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[00:01:57] moving forward and I think that the
[00:03:01] July 8,
[00:03:03] procedures 2023, July 8, 2026, 3 years
[00:03:06] of commitment, construction and
[00:03:09] mobilization in the service of the engineering
[00:03:12] profession, the mandate of the first
[00:03:15] national council of the Order of
[00:03:17] is a place for every woman within Engineers of Congo are the Commercial Director of is coming to an
[00:03:20] end, on Saturday, August 8,
[00:03:23] 2026 at 9 a.m. at
[00:03:26] the Hilton Hotel Twin
[00:03:28] good management of the Towers, the Order of Congo will hold
[00:03:32] its first elective
[00:03:34] general assembly, engineers registered in the
[00:03:38] order's register, you are all
[00:03:40] invited, your presence is a
[00:03:43] duty, together let's renew the
[00:03:47] governing bodies of our institution, under
[00:03:51] the high patronage of the Deputy Prime
[00:03:54] Minister, the elected president will be
[00:03:57] officially invested. In his functions
[00:04:01] engineer registered in the order's
[00:04:04] register, let's mobilize
[00:04:07] the engineer at the heart of Congo's
[00:04:10] development, long live the Republic of
[00:04:13] Congo, long live the OIC.
[00:04:24] its impact on the overall performance of general management of
[00:04:48] dear viewers, welcome to your
[00:04:51] program Question de femmes with the
[00:04:54] women of SNPC Distribution on the
[00:04:58] role of women within SNPC Distribution, first
[00:05:02] step Pointe Noire, the economic capital, we
[00:05:06] went to meet the field actors, in
[00:05:09] individual interviews. They told us about their reality on
[00:05:13] the ground, their challenges and their
[00:05:16] hopes. My name is Mandelo
[00:05:20] Jennifer, a commercial agent at SNPC Distribution
[00:05:23] Ponor, you have to organize yourself in such a
[00:05:26] way that by week or that
[00:05:30] there are outings outside for
[00:05:34] prospecting clients and then inside
[00:05:37] the office here for all that is management,
[00:05:40] follow-up of each client, price, administration and
[00:05:44] all. Already every day we organize
[00:05:48] ourselves to prospect and follow up with each client every
[00:05:51] day, who are your clients at SMPC
[00:05:54] distribution and what are their expectations? We have all
[00:05:58] clients both industrial and commercial and
[00:06:01] the expectation of each client is to be delivered on time.
[00:06:05] And what do you like most about your job? It's being able to
[00:06:09] participate in the distribution
[00:06:12] in Pointe Noire and in the southern zone, that's it. Finally, what does
[00:06:16] SNPCD distribution mean to
[00:06:19] you? Well, for me it's already
[00:06:23] trust, the trust to distribute a
[00:06:27] quality product to retain
[00:06:31] customers, to contribute to the
[00:06:33] building,
[00:06:35] I am employed at SNPC Distribution as
[00:06:39] Hygiene, Safety and Environment Manager. My
[00:06:42] name is Mbongoelogo Rodia Cristelle, I have always been
[00:06:46] driven by the vision of wanting
[00:06:49] to be able to master all the processes of my
[00:06:52] structure and to be a versatile
[00:06:56] collaborator in order to add
[00:06:59] value to my company. I first started at the
[00:07:03] Commercial Department as Commercial Manager for
[00:07:06] several years and thanks to the
[00:07:09] mobility policy implemented by the
[00:07:13] General Management, I requested a transfer to
[00:07:16] the Operations Department and
[00:07:19] since then I have held the position of Hygiene,
[00:07:22] Health and Environment Manager within the Operations
[00:07:26] Department. Being new to the
[00:07:29] field, I benefited from the
[00:07:32] training organized by the General
[00:07:35] Management of SNPC
[00:07:38] Distribution and I continue
[00:07:40] to train myself. In my
[00:07:44] beginnings as HSE manager, I
[00:07:47] encountered difficulties in establishing a
[00:07:51] real H&S culture within our entire
[00:07:55] distribution network and to achieve this, I had
[00:07:59] to be very rigorous,
[00:08:02] strengthen awareness and
[00:08:05] communication and today I can say
[00:08:08] that the teams have aligned and
[00:08:11] gradually we are moving towards
[00:08:14] the effective impregnation of the
[00:08:17] H&S culture
[00:08:20] and at SNPC Distribution we are lucky to have a General
[00:08:24] Manager who cares about women's emancipation and
[00:08:27] gender equality. He
[00:08:29] gives all these women the opportunity
[00:08:32] to hold, according to their skills, the same positions of responsibility as
[00:08:36] men. I am living
[00:08:37] proof.
