Guinness Nigeria Plc Vacancy : Project Managers

Guinness Nigeria Plc is set to recruit for the positions of suitable and qualified Project Managers. We are Guinness Nigeria, member of Diageo Plc the world's leading premium drinks business with an unrivalled collection of beverage alcohol & non-alcohol brands across the Spirits, Wine & Beer categories.

Guinness Nigeria operates a Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) business and currently operates on 3 sites within Nigeria with a portfolio of products including Stout, Malta, Lager, Spirits and Ready to drink brands. Nigeria is the 2nd largest market for the Guinness Stout brand globally. It is quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and a significant player in the national economy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Manager- (6-12months Contract Role)
AutoReqId: 52671BR

Location: Lagos

Function: Finance

Type of Job: Employee

Context/Scope

• Guinness Nigeria’s performance ambition is to become the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer goods Company in Nigeria.
• Our strategic plan for the year includes the implementation of specified project initiatives under the global productivity drive.
• This role will partner with functional leadership teams, Program Management Office (PMO) and various productivity work-stream teams, to ensure a seamless implementation of effective change enablers and intervention plans.

Dimensions

Market Complexity:

• Our Productivity agenda cuts across different initiatives, and they are at various stages of implementation.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Be Authentic: Confidently engage senior stakeholders on the need to sponsor the required change interventions and get them to role model the new behavious. Ability to highlight issues and challenge sponsors where the desired change is not been embedded.
• Consistently Deliver Great Performance – Demonstrate complete and deep understanding of our business & processes, and translate the insight into effective and focused change interventions plans to drive the required transformations and behavioural shifts.
• Create Possibilities - Ability to think conceptually and manage the complexities of change intervention across multi work-streams.

Purpose of Role

• The Change manager will be responsible for the identification of change enablers as part of the transformation agenda; assessing the impact on business processes, system, roles & organisational structures; developing and implementing necessary intervention plans that will drive the required change such that business results are achieved.

Key Decision

• Identify change enablers across  multi initiatives & work streams
• Develop effective change intervention plans and embed across functions.  

Top 3-5 Accountabilities

• Work with the PMO to identify and develop change intervention plans across multi initiatives, required to deliver the operational benefits of the productivity agenda
• Lead the transitioning and embedding of change initiatives, minimise business disruptions and ensure effective integration of change plans into the business.
• Engage and manage senior stakeholders by communicating progress updates, issues, developments on change programmes; providing appropriate insight for better decision making on the approach & direction of the change.
• Measure and monitor the impact of the change, assess inherent risks and take cause corrective actions on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications and Experience Required

An Ideal candidate must possess a Bachelor's degree (or an equivalent), should have at least 5years Project Management experience and must have demonstrated the following:

• Good facilitation skills and ability to take an idea from conception right through closure.
• Good knowledge and understanding of the business environment
• Ability to build relationships quickly and manage conflicts
• Effective senior stakeholder management
• Strong and effective communication skills
• Risk management skills.

Policies highly relevant to the Marketing Function:

• In addition to functional specific policies, Diageo has 15 (fifteen) global policies and a Code of Business.
• These policies are available on the Compliance and Ethics page of Mosaic.
• It is your responsibility to be fully aware of the policies when you commence this role and if you have any questions for clarification, please consult your Line Manager.

Application Closing Date

Not Specified.

Method of Application

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Guinness Nigeria Plc Vacancy : Sales Executive

Guiness Nigeria Plc is currently recruiting for the position of Graduate Sales Executives. We are Guinness Nigeria, member of Diageo Plc the world's leading premium drinks business with an unrivalled collection of beverage alcohol & non-alcohol brands across the Spirits, Wine & Beer categories.

Guinness Nigeria operates a Total Beverage Business (TBB). A key contributor to the success of the GNPLC strategic plan is an effective & flexible field sales force demonstrating industry leadership in both volume driving & brand building activity. We put the customer at the heart of everything we do, and through this, will deliver sustained, mutual growth for our brands, categories, customers and partners. Will you partner with us on this journey?

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sales Executive

AutoReqId: 43794BR

Location: Nigeria

Function: Sales

The Opportunity

• Here at Guinness Nigeria we are looking for Sales Executives that are made of more: more passion, more drive, more authenticity, and more flair than a traditional sales executive.
• This is not just a job; this is an opportunity to be part of an amazing team who are the custodians of our iconic brands like Guinness Foreign Extra Stout (FES), Smirnoff, Baileys, Harp, Malta Guinness and many more.
• At Guinness Nigeria, we are constantly evolving as an organization that provides real opportunities for personal and career growth for our employees. We work with pace and passion, we love what we do and the people we work with.

