Country Manager

Maximize long term profitable volume growth of COMPANY’s within the assigned country's. - Develop a business plan and strategy of COMPANY’s services in the assigned country's. - Provide leadership and cohesion of teams within the country, including hiring and management of staff. - Achieve the company performance targets against the objectives and the growth strategy. - Provide project progress updates to executive management and Corporate - Lead the development of operations, coordinate all third parties and represent the best interests of the company in line with legal requirements - Build and maintain relationships with customers, local authorities and communities - Ensure market intelligence and customer knowledge to meet company targets and forecasts - Establish best in class practices for HSEQ and operational excellence - Ensure equipment resources necessary to meet customer requirements Listen to customers, understand business needs and structure a solution built on products and/or services to address those needs - Drive initiatives to increase customer awareness and satisfaction

Manage Operation staff and/or related personnel, and Provides technical guidance and work direction to field staff. - Ensure the fulfillment of maintenance contract specifications, and maintain COMPANY’s standards in order to ensure delivery of agreed contractual services to customers - Carry out investigations of COMPANY product failures, validate findings, and approve corrective actions based on identified findings - Lead negotiations with customers to address product failure investigation findings, and recommend preventative measures to avoid future product failures
Oversee assigned country's operations’ budgeting cycle and lead the budgeting process - Direct assigned country's operations effectively within budget, and report accurately on progress made and challenges encountered - Formulate strategies that result in positive financial impact for COMPANY and mitigates financial and operational risks
- Prepare, submit and justify budget enhancement requests to VP Africa

Follows all relevant Operations’ policies, Manufacturing Processing Instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner. - Contributes to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices taking into account leading practices, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement. - Promotes the implementation and adherence to policies, processes and operating procedures to others within COMPANY.
Complies with all relevant safety, health and environmental management policies, procedures and controls to ensure a healthy and safe work environment. - Participates in incident and accident investigations as required in line with agreed safety, health and environment policies, procedures and controls. - Reports on changes within COMPANY that impact relevant safety, health and environmental management policies, procedures and controls.
Participate in the identification and recruitment of key talent for Country. - Manage, guide and assist direct reports to perform their functional operations in accordance with set policies and procedures - Set performance objectives, provide necessary support, evaluate / appraise the team and provide regular feedback on performance - Promote a high-performance working environment and promote COMPANY's values

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of 12 years of experience in ESP field and operations, with at least 3 -5 years of experience in managerial position - Oil and Gas upstream processes’ experience is preferred - Previous technical Oil and Gas industry knowledge is preferred - Previous Customer Relationship Management experience is preferred
- Bachelor Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering is required
- ESP Downhole equipment awareness, including specs, material and functionality - Computer skills (Excel, Word, Power Point) - Financial Systems, Marketing Analysis is required