Director, Wholesale vacancy

Director, Wholesale vacancy
At Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, our Sales professionals are ambassadors of the engaging service and authentically local experiences we offer in places of unrivalled presence. Develop your market and lead a passionate team as Director, Sales, where your interpersonal, service and entrepreneurial strengths will ensure exceptional operating results and guest satisfaction.

Hotel Overview:
Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel has played a leading role in Kenya's colorful history, and continues to be Nairobi's finest and best-known luxury hotel. The town and later the modern city of Nairobi grew up around Fairmont The Norfolk hotel, which boasts 165 guest rooms and suites, and still has its own private tropical gardens. The hotel is still the traditional starting point for safaris and the Lord Delamere Terrace is modern Nairobi's most famous meeting place, where drinks and light meals are served continuously from morning until midnight.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Area Director Sales & Marketing Africa, responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

• Exceed personal sales goals, monthly, quarterly, annually, through account development and maintenance, regular sales calls, entertainment and sales trips/tradeshows.
  
• Support goals, objectives, and philosophies of Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and The Fairmont Kenya properties.
  
• Utilize Opera Sales & Catering Systems to track, prospect, book and follow up accounts.
  
• Acquire and maintain a working knowledge and market intelligence of competition portfolio.
  
• Develop lead sources through prospecting, solicitation, referrals, trace files, and cold calls.
  
• Conducts site inspections with prospective and existing clients.
  
• Develop and implement new sales strategies, tactics and action plans for account base through market and competitive intelligence.
  
• Coordinate and financially manage sales trips, including reports or activity pertaining to the specific market.
  
• Maintain active membership in industry related organizations and associations pertaining to the specific market.
  
• Assist other sales and catering managers and refer group and catering leads and other sources of business for hotel through active solicitation of account base
  
• Attend Sales Meetings, office events, and hotel-sponsored functions.
  
• Prepare for and attend daily sales meetings, monthly sales & marketing meetings and other meetings as necessary.
  
• Responsible to submit weekly sales report to the Director of Sales / DOSM.
  
• Maintain and update current account information in Opera and hard files.
  
• Involvement in industry Functions and/or trade shows, FAM visits and Industry Events.
  
• Support and perform to Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Company Sales and Marketing Standards.
  
• Assist with any other duties as requested by supervisors and management.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and/or Hotel Management degree preferred
  
• Experience handling Wholesale / Leisure an asset
  
• Experience with Opera Sales & Catering or similar database management system
  
• Minimum of 3 years experience in hotel catering and conference sales/sales. Additional experience in the hospitality industry an asset.
  
• Good understanding of Luxury market
  
• Possess or attain affiliation with leading industry Association within three years of hire/taking position
  

Visa Requirements: Candidate must be a Kenyan Citizen.

APPLY TODAY: Whether you're launching your career or seeking meaningful employment, we invite you to visit www.fairmontcareers.com to learn more about Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and the extraordinary opportunities that exist!







Closing Date: 10.Sep.2014, 11:59:00 PM

Plant Engineering Manager vacancy

Plant Engineering Manager vacancy

Job number 4355BR
Job title Plant Engineering Manager
Location/City Nairobi
Appointment type Permanent

Job PurposeReporting the Plant Manager, the plant engineer has the overall responsibility for all technical services function including Electrical, Mechanical, Building Services and process improvement and optimization. He / She will be required to ensure that the Capital Expenditure projects are managed professionally and delivered cost effectively within budget.
Key Deliverables

• Improve equipment availability to support timely achievement of processing schedules and devise measures to achieve and sustain target production efficiencies
  
• To manage the provision of services, (engineering, utilities, environmental health & safety, facilities, Indirects Procurement) in a controlled manner so that the department meets its objectives while the site receives uninterrupted service
  
• Effectively manages the department’s expenditure and assets within the agreed budget
  
• Lead maintenance, annual overhaul and modification projects of plant and quality control equipment to guarantee attainment of consistent optimum productivity and quality product
  
• Energy management; to act as a consultant to all internal departments regarding proactive management of energy consumption
  
