Customer Supply Manager at Guinness Nigeria Plc
Guinness Nigeria Plc is a major market for Diageo: Guinness Nigeria operates in the unique and fast-growing alcohol industry of over 15mhl beer potential. It is the only company that does Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) in Nigeria. It’s an on-trade-dominated market but with a fast-growing off-trade channel.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Customer Supply Manager
Job ID: JR1099118
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Reports To: Head of Supply West and Central Africa
Purpose of Role
- Set up the new supply chain for Nigeria for Imported Spirits (Planning, Customer Service standards, Logistics, and governance)
- Collaborate with PEM customers to deliver strong service communication, forecasting at 80% SFA and solution finding.
- Collaborate across PEM to deliver continuous improvement across Supply as a value function.
- Ensure onboarding West and Central Supply standard process and leading customer service experience and sustainable operations in Nigeria.
- Problem solve challenges that occur in the administrative process OTC and follow through to delivery of each order to deliver 90%+OTIF.
Role Accountabilities
- Deliver Supply chain requirements for Nigeria to enable achievement of NSV and growth targets
- Deliver excellent customer service with the nominated distributor in Nigeria
- Establish customer collaborative forecasting with key customers to meet forecast accuracy targets.
- Ensure all detail on orders and shipments to Nigeria is accurate and on time to drive 90%+OTIF and zero demurrage from Diageo service
- Chip in to the art of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing to drive operational excellence in West and Central Africa
Qualifications, Experience, and leadership
- Educated to BA/ BSC level minimum
- Experience working in international logistics or customer service
- Tried ability to influence partners to deliver customer-centric results
- Proven track record to analyse detail at pace and provide conclusions and recommendations
- Experience in leading presentations and delivering results
- Agile - Demonstrates pace and tenacity, responding quickly to emerging threats and opportunities,
- Influencing – can navigate a matrix organisation and build brilliant relationships internally and externally.
- Personally resilient – able to maintain emotional balance in the face of pressure and high-performance expectation.
- Externally focused - Great external radar to spot opportunities and challenges and strongly networked into key communities of authorities to understand market and legislation trends.
- Culturally aware and able to adapt communication styles where required.
- Beneficial: Understanding and experience of import processes in Nigeria
- Critical thinking - A strategic and transformative leader able to make ambitious strategic choices that deliver for the short and long term.
- Commercial foresight – An understanding of business end to end and providing robust counsel to executive team.
- Fluent in English
- Proven track record in implementing Organisational Change, including focus on people and process improvement
- Experience of the S&OP cycle
- Performance driven - Has an acute focus on performance and results, is highly accountable and determined to win.
How to Apply
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