General Manager at Newrest Group

Newrest Group - With origins in Group Catair in 1996, and founded in Toulouse (France), Newrest is the only major catering company active in all catering and related hospitality segments including airline catering, buy-on-board, duty-free on board, rail catering, concession retail, contract catering, health care, education, remote site and support services.

With 2014 revenues under management of almost 1 Billion Euros and more than 28’000 employees world-wide in 49 countries, Newrest is also the second largest 'independent' airline caterer world-wide.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: General Manager

Location: Lagos, NG

Job Description
Newrest is looking for a General Manager to manage and develop its Inflight activity in Nigeria

Your main mission will be to manage and develop efficiently the activity in Nigeria under the different following aspects:

• Ensure customer satisfaction, warrant quality of services, ensure and continuously optimize financial objectives,
• Active prospect of all the potential future clients,
• Guarantee the strict compliance with legal country rules
• Ensure proper communication with financial community and investors
• Propose and follow detailed and ambitious budgets for the company
• Identify HR needs, recruit and manage all your staff (expats, locals)
• Have an efficient communication with Newrest HQ
• Guarantee the application of group policies

Requirements

• Compulsory experience at a managing level ideally in industrial catering industry, or any services type of activity
• Compulsory experience at position requiring vast autonomy

Know-How and Personality:

• Ability to manage a multicultural staff
• Implement relevant procedures, organization, controls and reporting
• Analyze results, propose and implement corrective actions
• Able to work under pressure, and to overcome cultural gap
• Excellent skills of communication at all level (client representative, customer, investors, staff…)
• Diplomat or strict according to circumstances
• Charisma and needs to be seen as a leader
• Well organized, rigorous and methodical but enough adaptability to local constraints.
• English fluent, Spanish, French, Arabic or Portuguese knowledge would be a great plus
• A worldwide mobility is required, our GM positions all over the world are resident one.

Remuneration
Newrest offers long term contract and career perspectives.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online