Job Detail
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Offered Salary 0
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Career Level Manager
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
About Us
Scania West Africa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scania Group and the only truck manufacturer with direct presence in West Africa. Scania West Africa offers complete transport solutions through its products and services which include trucks, buses, engines, aftersales support, bus systems and others.
Role
Are you commercial minded with a keen sense for details? Do you know how to manage a team? Are you able to work under pressure? Are you intrinsically motivated and proactive?
Then we just may have a role for you at SWA. If you have these qualities and more, you might be our candidate for Parts Manager role for Ghana Retail.
The Parts Manager’s role is to manage and develop the parts business in a cost efficient and profitable way.
Role Description
Role: Parts Manager
Also known as: Parts Supervisor, Warehouse Manager
Purpose of Role
The main responsibility of the Parts Manager is to manage and develop the parts business in a cost efficient and profitable way. The Parts Manager ensures a healthy stock level that meets the needs of the end customers and the workshops and contributes to a profitable business with well-defined targets. This is achieved by a high level of parts availability and part sales.
Competencies
Competencies encompass knowledge, skills, and abilities, combined with other personal characteristics such as proactivity and motivation that contribute to successful individual and organizational performance.
Competencies are not only about what you know, but how you apply what you know.
At Scania competence is defined as the “Ability and will to perform tasks through applying knowledge and skills.” (ISO definition). This means that competences are demonstrated and observable as we perform our work.
At Scania we differ between Professional Competencies, General knowledge and skills and Personal Competencies.
- Professional Competencies are the specific duties and task identified in the generic role.
Professional competences highlight the abilities needed to perform the duties and task of the role and can be observed at work. E.g. “Prospecting” or “Workshop Management”. - General Knowledge and Skills are needed to perform the duties and tasks of the role. Knowledge is the theoretical understanding of a subject and skills are proficiency in performing a physical or mental activity. General knowledge and skills are general to many roles. E.g. “Accounting”, Welding*.
- Personal Competencies are qualities we need to demonstrate for successful work results. E.g
“Proactivity” or “Teamwork”.
Scania’s general competency scale for defining required competency level:
- Acquire: Learning to be able to apply the competence in work situations. Able to apply competence in work situations using support.
- Apply: Able to apply competence in work situations independently without support.
- Guide: Able to apply competence in work situations with extraordinary or complex conditions and guide and lead others.
- Shape: Considered as an expert and drives the development of new concepts and methods
- Innovate: Considered as an authority in the field, both internally and externally
Apply Now
Send your application (CV and cover letter) to [email protected] latest by 16th January 2024.