Job Title: Country Director

Department: Country Team

Reporting Line: CEO - EEA

Location: Maputo, Mozambique

Job Grade: 19

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose/Mission

ENGIE Energy Access (EEA) is looking for an experienced and mission-driven leader to for our operations in Mozambique. You should be hungry to make an ambitious pitch for a scaled and sustainable model for our successful solar home system (SHS) in the Mozambican market. You have the skills and passion to take an already high-performing team to new heights, and to solidify our market-leader status as we break into new verticals and optimize our business model over the coming years.

As the Country Director in Mozambique, you are ultimately accountable in country for all aspects of EEA Mozambique’s work. You will own the opportunity of leading and growing a high-performing team of over 200 (including a young and vibrant leadership team) and further scaling and diversifying our business by building out the operations for optimal geographical coverage of Mozambique, developing government relationships, and ensuring the business’s long-term strategic and financial sustainability.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Strategy Development and Implementation

• Develop and implement the multi-year strategic vision and annual country business plan, aligned to the overall EEA strategic plan.
• Drive business model innovations/evolutions that result in improved customer engagement, better repayment, and reduced bad debt.
• Iterate and create a country-centric business model that has the ability to acquire hundreds of thousands of customers on an annual basis while driving to YoY profitability growth.
• Gather insights to inform scalable, profitable, and sustainable commercialization strategies in subsequent years.
• Participate in business development projects by contributing all necessary data and validating assumptions.
• Continuously monitor company performance, product fit and pricing, marketing, sales, distribution, portfolio health, technical integration, and service with potential partners, as well as customer experience and country-specific customer insights.

Leadership and Management

• Provide strong, visible, and inspirational leadership to Mozambique’s management team thereby delivering bottom line business results.
• Build a world class team that loves what they do and embodies our culture. - Build a culture of performance and accountability to execute against goals.
• Lead management team in the resolution of operational challenges and contribute towards the creation of new and innovative solutions.
• Lead the development of a sustainable team structure to support the operational requirements of the business.
• Oversee the recruitment, development, retention, and engagement of all team members in Mozambique in collaboration with the HR department.
• Act as custodian of succession plan development and implementation to support the growth of people within the organization. - Lead, coach, and mentor direct reports to foster personal growth and teamwork.
• Manage the administration of direct reports through the approval of leave, subsistence, and travel expenses.

Finance Management and Operations Oversight

• Manage the country P&L, drive performance, challenge spend, and lead changes to deliver higher value.
• Own and manage Country performance management dashboard and financial model.
• Provide oversight in financial management matters of the country operations, ensuring compliance with the overall company’s procedures and external best practice as well as donor and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and effectively execute the country resource allocation plan, using insights and a focus on opportunities, priorities, and capabilities for business growth. - Monitor cash flow to ensure effective cash management.
• Oversee all operations in Mozambique including development of SHS distribution networks, inventory management, etc. to ensure successful completion of projects, protect health and safety, and reduce loss.
• Monitor operational risks through the management of a comprehensive risk framework to assess risks and devise risk mitigation plans.

Health, Safety, and Security

• Responsible for Health, Safety, and Security for all activities in the country.
• Champion and maintain a culture of Health, Safety, and Security compliance, ensuring accountability throughout the organization for the safety of our staff and contractors.
• Accountable for ensuring compliance by all teams in Mozambique to all EEA and ENGIE Group Health, Safety, and Security requirements.
• Accountable for ensuring compliance by all teams in Mozambique to EEA and ENGIE Group Cyber Security requirements.

Ethics

•  Adhere strictly to Engie's Ethics Charter, encompassing ethical conduct, conflict resolution, compliance with laws and regulations, and anti-wrongdoing standards.
• Demonstrate ethical leadership by upholding the highest standards of integrity, corporate responsibility, and ethics, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Oversee the implementation and enforcement of ethics policies, report any violations promptly to the CEO and Head of Ethics, actively engage in ethics training, advocate a zero-tolerance stance against unethical behavior, and foster a culture promoting ethical conduct within the organization.
• Ensure accurate financial and audit reporting and that all potential contractors complete an ethics due diligence.

