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Country Head Turkey Jobs in Istanbul, Türkiye at Confidential Careers
Title: Country Head Turkey
Company: Confidential Careers
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye
Turkey Country Head
The Country Head is responsible for implementing the business strategies and objectives in collaboration with the businesses to drive sales and profitability growth in Turkey. This individual will work closely with members of his/her management team to execute the business strategies and improve market share and bottom-line performance. This position is based in Istanbul.
Main Responsibilities:
Responsible to lead Turkey financial performance to meet financial forecasts and targets
Accountable to drive Turkey strategic initiatives and ensure strong support to all businesses to drive profitable growth in sales and operating incomes
Drive operational, cost-saving and continuous improvement initiatives to support Turkey bottom-line performance, standardization and productivity
Responsible to drive and champion our engagement and value culture to keep a highly capable and engaged team in Turkey
Play a pivotal role in establishing strong collaboration with all business leaders to achieve all company’s objectives and support our customers
Act as the most senior leader with all support functions to drive business synergies in Turkey across the board and take every opportunity to win in every way, everywhere
Is the main Legal Representative to ensure all company policies and regulatory compliance with local governmental bodies
Ensure the recruitment, development and retention of the right talent to build bench strengths and drive change where needed in close collaboration with regional peers
Perform other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, marketing or equivalent from a leading university
Minimum of ten (10) years of related business leadership experience with increasing responsibilities
Experience in managing a $ millions+ business with full P&L responsibility, ideally in Business-to-Business environments or service industry in Turkey
Previous work experience in a large multinational and matrixed organization
Demonstrated strategic leadership capability and ability to shape and translate a clear vision into strategies, actions and results
Strong business, finance and commercial acumen
Broad cross-functional knowledge and supply chain understanding
Proven track record of leading and building a high performing team and delivering excellent results. Have the potential to lead larger businesses in the next 3-5 years.
Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
Strong learning agility, flexible, adaptable, situationally responsive and globally savvy
Strong customer orientation
High-level numerical reasoning/analytical skills
Passionate, high energy and operational excellence
Synergistic, pro-active and problem solver
Preferred Qualifications:
MBA or Master in business, finance, marketing or equivalent from a leading university
Experience managing government relations in Turkey
B2B commercial sales leadership experience
Extensive sales knowledge or experience
