Vacancy title:
Country Manager

Jobs at:
Ipsos Tanzania

Deadline of this Job:
31st August 2018

Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: 20th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

Ipsos is a world—leading research company operating in more than 85 countries. It has revenues in excess of £1 Bn and em over 16,000 staff Worldwide. lpsos provides research services and strategic insights to the world’s largest corporation many public sector organizations. At ipsos we are passionately curious about people, markets, brands and society, We make our changing world easier and to navigate and inspire clients to make smarter decisions. We deliver with security, simplicity, speed and substance. We are Game Changers.

JOB DETAILS:
The Country Head is the Senior face to clients, employees and local authorities. In close collaboration with the Cluster Mar the Counfry Head represents the interests of the Ipsos Tanzania business/ office/ employees and also the client needs. This reperts to the Manager, East Cluster and is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Essential Responsibilities and deliverables
Clients and Positioning

• Develops and maintains local client contacts as the senior client representative of lpsos in the country
  
• Understands the client needs regardless of Strategic
  
• Business Lines and helps developing projects locally together with Business Units and across Clusters
  
• External representation of the company, aligned with global branding, positioning, marketing and communication to both the client and talent market
  

Leadership & People Management

• Strategic business planning for lpsos in Tanzania aligned with
  
• Global and Sub Saharan Africa vision and SSA and strategic business planning
  
• Drive at performance based culture that engages teams at all levels
  
• Lead the Executive team, including regularly scheduled team management meetings and all other strategy, policy and decision making sessions as appropriate implementing lpsos Group strategy, policies and processes locally
  
• Conducts all statutory and legal responsibilities for all legal entities of lpsos in Tanzania
  

Business Development

• identify and develop local business opportunities for significant growth within lpsos Tanzania
  
• Leveraging and building on the global knowledge, capabilities and resources in lpsos global practices
  
• implement and manage a client and sales oriented focus in the business
  
• Identify and develop local business opportunities for significant growth within lpsos Tanzania
  
• Leveraging and building on the global knowledge, capal: and resources in lpsos global practices
  
• Implement and manage a client and sales oriented focus the business
  

Required Experience and Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, or related field’
  
• An advanced degree such as an MBA would be an added advantage
  Previous Experience
  
• Minimum of 10 years Market Research related experience with at least 6 years’ previous senior management experience
  
• Proven track record of having run a successful business, preferably in professional services or market research
  
• Experience working in a multinational environment
  

Measures of performance

• Financial performance of Country (including both P&L anl balance sheet performance)
  
• Retention of key staff & Development of a succession pip Client satisfaction
  
• Employee Engagement