Job Vacancies at Highlands Drinks Limited

No of Positions: 17

Overall Responsibility

Responsible for increasing the product market share by facilitating visibility and availability of product portfolio.

Core Performance Areas/Indicators

• In coordination with the Sales Representative; generate and facilitate orders for overall sales revenue growth.
• Manage stocks in allocated outlets and ensure their availability
• Ascertain that all products are clean, well displayed, positioned in strategic high traffic areas and are sold at correct recommended retail price
• Ensure that the products are arranged in order of FIFO and that there are no short expiries or expired products in any of the outlets you handle
• List available products in the outlets as per customer size; and continually seek to increase product range in the outlets handled

Years of experience

1 year

Education

Sales and Marketing or Equivalent

Reports to

Regional Sales Manager

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Years of experience

8 Years in sales and marketing. 5 years must be in route to market development.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Sales and Marketing or Equivalent.

Reports to

Head of General Trade

Supervises

Regional sales team

Overall responsibility

Provide leadership to sales representatives and agents with the region.

Core Performance Areas/Indicators

• Maintain departmental compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Generate profitable revenue.
• Ensure departmental adherence to applicable laws and regulations.
• Sharing of best practices
• Recordkeeping.
• Manage fleets.
• Negotiate with Vehicle suppliers.
• Resolve disputes.
• Analyze the effectiveness of operations.
• Implement and enforce transportation scheduling and policy changes.
• Offer guidance to drivers on the best ways to maximize deliverables, while delivering a high level of customer service
• Ensure that all drivers understand they need to legally carry loads to customer destinations
• Work closely with the maintenance team to find ways to reduce downtime due to repairs or lack of routine maintenance
• Ensure that all load paperwork associated with each run is accurate and submitted properly.

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Years of experience

5 Years and above

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics or Equivalent

Reports to

Head of Logistics

Supervises

Fleets

Overall responsibility

Responsible for overseeing company vehicles are available for the transportation of goods or products. To work alongside other departments to ensure deliveries and distributions are made on time and the required vehicles are available and operating as required. Additionally, they will be responsible for scheduling of deliveries and ensures the department operates within the established budget.

Core Performance Areas/Indicators

• Maintain departmental compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Ensure departmental adherence to applicable laws and regulations.
• Recordkeeping.
• Manage fleets.
• Schedule, route, maintain, and track transport vehicles.
• Negotiate with Vehicle suppliers.
• Resolve disputes.
• Analyze the effectiveness of operations.
• Implement and enforce transportation scheduling and policy changes.
• Offer guidance to drivers on the best ways to maximize deliverables, while delivering a high level of customer service
• Ensure that all drivers understand they need to legally carry loads to customer destinations

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Department: Finance
Reporting to: Head of Finance

Key Objective:

• To review all internal processes, procedures, systems and policies and make recommendations to optimize operational efficiency ensure the risk to the business is minimized with a view to delivering improvements by advising and coaching.
• Develop and implement ant-fraud programs designed to detect, prevent and eliminate fraud.
• Responsible for implementing, directing and overseeing the auditing and compliance programs.
• Serves as liaison for all external audit and regulatory agencies.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and update the company finance and operation’s policies and procedures in liaison with HODs and ensure their implementation and evaluate compliance and propose any modifications as needed.
• Reviews and appraises the soundness, effectiveness, and proper application of standard operating procedures and controls and ensure compliance with policies and regulations.
• Assesses the adequacy and extent of programs designed to safeguard organization assets.
• Conduct risk assessment of all departments and develop a corporate and departmental risk registers
• Plan, organize and carry out the internal controls function including the preparation of an audit manual and audit plan
• Report risk management issues and internal controls deficiencies identified to the leadership team and provide recommendations for improving the organization’s operations.
• Identify areas of strengths and weaknesses and ensure adoptions of the industry’s best practice
• Review the responses to internal and external audit management letter queries to ensure that recommendations are implemented and ensure that all action items are resolved.
• Evaluate information security and associated risk exposures and ensure the organization’s readiness in case of business interruption
• Evaluate regulatory compliance program
• Provides support to the company’s anti-fraud programs.

Experience and Attributes:

• Educated to degree level in a business-related field or equivalent
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in accounting, finance, auditing or Business Management in an FMCG in a manufacturing industry.
• Experience in writing internal policies and procedures and process evaluation and documentation
• A demonstrated knowledge of internal controls
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong analytical skills. Detail oriented and ability to work and interpret figures and other financial information.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to address issues and effect change
• Ability to demonstrate a professional and objective perspective at all times
• Capable of working under pressure in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Flexible and adaptable approach to shift patterns and hours of work, ability to work flexible hours from time to time
• Excellent commercial and financial awareness
• A ‘can-do’ attitude and resilient character with the ability to manage expectations
• Ability to work independently