Global Network Optimization Manager Retail Operations at Puma Energy

Main Purpose:
This Includes Building And Maintaining The Puma

Ensure that Puma Energy is optimizing a profitable portfolio of retail real estate sites across the globe. Working with Regional and Country Network Planning colleagues, develop the 5-year Puma Energy Network Plan and a Retail Property road map.

• Competitive Positioning, Tools & Methodologies
• Existing Network Performance Analysis
• Identification of future growth and
• Churning the Portfolio
• Support Regional and Country teams to develop network plans for sites that will remain within the portfolio, recovery plans for unprofitable sites that have the potential to become profitable and remain in the portfolio, and divest unprofitable sites. Make road map recommendations for countries where Puma Energy currently has Retail assets and where it currently has no Retail assets.
• Role model the Puma Energy core values and ways of working.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the global methodology, processes and procedures for ‘the one best way’ of approaching, developing and executing a 5-year Network Plan.Ensure that a one standard approach for all capital evaluation and discounted cash flow analysis is applied and adhered to in every Region and Country.Attend the various Investment Committees as and when appropriate.
• Ensure that Regions and Countries have the appropriate technical tools and systems to develop country specific retail network plans.
• Ensure within Regions and Countries, that from site identification, demographic analysis, capital evaluation, sign off, construction opening/divesting and managing the post implementation reviews are owned by the relevant Network Planning lead. Ensure all post implementation reviews track and mitigate the commercial and financial KPI’s that were signed off in the original proposal.
• Lead the global Retail Centre of Expertise and be the contact for all technical advice relating to Network Planning and Property Management issues. Provide the global work standards for Puma Energy Network Planning and Property Management.
• Ensure that Regions and Countries have the right network planning and property management talent and capability in place to deliver their individual 5-year plans, assisting in the interviewing, selection, on boarding, training and development processes. Ensure that Regional and Country teams have a Network Planning and a Property Management succession plan in place.
• To ensure that Puma Energy maintains competitive advantage by ensuring that that Regions and the Countries have an update understanding of competitor initiatives and activities within the Network Planning arena.

Advantageous Education

• Engineering qualification.

Experience

• At least 6 years working experience in network planning, within a fuel industry is a distinct advantage.
• At least 3 years management experience.
• Experience and understanding of Property Management (Landlord and Tennant experience).

Skills

• English language.
• High level of commercial and financial acumen.
• High level of proficiency with MS Office.
• Negotiation skills.

Competencies

• Customer focus
• and Analytical ability.
• Judgement,
• Problem-solving and decision making.
• Planning and organizing
• Communicate with clarity. (Internally & externally. Written & oral)
• Collaborating with others.
• Results driven.
• Ability to manage multiple projects.
• Managing ambiguity.
• Embracing change and transformation..
• Customer Focus.