Performance and Planning Manager Nile Breweries

Dreaming big is in our DNA. Brewing the world’s most loved beers and creating meaningful experiences is what inspires us. We are owners, empowered to lead real change, deliver on tough challenges, and take accountability for the results. We are looking for talent that shares these values, that is ambitious, bold & resilient. We want talent that is looking for fast career growth, cross-functional experiences, global exposure and robust training & development.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
• Define and Lead the process for Uganda Logistics operation
Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs to Logistics operation
• Monitor annual plan calendar implementation on a weekly basis together with PPM/BBP/NoCC and other functions on a need basis
• Define departmental targets to deliver on 3YP and Zone targets
• Partner with Zone Procurement organization and GPO on estimating properly all price escalations as well as on identifying and quantifying Procurement Initiatives
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all initiatives are properly embedded in the budget, while avoiding double counting
• Prepare management review presentations for Uganda and consolidating for BU Southern, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Cognos, SCFD, ZBB, TM1, SAP, SYSPRO)
• Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Provide correct bottom-up VLC standards and actuals for MACO reporting
• Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review)
• Responsible for actuals reporting in line with Control guidelines
• Assist the Price and Performance PPM with CTRM inputs (Commodity tracking & risk management) for transactional FX and commodity exposures within VLC
• Accurately report on price & Performance on a monthly basis
• Coordinate the actuals reporting process together with Zone Logistics PPM team, BBP and NoCC
• Do control checks, review and adjust actuals if needed in alignment with control
• Provide early view on actuals of the month
• Provide actuals review and analysis during monthly deep dive meetings
• Deep dive in all new variance drivers, find root cause and work with the operations on identifying adequate gap closing action plans
• Prepare month results T&M with BU Southern Logistics Director
• Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)
• Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the Uganda logistics department, for financial and operational KPIs
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
• Consolidate and report LE to the Zone Logistics PPM team
• Prepare monthly Deep Dive and T&M decks, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure the monthly LE is embedded in the regional LE submissions and balances back to BU submission
• Work closely with BBP to understand any plugs in the LE and ensure these are highlighted to relative teams and plans are put in place to address

Champions
• Define and drive the champions process for all Uganda Logistics
• Package focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Drive the process during preparation meetings and zone meeting
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are reviewed and updated monthly
• Ensure proper team resources allocation
• Align Champions and R&O outlook

Education
Relevant 3 year university degree

Experience
• Minimum of 3 years experience in managing financial performance in FMCG or Beverage industry
• Experience on supporting senior managers on decision making

Technical competencies
• Solid knowledge of accounting and control activities
• Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities
• Expertise in Project Management
• Good communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding
• Masters Excel and Powerpoint
• Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB In-Bev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc…)
• English – proficient in writing and speaking

Behavioural & Interpersonal Competencies
• Challenger of the status quo
• Driven to implement change & transformation
• Be a true partner with business owners
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• High level of service mindset
• Coordinating skills
• High sense for accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively