Openings at Millar Cameron

The responsibilities include:

• Overseeing origination
• Developing a strong network of investors, partners, co-developers, and others to support the origination and delivery of infrastructure projects in Africa • Managing initial enquiries from potential partners and co-developers
• Overseeing the drafting of Internal Development Committee (IDC) screening papers
• Overseeing all due diligence activities, with a specific focus on project design, budget, timeline, and partners
• Ensuring the appropriate reviews and input have been secured before submitting the project to the IDC and PIDG Investment Committee (IC)
• Leading development of a portfolio of projects
• Providing ongoing support to BD Analysts and BD Managers as they develop projects, directly leading the development of projects as needed
• Building rewarding relationships with stakeholders including governments, communities, developers, advisers, investors, and contractors
• Structuring and negotiating all commercial terms of InfraCo’s involvement at or beyond financial close
• Troubleshooting and contributing to development activities on projects as required
• Managing the company’s sale and/or exit from a project at or before financial close
• Challenging and shaping project plans and budgets to accurately forecast InfraCo’s disbursements
• Presenting at conferences and other events to showcase InfraCo’s work
• Line management
• Safeguard health, safety and wellbeing of reports
• Set clear objectives and manage performance against these throughout the year
• Identify and address skills and knowledge gaps within the team, coaching junior members of staff
• Protect and enhance InfraCo Africa’s reputation

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THE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE ROLE ARE:

• Assist & Support the Managing Director and management team in setting goals that promote company/region growth
• Manage regional farm operations based on company policies, goals, and objectives to ensure an efficient working environment and that deadlines are met consistently
• Oversees the daily activity of the farms, staff, and direct/indirect overheads in their area
• Prepares budgets, schedules, and other organizational reports as needed
• Manages team workloads to meet goals and deadlines
• Develops plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs
• Improves existing systems and policies
• Ensures customer requirements are met promptly
• Promotes and enforces safety in the workplace
• Manages stock and inventory
• Works closely with other departments to promote efficient farm / regional optimization
• Identifies improvement areas and plans and implements systems to boost region effectiveness
• Manages internal and external service suppliers
• Manages internal and external service suppliers
• Identifying opportunities to streamline business processes and systems
• Defining performance management KPIs to monitor operational success against objectives
• Establishing a culture of continuous business improvement
• All aspects of the day-to-day management of the operations team
• All aspects of the day-to-day management of the operations team
• Minimising operation expenditure within the business wherever possible

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

• Prior experience as operations manager required; 5 - 10 years demonstrable senior operations experience required
• Experience in handling and working in multi-site operations with good project management skills being able to structure a plan, marshal resources, work within a team, and deliver on commitments
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and an ability to communicate complex business ideas
• Previous experience working for a company within the industry or from a similar business
• Commercial awareness with an eye for seeing business improvement opportunities
• Leading, managing, and developing both individuals and the team through effective communication and mentoring
• Self-driven, reliant and motivated, being energetic and positive in outlook with the hands-on and energetic approach in seeing things through to completion
• Highly motivated with a passion for driving operational business change.
• Ability to demonstrate exceptional organization and planning Skills
• Adaptable to change
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills: persuasive and with the gravitas to gain confidence at board level
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Highly numerate and computer literate
• Strong organisation skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong decision making, action planning, and prioritization skills
• Ability to work as part of a dynamic team.