Deputy Country Manager job at Unifi Uganda

The Role

This position is ideal for a senior manager who is looking to play a key role as part of the country’s management team. The role would best suit an all-rounder who is able to manage a team comprising senior and junior staff members, with a primary role of ensuring the optimisation of all business operations as well as overall strategy formulation and execution. The ideal candidate must balance operational excellence with entrepreneurial energy, be analytically adept, and have a passion for African business. A healthy spirit of adventure and sense of humour would be helpful.

Responsibilities

• Leading, monitoring and providing ongoing training to the local team
• Recruiting and selecting new staff as the organisation grows
• Being responsible for team performance
• Building good relationships with key stakeholders
• Managing smart procurement and spending decisions, and controlling costs
• Driving profitability
• Oversee credit risk and implement credit policy changes, including overseeing employer risk management
• Improving processes and capabilities relating to branch operations, including collections and general cost control
• Oversee the management of branches and support the country manager in managing day-to-day head office, branch, and call center operations
• Rolling out new branches
• Liaising with centralised IT and analytics teams to improve operations and the product locally
• Regulatory compliance through interactions with various authorities
• Projects, initiatives, solutions to improve the quality of client base, new take on and existing, including product roll out
• Supporting Marketing function to grow sales from existing clients
• Overseeing client acquisition via direct marketing activities
• Further strengthen Unifi brand in Uganda
• Serve as a member of the senior management team and assist in the ongoing evolution of the company strategy for both Unifi Uganda and Unifi Africa
• Help keep Unifi a great place to work!

Requirements

• 10 years’ work experience at a senior management level in a high-velocity sales environment.
• Experience in finance and credit is preferable but not imperative.

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