Job Vacancies at Guinness Nigeria Plc

Guiness is one of Diageo’s Global Priority Brands and was Diageo’s third biggest NSV contributor in F09. Regional Brands include Malta, Tusker, Harp, Pilsner, Satzenbrau, Smirnoff Ice, and Alvaro.

Supply is critical to enable such high levels of brand growth – through exemplary service to our customers, by maximizing the value of our assets and investments, by protecting the reputation of our business and brands, enabling innovation, and ensuring our people to flourish in the face of this challenge.

Guiness is now recruiting for a Packaging Operations Supply Manager and Area Sales Manager.

Packaging Operations Supply Manager

This role will play a key role in achieving and ensuring delivery of Packaging Performance promise, they will align and champion the improvement programs and ensure compliance to standards.

Dimensions

1. Financial:

• This role is important to the achievement of the overall Africa region business plans by impacting on COGS in a supply centre delivering 775 M£ NSV through ensuring Diageo has the most cost effective operations across the owned and managed sites inside Africa.
• They will support the CI projects and support & lead the site teams in the implementation of best practice across all plants including.
• They will ensure all Diageo’s assets are utilized effectively before any further investment.

2. Market Complexity:

• This role operates across multiple markets in the developing and volatile economies of Africa as well as interacting at a global level with global functions and other supply centres.
• The role includes ensuring compliance with diverse regulatory systems in various countries.

3. Leadership Responsibilities:

• This role will champion packaging efficiency improvements, process quality and cost improvement across Africa.
• They will help develop strategy at the Supply Hub level and will develop plans and lead implementation across the operating sites.
• They will ensure a culture of continuous improvement is developed. This role will lead up to 5 Packaging Specialists.

Accountabilities:

• Develop and implement packaging efficiency improvements, reduction in material and liquid waste and step change in outer packaging quality in plants.
• Support & lead the site teams in CI delivery using a structured PP methodology, building capability & the implementation of best practice across all plants.
• Leads and tracks plant action plans and ensures ability of plans to hit KPI’s.
• Responsible for assisting the operational management to access the correct support on specific issues if the Support Person is unable to resolve the issue.

Qualifications and Experience:

• University degree in Science with an Engineering/ Operational qualification/status, Diploma Master Brewer (IOB) qualification.
• Experience in a senior production role (five plus years) such as Packaging manager/Production manager/ Brewing manager.
• Expert manufacturing management principles and techniques in packaging, perfect plant.
• Understanding of best practice implementation model and strategy.
• Understanding of the principles of change management and cultures in different countries.
• Analytical problem solving and auditing skills.
• Understanding of governance standards such as LTO, ISO, and HACCP. Self-motivated and achievement oriented leader.
• Role to be based in West Africa and will requires a considerable amount of travel across the Supply Hub markets; therefore the incumbent needs to manage the role effectively from a variety of locations.

Please note: Only shortlisted candidates would be contacted.

Deadline is 20th August 2009.

To apply online click on the link below. Select ‘Search Openings’ and enter the reference number 20314BR in the keyword field.

Area Sales Manager.

The purpose of the role is to support the Sales Department in the achievement of the Departmental & Diageo’s business objectives through the effective management of a designated Sales territory including implementation of all Sales activities/programmes in the retail Sales territory.

Dimensions

1. Financial:

• Responsible for personal Overhead budget
• Tactical Budget in territory
• POS

2. Market Complexity:

• Individual territory geographically based.
• Part of a team of RDMs and BDMs working in an Area, is required to work with VSMs across several distributor territories.

3. Responsibilities:

• Leadership Capabilities:
• Must be able to influence, inspire and drive performance without having direct management responsibility for distributor or Guinness Staff.

4. Leadership Capabilities:

• Be Authentic – Stand for what you feel is right for the individual, team and market on a National basis to ensure a solution fit for market and Diageo globally. Build and sustain trust with others through real relationships
• Find Solutions – Overcome objections by creating ideas and opportunities to enable you and others to go beyond the existing situation. Stand in the future for both the market and Diageo to shape that future. Work within and outside of established approaches
• Connect to the Diageo purpose – Be an ambassador for the development of teams capabilities and Sales Destination 2011 programs Passionate about delivering results through others to drive significant business benefits

5. Functional Capabilities:

• Managing Relationships: Developing
• Commercial Planning: Baseline
• Sales Drivers: Developing
• CDOS: Developing

Accountabilities:

• Ensures achievement of QDVPPP sales drivers for Area
• Works with ASM and Training Dept and HR to build personal sales capability
• Responsible for ensuring the retail redistribution standards are adhered to by distributors and VSMs.
• Ensures at a minimum, once a quarter review of VSM routes, inclusion of new outlets.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Graduate with minimum 1 year commercial expertise gained across Sales / Consumer Marketing or Sales Management.
• Entry-level route for graduate trainees into the sales function.
• Direct experience of Diageo Way of Selling capabilities with a focus on Sales Driver execution at the point of purchase (QDVPPP), Outlet Segmentation and Managing Relationships including structured call, persuasive selling and brand passion. Strong experience of the application of Health & Safety and Quality systems.
• Good communication skills –written and verbal
• Good IT skills
• High degree of integrity
• Geographically mobile.
• Experienced driver with valid license

Please note the following: Only shortlisted candidates would be contacted.

Deadline is 20th August 2009.

To apply online click on the link below. Select ‘Search Openings’ and enter the reference number 20331BR in the keyword field.

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