Job Description :
Job Title: Operations Director
About us:
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function:
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.
Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realizing our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.
About the role
The role is part of the Executive Leadership Team of Serengeti Breweries Limited and is accountable for leading the business operations to set and
meet key strategic objectives and deliver against these targets. The role is also accountable for managing the effective integration and interaction between Supply and other functions to enable the business to maximize value; as well as delivering all innovation and renovation effectively to plan whilst continuing to drive down Cost of Goods through more effective manufacturing and distribution.
Role Responsibilities
Strategic
- Responsible for total business performance and has decision making authority for performance-related issues.
- Agrees level of required functional resource to achieve performance goals with MD, Function Heads and Diageo Global leadership
- Acting as a key member of the Global & EA Beer Supply leadership team, build effective partnerships with internal stakeholders: Serengeti Breweries Ltd Exec, EABL & Global Supply and other supply centres.
Financial
- Ensure that the SBL operations deliver its financial targets and performance promise. To generate both the strategy and immediate financial year plans to deliver lower COGS, improving Quality, Service, Environmental Health & Safety whilst acting as a true business partner in the development and delivery of ways of working to provide flexibility, supply solutions and the identification of opportunities and innovation. Improve individual, team and performance in the Supply.
- Deliver operations strategy that supports the 2030 Global beer Vision, the significant growth proposed for brand Serengeti, and deliver significant benefit to the overall SBL business.
People & capability Development
- Engage, lead and develop people in the business by releasing their potential. Develop ‘world class performance’ (for quality, Environmental Health & Safety, service, cost & flexibility) and create opportunities for competitive advantage across SBL and Global Beer ‘s brewing and drinks industry. Drive a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
- Ensures that people are being developed to provide effective succession planning.
Experience / skills required
- Tertiary qualification preferably in a Science, Engineering or a Diploma in brewing.
- More than 10 years engineering or brewing management experience in a FMCG environment in International settings 5 managing overall operation of the country brewing process.
- Extensive knowledge of brewing, packaging, engineering, quality, logistics, safety and environmental risks.
- Proven abilities in delivering performance through people and teams at senior level. Demonstrated success in building capabilities through High Performance Coaching, Training and Facilitation.
- Culturally aware and able to adapt leadership style in any situation.
- Experience in developing markets is desirable.
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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How to Apply:
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