Assistant CEO

AtripleA Recruitment & Temps; Brits; On-site; ZAR 50 000 - 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Assistant (Deputy) CEO for a company in the manufacturing industry located in South Africa. The ideal candidate will have extensive management experience, particularly within the food manufacturing sector. Key responsibilities include maximizing profitability, managing marketing strategies, and overseeing innovation and technology implementation. This role requires a Bachelor's degree, preferably an Honors or MBA, and a strong track record in strategic and operations management.

Qualifications

• 10 Years’ experience in managing a unit or business.
• 10 Years’ experience in managing marketing within the food manufacturing industry or equivalent.
• 5+ Years’ experience in managing technology, machinery, automation, and cost savings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver best possible bottom-line profit in line with changing market conditions.
• Anticipate market trends to ensure adequate product quality.
• Oversee development and implementation of innovation and modernization.

Skills

Relationship and Stakeholder management

Strategic, tactical, and operational thinking

Creativity and innovation

Problem-solving

Planning and organizing

Commercial thinking

Education

B Degree relevant to the nature of the business

Honors degree

MBA degree equivalent

Job description

Our client in the Manufacturing Industry is looking to hire an Assistant (Deputy) CEO.

Duties and Responsibilities

Job Objective

• To deliver best possible bottom-line profit in line with changing market conditions. To deliver best return on investment for shareholders and support business sustainability.
• To anticipate market, climate, raw material supply trends to ensure adequate products and product quality to the markets in line with client’s contracts, specifications, and volumes to prevent opportunity revenue loss.
• To ensure a healthy financial balance sheet for the organization in support of business sustainability.
• To ensure marketing of product range at best prices on proactive local and global markets and gather market intelligence to achieve best possible financial results.
• To ensure production of quality products with most relevant technology, cost, and innovation to remain relevant within market and price-competitive products.
• To develop, nurture and leverage good, effective, and professional relationships with shareholders and suppliers and support business expansion and sustainability.
• To provide employment opportunities and retain good relationships with local communities in support of corporate social responsibility.
• To oversee the development and implementation of innovation, automation, and modernization of technology and practices agendas to support cost-effectiveness, retain competitive advantage, best practice, and deliver best profits.
• To oversee the development and implementation of product innovation to ensure cost-effectiveness, market relevance and support the market expansion agenda.
• To ensure customer relationships transition that was built over many years locally as well as abroad.

Job Knowledge

• Business and Financial Management.
• Marketing locally and globally.
• Production related knowledge.
• Technical knowhow on product specifics.
• Personnel and labor relationship knowledge

Job Related Skills

• Relationship and Stakeholder management.
• Strategic, tactical, and operational thinking.
• Conceptual thinking.
• Creativity and innovation.
• Problem-solving.
• Planning and organizing.
• Adapting to change.
• Commercial thinking.

Requirements

• 10 Years’ experience in managing a unit or business.
• 10 Years’ experience in managing marketing within the food manufacturing industry or equivalent.
• 5+ Years’ experience in managing technology, machinery, automation, and cost savings.
• B Degree relevant to the nature of the business.
• Honors degree would be advantageous.
• MBA degree equivalent.