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
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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.
Deadline: 2nd May 2023
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