Job Opportunities at Unilever Kenya Limited - 11 Positions

MAIN JOB PURPOSE

To manage, supervise and deliver the country payroll within the given timelines.

JOB SUMMARY

• To process accurate and timely payroll for country remittance of data to bank through accounts payable
• Executes payroll accounting and reconciliation
• Delivers payroll services by managing payroll personnel
• Generates monthly reports and SLAs for payroll
• Monitors payroll processes to meet legal compliance and COBP requirements
• Provides payroll KPIs reports and data as required
• Manages processing of statutory deductions and remittance of data to finance for payments to institutions and retirees
• Participates in pension cycle briefs – support preparations for pension annual general meetings and cascades to country
• To input to payroll systems against new reward cycle, new collective Bargaining agreement, Time and Attendance data / payment related calculations for payroll accuracy
• To process statutory deductions report and remit to finance for pay-outs i.e. tax, National Social Security, Pension, Co-operatives

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• University graduate,
• 2-3 years in payroll processes
• Relevant experience in pensions and tax matters
• Attention to detail
• Highly Analytical
• Interpersonal and Communication
• Confidentiality & HIGH integrity

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About us!

We are on a mission to help people eat healthy and to reduce carbon footprint through the power of plants! If you would like to join us, read on!

On Friday 15th December, it was announced that Unilever was to sell the Spreads business to KKR and the transfer of ownership is expected to take place in July 2018. KKR are committed to supporting the business’ growth ambition, whilst continuing to follow Unilever’s responsible sourcing policies, including working towards the goal of sourcing 100 per cent sustainable palm oil by 2019.

Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Single point of contact for R&D in East and Southern Africa for landing innovations, renovations and value improvement projects
• Providing technical local input for risk assessments into innovation and non-innovation led projects
• Input of local needs into BU led projects (eg. distribution/usage conditions, all types of packaging requirements including primary, secondary and tertiary packaging material would need to be given with local consumer needs).
• Specifications writing (product and packaging) and master data support
• Supporting implementation of all type of projects for East Africa (e.g. conducting plant trials, 1st production sample approval, link to QA and care line)
• Knowledge based selling, to activate our products with the trade (in co-operation with the extended regional/global R&D teams). Gives support to marketing in Brand activations, promotions, demonstrations.
• Benchmarking of in market / competitor products
• Carry out sensory evaluation, product shelf life stability and support transit trials.
• Liaise with raw and packaging material suppliers for new / alternate raw or packaging material development
• Together with local QA, you are active in complaint Management through monitoring issues and recommending/implementing corrective action and supports Care line.
• Propose improvements in Ways of Working, processes, methods, systems.

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• Master or Bachelor Degree in Food technology or related Science degree
• 2 year’s and above work experience
• Relevant experience within a FMCG company
• Product and packaging development with project management experience
• Clear and logical thinker with the ability to recognize patterns and develop innovative solutions.
• Very good oral and written communication skills.
• Skill in use of Microsoft Office applications.
• Specification management systems/databases. Artwork approval process or similar is welcomed

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Deliver talent and organisation fit to achieve the ambition of the Africa BU including “Hire to Retire” HR functional responsibilities
• Support in the design of an adaptable and affordable organisation for the business
• Engage with people to deliver strategy
• Deliver creative learning solutions to deliver growth and sharing of best practice globally
• Manage ER and IR agenda in the markets including consultation and trade union agreements.
• Data management and people systems maintenance – delivering the basics perfectly.

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• Demonstrated experience in Human Resources management. 6-10 years plus of HR experience.
• Experience of managing third party providers across a range of HR tools and processes, including external legal counsel on people matters
• Track record of delivering innovative and effective approaches to engagement and organisation design
• Experience in a globally dispersed organization;
• Ability to communicate directly, clearly and honestly with senior executive leadership.
• Adaptable, flexible, leadership style
• High level of loyalty, integrity and trust

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Develop and drive the  business, including optimize its base and set, execute and implement strategies.
• Develop and drive long-term brand vision delivering category and market share growth.
• Develop and implement brand marketing plans taking considering local market and consumer insights as well as 12Q plan and full year activity plan.
• Optimizing product assortment to fit market demands and introducing relevant innovations to expand the portfolio
• Managing pricing strategy in order to drive profitable growth as well as savings initiatives.
• Driving aligned ATL and BTL communication in co-operation with local Customer Marketing and Sales teams. Ensuring all planned activities are executed to an optimal level and that key JTBDs are achieved and set KPIs are met in terms of trial, awareness and ROMI
• Responsibility for media/PR communication, campaign briefing and planning. 
• Ensure accurate monitoring and controlling of Advertising & Promotion budget.

