Friday, March 28, 2014

TaptoPay Ltd General Manager vacancy in Kenya

General Manager

KEMG002

TaptoPay Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., a publicly listed company in Hong Kong. 

TaptoPay provides Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Systems (or electronic ticketing system) for public transportation, such as for bus rail, and ferry, using contactless smart cards.  

It also provides electronic payment solutions for non-transit transactions including those at roads, parking gates, fast food chains, convenience stores and vending machines.  

The system will be like the Oyster Card in London or Octopus Card in Hong Kong.

TaptoPay’s system aims to enhance the efficiency of transportation fare and other micro payment collection by expanding customer base, increasing transaction speed and reducing operation costs.


The TaptoPay business is growing very rapidly owing to state-of-art technologies employed and owing to the vast network of customers established by ACS. 


We are providing automatic fare collection (AFC) solutions to various countries in the world.  

In particular, we have set up our AFC systems in five countries in Africa (including pilot ones).  

Kenya is our next target market. We are now inviting high caliber candidates to join our company for the following position:-

General Manager

Responsibilities:
  • Build up and manage the new office of TaptoPay in Kenya
  • Take initiative to promote TaptoPay solution and formulate strategic plans and budget
  • Manage the team to understand customer requirements and communicate with Hong Kong headquarters
  • Manage the team to operate the system together with the public transportation companies
  • Manage the team to provide support to customers
Requirements:
  • University graduate in any discipline
  • Proven management skills and track record, preferably in the IT field
  • Knowledge of smart card applications, particularly on payment system an advantage
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, leadership and presentation skills
  • Excellent spoken and written English
  • Eligible to work in Kenya
  • Willing to travel
Please send your full resume to ttp.jobs@acs.com.hk with reference no [KEMG002] quoted in the email subject.