Stakeholder Management

• Locate, initiate, develop, and execute on key partnerships initiatives that can assist in distribution, branding, customer acquisition, and scale.
• Own and ensure that EEA Mozambique maintains productive relations with all external stakeholders and partnerships (i.e., telcos, government, tax authorities, industry organizations, banks, multilaterals, donors, etc.)
• Represent the country programs to authorities, donors, partners, and other relevant forums.
• Engage with Group Executives on country operational matters and in the provision of input into high level strategy.
• Participate in Country Board meetings and engage with shareholders and local chairpersons. - Strengthen EEA’s position nationally and regionally. - Leverage and collaborate with global team and other country leads for insight and support. At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers.

Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports. We believe that great managers:

- Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decision which contribute to successful delivery of results.

- Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.

- Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.

- Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.

- Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Knowledge and skills Experience:

• 12-15 years in a senior leadership role in a growing business of a reasonable size in B2B and B2C contexts
• Strong GM experience, P&L responsibility, and orientation
• Sales, Marketing and Consumer-oriented
• Multi-channel sales distribution experience e.g., door to door, in-house retail, third party retail, partnerships, Telesales)
• Experience representing a large and leading commercial multinational entity to both internal and external partners and authorities
• Government and Labor stakeholder engagement experience
• Experience of managing budgets and multiple stakeholder’s contracts
• Proven commitment to accountability practices and knowledge of quality assurance systems
• Experience with rural African Markets and financial services highly beneficial
• Experience with sales oriented integrated operations in renewable energies sectors is preferred
• Outstanding analytical skills and ability to synthesize analysis into practical strategy recommendations.
• Understanding of asset & non-asset based business models and economics.
• Experience with multi-entity governance.

Qualifications:

• A holder of a minimum master’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent in a relevant field

Language(s):

• English - French or Portuguese is a plus

Technology:

• Experience in technology required for the role

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship.

Job Title: Head BD Mini-Grids & SHS wholesale

Department: Business Development

Reporting Line: CEO EEA

Location: Africa (Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Benin and Uganda)

About ENGIE BU Africa ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-africa.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose and Mission

The Head BD Mini-Grids & SHS wholesale drives the development of Mini-Grids in all EEA markets and will also play an important role in expanding Engie MySol products into new geographic markets.

The job holder supports growing the Mini grids pipeline through winning tenders or concluding negotiated deals. She/He is also responsible for building strategic partnerships to get our product distributed through 3rd parties in countries where we have decided not to be vertically integrated. She/He will explore any ethical and law compliant ways that would increase our chances of success such as joint ventures, partnerships, coordinated new market entry with SHS activities.

From approval process perspective, the Head of BD and Mini grids will develop with a transversal team (project MG team) the required documents in order to get the investment files to EEA investment committee and any required committee at Engie level.

The job holder will also support the Mini-Grid teams in locations where EEA has a Mini grid activity during the construction period up to commissioning. She/He will also support any expansion project review and will monitor operation as long as the country has not operated more than 1 MG successfully.

The role involves leading Engie MySol’s expansion through developing a Business to Business (B2B) business model by responding to tenders in countries we are not vertically integrated, finding leads through direct contacts with potential distributors all over the world, submitting proposal according to pricing committee guidance and closing sales.   

The job holder needs to interact with different global teams (legal, finance, technical, commercial, digital) both for Mini-Grids and wholesales activities.

Responsibilities:

• Identify economic activities, potential partnerships, and methodologies for development consideration for both Mini-Grids and Wholesales in all potential markets.
• Build and test new revenues streams to improve the Mini-Grid business model:
• Identify and design new products and services mix to be offered to customers.
• Lead the building of the new business activities (product or service) with the support of the Global MG team: define the commercial offer, the financial model, the customer journey, and ensure the compliance of the new business with the local regulations.
• Present the new business activity to the EEA investment committee for approval.
• Coordinate implementation of the new business activity upon approval.
• Define the budget and HR needs to implement the new business activities.
• Build partnership or Joint Ventures to implement new wholesale business activities at scale.

