General Manager Sub-Saharan Africa at Honeywell

The location is fixed in South Africa and key requirement is the availability of mobility for a relocation within 3-4 years. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops and communicates long term strategy and vision for SSA Region in line with overall HPS business strategic vision
• Ensures a close partnership with HPS sales organization including development and review of a healthy pipeline of orders as well as engages on pre-sales opportunities on strategy and customer presentations
• Provides leadership to program teams around business plans for customer terms/conditions of contracts
• Establishes and maintains management operating system to monitor and address the health of the business
• Working with cross functional teams, provides significant input to overall HPS STRAP and AOP
• Responsible for selecting and developing top program/project management talent, building a delivery focused environment
• Teams with other functional business leaders to ensure most effective use of resources across the PAS and ultimately HPS business
• Incorporates cost savings and process improvement into overall operating model
• Responsible for overall financial performance of SSA PAS & HPS including Orders, Revenue, Gross Profit, and Operating
• Income necessary to achieve AOP
• Build a high performing projects org. by continually investing, building on the capabilities of the project managers while ensuring 100% deployment of project management tools, processes and guidelines on projects execution and commissioning
• Own and drive diversification and growth in newer markets by building the skill set and competencies on projects execution for newer verticals

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• General Manager / P&L experience required especially in a projects business
• Knowledge of Process Instrumentation & controls, Automation in Energy Transition & Sustainability initiatives, Oil & Gas
• Midstream Industry and Hybrid / Discrete manufacturing segments
• Experience working cross-functionally across the global organization
• Excellent relationship management skills, along with the ability to manage cross-functional teams.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments concurrently, including ability to evaluate and manage priorities
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical expertise and lead multi-discipline teams

We Value:

• The successful candidate will have a minimum of fifteen years of progressive experience in commercial management (“commercial” is defined as strategy, sales, marketing, pricing business development, and general manager (P&L responsibility) experience.