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Siemens Job for a Country Business Unit Manager in Port Harcourt
Siemens is an Integrated Technology Company. The business activities of
our Energy, Health care, Industry and Infrastructure & Cities
Sectors have enabled us to capture leading market and technology
positions worldwide.
Technological excellence, innovation, quality,
reliability and international focus have been our hallmarks for 165
years, making us strong and linking us to our shareholders, employees
and customers as a partner of trust.
Siemens is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Country Business Unit Manager
Job ID: 216967
Location: Port-Harcourt
Job Description
- Leading projects, i.e. responsible for execution of the
contracts in terms of time, budget and quality, to ensure success in
terms of economic results and customer satisfaction.
- Responsible for workshop and logistics’ day to day activities
- Continuous identification of risks in the project (EHS risks,
contract risks, political/economic/ technical/ organizational risks),
evaluation of implications, development and implementation of the
appropriate risk mitigation strategy
- Management of the project team, ensuring target oriented, open
communication within the project team (regarding targets,
responsibilities and performance feedback, during and after the
project).
- Continuous identification of opportunities in the project and materialization of them to the maximum benefit of the project
- Ensuring project acceptance with the customer, including
completing and presenting project documentation and organizing the final
project transfer to the customer and others involved.
- Responsible to develop, sustain and support execution of
flexible strategic operational plan in line with evolving Siemens
Limited Nigeria strategy.
- Co-coordinating the total project scope (including resource
planning, project scheduling, organization, documentation and interface
management).
- Developing and maintaining a strong customer relationship.
- Actively support partners (internal and external) in a
co-operative way in order for all parties to achieve agreed targets and
economic results.
- Ensuring reporting internally and externally of all aspects of
the project on a regular basis. Defining, managing and communicating
project targets and status (cost, time frame, functionality, and quality
management).
General Management:
- Leads and directs divisional measures and actions to ensure
qualification of Service and Sales and Project Management about current
tools and financial knowledge to improve organizational performance
(business excellence).
Leading and Monitoring:
- Effectively works through others in order to accomplish
objectives or fulfill responsibilities; has continuous dialogue
especially with the branches to form a common understanding and to
ensure full impact of measures. Has an organized approach to check on
the progress of tasks and projects, steps in when necessary to regain
control.
Policies & Regulations:
- Responsible for adherence to all internal, external and corporate policies, procedures and quality standards
Risk Management:
- Establishes and ensures risk and escalation management to
identify and mitigate risks (early-warning-system). Responsible for
bid/no bid and financial risk analysis on large projects in line with
group policies and guidelines
Customer Relationship:
- Intensifies the customer relationship and participates in
significant contract negotiation. Contract management including
financing in major project/system business. Ensures customer
participation in business processes.
Communication:
- Proactive, comprehensive and continuous communication to group
and division management, employees on all levels, regions and
stakeholders to support achievement of business targets, employee and
customer satisfaction.
Leadership:
- Leads, directs and develops direct reports based on Siemens
Management Tools (Staff Dialogue, SMR, competence management, etc.) to
enable outstanding performance and career development. Identifies high
potentials and assists in their development for other jobs or
assignments across the boundaries of one’s organization.
Management & Delegation:
- Effectively manages individuals, functions and teams. Creates
successful cross-functional/cross-divisional/cross-national teams or
strategic alliance. Effectively delegates responsibility and/or
authority to subordinates with clear guidelines and directions. Obtains
high performance from employees by developing a strong sense of
professionalism, accountability and pride within the division.
Training:
- Establish training for service, project execution and sales to optimize productivity and efficiency on short and long term.
Experience:
- Extensive experience in one or more of the areas processing, installation, engineering, development and business administration
- Experience in supervising employees, guiding and coaching teams
- Experience in cooperating within multicultural teams preferred
- Experience in being responsible for projects or parts thereof, in an engineer-to-order environment
Knowledge:
- Inter- and multicultural skills
- Market Expertise:
- Best practices and lessons learned
- Oil & Gas standards and codes
- HSE methods, tools and legislation
- Negotiation techniques; Presentation techniques
- MS Office; internet/intranet
- Language: English
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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