Country Manager Egypt
- DHL
- Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
وصف الوظيفة
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Overall Role Purpose
The Country Manager has overall accountability for the short- and long-term plans that ensure the long-term success and profitability of the company.
This will be achieved by building a strong functional team that has the appropriate direction and leadership to ensure that the strategic and operating plans are developed and implemented according to local regional and global strategic direction.
Your Tasks:
Service:
- To enable and manage the achievement of service performance that meets or exceeds customer expectations and differentiates DHL from the competitors.
- To ensure regional and global service standards are met or exceeded.
- To liaise with key and strategically important customers at the appropriate level to ensure customer retention, development and growth of new business.
- To be sensitive to emerging customer and market requirements.
- To ensure the improvement of Customer Satisfaction over time through customer service initiatives and strategies delivering best-in-class service
- To create, maintain and develop a favorable DHL image with its various influential audiences such as NGOs, partners, industry bodies and governments to facilitate the company's growth and development.
- To ensure that the annual business plan including revenue, cash flow, profit and service levels are met and corrective action is taken to rectify any negative variance.
- Determine local Country/ Country Group short and long term strategies and market approach within overall regional context.
- To provide strong leadership to ensure agreed strategies and goals are communicated and effectively implemented.
- To contribute to regional direction, ensuring that local environmental factors are taken into consideration in the setting of regional strategies and policies.
- To regularly and actively chair the Senior Management Team.
- To ensure close coordination of strategic activities with Solutions and Intercontinental business as well as GCS.
- To actively promote exchange of expertise and communication with other DHL and DPWN units
- To promote and participate in cross-BU activities and leverage synergies with other DPWN divisions
- To ensure the development of new business and maintenance of existing business in line with the Region’s profitability and growth targets.
- To ensure revenue yield enhancement and market share growth through the development and implementation of pricing and marketing plans.
- To ensure sales strategies and enabling tactics, drive both acquisition and retention of revenue throughout the DBU, Regular and Local Advantage revenue channels.
- To actively monitor the market, ensuring full awareness of competitors’ strategies and actions.
- To ensure the provision of the fastest, most reliable and secure global door to door express transport service in the market in the most cost-effective manner.
- To ensure the planning and implementation of strategies to improve service and transit time performance whilst managing costs.
- To manage the effective implementation and use of appropriate technology in all sections of the service chain, in order to enhance service and improve productivity.
- To ensure the provision of professional and stage of the art Information Services, enabling the business to obtain competitive advantage.
- To ensure the provision of HR advice and services that drive and reinforces DHL’s culture and business strategies.
- To ensure the provision of a supportive working environment suitable to achieving business objectives
- To implement and drive regional and local recognition and reward programs.
- To develop annual business plans that support the agreed strategies, improve market share and service levels, as well as meeting the expected financial contribution levels to the network.
- To continually review and improve business processes to improve productivity and add value to DHL services.
- To ensure the financial wellbeing of the company from a legal, statutory and DHL management perspective.
- To set, review, and implement capital and revenue budgets.
- To ensure that cost control programmes are effectively implemented to manage unit costs.
- To improve liquidity through good capital and debtor management
- To develop and implement change projects based on technological and industry change directions/trends.
- To drive and implement local integration (Note significant project may take a few years)
- To ensure the provision of suitable facilities and fleet in compliance with local statutory requirements in a cost-effective manner.
- To develop an organisational culture that nurtures and encourages service excellence, quality and a ‘can do’ mindset.
- To manage the improvement of Employee Satisfaction over time and work towards positioning as an employer of choice.
- Create a culture of change and continuous improvement to achieve long-term success.
- Determine organization structure, roles and responsibility and performance targets for the function.
- Develop a culture of quality, service excellence (for internal customers), flexibility and cost consciousness.
- Develop team spirit and multitasking capabilities within the team.
- Plan, organise and direct an efficient and effective function.
- Develop IKOs/KPIs with team members and monitor individual performance.
- Responsible for complying with talent management and performance process.
- Manage the allocation of appropriate resources and commitment of staff to the achievement of Global, Regional and Country objectives and targets.
- Identify training needs and opportunities to develop a highly skilled functional department.
- 5 to 7 years DHL experience managing large teams of people. In addition to prior experience in at least two core DHL functions at a senior level.
- Good knowledge of EG Market.
- Broad understanding of all functional aspects of the business and prior experience managing a complete profit and loss entity.
- High degree of commercial and business acumen and an understanding of the external economic environment and how this may affect DHL's short- and long-term planning
- Languages: high level of proficiency in English and Arabic
- Highly proficient communication skills, spoken and written.
- Solid background in the Air Express or Logistics industry.
- Commercial awareness of the transportation industry, aviation and regulatory issues.
- Negotiation experience.
- Presentation skills.
- Software skills (Microsoft applications, internet user skills, etc).
- Ability and willingness to travel.
- Experience in managing significant change programs and working within a matrix environment.
- Experience ofnetworking among local businesses, government and community leaders.
- International business experience, working and living in multicultural and multi-racial environment.
- Strong career support in an international environment.
- Great culture and colleagues.
- Multifarious benefit programm.
We look forward to receiving your application!
