Psychologist Jobs in Lagos at SABmiller Plc, August 2014

SABMiller is one of the world's leading brewers with more than 200 beer brands and some 70,000 employees in over 75 countries. We also have growing businesses in soft drinks and we are one of the world's largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products.


Our brewing and beverage operations in Africa cover 15 countries. A further 21 are covered through a strategic alliance with the Castel group. In most of these countries we are the number one brewer by market share. We bottle soft drinks for The Coca-Cola Company in 20 of our African markets (in alliance with Castel in 14 of these markets).

SABmiller Plc has built an over 100million dollars beer brewery at Onitsha, it represents the highest foreign direct investment in Nigeria in recent times.

SABmiller Plc is currently recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Psychologist

Location: Lagos

Description:
An opportunity exists for a psychologist to provideconsulting psychological services, predominantly assessments to business units in Nigeria and Ghana.

• This role involves providing guidance and psychological assessments for current employees for development purposes as well as assessments for recruitment purposes. This must be done with due cognizance of the short, medium and long-term image and operational objectives of the organization.
• The assessments used are prescriptive. This means that the psychologist will have to be trained to use the standardised assessment batteries, taking into account the business Global standards and guidelines regarding psychometric assessment practices that she/he will be trained in and will have to adhere to.
• This role is foreseen as a long term relationship so that the psychologist gets to understand our business and its needs.
• The key aim of using assessments is to leverage information generated from the assessments together with other data to facilitate strategic people decisions and planning. Coaching of managers is therefore important so that they are empowered to use the results from the assessments as an additional source of data that will help them make sound business decisions with regards to people.

• Knowledge and Experience Required
• A minimum of 4 years corporate-related experience
• A good business understanding
• Excellent understanding of social, political and economic issues
• Ideally a Master’s degree in Industrial or Clinical Psychology
• Licensed Psychologist
• Sound knowledge of and experience in using psychometrics in an organisational context is ideal