empowers and nurtures a culture of accountability so that we are executing towards our goals.


• Develop and coach a team of leaders empowered to lead strategy, people, and implementation in each of their domains towards shared goals.

Organizational Operations

• Steer the financial health of the company, including driving financial planning and analysis, forecasting, and financial and administrative operational excellence


• Develop and maintain KPIs and targets for all direct reports and business units, and oversee the accountability and accomplishment of each target set

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in operations, corporate leadership, managing people and budgets.


• Strong experience in developing and executing a business strategy.


• Commercial acumen with proven ability to create opportunities for growth within an organization.


• Demonstrated ability to build concrete and sustained operational partnerships with government.


• Demonstrated experience in managing country-wide teams with diverse professional development needs.


• Critical and analytical thinking skills; ability to work with both large and limited amounts of data to develop strategy and make rigorous decisions.


• Highly organized with a high capacity to problem solve and establish priorities for self and team.


• Ability to inspire confidence and instil trust both internally and externally.


• Strong negotiator, with a proven ability to secure new opportunities or gain the best deal.


• Proven success in building strong and effective people-centric teams.


• Demonstrated passion for the organization’s mission, values and customers.


• Excited about driving impact at scale and portfolio growth.


• Impeccable integrity and ethics.

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