• To identify the future business and capex requirements and ensure these are agreed and included in the Company plan in a timely way
  
• Ensure satisfactory completion of projects within agreed budget, to agreed time schedules and to agreed specification
  
• Overall responsibility (technical) for the site in terms of technical standards, alignment with Regional/ Global operations, compliance with local legal obligations
  
• To champion environmental health & safety activities and standards, and to support the factory in achieving high safety standards
  
• To maintain a professional and well-motivated team, ensuring appropriate training and development to ensure succession for all key positions. And to promote coaching and champion people development so that is taken up at all levels of the organization – ensuring a self-sustaining organization
  
• To engender of a culture of Openness, supported by Change management principles – so the organization is prepared for change and innovation
  
• To roll out and communicate that aligned vision, so that people are engaged and inspired (using the Line of Sight process)
  
• To champion the one business unit, ways of working and to provide leadership to the team and support the above-factory collaborative processes
  

Essential requirements

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering discipline
  
• Minimum 5 years experience as a mechanical/plant Engineer
  
• Experience in contract - management and good negotiation skills
  

Desirable requirements

• Experience of Project Management using Prince2 methodology is an added advantage
  
• Proven experience of industrial management acquired in industry
  
• Good communication and managing skills
  
• Ability to take clear decisions in different and difficult situations and a high degree of innovation.
  

Working at BAT
British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is a market leading, global organisation with a long, established history and a bright and dynamic future. Thanks to our people we have continued to deliver growth and exceed expectations in an increasingly complex and challenging marketplace.

Our aim is to become the leading tobacco company in each of our markets by providing excellent products with confidence and responsibility expected of global consumer brands.

If you have the talent and motivation to help us succeed you’ll find we are equally committed to helping you reach your full potential too.

British American Tobacco is an equal opportunity employer.
Employing company British American Tobacco Kenya Limited
Removal Date 22-Aug-2014

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Safaricom Senior manager-strategy and architecture vacancy

Safaricom Senior manager-strategy and architecture vacancy

In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:
Reporting to the Head of Department-Strategy & Planning, the position holder will shape and drive end to end Network strategy and Architecture for Safaricom ensuring that our network evolves to deliver the best customer experience, enable new rich services and meet future operational targets. This role requires a high caliber individual with strong strategic mindset, solid understanding of network architectures and proven track record for working effectively with a wide set of stakeholders on complex technology programmes
Key Responsibilities:

• Developing architectural framework required to deliver strategy;
  
• Defining vision and overall strategy to meet business needs;
  
• Integrating opportunities/challenges across network domains to create aligned set of strategic priorities;
  
• Ensuring we create an effective end-to-end network to deliver future customer needs/opportunities at lowest cost;
  
• Manage interfaces with other technology domains, Corporate Strategy, Vodafone Technology network (VTN) and Vodafone Group OpCos to ensure aligned approach towards strategy and architecture development, working as one team to deliver benefit for our customers;
  
• Working with procurement and technology network domains to ensure we leverage supplier competition to drive innovation, manage costs and provide best customer experience;
  
• Manage the transition and delivery of architectural elements based on project requirements;
  
• Develop and communicate governance framework for technology;
  
• Drive sharing knowledge, decisions, patterns and lessons learnt to integrate new solutions;
  
• Drive uniformity of technology approach for planning & operational processes across technology;
  
• Attract and recruit the best talent;
  
• Develop the team through Learning initiative, mentoring, coaching so as to create technology subject leads within the Strategy Function;
  
• Drive attainment of efficiencies through continuous improvement and or automation of process/activities with clearly identified and agreed on key performance measures.
  

Role requirements;

• University degree in a telecommunications biased discipline;
  
• Experience of leading development of complex technology strategies, architectures or roadmaps;
  
• Good understanding of broad set of Network technologies desired;
  
• Proven track record in network strategy development;
  
• Proven track record in network architecture development;
  
• Supplier strategy experience.
  

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, please send your resume with your cell phone contact indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the address below by Wednesday 20th August 2014.


The Head of Talent and Resourcing,
Safaricom Limited
Nairobi via E-mail to hr@safaricom.co.ke