Job Title: Distributor Specialist
Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited
Duty Station: Mbarara, Uganda
About the Company:
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.
Job Summary: The key purpose of this role is to ensure efficient Regional Distributors (RD) performance in a timely manner and as aligned to company goals.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan for RD effectiveness
- Optimize RD performance
- Optimize RD potential
- Optimize RD warehouse capacity and layout
- Determine and monitor RD optimal Fleet Configuration
- Maximize RD Fleet Availability/optimization
- Understand segmented customer needs and expectations
- Tailor RD services to customer segments
- Ensure RD competitive behavior
- Resource for RD Effectiveness
- Advise on RD expenditure against budget and forecasts
- Comply with company credit policy
- Ensure distributors are equipped with the necessary sales skills to represent NBL through coaching individuals in the field and personally observing the performance of distributors.
- Drive DMS to enable line of sight and visibility of sales and distribution through route management.
- Drive Turn Around Time
- Stock Management (FIFO & LIFO optimized)
- Execute RD Plan
- Support asset acquisition
- Support management of service levels
- Support selling function
- Support the management of third party Contractors
- Ensure RD stock availability
- Support assurance of product quality • Assist in the minimization of breakages losses and wastage
- Assist in the maintenance of the depots
- Manage the company image
- Measure the RD Performance
- Analyze and respond to operational performance measures
- Manage key Financial Leverage
- Manage RD Debt position
- Adherence to set KPI
- Business management including; investments, cash-flows, diversions etc.
- Route Sales Effectiveness
- Implement new routes and close any geographical gaps
- RD Financial Audits
- Stocks/Sales/Brand targets
- Decision Making Powers and Authorities
- Recommend discipline of RD within down laid procedure(contractual obligations)
- Recommendation for RD recruitment.
- Statutory Requirements
- Ensure all statutory requirements are met by the RD (VAT, Income Tax, PAYE, NSSF, Trading License, Incorporated Company, etc
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Key attributes and competencies:
- Strategic thinking
- Analytical and problem solving
- presentation and communication (written and oral)
- Multifunctional skill base (marketing, commercial, financial, operations
- Integrative and innovative
- Influencing
- High level of initiative
- Planning and organizing competencies
Minimum requirements:
- Minimum Undergraduate Degree in Logistics, Finance
- Ideal Undergraduate Degree in Business related course
- Drivers License
- Minimum 3 years experience in an Operations / Finance environment at management level
- Level, ideally in FMCG or beer industry
- Ideal 2 years experience in Sales, Finance and logistics
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 17th December 2024
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