Guiness Nigeria Plc Job Vacancies for Strategic Category Manager - Cereals

Guiness Nigeria Plc  - We are Guinness Nigeria, member of Diageo Plc the world’s leading premium drinks business with an unrivalled collection of beverage alcohol & non-alcohol brands across the Spirits, Wine & Beer categories. Among the incredible portfolio is the Guinness Trademark (Foreign Extra Stout & Extra Smooth), Premium Lagers (Harp lager;
Satzenbrau Pilsner & Armstrong Dark Ale), Nigeria’s ) #1 Malt drink, Malta Guinness & the worlds leading Ready to Drink brands (Smirnoff Ice & Gordon’s Spark)

Our vision is to be the most celebrated business in Nigeria. To help us realise this we this we are committed to world-class standards in procrement. That’s where you come in we are now seeking highly competent & experienced professionals to join our procurement team.

Job Title: Strategic Category Manager - Cereals (REF NO: 25794BR)

The Role
Management of nominated category in line with Diageos procurement imperatives:
- Risk Management. Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation/growth, Corporate Citizenship.

Key Responsibility

• Develop strategic category management approach to key spend areas to deliver security of supply; maintaining requisite quality; protecting brand reputation and optimum cost.
• Develop and implement agreed strategy for managing price volatility in base commodity spend, and ensure fast and accurate reporting of risks and impacts of commodity price movements.
• Development of annual AOP and supporting projects to deliver agteedtargets
• Ensure appropriate contractual agreements exist within the category to minimise the risk to Diageo.
• Ensure compliance with legal and industry regulations e.g. GMO, traceability,etc
   

The person

• University Degree in Agricultural / Biological Science or commercially biased discipline.
• Accredited Purchasing qualification desirable (CIPS/MBA)
• Must have 3 – 4 years experience which should include the following:
• Significant Procurement responsibilities in a leading edge company
• Experience with agricultural products, traded commodities and of developing and operating Price Risk management policies to manage spend within Governance guidelines
• Weather data interpretation / management.

Application Deadline
28th December, 2010

Method of Application
Log on to www.diageo.com & click on ‘careers‘
Click on ‘Search & Apply‘
Click on ‘Search openings‘ go to ‘Key word‘ (Box 5) and enter the Ref No
Click ‘search‘
Click ‘view job(s)’ to read the detailed job profile
Click on ‘submit to job(s)’ to submit your Cv.

OR

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