[00:08:46] I am Mrs. Aline Goma, Logistics
[00:08:49] Service Manager at SNPC Distribution
[00:08:53] Pointe Noire, I cover the Pointe
[00:08:56] Noire area and the south area, notably Niari,
[00:09:00] Buenza and Lekoumou. So, it has several
[00:09:04] missions, focusing mainly on
[00:09:07] fuel deliveries to service stations and
[00:09:11] to customers. It is called
[00:09:14] enterprise customer. So the stockout obviously
[00:09:17] starts with stock management, we have a
[00:09:20] daily stock management follow-up that
[00:09:24] we do and so this stock is renewed each time as
[00:09:27] needed and that's why at our
[00:09:31] level there are rarely stockouts at the
[00:09:34] stations. I consider this job like any
[00:09:38] other job, so there is no easy
[00:09:41] job and I don't say either that it's difficult because
[00:09:45] if we say it's difficult it's like we don't have the capacity to ensure
[00:09:49] it. So I find it like any job, I do it day by day and
[00:09:52] every day we try to adapt more
[00:09:56] deeply, to root ourselves more deeply, to learn
[00:10:00] every day. I am divided between the
[00:10:02] office and the field, meaning that at the
[00:10:06] office I do all the office work, all the
[00:10:09] office work and on the field,
[00:10:12] I am, I check the trucks
[00:10:15] that are being loaded at the log depot, I follow their delivery until
[00:10:19] they reach the customer, and
[00:10:22] then I also track the return. The transporters who bring me
[00:10:26] invoices, I process them until I
[00:10:29] send them to accounting for payment, in short, I would
[00:10:33] say that the main mission is
[00:10:36] the delivery of
[00:10:38] fuel
[00:10:41] to our service stations and to large
[00:10:44] account customers, we call them the CNIs, meaning
[00:10:48] large customers, industrial customers, we
[00:10:51] have several outside our stations and every
[00:10:54] day we deliver them as needed,
[00:10:58] today, I manage this department, I have with me
[00:11:01] collaborators that I manage on a
[00:11:05] daily basis, and I also take this opportunity to
[00:11:09] thank my hierarchy who thought I was capable
[00:11:12] of holding this position, I am holding it, I am very proud and
[00:11:16] I am also proud for my hierarchy who saw what potential
[00:11:20] I had, thank
[00:11:21] you.
[00:11:47] Uh dear viewers from Congo
[00:11:49] and elsewhere, happy to meet you again in the context of your
[00:11:53] program Question de femmes. After Pointe Noire, here we are back
[00:11:57] in Brazzaville, here we
[00:12:00] are at the headquarters of the
[00:12:02] General Management of SNPC Distribution,
[00:12:06] we will together discover the
[00:12:09] gems of this entity in the
[00:12:13] oil and gas sector, that's
[00:12:16] it. How do you explain the cost control to someone who
[00:12:19] doesn't know this function? So for
[00:12:23] someone who doesn't know this function, the definition of cost control that I will
[00:12:26] give is very simple: cost control can be defined
[00:12:30] today as the guardian of the proper
[00:12:33] use of a company's financial resources.
[00:12:36] The objective of the cost controller that I am today is to
[00:12:40] ensure that expenses are incurred in a useful
[00:12:43] and justified manner and that these
[00:12:46] expenses create value. The
[00:12:50] primary responsibility of cost controllers is to ensure
[00:12:53] that all financial resources used by
[00:12:57] the company are used optimally
[00:13:00] and in accordance with the
[00:13:03] objectives set. You will ask me how
[00:13:07] this happens concretely. Management controllers or cost
[00:13:11] controllers have the mission to
[00:13:14] ensure that each expense
[00:13:17] is incurred in strict
[00:13:20] compliance with the approved
[00:13:23] budgets. These expenses should also comply with the company's
[00:13:28] and, of course, meet the strategic
[00:13:31] objectives of the company. Also, and
[00:13:35] I like to conclude on this question, I like this
[00:13:39] small definition that says that cost controllers
[00:13:43] aim to help the company spend better
[00:13:47] rather than spend less, and it is in this that the whole
[00:13:50] nuance lies, so you ensure the
[00:13:53] company. The good management of the company's
[00:13:56] expenses, very good. But
[00:14:00] madam, what is the most complex challenge you face in your
[00:14:04] function? One of the most complex challenges we face in
[00:14:07] our profession is to reconcile two
[00:14:11] requirements that may seem totally
[00:14:14] opposite, meaning that we must maintain cost
[00:14:17] control while allowing the various departments to have the
[00:14:21] necessary resources for their activities. So Mrs.
