Our client is a global leader in digital transformation with over 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of over € 11 billion. European number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. The group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under several brand names.
Job Specification
The main purpose of the role is to run and develop an efficient and profitable structure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to deliver ongoing profitable growth, financial budgets and targets and a high focus on developing the business and taking more advantage from the domestic market potential. The incumbent General Manager will provide strong leadership and communication to ensure clear understanding, motivation and commitment throughout the organisation. This position is considered to be of the utmost importance for the successful company’s presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . He/she will be fully in charge of further developing business and growing overall market share, revenues and profit, as well as developing customer orientation. The General Manager will be responsible for leading, maintaining and reinforcing an effective sales and operations teams, while finding and skilfully using the synergies with the group.
Some of the major accountability could be summarised as follows:
Primary Responsibilities:
- Overall responsibility for long-term strategic planning of the organization
- Lead the organization to develop, implement and achieve its mission, vision and goals
- Monitor achievement of operational and financial results.
- Ensure the annual and long term plan profitability and competitiveness.
- Ensure business growth and diversification to accomplish the vision of the organization. The aim is to develop new business for the company to ensure the growth and progress of the company.
- To work as a high level sales person for bringing new clients for the company and in so doing introduce the company to new potential clients and customers.
- To maintain the effective relationships with the clients by nurturing the relations.
- To oversee the process of recruiting and retaining of the employees of the company to ensure that the standard of a company never deteriorates.
- Responsibility and duty to report to the board of directors about the vital information on the company’s overall performance.
- To bring new and innovative ideas to the business and look for opportunities to expand and create a goodwill in the market
- Supervises the progress of individual departments of the company and the overall progress of the company
- Sets business goals and assigns targets to the employees and makes sure that the employees are providing productive results for the company
- Creating a positive and motivating atmosphere in the company and providing better growth opportunities for the employees
- Encourages innovative ideas from the employees and implement them for the benefit of the company
- Plans attractive strategies to retain skilled, hardworking and fruitful employees making sure that they are satisfied with the company
- Network with other potential clients and competitors in the market and get business tactics and ideas from them
- Develop strategies to boost sales and profits of the company and plan the future prospects of the company
- Responsible for whole of organization/business including support functions such as Finance, HR, IT, Admin, etc. on “dotted-line” basis.
Professional Experience:
- Sound, over 15+ years of experience in ICT services with the focus on sales and business development, with strong general management practice or potential.
- Experience and proven skills in international matrix driven service organizations.
- Strategic skills for defining local strategic goals and ensuring execution aligning to the company’s local and global strategies.
- Have existing relationships with the government organisations and blue-chip companies in the country.
- Proven success in sales and business development, gaining market shares, building trusted relationships with clients and business partners, etc.
- Strong leadership skills and a proven track record for successfully managing sales and service teams. Abilities to build successful and seamless collaboration between the teams. Strong in process optimization and quality management.
- Hands-on, pragmatic person with strong personal contribution to the sales and business development work and large deal processes.
- Goal-oriented person with strong resilience to operate in a vast changing environment at client side.
- Skills in understanding, creating and analyzing financial reports or budgets.
Personal Skills:
- Full of initiative, drive and personal commitment.
- Self-starting and can-do approach. Strategic thinker, high autonomy and team orientation as well as innovative ability and assertiveness.
- Strong result orientation and performance focus.
- Takes accountability for decisions and responsibilities.
- Concise rhetoric, communication skills (both verbally and in writing). Excellent presentation and negotiation skills.
- High volume interpersonal skills, helping in building professional relationships (internally and externally).
- Strong team management experience. Charisma, leadership and managerial skills. Creativity and strong ability to inspire others. Ability to motivate people, setting an example in the application of high professional standards and to maneuver and develop business procedures.
- Very good project management, supervisory and organizational skills.
Location: Based within Riyadh with regular travel within KSA.
Interested candidates, please send in your CVs to hemant.harisree@centaurusglobal.com