Cargill has been sourcing cocoa from Ghana for over 40 years and in 2008 opened its state-of-the-art cocoa processing facility in Tema. Today the company has around 400 permanent and contracted employees processing cocoa products to service food and confectionary customers locally and around the world. Additionally, our animal nutrition business provides aqua feed which is supporting Ghana\u2019s tilapia fish industry.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Managing Director Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n Position Purpose:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Manage and lead operations in Ghana Major Tasks:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 15% Lobbying, government and authoirites relations: manage high profile stakeholders, high level negotiations, relations to World Bank, IMF CMC, Cocobod<\/p>\n Represent Cargill in professional organizations, (Grinders association, Industry Association, LBC Association, Public private platform ), Customer visits etc \u2022 15% Lead management teams and define global strategy, vision in; \u2022 10% Lead management teams and define policies for: \u2022 10% Manage and lead management teams for: \u2022 25% Lead LBC operations, expand, scale up activities,EHS, Safety,\u00a0Security<\/p>\n \u2022 10% HR: \u2022 15% \u00a0Any other duties as assigned<\/p>\n Other Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n The job requires an ability to work with a high level of complexity, \u00a0to deal with crisis situation and has a \u00a0high exposure to polical systems<\/p>\n \u2022 Must be ready to manage complexities, change and crisis: \u2022 Capacity to maintain high ethical standards Desired Skills and Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Required Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Master degree in business economics or equivalent Preferred qualitfications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2022 Resilience to work under significant pressure Cargill has been sourcing cocoa from Ghana for over 40 years and in 2008 opened its state-of-the-art cocoa processing facility in Tema. Today the company has around 400 permanent and…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[176],"tags":[2027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-4sQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Manage and lead management teams
\n\u2022 Part of the West Africa Leadership Team
\n\u2022 Speaking partner for governments local authorities, officials etc
\n\u2022 Implement corporate policies, mindset, ethical standards in Ghana<\/p>\n
\nNGOs
\nDonors
\nAll external stakeholders<\/p>\n
\nSourcing
\nSustainibility
\nRisk Management
\nInvestments
\nOperations<\/p>\n
\nPNL, SGA, costs, ROGI
\nCosts versus Cocobod pre set costs
\nProfitability Plant – LBC<\/p>\n
\nPlant operations
\nProduction
\nYields products mix
\nEHS safety
\nSecurity<\/p>\n
\nCoordinate management teams,
\nStructure HR policies and organisations of teams, people management, processes, systems
\nManage Ghana ELT
\nDevelop African talents,<\/p>\n
\n– Constantly changing \u00a0political and business environment:
\n– high level of corruption,
\n– fiscal unstability,
\n– ever changing rules
\n– Non liberalized environment<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 High communication skills: relations to high profile authorities, government, donors, customers \u2013 relation to media
\n\u2022 Good Health conditions: High risk of \u00a0malaria, tropical disease
\n\u2022 Travelling: 30%<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 10 years experience
\n– At least 2\/3 years experience in commodities, trading
\n– At least \u00a04\/5 year in extensive operational \u00a0and strategic leadership with \u00a0responsibilities for PnL, and track record in delivering growth
\n– 2 \/3 \u00a0years experience in magement
\n– Experience in emerging countries\/ Africa a plus
\n\u2022 Extensive operational, commercial and strategic leadership
\n\u2022 Strong leadership qualities, with the ability to direct, develop and motivate large teams
\n\u2022 Experience in strategic planning and execution, ability to communicate vision and strategy, providing a clear sense of organizational direction
\n\u2022 Extensive experience of working in an emerging market \/ ideally Africa, demonstrating cultural sensitivity and developing effective relationships with local teams
\n\u2022 Effective communicator with excellent persuasive and interpersonal skills: ability to develop \u00a0networks and high quality relationships
\n\u2022 Resilience to work under significant pressure in a very complex political and social environment
\n\u2022 Willingness to manage across multiple locations with travelling
\n\u2022 Ability to maintain high ethical standards
\n\u2022 English speaking<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Ability to maintain high ethical standards
\n\u2022 Strong leadership qualities
\n\u2022 Extensive experience in working in an emerging country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"