Lead the Company’s field team and the local community partners in co-creating a financially sustainable, community-based business that integrates Company’s product lines as a core part of a consumer value
proposition effective in preventing malaria.
Key Responsibilities:
o Support Company’s Project Director in creation of overall business strategy, project timelines, and project milestones
o Translate market creation methodology and business strategy into field-level action plans
o Oversee execution of action plans in reaching milestones
o Report-out regularly on progress, challenges and learnings
o Provide strong leadership and business direction in a manner that builds cohesion and capacity among community business partners
o Maintain strong communication and alignment among all project stakeholders
o Serve as bridge between the project’s field-level and corporate level challenges and needs
o Oversee field-level project finances
Successful candidate will apply a unique entrepreneurship process pioneered by Cornell’s CSGE. This process partners a company with members of a community to co-create simultaneously a new business and a new consumer market. The process has been used by companies to develop new businesses and consumer markets around sanitation (Client in Kenya), nutrition (DuPont/Solae in India), access to clean water (TWI in Mexico), and healthcare (Ascension Health in the United States).
Required Skills or Experience
o Experienced entrepreneur/entrepreneur with track record of managing project budgets and leading teams in taking a business/organization from concept to going concern
o Proven ability to excel in dynamic, high uncertainty environment
o Cross-functional versatility, with knowledge of cost accounting, project finance, and new product marketing
o Excellent facilitation skills and ability to communicate complex issues and concepts to lay persons
o Fluent (oral and written) in English and local language(s)
o Passion for using business as a tool for addressing poverty
How To Apply
Please send CVs to cv1@platoconsultgh.com
Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.
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