Chief Executive Officer job at Old Mutual

Vacancy title:
Chief Executive Officer

Jobs at:
UAP Old Mutual Insurance

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, September 12 2025

Duty Station:
Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 3 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

As the CEO, you shall lead the transformation and growth of Old Mutual Uganda, shaping the future of financial services in the region through visionary leadership across insurance, asset management, and shared services. You shall play a pivotal role in shaping East Africa’s financial landscape, contributing to group-wide strategic decisions and representing Uganda at the highest levels of Old Mutual Africa Operations. You shall also support and participate in vision and strategy development and decision-making for the company. Specifically translating mission, vision, and strategy for the enterprise into the mission, vision, and strategy for Uganda and owning overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the strategic plans

Role Description

• Strategy formation and implementation - Develop the strategy for Uganda, providing functional leadership, challenging the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process.  Incorporating strategic planning to execute the organization’s mission.
• Business planning - Direct the development of annual and longer-term business plans for Uganda, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs); set operating and capital expense budgets; and review and approve business cases for projects and programs that have significant business impact.
• Organizational capability building - Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities. Embed personal development and the fulfillment of personal potential in the culture of the organization. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other proactive methods.
• Performance management - Set annual and long-term business-performance objectives and lead their delivery for a strategic function or group of businesses; manage and report on performance; hold direct reports accountable for the achievement of business plans, and take corrective action where necessary to ensure achievement, balancing the need to deliver short-term business objectives with the longer-term delivery of stakeholder value.
• Stakeholder engagement - Identify and manage stakeholders in the C-suite, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Financial management and control – Take overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the organization's global financial management and/or control strategy.
• Leadership and direction – Communicate the organization's mission, vision, and values and its strategy for achieving these tenets; set and communicate the strategy and broad action plan for delivering these tenets within a strategic function; inspire a diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals.
• Customer relationship development / prospecting – Develop and maintain professional interpersonal relationships with corporate senior executives of strategic potential accounts to facilitate business acquisition and retention.
• Corporate representation – Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts. Represent the organization in external relations with investors, clients, industry, partners, the public, and others.
• Board Relationship - Engage with the Board and key stakeholders to shape governance, drive strategic priorities, and ensure alignment with shareholder expectations.”.
• Brand Strategy and Effectiveness – Take overall responsibility for the design, development, and delivery of the organization's global brand strategy and improve the brand value of multiple brands.
• Improvement/ Innovation - Ensure future readiness by determining the organization's global innovation and change strategy.

Qualifications and Training

• 10 years of senior leadership experience
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred. Professional certifications (e.g., CFA, CPA, ACII) advantageous.”
• Proven track record of managing large teams and driving performance and process improvements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Competencies.

• Aligns execution - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high volume and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Builds effective Teams - Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable for meeting commitments.
• Business Insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Strategic vision - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Drives results - Delivers sustainable growth under dynamic market conditions, consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Customer focus - Provides cautious, timely and helpful service to encourage client loyalty.
• Engages and inspires - Creating a climate in which people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Instills trust - Builds a culture of integrity and transparency, gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Cultivates innovation and digital leadership - Champions innovation and digital transformation, creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Develops talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.

Accountabilities.

• Leadership effectiveness
  • Provides overall leadership and vision in developing sustainable long-term growth and strategic direction for the business
  • Develops and maintains a sound, effective organizational culture, ensuring capable management succession, as well as progressive employee training and development programs
• Business development
  • Managing the development of the business in terms of products and distribution (including economic viability)
  • Manages the profitability of the business (bottom line responsibility)
• Risk management
  • Analyze risks and determines strategies for managing them and ensuring that assets are adequately safeguarded and maintained
• Stakeholder management
  • Ensures that an appropriate level of engagement and relationships are maintained with important internal and external stakeholders
  • Strong focus on cross functional operation and networking across internal and external boundaries
  • Manage key external relationships to create a supportive brand, inclusive of media and marketing strategies
• Strategy implementation
  • Sets direction at a strategic and tactical level, and develops and takes accountability for a business plan which is aligned to the group strategy
  • Responsible for strategic direction of the Business, including all components of Finance, HR, Marketing and Brand, Risk & IT
• Functional effectiveness
  • Integrates, delegates, and manages functional teams
  • Ensures proactive skills and talent development to ensure a talent pipeline for all key roles in the organization

We are seeking an executive to join a purpose-driven organization committed to financial inclusion, innovation, and talent development across Africa.  Old Mutual is committed to building diverse leadership teams and fostering inclusive cultures that reflect the communities we serve.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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