Managing Director
Timber World
Nairobi, Kenya
Permanent
Published 2 months ago · Expires 4 weeks from now
Job description
The General Manager will be pivotal in upholding and advancing this unique operational philosophy.
- Responsible for setting and overseeing the company’s overall vision, strategic direction, and long-term objectives, and for translating that strategy into clear, executable business plans.
- Providing overall financial and commercial leadership by overseeing the company’s budgets, sales strategy, revenue targets, and full profit and loss responsibility.
- Controlling pricing and profitability by approving pricing models, margin expectations, and discount structures, while continuously monitoring project margins and overall company profitability.
- Overseeing sales performance by monitoring the sales pipeline, forecasting accuracy, and conversion rates, ensuring sales commitments align with operational capacity.
- Leading key client relationships by conducting high-value negotiations, securing major contracts, and ensuring strong client engagement, satisfaction, and long-term retention.
- Governing design quality by overseeing design standards, innovation, and compliance, ensuring all design outputs meet client expectations, budget constraints, and build requirements.
- Managing design capacity and resources to ensure design teams are appropriately resourced, workloads are balanced, and project timelines are met.
- Ensuring effective integration between design and manufacturing teams by coordinating collaboration and ensuring designs are optimized for efficient production.
- Overseeing manufacturing operations by managing factory planning, workflow, and output, while ensuring high standards of quality, efficiency, and workplace safety.
- Controlling manufacturing costs and investments by optimizing production costs, lead times, and material usage, and approving capital expenditure on machinery and tooling.
- Aligning manufacturing output with site and project schedules to ensure seamless delivery from factory to installation and minimize delays.
- Overseeing site and construction operations, providing leadership on execution and resolving major site issues and escalations as they arise.
- Ensuring consistent project delivery by overseeing schedules, budgets, and scope, and by actively managing risks, variations, and contractual claims.
- Leading health, safety, and environmental performance by enforcing compliance across workshops and sites and promoting a strong safety culture throughout the business.
- Managing end-to-end operations by establishing and continuously improving workflows and ensuring strong coordination between sales, design, manufacturing, and site teams.
- Driving performance management by implementing key performance indicators and dashboards...