Kenya Airways prides itself in being the Pride of Africa. We fly to thirty six destinations worldwide, most of them being in Africa. We have recently expanded our fleet with the acquisition of four modern Boeing aircraft in the 777 series. At Kenya Airways we believe that our greatest asset is our people.

When you join Kenya Airways we provide you with training, the systems and tools you require to perform and best of all, an environment that will enable you achieve your full potential.

Brief Description

To ensure the safe, secure & cost effective service delivery of ground handling services in compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies in the all the airports with the exception of Nairobi and Mombasa. Through the management of the outstation managers, drive the delivery of high customer service. Establish our ground handling strategy for the network and drive with supply chain cost effective ground handling agreements

Detailed Description

Ensure that a Risk Management process is applied throughout the Kenya Airways ground operations around the network. Any process change or initiative that could have impact on safety or security should equally be Risk assessed.
Contribute to the definition and development of the Kenya Airways standard level agreements with our Ground Handling services providers.
Manage and ensure the development and training of the outstations managers.
Ensure the consistent and cost effective delivery of ground handling services to agreed scope and standards.
Ensure that Local working practices adequately apply company policies principle and prevent corruption in the workplace.
Plan and support efficient station opening in accordance to company policy.
Coordinate stations’ activities with the various Kenya Airways stakeholders and promote the JKIA hub support throughout the network.
Ensure participation of all KQ station’s management in the deliberations of their Airline Operators Committee.
Work closely with Regional General Managers, Area/Country Managers to identify new revenue and cost saving opportunities at all airports.
Job Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, Experience

University Degree or relevant professional qualification.
Management role of 3 years in the airline industry and preferably in Customer Service.
Financial awareness.
Process oriented.
Experienced planning and managing extensive human and materiel resources.
Competencies

Leadership.
Results orientated.
Service focused.
Analytical & objective approach.
Communications/interpersonal skills
An example of honesty and integrity in the company.
Additional Details

Measuring / reporting compliance with SLA defined standards
Customer satisfaction
Handling / resolution of complaints
OTP and various Out stations airports KPI.
Budgetary control
Minimum Training & Qualifications

Airside Safety Training (Function 5 as described in training matrix AHM 611)
Risk Management
Station / Ground Handling Management (IATA) or equivalent experience.
Dangerous Goods Cat 9
Aviation Security Awareness
Closing Date: 12-Mar-2010

Grade: H13

How To Apply

Visit the Kenya Airways Career Website here to apply for this position

The incumbent should possess the following qualifications and attributes:

Business related degree
C.P.A part 1 or any credit related diploma course.
Good interpersonal skills
Good analytical skills
Ability to meet strict deadline
Accounting experience of at least one year.
Application should reach us on or before 10th March 2010.

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REQ# 284: Senior UI Developer (Graphic Artist) - Kenya

PolyArk Management Consulting (www.PolyArk.com) is a global business technology consulting company that provides Strategy, Process and Technology solutions services to enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders participating to strive in growth strategy, business process improvement, as well as technology enabled change.

At PolyArk, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded and diversity is respected and valued.

We provide integrated business technology solutions services in the areas of business technology planning, performance management, automation, enterprise architecture, governance, collaboration, change management, portfolio management, enterprise content management, business process services, software development, analytics and business intelligence, system integration as well as integrated data center solutions services.

We function globally and deliver locally to meet our clients’ needs.

PolyArk (Africa) Limited has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Application Engineer - Kenya in our Consulting & Integration group.

The Senior UI Developer (Graphic Artist) will Designs, develops, documents, implements, and maintains technology-based graphics and animations.

Essential Functions/Duties:

Responsible for the design, development, documentation, implementation, and support of technology-based UI graphics/animations and scripting using Flash, Ajax, Photoshop, PHP, SCORM, Illustrator, Perl, MVC, ASP.Net 3.5, ActionScript, JSP, JQuery, and other UI development tools.
Provide technology developments in numerous Enterprise systems
Create functional specifications and design specifications
Ensure optimum performance, scalability, and usability with solid architectural standards
Experience with .NET and J2EE, and scripting technology platforms
Coordinates with third-party providers and offshore teams.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues.
Qualifications:

Self starter and able to perform with minimal supervision
Must have strong hands on graphics/animation and scripting development experience as well as best practices, design principles, and techniques
8 years experience in Graphics and Animation designs
5 years experience in UI and scripting development tools
Platforms: Unix, Linux, Windows
RDBMS: MS SQL, Oracle, IBM UDB/DB2, MySQL
BS degree (Advanced degree preferred).
Candidates should send their profile to hr @ polyark.com & copy africa @ polyark.com

REQ# 285: Client Relationship Executive - Kenya

PolyArk Management Consulting (www.PolyArk.com) is a global business technology consulting is a global business technology consulting company that provides Strategy, Process and Technology solutions services to enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders participating to strive in growth strategy, business process improvement, as well as technology enabled change.

At PolyArk, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded and diversity is respected and valued.

We provide integrated business technology solutions services in the areas of business technology planning, performance management, automation, enterprise architecture, governance, collaboration, change management, portfolio management, enterprise content management, business process services, software development, analytics and business intelligence, system integration as well as integrated data center solutions services.

We function globally and deliver locally to meet our clients’ needs.

PolyArk (Africa) Limited has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Application Engineer - Kenya in our Consulting & Integration group.

The Client Relationship Executive will be responsible for facilitating the growth of PolyArk, by providing daily support and optimizing the effectiveness of our client partners.

Essential Functions/Duties:

Identifies and develops marketing and relationship programs designed to produce sales opportunities and ensure customer success
Initiate and participate in client-level strategic planning and execute on major client initiatives
Become a trusted advisor to our Client Partners and to our healthcare insurance clients and prospects leveraging your business technology industry expertise within the first month
Work with strategic and other accounts across East Africa to help them understand the PolyArk value proposition.
Lead Account Engagements and Solutions Selling
Manages partnerships and ensures the retention, growth and customer satisfaction of accounts.
Evaluates program trends and provides analysis and recommendations to management.
Manage the sales process for an assigned territory from introduction to delivery
Build on-going relationships with internal and external contacts to complete tasks related to delivering solutions services to our clients.
Deliver all sales channel objectives and business measurements including sales calls, pipelining, ROI analyses, win rate, average deal size, etc.
Effectively collaborate and communicate with P&L leaders, Sales, Delivery, Research and Development and Executive Management throughout deals in-progress
Provides for financial analyses, long-range forecasting and analysis
Monitors programs to assess the sales impact of the solutions services
Qualifications:

A successful track record of consulting with large healthcare insurance industry clients including clients at the executive level within a healthcare insurance organization regarding their decisions for marketing and distribution, member enrollment, fraud prevention and or claims processing.
Must have personally achieved software sales quotas of over USD10M annually
Strategic thinking skills with strong leadership skills and strong leadership experience including responsibility for new business development including, booking and revenue growth and/or delivering complex solutions at key strategic accounts.
12+ years in large, complex enterprise IT and software sales.
The ability to effectively deal with complex client relationships, decision processes, and multiple agendas
BS degree (MBA or Advanced degree preferred).
Candidates should send their profile to hr @polyark.com & copy africa @ polyark.com