EBC Associates Recruitment for General Manager

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for EBC Associates Recruitment for General Manager.

EBC Associates is a nationally recognized executive recruitment firm specializing in retained, contingency, exclusive and flat-fee search services. A proudly woman-owned WBENC-certified small business, EBC Associates delivers premier executive search assistance for the modern employer.

Job Description

• Company: EBC Associates
• Location: Ghana
• State: Accra
• Job type: Full-Time

Role

• Working closely with the Board of the Business Unit and the Group Board of Directors, facilitate the development and lead the achievement of the vision and long-term goals of the business units in line with the Group vision and mission principles. Facilitate the development of strategic and annual plans in line with the Group strategic plan. Allocate on average 60% of time for business area initiatives development and 40% time for operational and administrative functions.

Human Resource Management

Recruit, develop, manage, and evaluate personnel to promote the purposes and achieve the goals of the business units, including skilled and casual staff. Develop and deploy effective development programmes and equitable human resource systems to invest in and retain people of quality, who are devoted to the mission, as the primary resource of the poultry farm and the chicken processing units.

Project Management

Capitalize on opportunities and overcome obstacles to achieve projects to scale, and sustainability in line with the Group’s mission principles and the business units’ strategic plan. Oversee projects planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation. Develop and manage effective partnerships to accomplish project goals. Ensure that the business units and its projects in consultation with the Board of Directors, manage planning processes to set annual and strategic plans for the Poultry Farm and Chicken

Processing

Directly supervise between five and ten staff plus indirect management of projects’ office and field staff depending on projects growth size.

In consultation with the Group Level and Board of Directors, contribute to the policy guidelines development, recommend and set policy to govern the poultry and chicken processing operations.

Requirements

The successful candidate for the General Manager position will have: • 8 or more years of successful international development experience including five or more years effective senior management experience, preferable with Agri-business or poultry farming and chicken processing within a fast-developing or developed region. • Project and community development experience a distinct advantage. • Experience in serving on the Boards of Directors for a profit making company is strongly preferred. • Experience in chicken farm resource development, plus a cross-cultural relationship development is strongly preferred. • Experience in managing mutually inclusive projects required. • University degree in agricultural science such as crop and animal science, public agricultural administration, management, and/ or agric engineering. • Continuing education or graduate study preferred but not required, in relevant fields such as resource development, project management, or community development. Application Deadline

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send a cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the successful candidate has been selected.

All inquiries are confidential.