Job Opportunities at Flour Mills

The Job

• The Project Manager in the PMO office will work closely with relevant stakeholders and a small team to partner with one or more business units to facilitate the implementation and smooth running of an effective and lean project management framework in such a Business unit.
• Provide governance, oversight, and support to projects managed by various business units
• May assume full responsibility to manage certain projects that are not directly managed by business units
• Support various change management programmes and, in general, act as an agent of change
• Support project/programme planning, execution, and tracking of FMN’s portfolio.
• Coach and train BU project owners/managers on best practices and project management methodologies (e.g.: cost management, tracking, etc).
• Assist in the definition of project scope and project charter, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Help Business units project managers to better coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors to ensure flawless execution of assigned projects.
• Apply a system to monitor, track progress, manage changes to the project scope, schedule and cost.
• Measure and report project performance and escalate proactively to management and/or project owners as needed.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation and database (digitally)
• Support and facilitate the adoption of breakthrough business practices and technologies such as Continuous Improvement, Process Automation, AI, Service Delivery Excellence, etc to boost productivity and competitiveness.
• Coach and mentor project managers at the Business unit level on lean and efficient project management methodologies and practices; provide the necessary toolkits, and recommend training.
• Participate actively in and is instrumental to the development of FMN’s strategy with regards to project pipeline development, evaluation and selection, and prioritization.

Qualifications

• First degree preferably in the fields of Engineering, Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Operations Research, Organisational Behaviour, Mathematics or Finance.
• A master’s degree in any of the above or related fields and/or an MBA would be a plus.
• Project management qualifications would be a plus
• Advanced finance competency and numeracy are expected. Some understanding of basic accounting would be a plus.
• Some familiarity with ERPs would be a plus.
• Project management qualifications would be a plus.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with a major manufacturing player or a top-notch management or technology consultancy firm and contininious improvement of the project. 

The Person Must:

• Ensure percent deviation in projects approved outside the FMN project management framework.
• Ensure the percentage of a completed project.
• Ensure the percentage of completed projects on time.
• Ensure the percentage of completed projects on budget.
• Ensure the percentage of completed projects on specs.
• Process approving, monitoring, and reporting standardization in a business impactful fashion.
• Rolling training plans

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The Job

• The Head of business process improvement (BPI) will work closely with the relevant stakeholders and a small team to catalyze continuous improvement by helping BU line management to identify and capture opportunities for efficiency (and effectiveness) gains across the group.
• Apply process reengineering and continuous improvement methodologies and principles in a structured, actionable, and measurable way.
• Reinforce a winning culture of excellence by championing process improvement projects and initiatives
• support various change management programs and, in general, acts as an agent of change.
• Interact with all levels of management to understand deeply and document existing processes, analyze data, and recommend enhanced (or entirely new) business processes in line with best practices.
• Maintain electronic inventory of business processes and coordinate updates to the inventory.
• Actively seek and identify opportunities to improve work processes, enhance the quality of service and productivity, and advocate convincingly such opportunities to the process owners and senior management.
• Develop and monitor scorecards and/or trackers to measure the success of process improvement initiatives
• Support the development and implementation of policies and procedures necessary to achieve best practices in all areas of operations.
• Stay abreast of leading practices for business process documentation and execution
• Champion process improvement methodologies.
• Foster a process-based (but still entrepreneurial) culture via communication, performance management and measurement, knowledge management, and people development.
• Partner with functional heads and BU leaders to share continuous improvement best practices.
• Coach functional teams on best process improvement practices, drive behavior change, and change adoption.

Qualification

• First degree preferably in the fields of Engineering, Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Operations Research, Organisational Behaviour, Mathematics or Finance.
• A master’s degree in any of the above or related fields and/or an MBA would be a plus.
• Project management qualifications would be a plus.

 Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with a major manufacturing player or a top-notch management or technology consultancy firm.

The person must:

• Ensure better planning and forecasting capabilities because of lean and automated processes.
• Ensure internal & external SLAs (gold standard) for all major processes.  
• Ensure savings or other productivity gains because of process improvement and/or other initiatives.
• Ensure cost savings and cost avoidance.
• Ensure the improved level of stakeholders’ alignment.