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• High Bias for Action! Mount Everest high!
• Entrepreneurial mind-set! You want to have your own company a couple of years from now! But hack, let’s do this first!
• Proven ability to lead a multi-cultural, multi-country team across different time zones (a 9 to 5 mentality would not work here).
• Proven track-record of managing a total marketing budget. You spend what you need to deliver and not a cent more! You are part of the team that owns the total P&L. Every cent saved, is a cent earned.
• You have a strong preference for working-media over non-working media.
• Strong business acumen and organisational awareness. This means, you know what is going on around you at all times. You see BS coming from a mile away.
• Relevant experience with managing agency relationships (creative, research, media buying) because we will not hire a dedicated team to do that for you. Sorry.
• Strong understanding of media buying or willing to quickly learn all ins-and-outs (we have no intent of hiring a separate media manager either, nor a CMI manager for that matter, we mean it when we say “end-to-end”). Obviously, you do not need to do the media buying yourself, but you need to be able to determine fact from fiction when your media buying agency is trying to sell you more than what you really need.
• Track record of developing and deploying EFFECTIVE communication assets across all media channels. We want to touch the hearts and minds of our consumers, and we want them to buy our products. That is where you come in. You will be our consumer advocate and marketing rock star!
• You love competitive pressure; you think outside of the box (what box?), you would have been an Olympic Gold Medalist if you were not always working that hard on creating consumer love. Every working hour of every working day. It is what gets you up in the morning! It’s a bit silly really.

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Responsible for the Africa BU R&D team as functional lead and forming part of the Africa BU leadership team.
• First point of contact for R&D in Africa and business partner to the Africa BU leadership.
• Working closely with other functions, as part of a cross-functional team, the job holder will be the R&D leader for Innovation, Renovation, VIPs, Quality improvements, Simplification & Harmonization and USLP projects.
• Responsible for the shaping of the Africa program together with Africa BU leadership to support growth ambition and in partnership with the global teams.
• Ensuring compliance with mandatory policies and relevant local legislation.
• Manage prioritization within the R&D program vs business needs and expectations.
• Responsible for demos and activations relevant to the BU while consistently providing a view on the local competitor landscape
• Engage in claims, risk and stakeholder management at a Africa BU level.
• Establishment and refinement of the processes and interfaces within the newly formed R&D unit, within the BU and with other functions with the aim to establish a way of working.
• Ensure continuous people development, performance management and efficient resource allocation within the Africa R&D team.
• Responsible for the Africa product portfolio and therefore owner of specifications and management thereof within the Africa R&D team to maintain highest quality standards.
• Liaise with raw and packaging material suppliers for new / alternate raw or packaging material development as relevant and in partnership with procurement.
• Together with local QA, is active in complaint Management through monitoring issues and recommending/implementing corrective action and supports Care line.

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• Tropical spreads technology knowledge/expertise and experience a plus
• Growth mindset
• Team leadership & development
• Influencing skills
• Business Acumen
• Consumer & Customer Focus
• Project Leadership
• Flexibility to work with diverse cultures, personalities and work styles
• Relevant Science Degree (Bachelor or Masters) in Food Science/Technology/Chemistry/Engineering
• Experience in a Foods Environment is key. Minimum 3 years relevant experience.
• Project leadership experience

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Drives and facilitates the implementation of the SHE systems in line with system standards (ISO/FWS); Corporate standards and guidelines; Legislative requirements and Business process requirements.
• Introduces, sells and champions SHE best practices, and customises to suit business needs
• Co-ordinates, monitors and audits all SHE activities related to the business and ensures all business SHE activities meet legislative requirements. Identify opportunities for continuous improvement
• Is custodian of the business SHE system, and as such is responsible for ensuring: The system is maintained and Adequate data and document management practices are adhered to
• Is responsible for all business SHE information collation and reporting, in line with business and corporate requirements, Business and Contractor statistics, Annual, quarterly and monthly tracking of KPI's
• Monitoring SHE objectives and targets as the business SHE expert, provides specialist support to the relevant business teams
• Drives, assists with and collates general SHE risk assessments;
• Delivers SHE training programs, and liaises on annual and day to day issues with regulatory authorities, independent SHE auditing bodies and the Unilever SHE team
• Maintain best practice and knowledge base through networks within the wider SHE community internal and external
• Co-ordinate SHE related contractors e.g. Fire Equipment.
• Formulates and prepares legal appointments in terms of regulatory and system requirements

 Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• 4 – 6 years’ relevant experience in a SHE role
• Degree in Operations/Quality/Safety/Environment

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Ensuring that the production lines operate efficiently, safely, and manufacture a high-quality product.
• Engaging manufacturing personnel in terms of leading, coaching, and promoting the values of the business.  All Supervisors are mindful of what a workplace culture is and how to maintain it in a positive manner.
• Ensuring that the  policies (handbook) and procedures are communicated and understood.   Disciplinary actions, when necessary, is administered in a way that is consistent with the coaching approach of the business.
• Providing the governance function for a cluster of semi-autonomous teams, delivering management and leadership support for performance monitoring, overtime allocation, working patterns and dispute resolution. 
• Understanding the factory’s financial situation and use training in World Class Manufacturing methodologies and processes to drive the semi-autonomous team’s work to counter losses and eradicate waste. They lead project work to support factory initiatives. 
• Provide a common standard of communication and engagement across the factory and  liase closely with the core factory functions, including Manufacturing, HR, Quality and Safety to achieve this.

 Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• A Bachelor’s degree is required with at least 2 years of relevant experience in leading and developing a team. 
• Must be proficient in utilizing MS Office Tools (Excel, Word, Outlook).   
• A good technical understanding of manufacturing, general or chemical engineering or food technology is highly preferred.  
• The role is a critical front line leader in the plant, and will be expected to have strong interpersonal skills for their own direct reports, as well as the ability to work laterally with other departments. 
• You will need to work cross functionally within the factory to drive plant wide results. 
• Team leadership and team engagement is vital to the success of this role.

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Develop, implement, and lead the cross-functional, fully-integrated processes that enable successful on-time delivery to our customers, align with our customers to achieve their strategic goals and build for continued growth. 
• To gather and analyse the data to drive continuous improvements for on-time pick-up, delivery and cost reduction. Determine root cause, develop and implement solutions, and monitor to ensure success.
• Provide exceptional service at competitive costs to support the overall strategic direction of assigned customers and the overall business. This position requires the ability to make educated decisions regarding how to maximize opportunities for success in a highly dynamic and complex environment. 
• This position requires open and strategic communication with many areas of the business, as well as our carrier base, in relation to carrier capacity, seasonal inventory, volume spikes, and opportunities for synergy and growth. 
• Balance the operational trade-offs between internal business constraints, capacity constraints, and external customer requirements for assigned customers.

 Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university
• Minimum 2 to 4 years in Logistics and Supply Chain
• Results-oriented, proactive, innovative thinker with a focus on continuous improvement
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with all levels of management and the ability to function effectively as part of a team to gain cooperation of individuals across the organization
• Ability to work in a challenging business environment, to demonstrate flexibility by managing numerous priorities concurrently and ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Experience using advanced Microsoft Excel and comfort using integrated computer systems

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• To develop annual and monthly customer account plan for assigned accounts according to Upfield Food Group (UFG) strategy to ensure turnover, volume, distribution, and gross margin target are met.
• To implement agreed business development strategies for assigned accounts.
• To effectively manage trading terms and monitor growth plan.
• To gain insight & understanding into chain operators and leverage these commercial insights with channel marketing to create sustainable profitable business for both parties.
• To drive Solution / Concept selling via Ideation sessions and manage entire process from initial stage to launch stage.
• To negotiate on price with customer to ensure the total volume and profit target are met.
• To regularly conduct customer business review.
• Build up strong relationship with customers by high quality services and solutions.
• Co-ordinate with internal business support from chef, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Channel Marketing and related functions to ensure smooth and efficient operations to support the business growth plan.
• Implement other activity as directed by Line Manager.

 Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• Strong Key Accountant Management experience
• Excellent negotiation and presentation skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Minimum 3 years of sales experience, with minimum 1 year in key account management
• Well versed with MS office applications
• Preferably with experience and knowledge in food services and catering business

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Supervise the Maintenance function and ensure that maintenance assignments are carried out in an efficient and safe manner. Perform audits of in-process and closed work orders. Supervisor maintenance staff.
• Set-up, maintain and be responsible for preventative maintenance systems, inspection routines, job scheduling, training and identification of plant improvement plans for improved efficiencies and yield.
• Control maintenance expenditures in a cost-effective way according to the site budget for site repairs, resources, direct labor, overtime and contractors.
• Organize and plan maintenance work assignments appropriately within the required timeframes.
• Champion Continuous Improvement initiatives and Safety objectives. Strive for zero incidents and ensure a people centered safety culture exists within the department.
• This position has a very significant impact to the financial and operational success of the plant.

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• Bachelor Degree, preferably in Engineering Technology, Electronic Instrumentation, Mechanical Engineering or the like. Strong leadership skills.
• Relevant experience in the food industry with minimum of five (5) years of technical experience dealing with: Preventative/Predictive Maintenance Process, Technical Guidance & Development of the Maintenance Work Force.
• Experience with spray drying process or dry powder handling is a plus.
• Must have knowledge of Food Safety Principles, GMP's, EPA & OSHA Requirements.
• Must have excellent communication skills & exhibit Winning Behavior leadership

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!

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Your Role

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Guide the factory to new levels of quality performance
• Ensure employees have the right knowledge for the job and work to eliminate losses due to human error and insufficient procedures.
• Key leader to moving the factory towards World Class performance.
• Leverage your leadership and technical knowledge to support the Quality Pillar of the continuous improvement program (World Class Manufacturing).
• Guide the team on loss prioritization and elimination. You will also set the road map to move away from reactive quality checks to proactive monitoring of key quality parameters.

 Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• BA/BS degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Biology or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of related work experience in either Quality or Manufacturing Operations.
• Attention to detail, bias for action, accountability, written and verbal communication skills, data collection and analysis, problem solving, decision-making, teamwork, and judgement

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!