Nigerian Bottling Company Limited Vacancy for an experienced Plant Manager

Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is one of the biggest Companies in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the country and is the sole franchise bottler of The Coca-Cola Company in Nigeria.


Our Company NBC Ltd started operations in Nigeria in 1951. Based in the city of Lagos, we operate 13 bottling plants across the country. In addition, we channel products through 59 warehouses and distribution centers.

Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is recruiting for qualified candidates to fill the position of:

Job Title: Plant Manager

Job Reference: PDM/10/2014
Location: Nigeria

Job Details

• Ensures continuous and effective assets management
• Ensures adherence to Food and Beverage Legislation, TCCC Standards, ISO certification, Good Manufacturing Practices and other internal and external regulatory compliance
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Ensures all production personnel meet the requirements of Good Housekeeping and Good Manufacturing practices
• Builds team's capabilities through implementation of training and development programs
• Develops unit capabilities to achieve maximum utilization of technology and equipment
• Effectively applies approved selection and development tools for recruitment and development of managers
• Provides feedback to team members for better performance and develops successors
• Coaches his/her direct reports on leadership matters
• Manufacturing strategy is communicated, understood and accepted by all unit members
• As a result of effective performance management programs, all first-line managers deliver full performance
• Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects in Production
• His fully aware and implements IMCR management routines and procedures
• Effectively applies business performance review (COBRA, EATB) management routine
• Develops business plans providing productivity improvement and stretchy targets for cost efficiency
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
• Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on Production
• Controls accountability for concentrate, sweetener, CO2 and other yields during production
• Prepares, presents and interprets Production KBI's, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction while following production plans
• Ensures the achievement of the targets for the organization by optimal usage of labor, materials and capital investments
• Ensures that his/her team completes projects within the deadlines to provide the planned capacity to meet the sales demand
• Analyses cost center variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
• Effectively applies business performance review (COBRA, EATB) management routine
• Ensures budget delivery
• Understands and controls main cost drivers in Manufacturing
• Ensures property and loss prevention
• Leads processes, systems and people side of all change initiatives in the plant
• Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit
• Addresses poor performers quickly at all levels
• Engagement plan implementation leads to constant Engagement index improvement
• Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
• Regularly updates team members on company processes, changes and initiatives
• Performance management systems are implemented with discipline
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers, peers, institutions, suppliers
• Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union representatives
• Builds and re-reinforces relationships with Planning, Warehouse, Quality and Engineering units, including boundary management routines and relationship building activities with other units in the plant
• Promotes process automation and use of technology across the whole organization
• Ensures health and safety of all employees in the plant
• Ensures CC Hellenic Environment Policy is strictly followed and environmental culture and mindset is speared across the unit, incl. setting of clear and stretchy environmental targets to reduce use of resources and energy.
• Plays a leading role in implementing communication and actions which put the Quality First (product, behavior, communication, etc.)
• Ensures effective systems are in place to guarantee CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Builds relationship with professional associations, specialized universities
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with the relevant government bodies
• Drives innovation by sourcing people for innovation projects
• Ensures continuous process improvement exploring Group and industry benchmark and employees input
• Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering value
• Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within CC Hellenic

• University degree relevant to Manufacturing (engineering, food & beverage processing related)
• Minimum of 10 years work experience.