Jobs at Olam Agri

Job 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

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Job Description

Ensuring compliance to manufacturing processes and procedures of the company with the objective of achieving key performance indicators in collaboration with all stakeholders by constantly developing, planning, and implementing operational excellence and training of plant personnel.

Key Deliverables

• Production Planning & Execution
  • • Planning to deliver the sales demand ensuring effective utilization of assets at optimum cost of operations
    • Liaison with central and local procurement for effective planning of raw and packing materials ensuring availability as well as monitoring inventory norms
    • Analyze breakdowns and put corrective measures to improve OEE
    • Lead the AM Pillar team in WCM/Operational Excellence and support other pillars on production related requirements
    • Control over warehouses for raw & packing materials and finished goods
    • Ensure compliance to Safety and Food Safety requirements from manufacturing function
    • Ensure adherence to all applicable regulatory and statutory requirements
    • Review and monitor operating budgets

• Managing Talent
  • • Develop and train the team to improve the effectiveness of implementation of best/ next practices in the area of work.
    • Identify training needs of team members in order to enhance skills and develop/maintain a motivated team.
• Driving cost culture and value delivery
  • • Review requirements of production consumables and ensure availability
    • Review cost of production consumables and ensure adherence to budgets
• Projects
  • • Selection of Capacity, Capability, Appropriate Technology, Energy requirements etc for Opex and Capex Projects along with Engineering team as and when required
    • Execute implementation of projects within timelines and cost with support of Engineering Team
    • Assist in commissioning and start-up of new projects

Strategic Effectiveness

Requirements

• BE/B.Tech in Mechanical/Electrical/Production Engineering from a reputed institute
• 10+ years of experience in FMCG companies of repute preferably bottling/aseptic dairy products with a minimum of 3 years of experience as Head of Manufacturing/Production department
• Experience of managing high speed PET bottling lines and Tetrapak lines
• A hands-on experience of implementing TPM or WCM/Operational Excellence is a must. Exposure to Lean or Six Sigma would be an added advantage.
• Experience of managing production function of a bottling plant, preferably aseptic dairy technology with Tetrapak and Sidel bottling lines
• Strong people management skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Good negotiation skills