Head of Commercial
1 month ago
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Swissport Kenya Limited part of Swissport International Ltd. provides ground handling services and cargo handling at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi KEnya. Globally, Swissport is active at more than 270 airports in 48 countries on five continents and generates consolidated operating revenue of CHF 3.0 billion.
JOB SUMMARY
ROLE SUMMARYThe Head of Commercial - Africa will lead and deliver all sales and commercial activities in the sub-region in close partnership with the country commercial teams to achieve revenue, sales, and profit targets in line with financial objectives while ensuring full compliance with Swissport's governance, policies, and procedures. Position reports to Head of Commercial, CEMEAI.QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTSAviation Industry or Airport Services: Ground Handling, GSA, Airline, Integrator, and Logistics Supply Chain experience.Proven track record: Demonstrated success in leading and delivering sales and commercial activities, preferably within the African market. Previous experience in a similar leadership role is highly desirable.Prospecting: Prior prospecting experience from similarly sized businesses.Deal Shaping: Experienced in shaping multi-regional deals from start to finish.Sales Negotiations: Mastery in successfully navigating complex negotiations.Contract Management: Proven experience with contract negotiations with strong attention to detail, coordination, and communication.Ability to interpret and apply knowledge of business financial drivers, practices, concepts that drive profitable growth.Can understand and solve business problems, keeping a financial as well as a customer perspective in the forefront when making decisions.Ability to create and foster internal and external relationships that enable the development of beneficial solutions.Works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.Credits others for their contributions and accomplishments.Ability to communicate with internal partners and external organizations.Can communicate in a variety of formats, including formal presentations and required documentation.Providing feedback, instruction, and development guidance to help others excel; planning and supporting the development of individual skills and abilities.Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.Taking accountability to deliver results.Measuring progress and taking corrective actions if metrics are not achieved.Ensuring others contribute to organizational goals by focusing them on the most critical priorities.Key Performance Indicators:Renegotiation: Delivering Target Rate Increases.Existing Business: Renewal Ratio above 90%, No unforeseen losses beyond what is assumed in the budget.New Business: Success Ratio above 35%, Achievement of budgeted win target in €.Achieving budgeted target in €.Management: Customer Engagement, CRM and Compliance/Governance, aligned to set targets.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop sales plans, budgets, forecasts, and activities based on a deep understanding of customer priorities.Propose, develop, and execute new sales plans to ensure the organization's sales volume and profitability objectives are met.Explore new business opportunities and protect existing business while building a pipeline.Monitor sales volumes, revenue, and costs against forecasts and build in contingencies.Utilize key sales tools and Salesforce to monitor metric performances and apply strong corrective actions where applicable.Adapt procedures or reallocate commercial resources to improve performance.Stay up-to-date and aligned with customer buying preferences, and align resources and solutions accordingly.Conduct client insight research to ensure Swissport's current and future opportunities align with customers' key imperatives.Apply industry and customer knowledge to improve relationships and create opportunities by aligning their needs and pain points with Swissport capabilities.Manage and process customer deals to complement Swissport's revenue, profit, and general terms aspirations, balancing this with customer needs.Effectively drive any deal originating within your region and create strong alignment with other regions where applicable, allowing for high-quality and timely delivery.Ensure new business is profitable by implementing appropriate control mechanisms.Lead client negotiation sessions to resolve key contract issues, such as price increases.Manage and lead tender processes.Collaborate and coordinate input and approval from internal departments to ensure profitability development.Be aware of policies related to pricing, yield improvement, contract terms, conditions, and negotiation.Maximize account potential by delivering to the needs of customers and continuously improving competitive position on account opportunities.Use key sales tools and Salesforce to monitor pipeline performance and manage new and existing business in line with Swissport compliance and governance policies.Regularly provide constructive feedback on sales approach, competencies, win strategy, deal structure, and guidance on internal processes.Coach sales teams on technical aspects of pricing, negotiation, and customer service to achieve high customer retention, high business acquisitions, and sales targets.Advise on policies related to pricing, yield improvement, contract negotiation, and pipeline development.
REQUIRED SKILLS
Negotiation, Budgeting, financial planning, Customer service, Logistics planning and management, Pricing, price management, Collaboration
REQUIRED EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree
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