Performance and Planning Manager Jobs – Nile Breweries

Job Title:  Performance and Planning Manager 

Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Annual Plan

• Define and lead the process for Uganda Logistics operation
• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs to Logistics operation
• Monitor annual plan calendar implementation on a weekly basis together with PPM/BBP/NoCC and other functions on a need basis
• Define departmental targets to deliver on 3YP and Zone targets
• Partner with Zone Procurement organization and GPO on estimating properly all price escalations as well as on identifying and quantifying Procurement Initiatives
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all initiatives are properly embedded in the budget, while avoiding double counting
• Prepare management review presentations for Uganda and consolidating for BU Southern, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Cognos, SCFD, ZBB, TM1, SAP, SYSPRO)
• Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Provide correct bottom-up VLC standards and actuals for MACO reporting
• Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review)
• Responsible for actuals reporting in line with Control guidelines
• Assist the Price and Performance PPM with CTRM inputs (Commodity tracking & risk management) for transactional FX and commodity exposures within VLC
• Accurately report on price & Performance on a monthly basis
• Coordinate the actuals reporting process together with Zone Logistics PPM team, BBP and NoCC
• Do control checks, review and adjust actuals if needed in alignment with control
• Provide early view on actuals of the month
• Provide actuals review and analysis during monthly deep dive meetings
• Deep dive in all new variance drivers, find root cause and work with the operations on identifying adequate gap closing action plans
• Prepare month results T&M with BU Southern Logistics Director
• Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)
• Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the Uganda logistics department, for financial and operational KPIs
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
• Consolidate and report LE to the Zone Logistics PPM team
• Prepare monthly Deep Dive and T&M decks, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure the monthly LE is embedded in the regional LE submissions and balances back to BU submission
• Work closely with BBP to understand any plugs in the LE and ensure these are highlighted to relative teams and plans are put in place to address

Champions

• Define and drive the champions process for all Uganda Logistics
• Packages focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Drive the process during preparation meetings and zone meeting
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are reviewed and updated monthly
• Ensure proper team resources allocation
• Align Champions and R&O outlook

ZBB

• Coordinate the actuals ZBB reporting process together with Zone Logistics PPM team and Uganda ZBB team
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans

Ad-hoc

• Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
• Conduct financial evaluation of Business Projects (Business Case, annual Budget & 3YP). Follow up of related reporting and perform post appraisal assessments
• Develop Management Reporting needs for Uganda Logistics to enable best-in-class operational performance management including definition of key information requirements
• Support BU Southern Logistics Director, PPM Logistics Africa Zone with operational reviews

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant should have completed a 3-year university degree
• At least three years of experience in managing financial performance in FMCG or Beverage industry
• Experience on supporting senior managers on decision making
• Solid knowledge of accounting and control activities
• Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities
• Expertise in Project Management
• Good communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding
• Masters Excel and Powerpoint
• Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB In-Bev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc…)
• English – proficient in writing and speaking
• Challenger of the status quo
• Driven to implement change & transformation
• Be a true partner with business owners
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• High level of service mindset
• Coordinating skills
• High sense for accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively

How to Apply:

All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.

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Deadline: 2^nd May 2023

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