[00:14:24] Tina, you know... that in a company, a
[00:14:28] company cannot develop without investing and every
[00:14:32] investment requires an outflow of
[00:14:35] funds and as cost controllers we have
[00:14:38] the obligation to objectively
[00:14:40] analyze the relevance of this expenditure,
[00:14:44] its level of priority and of course
[00:14:49] the company, that's one of the challenges, the
[00:14:53] second challenge that we have as cost
[00:14:56] controllers is at the level of data processing, cost controllers
[00:15:00] must have the ability to
[00:15:04] transform data so that it is useful for decision
[00:15:08] making at the management level. So madam,
[00:15:11] according to you, how do women contribute to
[00:15:15] enriching strategic functions within
[00:15:18] companies? Madam Tina, I will tell
[00:15:21] you very honestly, I think that competence has no
[00:15:25] gender, to be a good cost
[00:15:29] controller, it requires very
[00:15:32] good analytical skills, it
[00:15:35] requires rigor, it requires
[00:15:38] also technical
[00:15:41] skills that we are obliged to have to
[00:15:45] be able to do our job well, but besides that, we also
[00:15:49] need a certain
[00:15:51] listening and a mastery of all the
[00:15:55] trades, so for me
[00:15:58] there is no problem for women to
[00:16:01] occupy these strategic positions, and today for me
[00:16:04] the issue is not to know why a woman should
[00:16:08] occupy such and such a position, the issue for me today is rather
[00:16:12] to be able to offer opportunities
[00:16:15] to women to be able to express their potential, Mrs. Michelle
[00:16:19] Opera, for those who do not know this profession, what is the role
[00:16:22] of a sales administration
[00:16:26] department within SNPC
[00:16:28] Distribution? So the sales administration department
[00:16:32] is the department that handles all the administrative management of sales within a
[00:16:36] company. From the customer's order, to delivery tracking,
[00:16:40] invoicing and collection. And within
[00:16:43] SNPC Distribution, this department plays a central
[00:16:47] and strategic role because it forms the link between customers,
[00:16:51] sales teams and internal departments such as the logistics
[00:16:54] department, the operations department, accounting and
[00:16:57] collection. Uh, according to you, what qualities make a
[00:17:01] woman strong in a position of responsibility at
[00:17:05] SNPC Distribution? So a woman who
[00:17:09] aspires to occupy a position of responsibility must distinguish
[00:17:12] herself by integrity,
[00:17:15] competence, leadership,
[00:17:18] resilience and self- assurance,
[00:17:21] meaning she must have confidence in her abilities. I could also
[00:17:24] say that the true strength of a woman in a position of
[00:17:27] responsibility does not lie only in wanting to control
[00:17:31] everything, but in her ability to inspire
[00:17:33] confidence, to develop others and to achieve results with
[00:17:37] professionalism and respect, that's what we call being
[00:17:40] a leader, isn't it? That's right madam, that's it.
[00:17:44] Uh, what message would you like to send to
[00:17:48] young women who aspire to hold positions of
[00:17:51] responsibility in sectors like that of petroleum
[00:17:54] product distribution? So to all these
[00:17:58] women who aspire to hold a position of responsibility in the petroleum
[00:18:01] product distribution sector, I would like to send this message:
[00:18:05] dare to believe in your potential, never let
[00:18:08] stereotypes or prejudices define your limits
[00:18:12] because your credibility is built by your
[00:18:15] professionalism, invest continuously in your
[00:18:18] training and don't be afraid to face new
[00:18:22] challenges because each experience is an opportunity to
[00:18:26] show your skills and
[00:18:29] to show your worth, that's all I can say, to conclude,
[00:18:33] how do you appreciate the representation of
[00:18:36] women? within SNPC Distribution? So I
[00:18:40] think that within SNPC Distribution, women are very well represented
[00:18:44] in the sense that there are several women who are heads of
[00:18:47] department and I think that
[00:18:51] women are well represented and there
[00:18:55] the company. What is your message to the
[00:18:58] young girl who admires you at this moment? So I
[00:19:02] would tell this young girl to believe in herself, not to
[00:19:06] give up. Because today women
[00:19:09] in society are somewhat in the minority, but
[00:19:13] we also have our place because like men we
[00:19:16] are also capable through our skills and that
[00:19:20] we also have our place within companies especially in the
[00:19:24] petroleum product distribution sector, thank
[00:19:27] you very much, another lady in our field of women's
[00:19:31] universe, women's question,
[00:19:34] her name is Mrs. Gambili.
