General Manager at an Indigenous Beverage Company - KSBC Advisory Partners Limited

KSBC Advisory Partners Limited - Our client is an indigenous Beverage Company with a global outlook. Birthed by consummate investors, the Company set out to build iconic, satisfying and lasting beverage brands that are available on every table in every locality. In the last two years, tremendous work has gone into fostering a major transformation in the overall systems and processes of the organization.

To enable it consolidate on its existing achievements and push to the next level especially the immediate expansion of its product lines, our client seeks the immediate employment of:

Job Title: General Manager

Location: Nigeria

Tasks / Key Responsibilities

• As the General Manager your primary focus will be to contribute to and implement the operational and commercial objectives of Company.
• This position also has the primary responsibility to achieve profitable production growth whilst providing technical support to systems /processes, business improvement, and manufacturing units to ensure the achievement of strategic goals.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Ensure that all programmed activities operate consistently and ethically within the mission and values of the organisation
• Transform the operations group to be in line with worlds best LEAN manufacturing practices
• Prepare and submit annual operational budgets for approval, manage effectively within this budget and report accurately on progress made and challenges encountered
• Providing leadership to the sales force to promote a high performance and customer centric culture to ultimately achieve prescribed sales targets
• Contribute to business planning and monitor results and policies of competitive organisation in preparing future plans and strategy.

Minimum Requirements / Skills / Competences

• The successful candidate must be a highly motivated and driven professional with at least 10 years recent experience as a General Manager in an industrial manufacturing environment.

Additionally, he must possess:

• A successful track record of leading a large manufacturing business in an industrial environment
• Exposure to a number of different beverage manufacturing environments with different processes and products
• Proven financial, commercial, sales and resource leadership skills
• A genuine passion for continuous improvement, developing people and driving a high-performance and collaborative culture
• Ability to communicate with a diverse range of employees and customers and a hands-on approach toward team facilitation and conflict resolution
• Excellent negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management capability
• A tertiary education, preferably in management or engineering
• Experience in LEAN manufacturing

Application Closing Date
28th January, 2020.