Managing Director - Edible Oils and Proteins

Our client, a food and agricultural processing business, is looking for a Managing Director to lead its edible oils and proteins business in Nigeria.

You will provide the overall leadership of the business: strategy, commercial results, finance, operations and people. You will be accountable for growth in revenue and profit, for the sound use of working capital and investment, for reliable production and supply, and for product quality. You will turn the strategy into yearly plans, budgets and clear targets, and see that the leadership team delivers them.

The functions reporting to you include buying from growers, procurement, sustainability, finance, sales to business customers, and the processing and refining operations. Building the farm supply chain behind the plants is part of the job, as is good governance and the management of risk.

We are looking for a leader with 20 years or more of experience, who has run a processing business in edible oils, oilseeds, food or a closely related field with full responsibility for its results, and who understands both the commercial side and the plants.