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Golder Associates Inc.branded as just Golder, is a Canadian employee-owned, global company providing consulting, design, and construction services in earth, environment, and related areas of energy.
At Golder, we thrive on challenges.
Golder is not just a place to work, it is a promise of a living, dynamic environment where people collaborate, innovate, build enduring relationships, excel, and grow professionally in a strong culture of ownership.
Do you have the desire to learn? The drive to excel and thrive in an engaged, collaborative environment? Golder has a new opportunity for West African Business Leader
The primary purpose of a Business Leader is to develop, build and manage Golder’s business in the West African region; this is to be achieved through identifying business opportunities and potential clients, increasing the profile of the company and assisting in delivering of projects in a profitable manner in line with Golder’s ethics and core value
Responsibilities of the role will include:
Build Golder’s brand in West Africa through engaging with mining clients and developing a strong pipeline of work from these clients.
Actively promote the activities of the region within Golder (in Africa and globally) through active participation in the Global and Regional client programme).
In their technical roles, Business Leads will fulfil the usual requirements of technical consultants and / or project managers (such as: proposal / project registration, technical input, etc.).
A number of activities underpin this responsibility, including:
Preparing an annual Business Plan for presentation and sign-off to the Golder Partners;
Undertake active marketing initiatives with identified markets and / or clients to build Golder’s brand in the region. Prepare, with support from the marketing department, appropriate marketing materials in support of building the brand;
Participate in key marketing forums (e.g. Chamber of Business, etc.);
Identify potential project opportunities, uncover additional details / information about these opportunities and refer to appropriate specialists in the company. Undertake regular meetings with clients in following up these opportunities;
Identify potential partners / alliances and / or competitors and ensure that regional office has an appropriate strategy or approach to dealing with these organizations;
Identify new staff for the office in response to the opportunities and / or the need to grow the office and support the business in the recruitment process; and
The successful candidate will have a background in:
Core Competencies:
Attributes
Your benefits at Golder will include:
Renowned for technical excellence, Golder is a leading, global employee-owned engineering and consulting firm with over a half century of successful service to its clients. With over 165 offices in over 30 countries, Golder’s 6,500 professionals are driven by a passion to deliver results, offering unique specialized skills to address the ever-evolving challenges that earth, environment and energy present to clients across the infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, manufacturing and power sectors.
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