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REFERENCE NUMBER WO/ECA/MRKT/15-11- 10/01
JOB TITLE: EAST & CENTRAL AFRICA AREA RESEARCH MANAGER
LOCATION: NAIROBI, KENYA
REPORTING TO: HEAD OF MARKETING, EAST & CENTRAL AFRICA AREA
REQUISITION NUMBER: 1
RESPONSE DEADLINE: 26/11/2010
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

THE INCUMBENT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
Leading the process of consumer and customer insight generation in the Area.
Ensuring the integrity of insights and its integration in the decision making process.
The guardianship of all research systems, protocols and platforms
Ensuring the marketing insights and information platform (processes and systems) is fit-for- purpose to support informed decision making.
Management of research agencies and 3rd party service providers

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
5-8 years relevant FMCG experience.
Research methodologies, design and systems
Research agency management
Brand and trade marketing strategy development
Experience in people supervision (including coaching and team leadership skills)

EDUCATION:
Bachelors Degree in any business-related field

EQUITY STATEMENT:
British American Tobacco is an equal opportunity employer

GENERAL:
The company reserves the right not to make any appointments as a result of the selection process
An attractive remuneration package commensurate with the role will be offered to the successful candidate.

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British America Tobacco  Nigeria is recruiting for a Finance Officer to be based in Lagos.

Reports to: Finance Executive – Accounts Payable

Principal Accountabilities:


Operational/Technical/Professional Results

* Ensure invoices are accurately coded and scanned through the SAP application in timely basis to enable prompt payment and periodic reporting.
* Ensure that all invoices have correct supporting documentation and that tax and other deductions are correctly calculated.
* Ensure that all vouchers/invoices and their supporting documents are invalidated after processing to avoid reuse.
* Reconcile all vendors accounts and prepare statements of such reconciliation monthly.
* Monitoring ZFA102 (scanning report) to ensure scanning is done on time and all rejects properly addressed and rescanned.

Leadership Results

* Ensure that all vouchers and invoices processed for payment comply with the Company policies and authority schedules and no transactions that are outside policy or in excess of authority levels are processed.
* Ensure that all urgent payments receive the required attention.

Management Results

* Ensure that suppliers are paid on a timely basis and in line with the Company payment policy, objectives and the objective of being a good corporate citizen.
* Attends to all vendors queries from all locations and resolving all issues that might arise.
* Liase with Bass Ame to ensure timely and efficient posting of all parked invoices by the Temps.
* Ensure that all due invoices were picked up on the weekly payment run and follow up on those not picked for one reason or the other.

Relationship Results

* Maintain effective liaison with other colleagues in the AP team to ensure that all vouchers and invoices are returned promptly for filing after processing.

Innovation Results

Provide technologically driven solutions to identified processing problems

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

* A good honours degree or HND in Accounting or any of the Social Sciences
* Sound knowledge of double entry book keeping and Nigerian taxation
* Knowledge of Total or Control Accounts.
* SAP
* Computer literate
* Flair for IT skills

Key Outputs:

* The job exists to process vouchers and suppliers invoices in collaboration with the BAT South African team. Accounts Payable application of the SAP to ensure that the Company’s payment obligations are met on a timely basis and in the most efficient manner. This job would also ensure reconciliation of vendor accounts are properly done and control accounts are adequately reviewed and reconciled

Deadline is 30th July 2010

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BAT Nigeria: HR Executive, Marketing

Jobs at British American Tobacco Nigeria, Careers at British American Tobacco Nigeria, British American Tobacco Nigeria Jobs – Jobs in Nigeria by Careers NigeriaBAT is recruiting for a HR Executive, Marketing.

The ideal candidate should be a graduate of any discipline with relevant Human Resources management experience.

He/she will have the ability to skilfully engage and influence at all levels; Excellent communication skills; Excellent interpersonal skills and a detailed knowledge of labour law and the labour custom and practice is fundamental.

HR Executive, Marketing – Reporting to the HR Business Partner.

Principal Accountabilities:

* Proactively review existing HR policies and procedures to ensure they are always relevant to current needs; educate line management/employees on these for them to properly understand their objectives and relevance to them and the Company; and ensure they are implemented accordingly.
* Carry out manpower planning to ensure ready availability of talent to fill roles (both from within and outside the Company) with minimum downtime.
* Run/participate in interviews and assessment/development centres and determines assessment and selection tools to ensure effective recruitment and selection.
* Participate in ensuring all employees fully understand their roles and have/see a clear line-of-sight.
* Act as a professional advisor to employee/management on people issues.
* Participate in ensuring grievance and disciplinary procedures and practices are fair and transparent and are carried out accordingly through an active participation.
* Participate in ensuring our remuneration policies, procedures and practices are applied equitably.
* Provide guidance to Line Management to take the development of their teams as top priority.
* Provide guidance to line Management in ensuring the development is driven by properly developed, reviewed and implemented development plans.
* Provide guidance to line Management in ensuring that the work ethic within Marketing is driven by the Guiding Principles.
* Encourage line management to use robust communication as a vehicle to build trust, openness and understanding within and across their teams.
* Participate in ensuring line management embraces a culture of learning that proactively encourages sharing knowledge, experience etc within and across teams in order to build possible successors.
* Participate in ensuring team is efficient and effective in carrying out day-to-day administrative responsibilities.
* Provide guidance in ensuring an effective allocation of resources to deliver on priorities.
* Provide team with feedback on their performance on regular formal/informal bases.
* Monitor the performance of the factory clinic and ensure it is run affectively.
* Support employees/line management to understand how BAT performance management system works and that line management carries out performance appraisals effectively.
* Participate and facilitate TRMs, ensure feedback is provided and TRM decisions are followed through.
* Identify and develop excellent working relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally (E.g. Labour authorities), to ensure we are at no time in violation of any rules or regulations as it relates to our people.
* Ensure HR excellence by being in touch with HR best practice in the BAT world and among comparator companies.
* To exemplify BATN as an employer of choice.
* Develop & implement people-focused initiatives that would increase motivation and enhance performance.
* Encourage innovativeness in employees and assist line managers to encourage such.

