Branch Manager at Olam Agri

Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.

Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Branch Manager

Location: Kaduna
Function: Not Applicable
Sub-Function: Not Applicable

Description

• Olam Agri's supply chain is crucial to its operations, and this Branch Manager role in Kaduna, Nigeria, is vital to its success.
• You will manage multiple product lines (commodity & processed commodity by-products) within the region, overseeing all processes from producer to market.

Key Deliverables
Strategic Effectiveness:

• Contribute to business roadmap development and implementation, managing procurement and supply chain strategy for assigned products.
• Apply sound judgment within established policies, utilizing effective problem-solving techniques.
• Demonstrate strong financial acumen, including understanding counterparty and credit risk management.

Operational Effectiveness:

• Optimize resource utilization within the plant & specifically RM warehouses. Support infrastructure implementation according to the business plan, maximizing capacity and minimizing controllable losses.
• Coordinate with regulatory bodies to secure necessary permissions and approvals.

Organizational Effectiveness:

• Build and develop high-performing teams through effective hiring, training, and development.
• Provide market analysis to support business trading and positional decisions.

Collaborative Effectiveness:

• Collaborate with key stakeholders through formal business reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage relationships across peers in the department to ensure product/ region ownership and collaboration to ensure stock availability across plants/ warehouses not under your direct supervision.
• Management of logistics in collaboration with other Branch, Import & Commercial managers to ensure stock for both internally & externally sourced materials

Requirements

• A proactive & analytical mindset focused on delivering added business value.
• MBA with minimum 3 years of post-qualification experience in a relevant industry.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels.
• Strong coaching, facilitation, presentation, collaboration and team-building skills.
• Prior experience in sales, supply chain, and/or operations is highly desirable

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.