General Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Cavista Holdings is driven by the belief that business should be a force for good. Our primary focus is on investing in the world’s most underserved regions, where we strive to bring together capital, expertise, and partnerships to unlock opportunities, create value, and transform lives.

Our investment strategy is centered around promoting economic development, job creation, and improving communities around the world. We have diversified our portfolio across various sectors, including agriculture, energy, hospitality, mining, and technology to advance our mission.

In our world, opportunity paired with imagination is limitless and we build what others can only hope to dream. We build the best because we hire only the best! We’ve created an atmosphere allowing you to produce your best work, by catering to the creative.

Cavista Holdings is searching for great talent. We are an open, agile environment, where transparent conversation ignites collaboration with a team of great thinkers. Everyone freely contributes, ideas override egos, and the best idea always wins. We embrace new technologies and pride ourselves in our great culture.

Job Description

We are seeking a General Manager to serve as a strategic leader across all areas of our businesses.

 An experienced leader with a people first mindset, demonstrating our culture in every interaction to empower organizational leadership across all companies.

As General Manager, you will co-ordinate and implement Cavista Holdings’ strategy, as well as the identification of optimal business performance initiatives across all our companies.

Responsibilities: 

  • Co-ordinate the articulation of Cavista Holdings’ short- and long-term strategic plans.
  • Facilitate the development and implementation of Cavista Holdings’ market diversification and growth strategy.
  • Identify new opportunities – markets, products or services and develop a robust business case for Board approval and implementation.
  • Partner with Business Leadership to drive optimal performance across all companies.
  • Work with Business Leaders to analyze areas of improvement in the efficiency of business operations and propose appropriate action plans.
  • Champion the development and implementation of a Group Key Performance Indicator (KPI) framework and dashboard tool.
  • Identify synergies and areas of collaboration across businesses.
  • Build trusted relationships with Leaders across the businesses in order to drive alignment and accelerate execution.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in business or equivalent required
  • 10+ years of management experience with demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence and foster a collaborative environment.
  • 7+ years of operations management and leadership experience with profit and loss responsibility
  • Proven experience as a General Manager or similar executive role (Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, etc.) for a Holdings Company/Group of Companies preferred.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset focused on innovation, process excellence and quality improvement.
  • Strong stakeholder management, leadership, communication skills
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and financial skills

Additional Information

     • Competitive Compensation.
     • Flextime.
     • Competitive Health Insurance (Employee + Spouse + 4 children).
     • Growth and Development.