Jobs at BURN

The MD will be responsible for reviewing and analyzing monthly financial reports, leading cross-functional meetings, and presenting key findings to the senior management team (SMT). Additionally, the MD will work closely with stakeholders to address and resolve any operational challenges, escalate country-specific risks, and ensure alignment with the company's overall goals and objectives.
The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, financial acumen, and the ability to navigate complex, multicultural environments.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing Country Managers
• Weekly engagements with country managers for country updates
• Follow-up on any issues that require de-bottlenecking for Country Managers
• Managing Cost Accountant for Country Management
• Review of Monthly P&L and management reports for countries, engaging relevant stakeholders.
• Leading cross-functional weekly meetings to review the country’s monthly report.
• Lead presentation of country monthly report weekly
• Escalating country risks to SMT.
• Travel regularly to the countries to engage with local teams, assess operations, and strengthen relationships.

Skills and Experience:

• A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field is required. An MBA or equivalent advanced degree is preferred.
• Professional certifications (e.g., CPA, CFA, PMP) are a plus.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a senior management role, preferably in a multinational or diverse regional setting.
• Proven track record of managing and leading cross-functional teams.
• Experience in financial analysis, budgeting, and P&L management.
• Demonstrated experience in managing country operations or regional business units.
• Experience in presenting to and engaging with senior management teams (SMT) and stakeholders.
• Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply

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If you thrive at the intersection of data analysis, process optimization, and strategic problem-solving, we want to hear from you.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of interdependencies contributing to key Carbon and Commercial metrics
• Spend significant time in the field, seeing first-hand how key stakeholders – customers and sales agents - interact with BURN
• Proactively assess process and system outputs to spot inefficiencies, and underperformance
• Conduct hands-on investigations to identify root causes of operational issues
• Analyze blockers/challenges/problems from multiple angles, questioning data and challenging assumptions
• Communicate complex findings in clear, concise language to all levels of the organization
• Develop and cross-functionally implement actionable recommendations backed by data and real-world observations
• Manage and motivate in-department teams to meet goals on schedule and in budget
• Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Multi-country leadership.  Develop and execute in-country strategy to achieve business objectives, leading the country business unit managers in running an efficient, effective and profitable operation. Own the overall business unit PnL, driving cost management and revenue growth.  
• Distribution management. Refine the last-mile distribution model to ensure achievement of commercial targets, maintaining the quality of distribution standards. This will include both in-field and tech-focused control measures. Build a highly trackable and scalable system to meet distribution targets.
• Community engagement. Collaboratively redesign the community-engagement approach in each market, ensuring the agent network is identifying, interacting with and selling to the ideal customer profile.
• Logistics and inventory coordination. Oversee distribution systems, coordinating the management of in-country logistic operation functions, product logistics cycle from the border to all of BURN’s country markets, ensuring optimal stocking to meet demand.
• Support department coordination. Ensure smooth collaboration with support departments e.g. HR, Finance, Legal etc. to resource distribution teams in-country
• Market Knowledge. Drive collecting market insights from community engagement to senior management, to inform strategy and support meeting organization objectives.
• Performance Management. Design and implement performance management systems that balance commercial and impact metrics, from country leadership through to agent level. Travel regularly to the countries to engage with local teams, assess operations, and strengthen relationships.

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in operations and/or commercial management, with significant exposure to rural markets
• Proven track record in building and managing last-mile distribution networks
• Background in community development or social impact work would be a plus
• Understanding of rural market dynamics and community engagement principles
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making
• Ability to balance commercial and social impact objectives
• Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply