Check out Vacancies at Guinness Nigeria Plc – Guinness Nigeria Plc is a major market for Diageo: Guinness Nigeria operates in the unique and fast-growing alcohol industry of over 15mhl beer potential. It is the only company that does Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) in Nigeria. It’s an on trade dominated market but with a fast-growing off-trade channel.
They are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Consumer Planning and Research
AutoReqId: 61279BR
Location: Lagos
Function: Marketing
Type of Job: Employee
Reports To: Marketing Director
Context of the role
- Guinness Nigeria is a focused business unit that delivers significant volume and profit to Diageo (parent company).
- Consumer planning has a critical role and responsibility for proactively identifying and driving consumer insights into the business
Purpose of the role
- To champion & drive world-class understanding of consumer attitudes, motivations and trends that can be leveraged to grow our brands
- To be the custodian of consumer insights
- To build an understanding of the consumer which is:
- Based on issues & opportunities
- Rigorous & grounded
- Compelling/easy to understand
- Proactive & timely
- To ensure that brand strategy & communication is founded upon a deep understanding of the consumer
- To deliver Measurement and Evaluation for key advertising and promotional projects
Top Accountabilities
Brand planning:
- Work closely with the brand teams to ensure that market and consumer insight drives the brand strategy and marketing activity; evaluating marketing activity; GAME planning & managing continuous brand tracking and feedback
Market planning:
- Manage, monitor, interpret and communicate trade data (including local trends and sales trends); portfolio planning (including Consumer Scope segmentation, pricing etc.) and ad hoc data to the business (marketing, customer marketing, and strategy)
Innovation planning:
- Work closely with the innovation team to develop, test and evaluate new concepts, products or brand extensions for the market
Qualifications and Experience Required
- Graduate
- 6-8 years’ experience either within an FMCG organization with a planning, brand & consumer focus, or a research agency background
- Experience in both quantitative and qualitative research techniques
- Experience of the drinks industry is advantageous however not essential.
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply
Job Title: Supplier to Plant Quality Specialist
AutoReqId: 60799BR
Location: Lagos
Function: Supply
Type of Job: Employee
Reports To: Head of Governance
Context of the role
- The need to remain competitive and conduct business in a sustainable and responsible manner requires the establishment of effective supplier quality management.
- Enhancement of Supplier inputs quality is critical in meeting the quality improvements required to achieve this standard.
Purpose of the role
- To collaboratively manage Quality Audits and on-going improvement of delivered inputs for Packaging components and Services activities across Nigeria.
Complexity of the role:
- Liaise with Procurement, Production, Packaging, Brewery Logistic and Customer Services departments to ensure that target volumes and quality are achieved.
Leadership responsibilities:
- The role holder ensures that adequate guidance is provided to the team members.
Top Accountabilities
- Develop the introduction of new Vendors through implement accreditation audits of Supplier premises before engagement, Liaison visits, and incoming inspection/ plant scale trials.
- Implement the Audit schedule for all component stores to ensure adherence to storage and handling standards.
- Implement the programme for Third Party Operations (TPO) audits and prepare annual plan/schedule for Third party Operation audits and Technical Liaison visits.
- Ensure adherence to specified quality standards through rigorous accreditation audits of Supplier premises prior to engagement.
- Manage fitness for purpose and due diligence checks for new glass bottles through in-house and third party analyses and plant scale trials.
- Manage supplier non-conformance report (SNCR) for all packaging components and liaise with Vendors on SNCR and ensure corrective actions are duly closed out.
Qualifications and Experience Required
- HND/University degree in Sciences or related field. Master’s degree may be an added advantage.
- IBD Brewing Qualification is an added advantage.
- 5-7 year’s brewery experience across Inbound Quality Management and Supply Operations
- Good knowledge of Diageo GRMS, DWB and other Local/International regulatory standards
- Auditing experience and Trainings
- Self-motivated and achievement-oriented leader. Good cultural awareness
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply
