This role is for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Africa Mega Corp PLC (AMAC). The Center for Strategy and Management Ltd (CSM), a regional leader in strategy execution consulting, is managing this recruitment. AMAC focuses on agribusiness, commodity trading, and market development across Kenya and neighboring regions.
Role Overview
CSM is a regional leader in helping organizations solve their most pressing strategy execution challenges, providing clients with an integrated set of services—strategy and technology consulting, education, training, and certification—that deliver tangible results and enduring internal capabilities.
Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Provide overall strategic direction and execute AMAC’s multi-year growth plan.
- Expand Mazao Exchange, WRS (Warehouse Receipt System), and the AMAC Institute across Kenya and neighboring regions.
- Identify and commercialize new commodity opportunities and product lines.
- Build and sustain a resilient, future-focused organizational culture.
Market Development & Trade Expansion
- Increase adoption of the Mazao Exchange among farmer groups, cooperatives, processors, and exporters.
- Drive WRS market penetration and accelerate uptake of structured trading instruments.
- Develop and maintain strong ties with commodity buyers, associations, banks, and international partners.
Financial Oversight
- Lead revenue growth, cost optimization, profitability, and cash-flow discipline.
- Strengthen trade-finance partnerships and unlock new financing products with partner banks.
- Present quarterly business and financial performance to the Board.
Stakeholder & Government Relations
- Represent AMAC in high-level engagements with ministries, regulators, county governments, and development partners.
- Champion policy dialogues, market reforms, and sector frameworks that advance structured trade.
Operations, Quality & Compliance
- Ensure compliance with the WRS Act, commodity-trade regulations, and international standards.
- Oversee warehousing, grading, certification, and end-to-end commodity-trade processes.
- Strengthen risk management, internal controls, and operational integrity.
Leadership & Culture
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing cross-functional team.
- Promote excellence, transparency, innovation, and accountability.
- Ensure effective succession planning and performance management.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness, Economics, Finance, Supply Chain Management, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Minimum 10 years’ senior leadership in agribusiness, commodities trading, trade finance, or agricultural value chains.
- Demonstrated experience in scaling platforms, structured trading systems, or commodity exchanges.
- Proven track record in revenue growth, partnership development, and market expansion.
- Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, and negotiation skills.
- Experience working with regulators, development partners, cooperatives, and global buyers.
Knowledge and Skills
- Deep understanding of agricultural markets, value chains, and commodities regulation.
- Strong knowledge of trade finance, structured trade, and logistics ecosystems.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder diplomacy skills.
- Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline and data-driven decision-making capability.
- Familiarity with digital trading platforms and market-linkage technologies is an added advantage.
