Cape Town: Country Lead (Operations) posted by Pillango Placements

About the Role

Join a rapidly growing African scale-up expanding access to solar energy and smartphones across the continent. You will manage end-to-end country operations, resolving sales and operational challenges while leading and developing in-country teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Practice Entrepreneurship: Continuously develop and demonstrate capabilities to effectively solve commercial problems.
• Manage country operations: Work with functional heads to manage the profit & loss of an area of business, troubleshoot sales issues, train and develop in-country operations team members, and manage financial outcomes of the business.
• Connect across cultures: Visit African countries and meet team members and customers in the local context, communicate, connect, and manage performance across cultural boundaries.
• Support with ad-hoc projects: Play a supporting role in various functional areas such as sales & marketing, customer support, operations & people management, and culture building.

Requirements

• An outstanding academic record—minimum GPA of 70% from a top-four South African university or 80% from others—with a completed degree in Commerce, Science or Engineering.
• You bring a clear entrepreneurial spirit, thrive on solving problems and taking accountability.
• You have an early-career professional (0–3 years’ experience) with a strong drive to take on broad responsibilities and full country ownership.

Qualifications

• Completed degree in Commerce, Science or Engineering

Salary & Benefits

A USD-denominated monthly salary between $1,200 – $2,500, converted to ZAR (Offer will be market related, based on qualifications, skills and experience)

How to Apply

We don’t want you to miss out due to limited access to your academic results. Please keep your academic record, including your GPA / overall average, readily available, as this will be required as one of the first steps in the process.