General Manager - Vegetables

Job description / Role

General Manager - Vegetables - Kenya

As a recruitment agency, Millar Cameron has always excelled in finding excellent candidates to fill important and crucial positions in Sub-Saharan Africa. We are now looking to recruit a General Manager for a large vegetable distribution and packing operation in Kenya. This is an opportunity to work for a leading fresh produce company in a vital position, balancing export with the on-site operational management.

As the new General Manager, you would be ensuring that the packing operation remains the industry leading operation that is it, meeting customer demands in terms of service, quality, safety and legal compliance. You would also be a vital participant in the directional management of the business, supporting and communicating the corporate strategy throughout the operation.

The new general manager would be responsible for:
- Day to day operational management of the packing operations,
- Communicating with clients and marketing partners in Europe and Africa, and liaising with them on issues such as yield forecasts, quality and pricing,
- Ensure the Packhouse operations comply with international health and safety standards,
- Drive the sustainability agenda, to meet the headquarters and customers expectations,
- Continuously improving and developing cost-efficient measures to increase the economic viability of the packhouse operations.
- Frequent reporting to the Managing Director

Requirements

- At least 10 years of relevant experience, working internationally and gaining business and commercial exposure,
- Experience dealing with European and African retailers,
- Excellent communicational skills
- Regional experience in African would be highly advantageous.

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.