Vacancy title:
PPM Manager

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Manufacturing, Category: Admin & Office]

Jobs at:
Nile Breweries Limited

Deadline of this Job:
Saturday, July 12 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Jinja | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 8 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The key purpose of this role is the full responsibility for planning, reporting and control cycle of Supply (VIC, FIC, ZBB) on a monthly, quarterly and year end base for the plant.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Annual Plan / Budget

• Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the BU PPM Manager
• Review all budget calculations for BOMs and own the end-to-end process
• Lead the ZBB budget process for the plant and ensure all guidelines, templates and timelines are adhered to
• Lead the headcount and pay cost planning process for the plant
• Ensure all champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget while avoiding double counting
• Prepare management review presentations for Zone, respecting guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (SCFD, SAP)
• Provide correct bottom-up VIC standards and actuals for MACO reporting

Monthly Process (reporting / analysis / review / LE)

• Responsible for the preparation of a full year forecast outlook (LE) for the plant
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
• Consolidate and report LE monthly to the BU Supply PPM team
• Review of new BOMs monthly as and when required
• Review of the plant P&L and validation that the results reported are accurate and there is no material misstatement
• Review of headcount & pay cost reporting on a monthly basis
• Leads the completion and presentation of the monthly plant T&M deck with the Plant Manager
• Monitors coherence between Budget, CAPEX and ZBB Performance of the Plant
• Responsible for monthly and year end closing activities in supply (esp.. validation of accruals)
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of financial results in line with approved policies & procedures
• Manage Relationship with Network of Capability Centre (NoCC ) for outsourced activities
• Tracks performance targets for the Brewery Operations to reach World Class Excellence Operational efficiency. (e.g. TEL calculation, by product income tracking, packaging & brewing beer loss etc.)

Ad Hoc

• Define recommendations to support Senior Management decisions
• Manage projects as required; participate in ad hoc projects
• Perform detailed analyses to determine cost opportunities at a plant level and participates actively in benchmarking activities
• Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
• Ensure the application of coherent definitions and reporting requirements.
• Mediate on behalf of Supply PPM on performance (P&L) issues/ conflicts across functions.
• SPOC for the Supply function towards Plant

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• High level of service mindset
• Coordination skills
• High sense for accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Basic business sense
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Presentation skills
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
• Experience Product Costing
• Knowledge of Financial Reporting
• Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practice
• Project management, problem assessment and solving skills
• Working in an ERP environmentWorking in a process-oriented organization
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools
• Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP S/4HANA / Syspro

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year university degree in i.e., accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• MBA / CPA/ ACCA would be advantageous
• 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment

Additional Information:

• Band: VII

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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