Integrated Business Planning Lead at Diageo Tanzania

East African Breweries PLC (EABL) is East Africa’s leading branded alcohol beverage business with an outstanding collection of brands that range from beer, spirits and adult non-alcoholic drinks (ANADs), reaffirming our standing as a total adult beverage (TAB) company.

EABL has extensive operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania with breweries, distilleries, support industries and a distribution network across the region. It also runs a growing export operations business within and outside of the wider Eastern Africa region. The group’s diversity is an important factor in delivering the highest quality brands to East African consumers and long-term value to East African investors.

EABL operates within a multi-cultural, multinational, multi-currency environment, dealing with various regulatory, tax and compliance requirements

EABL is a Public Listed Company (Plc) listed on the Securities/Stock Exchange in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

About The Role

The Integrated Business Planning Lead role is a key market role and the face of Planning and Logistics within the respective market. The Integrated Business Planning Lead maintains a management and leadership role to ensure the Integrated Business Planning is managed and delivered in line with the EABL requirements. The role interacts with senior leaders within the market and supports the leadership team by ensuring timely decision making in response to changing business plans.

Within the market the role of the Integrated Business Planning lead is ensure sufficiency in the top and bottom line where gaps between the latest estimate are clear. This will come through in a holistic understanding of the E2E business process and early identification of risk and opportunities that will enable Diageo to come up with the right gap closing options, decision making and action plans, in addition to driving value through effective partnership with commercial, marketing and the GM to ensure robust execution of the business plan and joint value creation through the Integrated Business Planning process.

In addition, they are also accountable to coordinate and facilitate the monthly Integrated Business Planning process with Marketing, Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning and Logistics, to deliver the service, inventory, forecast accuracy/bias volume plan, NSV, innovation and cost savings.

• They will lead all the meetings within the IBP Cycle and Weekly S&OE meeting.
• They will be ensuring the IBP process continues to deliver to the Progressive standard. Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation.
• They will ensure the continuous change management and elimination of parallel processes that hinder the effectiveness of the IBP Meetings and Decisions.
  

Top Accountabilities

• Accountable for ensuring the IBP process continues to deliver to the Progressive standard through the PMR, DMR, SR and MBR.
• Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation.
• Facilitates IR Review with Finance, including driving the agenda, focus and level of escalation.
• Manages the monthly reconciliation cycle and is tasking the development and alignment of key decisions and gap closing scenarios.
• Coordinates the delivery of the overall business plan to deliver its objectives by combining the IBP plan with business activity and key drivers. Influences decision focus and executive alignment.
• Supports business performance management through exception-based root cause and escalation.
• Delivers key IBP performance metrics to the standard required.
• Full integration with finance to deliver a single business plan, with clearly identified gaps and actions.
• Works with Demand and Finance to facilitate decision and actions in response to changes in business assumptions and plans.
• Ensures the effective coordination if the monthly S&OE cycle and related meetings, including process implementation and management coordination.
• Is seen by the business as an extension of the executive team with clear influence and access.
• Can prioritise the management agenda, in a way that ensures trust in escalation and focus. Can present clearly defined decisions, including scenarios.
• Has the ability to work within the dynamics of a leadership team.
• Supports the category process with pro-active integration as needed.
• Drives process and tool enhancement, and advanced design foundations. Uses business tools and process, with resistance to informal workarounds.
• Drives continuous improvement using established process methodologies, including formal assessments, the EABL Playbook, and formal meeting review, as well as their role as a business leader and influencer.
• Prepare value adding visual information and recommendations to support business planning and decision making. This includes conforming to EABL standards for reporting and presentation, and the ability to clearly show an audience what is important when presenting information. Includes the ability to add clear and meaningful narration to visual presentations and the use of appropriate visual techniques (such as graphs and images) to maintain interest and focus.
• Develop and design (or support the development and design) of information management processes (such as Business Intelligence reporting or dashboards) to ensure they deliver business value and focus.
• Influence business executives to make changes to their plans by providing insight and support as needed based on information developed through the IBP process.
• Articulates insights and outcomes in a way that can lead to an agreed executive decision / outcome.
• Support business executives in delivering their business objectives through the preparation of plans and scenarios as needed, the reporting of key information and exceptions, and the completion of analysis and review of past performance and future.
• Takes ownership and accountability for the business planning / budgeting cycle on behalf of the Market executive team and coordinates the activity to deliver a formal business plan / budget.
• manage the delivery of strategic plans to support business objectives in response to changing market and business requirements where accountable. This includes delivering to agreed plans and managing change and risk.
• Understand the key components of financial reports, including related metrics in a way that allows the appropriate review of financial numbers to identify areas of concern that might require review and explanation, and to bridge key gaps between planned and current performance.
• Prepares and presents decision recommendations into appropriate IBP reviews, clearly articulating options, and impact in terms of volume, value, and resource requirements, and have developed a trusted position within the team to ensure appropriate support.
  

Skills/Capabilities

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities

• Growth Mindset
• Passion for data and a performance culture.
• Very strong analytical skills.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to foster and maintain strong working relationships and influence at all levels of the organisation. At ease working effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders and business cultures.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written combined with the ability to engage effectively at all levels in the organisation.
• Digital dexterity. Previous experience (and hunger to learn) on advanced planning tools, digital control towers, BI, etc.
• Critical Thinking and robust problem-solving ability.
• The most vocal voice of truth.
• Collaborate efficiently.
• Stands for digitization and does not tolerate drift.
• Robust business acumen.
• Evidence of strong bias performance.
• Evidence of reconciliation.
• Superbly understand the Rout to Market and consumer insights of the market s/he will operate in.
  

Desirable

• Experience in S&OP/ Demand Planning working in a multinational CPG / FMCG
• BSc in engineering, supply chain, data science/statistics/applied mathematics, economics. Additional MBA or MSc in Supply Chain Management or similar would be desirable.
  

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, 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.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.

Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location:

Dar es Salaam

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date

2026-03-19