The Role

The Sales Executive role is our entry level route into the sales function. The Sales Executive role is one that requires the ability to build strong commercial relationships with our customers. Managing and developing your own accounts is a core part of the role and you will be responsible for activations, preselling and order taking.

Requirement

We are looking for sales executives with a strong desire to build a career in sales and a real passion to win. In addition, our sales executives are expected to have the following qualifications and capabilities:

• Minimum of Ordinary National Diploma (OND) with 1 year commercial expertise gained across Sales / Consumer Marketing or Sales Management.
• Good communication skills –written and verbal
• Good IT skills
• High degree of integrity
• Good inter personal skills
• Willingness to work across Nigeria.

Previous selling experience is desired but not essential (full training in the Diageo Way of Selling will be provided)

Application Closing Date

Not Stated

How to Apply

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Guinness Nigeria Plc Vacancy : Route To Consumer - Finance Lead

Guinness Nigeria is part of Diageo Africa, currently seeks the services of suitable and qualified Route To Consumer - Finance Lead. We are a part of Key Markets and is a fully integrated, publicly quoted, Manufacturer and Seller/Marketing company of Guinness Products. The major brands are: Guinness FES, GES, Malta Guinness, Harp, Smirnoff Ice, Satzenbrau, Armstrong, Gordon Spark and Top Malt.

DBN: Spirit brands – Baileys Irish Cream,, J WALKER Red, J WALKER Black, Gordon’s Dry Gin, Captain Morgan, Premix and Smirnoff Ice Vodka.

Guinness Nigeria Plc - We are continuously interested in talented individuals who want to progress their careers and make a difference to our business.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Route To Consumer - Finance Lead

Location: Lagos

Grade and size: L5

Organisation: Reports to the market Route to Consumer Director.

Context:

A finance role that requires functional expertise and high leadership standards. The Route to Consumer (RtC) Finance lead is responsible for leading the Cost to Serve analysis, investment modelling for supply & commercial, and ensuring a transformational solution for working capital constraints through the full chain (retailer, distributor, wholesaler, Diageo). This individual will be involved and accountable for all stages of the Route to Consumer transformation, including Diagnosis, Design, Pilot and Implementation.

This is a hands-on position that has a key leadership role to deliver the overall Route to Consumer –Finance Framework.

Key Outcomes:

• Lead the Route to Consumer Finance work streams during all stages of the Route to Consumer transformation; Diagnosis, Design, Pilot and Implementation
• Lead the Cost to Serve analysis and modelling against the various Route to Consumer models. It will be imperative that the incumbent delivers both the analysis as well as the insight generation and highlights the impact of various outcomes.
• Co-Define the commercial trade terms for Distributors and 3rd party customers with in market Commercial lead and Supply lead
• Lead all product pricing modelling and deliver recommendations
• Lead analysis on current investment levels, provide recommendations on commercial and supply investment levels that support the delivery of the Route to Consumer models to be implemented
• Complete all CAPEX analysis and recommendations
• During the Diagnosis phase provide key financial data and information to help share the output of the Diagnosis and vision setting phase
• Active participation in the in-market governance as well as Africa Regional governance (to include members of Diageo Africa Executive & Global Route to Consumer team)

Decision maker for:

Key Stakeholders:

• Market to input
• Market General Manager & Executive team
• In Market Route to Consumer team
• In Market Finance Director, Sales Director & Supply Director
• Africa Route to Consumer Director
• Africa Governance team comprised of members of Diageo Africa Executive & Global Route to Consumer team
• External partners (i.e. McKinsey)

Top 3 functional capabilities for this role:

• Qualified Accountant with minimum 7+ years post qualification experience
• Significant experience with Commercial & Supply Finance ideally both, experience in 1 is required as minimum; as well as cross functional experience
• Experience with SAP & Magnitude this individual needs to be a recognized functional expert within the business

Top 3 leadership capabilities for this role:

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders (i.e. members of in market executive)
• Conceptual thinking – open to possibilities mind set, with a pragmatic approach to implementation of concepts and problem-solving skills
• Ability to lead and supervise virtual teams and work under tight deadlines

Essential Qualifications / knowledge / experience required / languages:

• Experience with various Route to Consumer models
• Extensive project management skills, both as a leader and key team member
• Local language(s) & English
• Proven ability to generate insights from data sources & provide clear direction and recommendations
• Experience with Excel and SAP

Application Closing Date

17th April, 2014

How To Apply

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Guinness Nigeria Plc Vacancy : Sales Finance Analyst

Guinness Nigeria is part of Diageo Africa, currently recruits for a suitable and qualifies Sales Finance Analyst .  We have part of Key Markets and is a fully integrated, publicly quoted, Manufacturer and Seller/Marketing company of Guinness Products. The major brands are: Guinness FES, GES, Malta Guinness, Harp, Smirnoff Ice, Satzenbrau, Armstrong, Gordon Spark and Top Malt.

