Initial Technical Manager- South Africa needed at Rentokil Initial South Africa

Key Outputs and Accountability

• Being the technical expert within the country’s senior leadership team and ensuring that sales, marketing and service decisions incorporate sound technical principles.
• Managing the technical education and training of the service and sales community across the business and assuring minimum standards of competence are achieved.
• Managing the technical support team to drive both growth via specialist technical surveys and continuous improvement in service costs, service quality, H&S performance, and competence in the field through inspections and coaching of field staff (sales and service)
• Managing the country’s authorised products list and providing technical stewardship (incl. authorisation / sign off) for all preparations, PPE, equipment and field practices including dissemination and assuring compliance with Pink Notes.
• Ensuring that Divisional policy, initiatives and development activities are communicated to the country management team and implemented in the country.
• Ensuring that country/regional perspectives are represented to Divisional Technical by engaging actively within the global Technical community in regional technical meetings, global virtual teams, and technical task forces
• Identifying and delivering Technical projects to grow sales, improve service quality, or reduce service costs
• Technical liaison with external bodies including local regulatory bodies and legislators, trade bodies, suppliers, and local academia.
• Conducting Technical due diligence according to divisional guidelines for acquisition candidates.
• Ensuring all company policies and procedures are understood and adhered to by the service team e.g. OH&S, Human Resources, and Security Policy Compliance etc.
• Ensuring that personal knowledge is maintained a kept up to date on all technical aspects of currents services offered within the Country.
• A team player with maturity, significant gravitas, and capable of standing up for personal convictions, functional strategy and the highest company ethics.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills capable of working effectively with customers, sales and service managers, the technical management community worldwide, and technicians; able to adapt comfortably to a wide variety of people and operational situations.
• Communicates clearly both verbally and in written work.
• Manages multiple priorities and timelines and uses strong technical and problem solving skills to approach complex projects.
• Attention to detail, a strong completer — finisher who shows strong concern for accuracy, detail and timelines, A creative problem solver, capable of solving customer challenges with the intellectual capacity to present and defend approaches technically and commercially to customers and regulatory authorities.
• Works with independence, exercising ingenuity, high analytical / logical abilities and judgement in the approach to and accomplishment of tasks.
• Strong commercial and entrepreneurial qualities being able to express technical benefits in clear and pragmatic commercial cost benefit – risk / return way,
• Possess an established track record of excellent customer support, ideally able to leverage existing key account relationships for Rentokil Initial

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric certificate or equivalent
• Good computer skills – MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point Above average numeracy skills
• Good knowledge of Rentokil mainframe (internal applicants) – ICABS & Progress Good understanding and experience in the ‘regulatory’ and technical environment of RISA. Experience / knowledge of H&S and Quality Management principles and programmes
• At least 5 years experience working in a culturally diverse environment, with specific work experience of RISA technical and commercial practices.
• A track record in disciplined project management