Country Manager - Profit Center Head - FMCG/Retail/Healthcare - French Speaking

French Proficiency is mandatory (French Speaking)

Description:

Current assignment in North Africa for Algeria Business entails full Country Management (Corporate affairs) & business P&L responsibility and team management to Marketing and Sales and overall Profitability Management of Trading for Edible Nuts business, Pulses, Dairy, Coffee (will be larger portfolio)

Job Responsibilities:

Achievement of targets / P&L delivery / Resource Productivity / Strategic delivery

Volume / Profitability / Cycle time / Costs control- Directs and Indirects / Exposure control

New Customer and Market development- Identification of Product Potential (in Global Portfolio) wrt to Algerian landscape (Market Potential and legal/logistics Framework) and aligning Market requirements with Supply chain requisites with respective Product Desk

Operations, Business Development, Sales & Marketing:

Driving Country Structure and Operations for 100% Subsidiary Operations in Algeria in line with Legal Framework of Country Regulations

Budgets setting and Review- Volume, Profitability, Costing, Overheads with respect to independent P&L for respective Products and Consolidated Algeria MIS for Local Company and Indent Framework of Business in Algeria

Managing customer relationships/Negotiation/Pricing / Contracts/Documentation flow

Management of overall trading book and Contract fulfillment

Market Intelligence & Analysis: Competitor Activity / Pricing / Trends / Market shares

Benchmarking with key competitors in respective product and Segment Categories

Positional Planning with Respective product desks and independent trading with 3rd Party/Brokers

Risk Management & Control

Currency / Price Position / Counterparty exposures