[00:19:37] Andrea Akoli is the service manager
[00:19:41] at the general management of SNPC
[00:19:45] Distribution. Madam hello.
[00:19:47] Hello. So, Mrs.
[00:19:50] Gambili Andréa Akoli,
[00:19:54] you are service manager at the
[00:19:59] SNPC Distribution, does
[00:20:02] being a woman sometimes influence your
[00:20:05] way of approaching clients? So I would
[00:20:08] say no, women are perceived as more
[00:20:12] accessible to listening, which
[00:20:15] promotes immediate trust with clients. What is
[00:20:18] your greatest satisfaction when you conclude a
[00:20:21] partnership or retain a client? So
[00:20:25] reaching an agreement with a client gives a real sense of
[00:20:28] pride first because the negotiation
[00:20:32] work requires effort,
[00:20:36] so... we feel relieved once
[00:20:39] we succeed in it, it requires a lot
[00:20:42] of effort, it requires a lot, but you do it well, yes, and you
[00:20:46] like what you do too, but what is your
[00:20:50] view on the place of women and commercial development
[00:20:54] professions? Well, you see me, I am the head of
[00:20:57] the industrial client relations department at
[00:21:00] SMPC distribution, so to say that today women
[00:21:04] are progressing, women hold
[00:21:07] important places and positions in companies today and at
[00:21:10] SNPCD solution,
[00:21:13] there are
[00:21:15] many women who hold important
[00:21:18] positions. Very good, perhaps a message to the
[00:21:22] young girl who wants to get into commercial like
[00:21:26] you. I would tell all these women who want to get into a
[00:21:29] commercial profession, it requires a lot
[00:21:33] of effort, a lot of dynamism, it requires a lot of
[00:21:37] thought, a lot of intelligence, especially to
[00:21:41] reach an agreement and a lot of
[00:21:43] sacrifice also because it takes a lot of
[00:21:45] time.
[00:23:20] the Commercial Director of SNPC
[00:23:22] Distribution, Mrs. Goma
[00:23:26] Ekuyangala, thank you for joining
[00:23:29] us on this magnificent set at
[00:23:32] the Elbosuit, I specify that she is not
[00:23:35] alone, she is surrounded,
[00:23:38] could you introduce yourselves in turn? I am Michel Opera,
[00:23:42] Sales Administration Service Manager at SNPC Distribution. My
[00:23:46] name is Mrs. Douren Niumassila, I am a commercial agent at the pc
[00:23:50] distribution, so I am Mrs. Gombili Ibam, Head of
[00:23:53] Industrial Client Relations Service at SMPC
[00:23:57] Distribution. So madam Commercial
[00:24:00] Director, the floor is yours, you are our principal guest, you
[00:24:06] ASNPC Distribution,
[00:24:09] how do you support your teams to achieve
[00:24:13] their objectives? Thank you Madam Kaba and thank you for this
[00:24:17] opportunity today to come and receive
[00:24:20] the ladies of SNPC Distribution on your set
[00:24:24] and to put us forward so that people know that today it's our
[00:24:28] role to
[00:24:30] employ women and not just employment but also to
[00:24:34] empower them. So as Commercial Director, my
[00:24:37] role of support is one of the
[00:24:40] main levers of performance.
[00:24:43] Supporting my collaborators on a daily basis begins first
[00:24:47] with setting clear objectives
[00:24:51] and sharing them because it is not enough to just give objectives, but they must be
[00:24:54] accepted and understood by the collaborator and
[00:24:58] also the daily
[00:25:00] support in the mission
[00:25:04] which in our activity can
[00:25:07] change day by day depending
[00:25:10] on the activity and the context
[00:25:13] and when it is necessary to go down, I am a
[00:25:17] field person so when there are moments of
[00:25:21] high tension or other activities that
[00:25:24] require my presence, we discuss the difficulties
[00:25:27] encountered on the field according to what
[00:25:31] each person may encounter, so it is different for a pump attendant or
[00:25:34] another who is mainly in the
[00:25:37] office and the missions are the same so it is in the
[00:25:41] discussion, it is in the repositioning also the change
[00:25:44] of strategies also to value them, it is very important when
[00:25:47] there is success, when there are successes and also to
[00:25:51] reframe, to advise when things are not going well, in moments of doubt, in moments of full
[00:25:55] success, I am here, my role is to ensure that everyone does their part
[00:25:58] so that we achieve the objectives, but since when have you held this position?
