Functional Manager Transport East & West Africa at WTS Energy

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Determining staffing requirements and working with the human resources group to recruit staff and contract personnel;
• Developing staff skills including training and career initiatives;
• Maintaining appropriate succession planning and staff resource planning systems;
• Preparing and delivering the regional business strategy for the transport group;
• Marketing the company’s transport sector with clients and prospective clients;
• Leading the Transport business development group in identifying and tracking business opportunities, developing appropriate partners/associations and strategies, and preparing expressions of interest and proposals;
• Liaising and collaborating with counterparts in the Southern Africa Region;
• Ensuring that proposals include sufficient fees and expenses to facilitate the technical delivery of the projects to a minimum acceptable standard;
• Ensuring that project deliverables are reviewed internally at appropriate stages for all transport projects and that project outputs meet contractual obligations in terms of timeframe, technical standards, and quality;
• Providing key expert inputs to projects and performing the role of project director as required;
• Reviewing and ensuring that all projects are accurately planned and that project plans are up to date;
• Monitoring annual project fee and contribution performance against budget targets and taking appropriate actions to maximize budget performance; and
• Contributing to the preparation of the transport budget for the region.

Key Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Appropriate engineering or equivalent degree/higher degree from accredited university/college
• Minimum 10 years of practical experience in highways and transport
• Demonstrated leadership
• Sound technical knowledge related to highways and transport
• A thorough understanding of highway and transport project implementation
• Business planning, budgeting and commercial acumen
• Proven project management skills, and hands-on experience, encompassing administrative, commercial and technical aspects, and ability to deliver within project based budgets and timelines
• Demonstrated ability to successfully undertake and deliver the client’s TOR
• An understanding of business, organisation and marketing
• Customer service orientation
• Industry awareness
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively within a culturally diverse and multi-disciplinary environment