Deadline: 10 January, 2024
Location: Lagos, Nigeria; Rabat, Morocco; Cairo, Egypt
International Finance Corporation (IFC) is seeking to fill the position of Regional Industry Manager.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets.
Responsibilities
- Sharpen the strategy for IFC’s manufacturing and chemicals in partnership with the regional and industry management and relevant World Bank colleagues
- Execute and manage a pipeline of investments in the manufacturing and chemical sectors across the region
- Lead business development/origination efforts in the region, together with the regional/country teams and global teams
- Assume the transaction manager role and provide credit and investment guidance to teams, as well as quality control on teams’ output
- Build and maintain high-level relationships with clients in the region, understand sector trends, and lead multidisciplinary teams
- Work closely to coordinate, leverage and support the upstream and advisory services in the implementation of strategy for MAS Africa
- Work with teams in the financial institutions group and infrastructure departments to explore areas of joint ventures
- Foster relationships with World Bank counterparts to identify collaboration opportunities and to enhance business and development impact delivery at the country and regional levels
- Develop IFC’s brand locally, building on IFC’s global brand
- Ensure portfolio experience and perspective are fed into strategy development and business decision-making, through sharing of lessons learnt from the portfolio, producing benchmarking analytics, etc
- Manage the health, profitability, and development impact of the portfolio, and actively seek ways to optimise usage of economic capital and profitability performance
- Provide full range of administrative and human resources management oversight
- Carry out additonal tasks as asigned by supervisor
Requirements
- Unquestionable integrity, commitment to development, alignment with the World Bank core values, and strong work ethic
- MBA or equivalent professional qualification
- 12 years, minimum, of relevant work experience
- Strong sense of service to clients and demonstrated business development aptitude
- Proven success in developing client relationships and executing quality investments
- Familiarity with the manufacturing and chemical industries
- Experience sourcing and structuring complex investment transactions in the MAS sectors with a proven track record and proven success in developing client relationships and processing quality investments
- Awareness of environmental and social sustainability issues usually associated with projects in MAS
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically, develop innovative solutions, challenge the status quo, and make sound decisions to build IFC business
- Sound knowledge of portfolio/asset management, and experience in portfolio supervision of loans, equities and guarantees
- Ability to work in matrix/muti-stakeholder environment
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, as well as cultivate an active network of relationships inside and outside the organisation and to represent IFC publicly as needed
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills, proven ability to work effectively as a team leader, build high performing teams and manage and recruit talent
- Demonstrated leadership skills and strong teamwork and communications in a highly diverse, virtual environment
- Ability to collaborate closely with other parts of the World Bank Group and other DFIs and financing institutions
- Ability to manage competing and sometimes unanticipated priorities and tight deadlines
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