Operations Director at Diageo Tanzania

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.

Purpose of the role

• Plays a pivotal role in fortifying the supply chain organization by cultivating future-fit talent, capabilities, and culture. This strategic focus ensures the supply chain remains resilient, agile, and aligned with evolving business landscapes.
• Fortress the Supply Chain organization by building a future-fit supply team through robust talent, capability and culture programs.
• Provision of expertise to SBL Exec and business. Lead SBL operations and provide relevant thought leadership to meet key strategic objectives and deliver against business targets.
• To manage the effective integration/ interaction between Supply and Demand to enable the business to maximize value.
• To deliver all innovation and renovation effectively to plan whilst continuing to drive down Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS) through an effective and efficient manufacturing and distribution system.
• Support Board and MD in strategic direction setting through timely and complete performance analysis and communication

Key Accountabilities

1. 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 & EABL Supply leadership team, build effective partnerships with internal stakeholders: SBL Exec, EABL & Global Supply and other supply centres.

2. Financial

• Ensure that the SBL organization 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 5 Year Global beer Vision, to support the significant growth for all SBL brands, and deliver significant benefit to the overall SBL business

3. People & capability Development

• Engage, lead and develop people in the business by unlocking their potential.
• Ensure that people are being developed to provide effective succession planning.
• Champion the Inclusion and Diversity agenda both in Supply and also support the same in the organization.
• 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.

4. Sustainability Agenda

• Develop a roadmap to deliver on the sustainability commitments for SBL and as well as Diageo in line with the 2030 Spirit of Progress agenda.
• Partner effectively with the Corporate Relations team to elevate the sustainability agenda in the organization

Experience/skills required

• Tertiary qualification preferably in a Science, Engineering or a Diploma in brewing.
• Minimum 10 years in Supply Chain Leadership positions in a FMCG environment.
• Good knowledge in brewing, packaging, engineering, quality, logistics, safety and sustainability.
• Proven abilities in delivering performance through people and teams at a 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 emerging or 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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