Assistant General Manager (FMCG) Ogies

Introduction

Tasked with supporting the General Manager by overseeing daily business activities, improving overall business functions, managing budgets, developing strategic plans and communicating business goals. Hiring and training employees, Monitoring and motivating staff, support staff development, increasing staff productivity. Managing operational costs, enhance efficiency, ensuring good customer service, drive indirect sales, improve revenue, improving administration processes, engaging with vendors, identifying business opportunities, and monitoring financial activities. Maintaining relationships with stakeholders, generating new business, improving service, ensuring sustainability, and meeting business objectives.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Assistant General Manager supports driving the financial and operational value chain improvement and reporting through:

• Streamlined, system driven, accurate, on-time, reporting based on operational value drivers. This will include budget and/or target tracking.

• Supporting Management Team in prioritizing and taking remedial actions where operational value drivers are not met through enquiry root cause analysis, action planning and implementation

• Ensure that customer requirements are consistently met through constant monitoring the operational value chain and implementation of cost effective, productive improvements and other remedial actions based.

• Driving innovation to ensure continuous improvement in operations and removal of the root causes of operational inefficiencies

• Optimized and extended useful life of fixed assets

• Drive long term, sustainable improvements in energy (electricity/water/fuel) efficiency and reliability Required behaviours

• Good knowledge of different business functions

• Cost accounting

• Analysis skills

• Structured thinking

• Problem-solving

• Prioritization;

• Excellent communication skills

• Good interpersonal skills

• Computer literate

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Millwright tested

• 4 years experience in FMCG

• Operational background 5 years
• 5s Experience
• Lean Methodology
• Management Skills
• FMCG food industry, Food safety standards
• Production planning

50 000 - 70 000

The successful candidate will be reporting to the General Manager