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Chief Operating Officer
Digicel
- Kingston and St. Andrew
- Not disclosed
- Permanent full-time
- Updated 14/12/2014
- Monifa Hayden
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After 13 years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has over 13 million customers across its 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific. The company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West Indies Cricket Team and is also the title sponsor of the Caribbean Premier League. In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.
Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Trinidad & Tobago which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.
Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Myanmar, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean.
Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more information.
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Position Description
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Chief Operating Officer (COO) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for commercial analysis and product design and development and will manage a group of senior managers and to drive none core revenues. As the chief operating officer he/she will provide leadership for all research and strategic planning process and will implement new programmatic strategic initiatives. In addition, the COO will: provide coordination for senior management team and in collaboration with the CEO work with the Board of Directors to keep them abreast of programmatic strategies, achievements and challenges.
The COO will partner with the CEO and her/his peers to lead the implementation and measurement of strategic programs to drive the achievement of business objectives.
Responsibilities will include:
- Lead the development of all strategic initiatives and drive implementation
- Develop and implement a system for tracking and reporting on the progress of all strategic initiatives
- Develop and drive the pricing strategy
- Provide effective and inspiring leadership by being actively involved in all programs developing a broad and deep knowledge of all aspects of the business
- Identify opportunities to leverage cross-functional strength to take advantage of new opportunities and/or to address organizational challenges
- Lead, coach and develop senior managers' capability in commercial analysis. Planning and business case development
- Lead the development of annual budget and is accountable for budget management
- Attend monthly board meetings providing an operational and commercial update
- Ensure the continued maximum viability of each department through sound fiscal and hands-on management.
Qualifications
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual with extensive experience to grow and further develop within the company. The successful candidate will partner with the CEO and work collaboratively with high-performance senior managers within his/her team as well as his/her peers on the Senior Management Team.
Specific requirements include:
- A Graduate degree with at least 10 years of experience in a similar position
- Proven track record of significant commercial achievement
- Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach senior level staff to manage and develop high performance teams and develop and implement program strategies
- Deep experience in budgeting and fiscal management.
- Track record of effectively leading a direct service organized with a complex array of programs with the ability to leverage strengths across program areas.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Analytic and decisive decision maker with the ability to prioritize and communicate effectively to staff key objectives and tactics necessary to achieve organizational goals.
- Ability to point to specific examples of having led organizational transformation projects and program development.
- Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator at the highest level of an organization
- Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, flexible, and innovative approach to operational management.
- Passion, humility, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed.
In return, you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, enterprising environment, where your skills will be valued and rewarded. Digicel recognizes our staff and management team are largely responsible for our success to date. Digicel's unique culture is driven by an entrepreneurial style encapsulated by our Chairman, board of directors and management, all seasoned telecom executives and industry experts with vast experience in building, expanding and marketing mobile services globally.
Ref: JAM - COO 14/12/2014