Past Assignments

Interim Project Manager - Government Relations and Supply Chain

This assignment is no longer available

Sector: Manufacturing

Day Rate: Competitive Salaries

City Based, West Africa

Our client is a market leader in providing anti-counterfeiting technologies, services, and programmes to governments and corporations worldwide, including over 50 governments and 250 global brands.

The Role

The candidate will be responsible for:

• Consult with the Government to implement a tax-stamp programme on a variety of products such as alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals
• Set up an in-country print finishing and distribution facility

The duration is for 3-6 months. Fluent Portuguese is critical.

The Candidate

The successful candidate would ideally have:

• Willing and able to work alone in West Africa without parent company infrastructure
• Previous experience of the above ideally in an African country
• Supply chain/logistics experience ideally of setting up DC pick & pack operation
• Experience managing supply chain process analysis + design projects
• Experience managing a full cycle of an application system design, development and implementation program
• Excellent communication skills and diplomacy to work with all the key stakeholders both locally and remotely
• Gravitas to work at Board level
• Project management experience in the third world