DBN: Spirit brands – Baileys Irish Cream,, J WLKR Red, J WLKR Black, Gordon’s Dry Gin, Captain Morgan, Premix and Smirnoff Ice Vodka.

Guinness Nigeria Plc - We are continuously interested in talented individuals who want to progress their careers and make a difference to our business.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Sales Finance Analyst

Location: Nigeria

AutoReqId: 40802BR

Level: L6 M3

Reports To: Sales Finance Manager

Purpose of Role

To deliver against the strategic intent of Guinness Nigeria and DBN Finance as it relates to embedding Financial Decision Support in Sales and Customer Marketing Leadership and

Key Accountabilities

Assist the Sales Finance Manager to deliver decision support function within Sales:

• Establish Decision Support as a business partner creating effective relationships with other functions
• Deliver appropriate financial analysis on a project by project basis
• Ensure buy-in and commitment of IMC members to ensure best use of DSMs as Business Partners by departments.
• Work with the Sales team to ensure decisions are made with a full understanding of the financial implications.
• Assist the sales team in analysing Distributors’ profitability.
• Provide financial and commercial input to investment/resource allocation decisions within the departments as required.

Skill, Qualification and Experience required:

• Graduate calibre in a finance related discipline with at least 2 years’ experience gained in a Sales Finance role
• Commercially aware and articulate
• Proven ability to persuade, influence and build credibility across the functions
• Analytical and logical
• Ability to base decisions on facts
• Flexible and able to adapt readily to a changing environment
• Proficient use of Microsoft suite especially Excel

Barriers to Success in Role

• Inability to model financial implications of various scenarios required for decision making on a timely basis.
• Inability to fully engage and influence the Sales and Customer Marketing team and gain their alignment on Measurement and Evaluation

Application Closing Date

17th April, 2014

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Guinness Nigeria Plc Vacancy : Portfolio Manager - Demand & Indirect

Guinness Nigeria Plc is currently recruiting for the position of Portfolio Manager - Demand and Indirect. We are continuously interested in talented individuals who want to progress their careers and make a difference to our business.

Guinness Plc is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Portfolio Manager- Demand & Indirect

AutoReqId: 40215BR

Level: L4

Reports To: Head of Procurement

Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• The role holder is responsible for Strategic Procurement & Projects across all Procurement spend in Demand & Indirect in Guinness Nigeria as well as drives Vendor Base Rationalisation and evaluation/selection and development of suppliers of long-term relevance to the business
• The post-holder is expected to deliver significant profit growth/savings and added value to the business through developing Category Strategies, focusing on Strategic sourcing and driving through cost saving projects, by working with cross functional Teams.
• This will require a fundamental change in focus away from transactional procurement to adoption of a comprehensive Category Management process and implementation of Strategic Sourcing.
• Manages a portfolio of approximately 700 suppliers
• Expected to deliver significant year on year cost reductions net of inflation.
• Targeted benefits include delivery of savings projects committed by the Procurement Director to the business
• To own and develop Strategic Procurement in Guinness Nigeria.
• To deliver cost savings year on year
• To identify savings projects and initiatives for cost efficiency.
• To drive Supplier Rationalisation programmes and develop Suppliers of long term relevance to the business.
• To fully embed Category Management in Guinness Nigeria.
• To contribute and support the Pan Africa Category Management agenda.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Management and leadership of the Procurement Demand & Indirect Team comprising of 2 Category Managers and 2 Supplier Performance Managers.
• Leading the Category Teams and working through cross functional Teams, securing Strategy sign-offs by key stakeholders/ the Guinness Nigeria Leadership Team and driving implementation.
• High performance coaching and development of the Demand & Indirect Procurement Team.

