Diageo (Guinness Nigeria) Recruitment 2024
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About Diageo
At Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, our 200+ brands span 180 countries, crafted by a team of 30,000 talented individuals. Our brands, deeply rooted in culture, honor visionary founders like Arthur Guinness and John Walker. Join us to collaborate globally, innovate, and build a more inclusive, sustainable future. Embracing diversity, we celebrate unique skills and voices, fostering a culture where individuality thrives, empowering you to reach your fullest potential.
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Summary
- Company: Diageo (Guinness Nigeria)
- Job Opening: 2 Position
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND/MSC
- Job Type: Full Time
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Deadline: Not Specified
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1. Job Title: Connections Planning Manager
Purpose of Role
- The role of the Consumer Planning team is to proactively provide a holistic, end-to-end view of the growth opportunities in our market and to guide the development of interventions to harness these opportunities from a culture, consumer and shopper point of view. This team is expected to uncover deep penetrating insights about occasions, purchasing and consumption behaviours and use these insights to inspire marketing strategies and plans which ensure we drive purchase through all channels.
- This role is responsible for transforming how our brands connect with consumers efficiently and effectively. The role will implement the key principles of the Connections Planning Model and deliver world class data-driven connection plans for our brands that are activated brilliantly working seamlessly with the category brand teams
Top Accountabilities
- Provide leadership to the connections planning process (with media agency and brands) and delivery of key outputs i.e. A fully integrated connection plan that marries creative and media placement and operates 100%, ‘no dead ends’ across the consumer journey.
- Ensure appropriate use of data, & insight as part of the connections planning process, to understand local business challenges and opportunities and translate them into briefs, as well as predict trends and campaign impact
- Influencing and building capability in order to drive effective media strategy that delivers category and brand growth.
- Work in collaboration with senior stakeholders to influence media investments decisions.
- Lead continuous measurement, evaluation and improvement of the connections plans for all strategic brands with quarterly reviews with the Marketing Leadership Team
Qualifications, Experience, and leadership
- 4 years of integrated media or connections planning experience, with strong social and digital media experience
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically, stay on the pulse of competitive and market activities, as well as industry trends
- Successful and productive relationship management with agency partners
- Strong drive and determination. A track record of beta testing & optimization.
- Expert at dealing with ambiguity and complexity and proactively uses these moments to display leadership and take control
- A master at influencing skills across all levels of the organization to build belief in others and drive action
2. Job Title: Demand Planner
Join our Demand Planning Team
- As the home of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year across 180 markets globally. Because of this huge undertaking, we rely on highly advanced systems as well as the very best talent to make sure our businesses continue to run smoothly.
- To give you some idea of the scale of our operation, over half of our 30,000 employees work in our supply chains. We have teams in over 100 sites across more than 30 countries, but what matters is that wherever you work, you’re part of a diverse, inclusive team where there are opportunities for everyone.
- Whether you work in planning, logistics, technical teams or manufacturing, you’ll be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation. We set ourselves the highest standards, and our practices have earned us international recognition. And it’s people with energy, dedication and problem-solving skills who’ll help us get even better. In return, we offer a world of opportunities for you to explore, to shape and progress your career.
You will be responsible for
- Pro-actively works with the S&OP Manager and the IBP Leads, being responsible for the statistical forecast and highlighting deviations to the shipment and/or depletion trends.
- Use and maintain the APO software as the primary forecasting system tool
- Collaborate with IBP Lead on all forecast history cleaning activities including detailing adjustments and assumptions (market trends, seasonality, promotions).
- Maintain statistical parameters for “best fit” model & generate a baseline at least 18 month rolling.
- Maintain APO master data including CVC creation, disaggregation factors and attributes.
- Analyse outliers through appropriate reports and make corrections.
- Provide reports and insights to collaborators to improve the use of baseline forecast.
- Build the S&OP pre-read packs as per the codification formats.
- Update Tier critical metric slides on weekly and monthly basis for assigned markets
- Collaborate with IBP Leads to conduct root cause analysis to identify drivers of forecast error and work together to take the vital corrective action to drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy and bias performance.
- Regular review of codification progress through verification tracking. Ensure rigorous adherence to business processes and interactions with CoE
- Analyse performance issues and define specific improvement actions and plans by country to address these, ensuring plans are followed-up and implemented
- Drive action plans to completion in pilot markets where OnePlan have been launched already as defined
- Provide regular status updates to the market key customers and
- Ensure successful delivery of the implementation timelines for S&OP improvement roadmap as agreed with Africa FD and exec.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Proven capability in driving continuous improvement within end-to-end supply chains.
- Expert understanding of Demand Planning and S&OP Processes and associated Diageo systems (i.e. SAP APO Demand Planning module).
- Strong customer engagement skills.
- High degree of quantitative and analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills – verbal, written and presentation.
- Customer centric mind set.
- Proficient in MS applications e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook
- Master’s in industrial engineering or Business Administration.
- Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning CPF (Certified Professional Forecaster) qualification
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