[00:26:03] Uh, 5 years today, 5 years already, yes, that's it. But
[00:26:06] what do you expect from a good collaborator? A good
[00:26:10] collaborator for me is someone who listens, they can
[00:26:13] already, performance is essential, but also
[00:26:16] discipline, diligence, and in the sector
[00:26:20] in which we are, it's also integrity, it's also integrity because
[00:26:23] we are the front office or the visible
[00:26:27] part of the first company of Congo and
[00:26:30] we need the behavior, the savoir-être. And the savoir-faire
[00:26:33] constitutes an undeniable value. Are you
[00:26:37] proud to be a commercial director in a
[00:26:40] large company like SNPC Distribution? Well,
[00:26:44] very proud, I think who wouldn't be? And for that
[00:26:47] I think I thank, as do my collaborators who
[00:26:51] are here on this set, our General Manager,
[00:26:55] Mr. Tedy Christelle Sassou Guesso for his management and his
[00:26:58] openness to placing women at the center of his missions, so...
[00:27:02] he had no problem, he did not hesitate when the
[00:27:05] SNPC portfolio was entrusted to him to give this
[00:27:09] key position to a woman,
[00:27:12] that's what we observed, that women are well
[00:27:15] represented in your company, that's a good
[00:27:18] thing, but what was the biggest challenge of your career
[00:27:22] as commercial director? So
[00:27:25] immediately, two come to mind, but to
[00:27:28] mention only one, it would be a recent
[00:27:32] event. So. I found myself for various reasons and then against our
[00:27:36] will with the availability of all my managers, all my
[00:27:39] collaborators who held key positions and
[00:27:43] I found myself alone with interns, we had to continue
[00:27:47] the activity, we had to continue to compete and continue, we had to
[00:27:50] continue to achieve the objectives and that was the whole challenge,
[00:27:53] to find the talent of each person, what they were capable of bringing and
[00:27:59] challenge was well met, we are there, the results.
[00:28:03] Easy, but you still succeeded, uh,
[00:28:06] easy, no, nothing is easy, but it was pleasant
[00:28:09] because I was lucky to have
[00:28:13] collaborators who wanted to and who were willing to
[00:28:16] listening and willing, diligent at the same time, very
[00:28:20] diligent, of course, have you ever felt
[00:28:24] that you were not in your place, for example? You know, Mrs.
[00:28:27] Kaba, of course, I started at SNPC
[00:28:31] management at 15, meaning I've been a sales director for 5 years, so
[00:28:34] before that I held other positions, and when you join
[00:28:38] a company in a given position, you climb the ranks and
[00:28:41] reach top management. Uh, there's a moment
[00:28:45] of doubt, there's a moment of doubt, and thank
[00:28:48] God I think it was still short- lived because I was reassured by
[00:28:52] the one who entrusted me with the keys, who entrusted me with the reins, so notably my general manager
[00:28:56] helped me. He was attentive and reassured me in
[00:29:00] these moments of doubt and uncertainty which, thank God, didn't last.
[00:29:03] And here we are today.
[00:29:07] And so, do you think that leadership is defined more by
[00:29:11] skills than by gender? Well, I think, if
[00:29:14] today these roles are entrusted to these ladies, it's because I think that
[00:29:18] gender has nothing to do with it or has very little impact.
[00:29:21] Today it's about competence, it's about competence and availability,
[00:29:25] it's what each person can bring
[00:29:29] to society. You've seen, I think,
[00:29:32] years ago was still a very masculine profession. You've seen
[00:29:36] Mrs. Lemba Aline who is the head of logistics, which is still a
[00:29:40] very masculine profession, especially in the oil industry, and today
[00:29:43] we have access to all professions. You have female gas station attendants
[00:29:47] today who, a few years ago, especially 10, 15 years ago,
[00:29:50] were very rare. Uh, there were very
[00:29:54] few of them. So I think it's essentially competence,
[00:29:57] but what is the training policy
[00:30:00] of SNPC? its distribution in the
[00:30:04] context of strengthening the capacities of
[00:30:07] agents. So SNPC
[00:30:10] Distribution constantly supports and trains
[00:30:13] its agents. Already, uh,
[00:30:17] as I was telling you earlier,
[00:30:20] there's a young team that has just joined, they had to be trained and supported, and we
[00:30:24] also have the chance to belong to a large group which is SNPC
[00:30:28] Holding, which is today the largest recruiter, I think, in Congo,
[00:30:32] hm hm, whose policy is focused on training and
[00:30:35] strengthening the skills of agents. So we have, through the performance
[00:30:39] 2025, benefited from several training courses
[00:30:43] here as well as abroad, and SNPC Distribution continues
[00:30:46] to train agents,
[00:30:50] men and women, in all professions. Okay, seeing you, we feel that women
[00:30:54] are well represented in your
[00:30:57] company, well represented.