March 24th, 2023 at 10:56 pm
Guinness Ghana Latest Job Opportunity
POSITION: Agriculture Development Planning Manager
Diageo is the world’s largest business for premium drinks. It has a great selection of alcohol brands for spirits, beer, and wine. Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Malta Guinness, and Alvaro are some of these brands.
Africa is the biggest emerging market for Diageo in terms of net sales, and it employs more than 5,300 people (one-fourth of the company’s global workforce) directly in its businesses there, as well as many more indirectly through the production, distribution, and promotion of its brands.
Guinness Ghana Breweries Plc (GGBPLC) is the biggest drinks company in Ghana and the only one that is listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). It has a market value share of about 60% of the drinks market. It has two locations and works in five types of drinks: Stout, Lager, RTD, Mainstream Spirits, and Malt. It also sells Spirits. In a competitive environment, the economy of Ghana is expected to keep growing at a rate of between 5% and 10% per year.
Guinness Ghana imports about 55% of the raw materials and packaging materials it needs to make all of its brands, such as malted barley, crowns, aluminum cans, and flavors.
Responsibilities
General
- Use of knowledge. Build, manage, and grow your knowledge and skills in one or more categories of spending, such as understanding supply markets, suppliers, and stakeholders. Become an expert on a subject and share your knowledge with others in a global community of professionals in that field. Use your knowledge and standards to find new value for Diageo and get it.
- Knowledge management. Drive the creation of the best market data and knowledge and make sure it is available and being actively managed and updated. Use the Diageo standards for excellence in each category. Contribute to making tools and techniques better and making new ones.
Strategy by category
- Collaboration in business. Help category managers and experts build relationships with stakeholders, partners, and suppliers to learn more about their needs and what they can do. They should also be able to explain what they need and what they can do for more value from stakeholder collaboration.
- Making plans for the future. For one or more categories of spending, help develop and change category strategies by: 1) researching and analyzing supply markets and dynamics and giving specialists and managers insights; and 2) evaluating opportunities and suggesting solutions.
- The best capabilities in its class. Create insights from internal and external benchmarking, build cost models to look at different scenarios with suppliers and other stakeholders, and build and improve analytics capabilities that let strategies be regularly reviewed and improved.
- Global CoEs need help. Help Global CoEs develop strategies, including for CM4 (global agreements), CM3 (above-region leverage), and CM2 (above-market leverage), by giving them relevant Market-wide and local market data, analysis, and insights.
Sourcing
- Buying on the market. Help with sourcing for categories of spending that are CM2 (above-market leverage) and CM1 (truly market-specific). As needed, involve community members and follow Diageo’s best practices.
- The market is shrinking. Support the management of contracts and compliance with contracts (Diageo stakeholder compliance and Supplier compliance) for relevant sourcing projects throughout the lifecycles of contracts. Keep track of and make sure that Diageo and local market standards are being met.
Risk management
- Mitigate strategic risks. As part of putting your category strategy into action, you should find ways to reduce risks, write them down, and keep track of them.
- Reduce the risks of sourcing. Identify corporate, supply, supplier, and other risks that come with sourcing activities. Help execute mitigations and make sure the right stakeholders, partners, and suppliers are involved to make sure the mitigations work.
- Use and improve tools and methods. Use Diageo’s best practice standards to make sure that the most up-to-date and useful methods are always used. Use formal governance and peer review to make sure that risk management is good and effective. Help make standards.
Managing relationships with suppliers
- Relationship with a supplier. Apply standards, ways of working, and trust relationships with market suppliers in relevant categories; make sure Diageo’s best practices are used and that there is a good foundation for strong performance, reducing risks, and solving problems quickly.
- How well a supplier does. Help define and track key performance indicators (KPIs), improve the value of the data that is collected and used, and work with Supply sites to solve problems that have gotten out of hand. Provide data analysis and input to the SPM so that the relationship with suppliers can be managed according to the performance plan and Diageo can get the most out of it.
- Data management. Maintain all relevant data on systems and offline databases, such as information about vendors, price lists, standard costing, and support for invoice queries.
Qualifications and Experience
ESSENTIAL
- Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Engineering, Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Food or Cereal Science, with at least 5 years of relevant experience after graduation; experience in developing agricultural value chains in a forward-thinking, fast-paced, value-adding blue-chip FMCG environment will be a plus.
- Combination of functional knowledge, intellectual insights, and experience with managing programs and changes
- In a senior position, you must have at least 15 years of experience in the supply chain or manufacturing (preferably with Brewery management background)
- Outstanding leadership skills—able to get other people involved in the business agenda and form strong, real business partnerships.
- Strong business sense, excellent verbal and written communication, persuasion, and presentation skills, and the ability to quickly engage and sway a wide range of colleagues and senior stakeholders.
- Analytical, good with numbers, enthusiastic, and determined. Solid understanding of how money works and the ability to contribute to the business process outside of immediate job duties.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to make presentations or reports that are clear and professional for use at the highest levels of Guinness, Diageo, and our supplier base.
- Able to deal with ambiguity and manage multiple relationships in a matrix environment. Able to take criticism and learn from feedback.
- Strong IT skills, such as knowing how to use Excel and PowerPoint very well.
- Ability to think ahead and plan well, keeping track of and measuring progress on time.
- Intercultural sensitivity and the ability to “flex” your approach to meet the needs of a diverse community.
How to Apply for this Guinness Ghana Latest Job Opportunity
Closing Date: 5th April 2023
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