Key Accountabilities

• Embed Category Management and develop/drive Category strategies
• Deliver savings and identified projects for the business.
• Project manage and drive initiatives and Supplier Rationalisation programme
• Manage, develop and coach all reports to build a high performing team

Requirements

• Graduate calibre, MBA would be an added advantage
• Minimum 7 years post qualification Procurement experience; experience within the FMCG environment is advantageous.
• Ability to think strategically and develop strategic options.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills with significant evidence of savings and value delivery.
• Project Management skills and ability to track & drive through projects
• Sound commercial awareness and the ability to contribute to the wider business process outside immediate role responsibilities.
• Exceptional leadership skills to build and maintain a high performing team
• Ability to work through cross-functional teams across multi sites.
• Ability to engage and influence a wide range of senior stakeholders and be a change agent.

Barriers to Success in Role

• Inability to challenge the status quo
• Inability to influence senior stakeholders and suppliers
• Inability to think strategically
• Lack of general commercial awareness
• Inability to coach and develop the Strategic Team
• Inability to work with cross functional Teams
• Lack of personal mental resilience in the face of obstacles/barriers

Application Closing Date

7th February, 2014

Method Of Application

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Guinness Nigeria Plc Vacancy : Marketing Manager - Spirits

Guinness Nigeria Plc currently recruits to fill the position of a Marketing Manager Spirit - Diageo Brands Nigeria (DBN) was created in 2010 to drive Diageo’s Spirits business in Nigeria. The success of DBN is critical to the success of Diageo’s operations in Nigeria and therefore is critical to Diageo Africa’s success. The Spirits category in Nigeria is fast-paced with multiple competitors, an emerging route to market structure and evolving competitive set. This represents a major challenge as the role is likely to require a solutions oriented approach that is both proactive where possible and reactive where required.

Job Title Marketing Manager – Spirits

AutoReqId: 40228BR

Function: Marketing

Location: Lagos

Level: L4

Responsibilities

• Reports to the Marketing Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc
• The Marketing Manager will work closely with the General Manager DBN, Marketing Director and the Customer Marketing team
• The role will lead the marketing agenda for the Diageo spirits portfolio in Nigeria, developing brand strategies and leading the execution of these strategies to ensure that chosen priority brands are leaders in their categories in Nigeria.
• The role will continually identify & quantify new growth opportunities for the portfolio based on continuously updated consumer insights, developing new growth drivers if required in partnership with West Africa Spirits Hub Team, whilst developing Spirits Marketing Talent for the future in Nigeria & Africa.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Work with the DBN General Manager & Marketing Director, Nigeria to set and execute the Nigeria five-year Strategy on Spirits Brands
• Liaise with the West Africa Spirits Hub Team & fellow African spirits brand teams to ensure 2 way search & spin of growth drivers on the priority brands and lead delivery across the region
• Develop & Coach the Nigeria Spirits Marketing team on Marketing & Spirits excellence in execution and support the DBN Customer Marketing team

Key Accountabilities

• Assist and support the General Manager DBN to deliver the AOP growth aspirations plus overlay targets in F14 and beyond
• Assist DBN General Manager in establishing the evolving route to market assessment for Spirits in Nigeria including a plan for correct COGS & efficient SKU’s for long term growth
• Support and lead Spirits Brand growth with Marketing Director by developing & implementing the code for growth for Spirits
• Lead the development of the local Game Plan and lead the categories in the Joined up Business Planning (JUBP) process
• Work with the in-market teams & commercial managers to turn the Spirits annual GAME brand plans into “executable” commercial plans and assist with the development of missing growth drivers.

Requirements

• University degree in Marketing / Business or other related discipline preferred
• Postgraduate Qualifications - an advantage
• Proven and strong Brand and Trade marketing experience (6-10 years)
• Proven ability in Team Leadership / Strategic thinking (minimum of 3-4 years)
• Spirits experience / knowledge is essential
• Proven experience working in emerging markets
• Proven track record of leading & inspiring Agencies
• Can demonstrate excellent Commercial acumen & Marketing judgement
• Can demonstrate excellent cross-functional working skills & thought leadership
• Extensive experience of ATL and BTL strategy development and implementation
• Proven experience in Consumer insight generation and strategic penetration
• Strong identifiable track record of success
• Is experienced at managing key stakeholders nationally & internationally
• Budget & cost control management
• Strong project Management skills and experience

Barriers to Success in Role

• Inability to manage and influence a cross functional team
• Inability to engage & work collaboratively with West Africa Spirits Team
• Inability to learn fast, adaptation to a new, flexible role and manage relationships with varied stakeholders

Work Location

Lagos based with some travels within and outside

Application Closing Date

10th February, 2014

Method Of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:

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