GE Careers in Nigeria-Manager

Posted Position Title:Manager, Risk & Market Development - GE Africa
Date:Sep 27, 2011
Job Number:1444059

Location:South Africa,Kenya,Nigeria
City:Ikoyi-Lagos
Relocation Assistance:No
Business:GE Global Growth & Operations
Business Segment: Global Growth & Operations - Africa
Career Level:Experienced
Function:Marketing
Function Segment:Commercial Marketing

Role Summary/Purpose:
This role will be responsible for the identification and mitigation of operational risk across GE Africa as well as identify economic and commercial factors that affect GE’s operations across the region. This role will work closely with the following teams: government relations, commercial growth, finance, legal, and P&Ls to ensure that GE Africa has a strong program that identifies operational risk in a timely manner and develops the appropriate risk mitigation controls.
Essential Responsibilities
• Establishing and ensuring strong monitoring mechanisms and process training rhythm
• Maintaining the risk management processes that identify transactional risk both technical and commercial, promote mitigation strategies and assure informed leadership decisions, both in the ITO and OTR phase of the project.
• Establishing the framework for capturing and institutionalizing “customer insights” and tracking benefits for the region.
• Supporting business growth by partnering with other functions on customer insight review and benchmarking
• Providing GE Africa’s leaders with detailed information to identify external transaction risks, mitigation strategies and facilitate informed decisions
• Focus on identification of commercially viable long-term opportunities, lead and engage in discrete strategic assessments and enhance market, industry and customer knowledge.
• Drive a thorough understanding of the regional environmental dynamics including but not limited to the following:
- Industry/Regional trends
- Competitive environment across the region/portfolio of products with a focus on commercial and product level differentiation
- Country specific operational risks

Qualifications/Requirements:
• Establishing and ensuring strong monitoring mechanisms and process training rhythm
• Maintaining the risk management processes that identify transactional risk both technical and commercial, promote mitigation strategies and assure informed leadership decisions, both in the ITO and OTR phase of the project.
• Establishing the framework for capturing and institutionalizing “customer insights” and tracking benefits for the region.
• Supporting business growth by partnering with other functions on customer insight review and benchmarking
• Providing GE Africa’s leaders with detailed information to identify external transaction risks, mitigation strategies and facilitate informed decisions
• Focus on identification of commercially viable long-term opportunities, lead and engage in discrete strategic assessments and enhance market, industry and customer knowledge.
• Drive a thorough understanding of the regional environmental dynamics including but not limited to the following:
- Industry/Regional trends
- Competitive environment across the region/portfolio of products with a focus on commercial and product level differentiation
- Country specific operational risks
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Application
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