General Manager-Quest Search and Selection-Jeddah - Saudi Arabia

Monthly Salary: (in US$) $8001 - $9000
A fortune 500 company with estimated 2008 revenues of $6.8 - $7.0 billion requires a General Manager based in Saudi Arabia. The main purpose of the General Manager is to effectively manage the facilities business and to ensure high quality service standards and service delivery on existing and new contracts. The General Manager will also be required to develop new facilities management consultancy, operations and maintenance business and contracts. The General Manager will further be required to manage and deliver agreed operating budgets and targets and reporting to management board. The key responsibilities for the General Manager include: - To take full profit and loss responsibility for the country - To ensure an annual and forward business plan and budget is in place for the contract which will fulfil the company’s cost down expectations, regional budgetary requirements and the company’s shareholders’ profit share. - To report to regional management any financial exceptions and other information as required. - To ensure that appropriate Central Management Team (CMT) staff and Site Operations Managers understand their responsibilities with regard to financial performance against budget and implement action to ensure that financial targets are met. - To ensure that corporate policies and procedures are strictly adhered to, in order to maintain the integrity of the operational activities within the region, e.g. IMS, H&S, ISO14001, legislative. - To attend scheduled and ad hoc regional meetings as required by CEO. - To communicate relevant issues to regional management team when appropriate and proactively request support when required. - To develop and inspire a professional team enabling them to meet both personal and business targets. - To provide clear operational direction to CMT and site staff across the country teams. - To ensure that regular communications are provided to all staff on contract, regional and company performance in concert with CEO. - To agree and to regularly review clear performance objectives for each CMT team member and Site Operations Managers and to undertake an annual appraisal with each direct report. - To fully meet and exceed the objectives of the company including cost down, operational culture change, introducing and sharing best practice initiatives, improved systems/procedure and world class service provision. - To provide technical and operational input to Business Development Managers in the preparation and negotiation of new contracts. - To implement and own mobilisation plans in line with roll out programme of client sites. - To identify operational improvements and enhancements to meet with contractual requirement of continuous improvement bearing in mind the overall cost down exercise for duration of contract period without losing high quality service to client. - To ensure the CMT provides adequate and focused support to the contract’s Site Operations Managers and their teams. The successful General Manager will have a proven track record in a similar position with sound management and interpersonal skills to effectively provide leadership to the organisation and subordinate staff. A facilities management background with good knowledge of hard services is essential. If this role is something that you would like to know more about, please do not hesitate to forward a copy of your full CV. Please note: Applications should be e-mailed to: apply@questsearch.co.uk quoting the reference DBK67807 and will only be considered if accompanied by a copy of your CV in Word format

Experience 7 - 25 years
Education Basic - Secondary School
Nationality American (US), British (UK), Canadian, Any GCC National
Gender Any

Contact: Reference Code DBK67807
Name Quest Search and Selection - -
Email: apply@questsearch.co.uk
Contact Number LandLine : 00 44 20 8222 0555