Lead mini-grid entry to existing and new markets.

• Accelerate Mini-Grid development in Africa with and without EEA physical presence, under investment committee mandates.
• Define and improve the methodology to select new markets to be opened within the guidelines of EEA mandate.
• Build strategic partnerships and joint ventures to accelerate development of Mini-Grids
• Test and implement new revenue streams to support electricity demand on each Mini-Grid site with the support of the Strategic Marketing team.
• Challenge the technical specifications of the Mini-Grid that is development by the global and local Technology team.
• Challenge the operation assumptions developed by the global and local Operation team.
• Support the Country Director and the relevant Regional Director to build a viable Mini-Grid team in new markets of operation.
• Work with each Business Developers in each region to accelerate pipeline development.
• Work with the Finance team to securing external funding.
• Present investment files and decision metrics to the EEA and Engie investment committees.
• Contribute to the constant improvements of the BD processes:
• Site selection process,
• Investment process,
• Tender application process,
• Innovative project development process,
• Partnership building process,
• Process to externalize site development.
• Performance Monitoring processes
• Capacity expansion processes.

Tender Applications

• Support the global grant funding team on the overall tender coordination process, from pre-qualification to final submission.
• Lead EEA internal process validation
• Manage relationship with tender stakeholders (donors, developers, agencies…).
• Assess upcoming tender grant opportunities together with global grant funding team.
• Submit and track the progress on tender applications.

Joint venture, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships

• Build strategic partnerships or Joint Ventures at a country, regional or continental level.
• Present the partnership/JV project to EEA investment committee for approval.
• After signature and in the case of a JV:
• Be the representative of EEA in the JV.
• Present new investment files of the JV to EEA investment committee.
• Negotiate amendments of the agreement with the partners and get approval from EEA management.
• In the case of acquisition/equity investment in a third company:
• Coordinate the various streams Due Diligence phase.
• Lead the negotiation on the terms of the transaction.
• Coordinate the building of the financial model and project funding with the relevant global team.
• Present the acquisition/equity investment project to the EEA management committee.

Advocacy and relationships with authority

• Support the strategy team to define the appropriate advocacy strategy.
• Drive the Business Development team to implement the advocacy strategy towards international donors & represent EEA as a speaker in conferences focusing on energy in Africa.

Wholesale & Partnership

• Development and implementation of the B2B market expansion strategy
• Drive the Wholesale team in delivering the agreed wholesale budget.  
• Evaluation and analysis new B2B market entries. 
• Developing sales strategies and setting quotas.  
• Building long term relationships in the new B2B markets.
• Identify and leverage from donor funding programs. 
• Building a long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with external contacts and internal departments to create a better customer experience.  

Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE)

• Responsible and accountable for HSSE across all EEA Mini Grids sites
• Accountable for ensuring compliance by all mini-grid teams to all EEA and ENGIE Group HSSE Requirements and working closely with the Country Director and Country Head of Mini-grids to deliver full compliance.” 

Budget

• Develop and deliver the agreed yearly budget.

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports. 

We believe that great managers:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decision which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Knowledge and skills 

Experience

• At least 8 years of experience in business development and/or project management.
• Experience in tender submissions.
• Experience in business modeling and preparation of investment files and budgets.
• Strong negotiation skills & successful experience in signing deals and building partnerships.
• Strong leadership, experience in multicultural management and recruitment.
• Strong project management skills
• Successful experience in innovation and time to market initiatives.
• Experience with governments, international institutions and in lobbying activities.
• Good understanding of the energy access sector both from an infrastructure and mass-market perspective.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Good analytical skills.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking ability.

Qualifications

• Master/Bachelor of Business Administration, Economics/Political Sciences, Engineering or equivalent

Language(s): 

• English
• French (is a plus), Portuguese (optional)

Technology:

• Good understanding of access to energy and renewable energy technologies in the Mini-Grid and Solar Home System environment.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!