Job Description Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd (GGBL), a Diageo company, is developing a new business model to better cover its market and improve service to customers and consumers.
The Route to Consumer (RtC) team is leading this effort through coordination across all the key functions (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Information Systems) to ensure the development and implementation of this new business model that will drive significant profitable growth of the business. This program will transform the way GGBL currently does business.
External Job Title: Growth Program Manager
AutoReq: Id 39697BR
Function : Sales
Type of Job: Permanent
Country: Ghana
This role will report to the RtC Director and work closely with GGBL leadership, key functions, groups and stakeholders to help manage the transformational program. This requires the oversight of key elements of the RtC program, the development of the right tools and frameworks such as key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor progress of the program, and conducting analysis to support business decisions.
a) Financial No direct financial accountability.
b) Market Complexity / Program Complexity:
The role is focused mainly in Ghana, working with those within the country to lead the assessment of change and addressing the consequential change management needs resulting from project deliverables to our customers across these geographies and cultures. Additionally, the role will liaise with a central team from Africa and other parts of the world (e.g., UK headquarters).
c) Leadership Responsibilities
The role will be responsible for leading various efforts in the RtC program under the guidance of the RtC Director. The role holder will also support analysis for business decision making and have significant responsibility in ensuring that the appropriate metrics are set up to track progress of the program. Additionally, the program manager will coordinate with various teams and functions to ensure progress on multiple initiatives.
Purpose of Role:
To assist the RtC Director in managing various aspects of the business transformation program. Will represent RtC in various meetings to help progress solutions to implement various elements of the program
Job Accountabilities:
• Represent RtC across other functions in the organization to support implementation efforts
• Lead analysis to support business cases and decision making
• Develop the process to gather information to report out on key metrics
• Support efforts of program initiatives by working with various teams to develop and implement solutions
Requirement:
- College/university degree in economics, finance, accounting, or business administration
- Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience or 2 years’ experience plus graduate degree (e.g., MBA)
- Fluent in English
- Excellent financial system and Microsoft Office skills (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access)
- Strong written and spoken communication skills
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Commercial/business acumen
- Demonstrated ability as a strong team player working across multiple geographies and cultures
Barriers to Candidate Success in Role:
- Inability to engage with and manage key relationships and stakeholders
- Insufficient ‘operational’ skills (planning, writing, process development, communicating, etc.)
- Inability to work across cultures / geographies
- Lack of ability to deliver through others
- Inability to effectively work with others in a team
- Lack of confidence/proactive approach in working across a large team
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