General Manager
Smith & Clark Liberia LTD
Total years of experience :22 years, 7 Months
Responsible for general management of all phases of detergent plant operations including: primary processing, production, engineering, maintenance and product warehousing. Responsibilities also include recruiting, hiring and training personal and facility/physical plant up-keep and capital improvements as well to annual budget planning and execution. In addition to develop and execute short and long term marketing strategies.
Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership for the successful day-to-day operation of the Plant.
• Review established production schedules for all manufacturing departments to ensure established inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible.
• Overall responsibility for ensuring that staffing and competency levels are achieved/exceeded in all aspects of the manufacturing process.
• Monitor operation expenses and research ways to reduce costs while maintaining product quality.
• Develop and execute the plant manufacturing budgets, including relevant departments accountable to the achievement of budgets.
• Prepare and review business plans and regularly monitor finance and performance.
• Analyze workforce requirements.
• Conduct performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to all operations managers.
• Encourage and promote operations in a continuous improvement environment.
• Review performance data (financial, sales and activity reports) to monitor and measure productivity, goal progress and activity levels.
• Profit and loss management.
• Establishment of high level relationships with key customers.
• Develop and execute short and long term marketing strategies.
• Measure and evaluate service levels offered to customers to improve customer retention.
• Represent the company in order to open new markets outside Liberia.
• Recruitment, training and empowerment of employees to achieve key performance indicators.
Key Responsibilities
• Developed organization strategies by:
Identifying and researching human resources issues; contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to organization strategic thinking and direction; establishing human resources objectives in line with organizational objectives.
• Implemented human resources strategies by:
Establishing department accountabilities including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and development, records management, safety and health, employee relations and retention, and labor relations.
• Managed human resources operations by:
Recruiting, selecting, Induction, orienting / On boarding, training, coaching, counseling, and disciplining staff; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing staff job contributions; maintaining compensation; determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies; designing systems; accumulating resources; resolving problems; implementing change.
• Developed human resources operations financial strategies by:
Estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans; measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of variances.
• Provided a required legal services by:
Provided legal advice; Highlighted risk; Negotiated, drafted and implemented a large volume of contracts; Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations; Monitored and Conducted a various transactions with concerned public sectors; Managed legal process, litigation and business transactions;
HR/Administrative Responsibilities:
• Established and developed the strategic Human Resource plans, HR policies, Guidelines, Procedures, Methodologies and Work Schedules.
• Overseeing the introduction of policies and procedures across HR.
• Organization development.
• Directed and monitored the processing and maintained of employee data base & documentation into HRIS/HR Information systems.
• Employment and compliance with regulatory concerns regarding employees.
• Employee Induction, orientation / on-boarding, development, needs assessment, and training.
• Employee relations and retention.
• Recruiting and staffing.
• Talent acquisition process.
• Learning & development initiatives.
• Implemented and monitored Performance management and improvement systems.
• Monitored Monthly Attendance Management.
• Prepared, maintained and managed Payroll, Compensation and Benefits programs, policies and procedures.
• Maintained a safe and secure work environment.
Legal Responsibilities:
• Provided legal and commercial advice on the contractual relationships underpinning the company’s business.
• Implemented commercial, legal and contractual strategies for the business which are consistent with the long term interests of the company.
• Highlighted risk issues where relevant, and seek ways to mitigate risk through innovative solutions.
• Took overall responsibility for the effective management including drafting and negotiation of a large volume of contracts across the range of the company’s activities.
• Evaluated, advised and implemented agreements to an agreed level.
• To ensure first class business processes are adopted.
• To ensure that legal documents comply with all current legislation, regulations and best practice within the legal profession.
• Identified and delivered business process improvement initiatives related to the legal and business affairs effort.
• Advised operational management in ensuring compliance with all relevant regulation.
• Advised on commercial policy.
• Advised the board of director on the legal and commercial implications of strategic business policies.
• Developed the professional abilities and knowledge of the legal department and provided effective quality control of the department’s output.
• Managed the workload of the legal department through effective organization and prioritization and supported legal team members.
• Monitored and Conducted all formal transactions with all government sectors regarding different projects requirements (Licenses, clearances, EDL, water, sewage, allotment, etc..).
• Prepared different kinds of work reports, statements and cash flow to the CEO and Board of director.
Responsibilities:
• Established and developed the organization's bylaw, polices and work methods.
• To ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Established and updated the supervision programs.
• Followed-up the teaching staff affairs (Employments, promotions, leaves, training, evaluating, contract administration, payroll and compensations etc...).
• Followed-up the students’ affairs.
• Liaising with parents in the regard of their children's files.
• Prepared the work performance reports.
• Prepared the examination schedule for the quarterly examinations (Quarterly Exam Timetable).
• Drafted of workplace correspondence: letters, memos, e-mails.
• Provided legal and administrative support for other department.
• Other related tasks.