Deadline is 18th September 2009.

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BAT Nigeria: Reward Analyst

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The ideal candidate should possess 5 years minimum experience in Human Resources in a multinational organisation with knowledge of HRM practices & principles.

He/she will also have 2 – 3 years of specialised experience in R&B function in an FMCG environment is preferable.

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Principal Accountabilities:

* Analyse survey data as well as information collected from individual organisations, highlighting trends and issues for consideration.
* Prepare remuneration intelligence reports and draft recommendations for consideration by the BCC.
* Present recommendations on remuneration and benefits issues to the BCC for review and approval.
* Maintain balance sheet information for incoming and outgoing expatriates.
* Maintain on-assignment remuneration for assignees out according to annual increases, bi-annual COL updates and policy changes, as well as on-assignment terms and conditions for incoming expatriates in conformity with established practices.
* Ensure that IA packages and payroll instructions are properly implemented and executed in line with policy.
* Oversee the effective delivery of remuneration and reward across the company, especially salary increase management and incentive schemes.
* Manage the full Job Evaluation process through the use of the JE Manager technology and ensure internal equity and consistency across functions.
* Implement and sustain non monetary recognition arrangements which will create and embed a culture of spontaneous recognition.
* Implement and maintain a reward communication strategy that enhances transparency and keeps employees informed.
* Develop and enhance reward training modules for line and HR managers to increase their reward management competence.
* Respond to all queries around expatriate remuneration and benefits.
* Develop, maintain and implement a reward induction module for new hires.
* Establish and maintain effective and productive relationships, especially with external colleagues in the HR discipline and FMCG sector.
* Source appropriate and quality remuneration and benefits data.
* Lead and execute area and regional reward projects as assigned by the Area Reward Manager and Regional Reward Forum

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

* 5 years minimum experience in Human Resources in a multinational organisation with knowledge of HRM practices & principles.
* 2 – 3 years of specialised experience in R&B function in an FMCG environment is preferable.
* Ability to design and manage pay & benefits systems
* Conceptual understanding of market survey techniques; ability to conduct and interpret compensation surveys;
* Ability to work with numerical & graphical data; understanding of statistics.
* Excellent working knowledge of JE Manager and HAY evaluation method and understanding of other alternative approaches to job evaluation.
* Good understanding of the BAT business and of tobacco industry in general;
* Good knowledge of the Nigeria Labour market, particularly FMCG sector;
* Strong analytical skills.
* Ability to work with extremely confidential & sensitive data.
* Good interpersonal and communication skills.
* Strong influencing skills; ability to influence employees & management at all levels including Top Team and Regional management.
* Good Resource management & Project Management skills.

Deadline is 21st September 2009.

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Candidate must possess
a Minimum OND in Science Field with Chemistry, Mathematics or Statistics as a major study area.

The candidate will ensure Quality measurements are taken, analysed, trended and reported so that accurate and relevant Quality data can be issued to Customers and Management. Also, to develop, implement and maintain work instructions, test methods and calibration in compliance with ISO 9001 – 2000.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

* Has knowledge required doing assigned audits and tasks within functional area
* May have advanced specialty education and training, and / or on-the-job experience

Key Outputs:

Operational Results

* Calibrate all equipment daily before use and document appropriately.
* Sample materials and products from the production processes in line with relevant protocols::
* Carry out visual and physical quality measurement in line with relevant protocols.
* Check, Validate and Record all relevant data.
* Report Non-conformance / faults found, in line with relevant protocol.

Leadership Results

* Able to plan, organise and deliver results in time to meet deadline
* Passion for excellence and adherence to standards.

Management Results

* Ensure compliance with British American Tobacco EHS guidelines for all QA activities.
* Maintain at all times, a clean, tidy and safe working environment.
* Comply with all EHS guidelines and procedures for quality function.

Relationship Results

* Ensure that set departmental and company objectives are adhered to.
* Interact with other departments in relation to equipment repairs / work orders and quality feedback & training as regards BAT QMS.
* Able to communicate timely feedback in a constructive & simple manner.

Innovation Results

* Be proactively involved in continuous improvement initiatives drive for change in all process in and around the manufacturing settings.

Deadline is 3rd September 2009.

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