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The Job

• Work with relevant stakeholders and a small team to aggressively and sustainably drive cost reduction and efficiency improvement initiatives across the FMN group.  She/he will play an instrumental role in various change management programs and, in general, act as an agent of change always with a focus on cost reduction/productivity improvement.
• Provide deep and actionable insights into the current cost base/structure supported by clear and accurate analytics and metrics.  Helps line managers understand and act upon such metrics.
• Conceive, advocate and drive short-, medium-, and long-term cost optimization initiatives by introducing rolling annual and 5-year programs
• Coordinate and proactively monitor all cost optimization projects by utilizing easy-to-understand, actionable, reports and dashboards.
• Facilitate adoption of cost avoidance strategies and best practices by providing toolkits and guidance to cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve productivity/efficiency, and advocate the same to relevant stakeholders.
• Foster a continuous improvement and cost avoidance culture across all FMN business(es).

The Person Must:

• Ensure percentage variance of actual direct and indirect cost to the budget.
• Ensure percent of cost optimization projects completed on time, within scope, and budget.
• Must have data accuracy.

Qualifications

• First Degree preferably in the fields of Engineering, Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Operations Research, Organisational Behaviour, Mathematics or Finance.
• A Master’s Degree in any of the above or related fields and/or an MBA would be a plus.
• Professional qualifications such as ICAN or ACCA or CFA are a plus advanced finance competency and numeracy are expected. Mastery of software applications such MS Excel, PowerPoint, etc is essential. Some familiarity with ERPs would be a plus.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with a major manufacturing player or a top-notch management or technology consultancy firm.

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The Job

• Work closely with relevant stakeholders and a small team to apply process improvement and re-engineering methodologies and principles in identifying opportunities for process and service improvement and catalyzes for continuous improvement to consistently improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the group operations.
• Support the reinforcement of a winning culture of structured project management by championing process improvement practices and culture.
• Support various change management programs and, in general, act as an agent of change
• Interact with all levels of management and be able to document existing processes, manage and analyze data, and recommend enhanced business processes.
• Maintain inventory of business processes and coordinate updates to the inventory working with relevant teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve work processes, enhance the quality of service and productivity, and communicate opportunities to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and monitor a scorecard and/or tracker to measure the success of process improvement initiatives.
• Support the development and implementation of policies and procedures necessary to achieve best practice operational processes.
• Stay abreast of leading practices for business process documentation and execution.
• Champion process improvement methodologies.
• Foster a process-based culture via communication, performance management and measurement, knowledge management, and people development.
• Partner with functional teams to share continuous improvement best practices.
• Coach functional teams on process improvement practices, drive behavior change and adoption

The Person Must:

• Ensure electronic mapping of processes (and sub-processes) across the Group.
• Must deploy, own and drive business process management system.  
• Must Initially drive Business Process Re-engineering and, subsequently, continuous process improvement across the following dimensions: customer ease of doing business with FMN / elevated customer experience, efficiency/productivity gains (incl. turnaround times and cost avoidance), transparency & visibility / lean methodologies.
• Improve level of stakeholders’ alignment.

Qualifications

• First Degree preferably in the fields of Engineering, Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Operations Research, Organisational Behaviour, Mathematics or Finance
• A Master’s Degree in any of the above or related fields and/or an MBA would be a plus.
• Project management qualifications would be a plus

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with a major manufacturing player or a top-notch management or technology consultancy firm, in business reengineering and continuous improvement projects.

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The Job

• Support the Group Business Transformation Team with quantitative and qualitative analytics and insights for the entire group to allow management to identify critical areas of intervention, opportunities, and trends with a view of radically improving our processes and systems, elevating our project selection and management capabilities, and driving continues improvement with regards to efficiency and productivity in all activities.
• Quantify and demonstrate the expected economic and broader impact of various transformative projects and initiatives  
• Assist the Business Transformation Director with change management and project management
• Build awareness and enhance alignment on transformation initiatives across the Group
• Interact efficiently with peers and senior members of staff to get a first-hand understanding of issues and opportunities.   
• Source and process large amount of data into comprehensive and actionable analytics.

The Person Must:

• Have an In-depth understanding of the industry and financial analysis, including advanced valuation techniques and business modeling
• Must be highly numerical
• Must have proficiency with MS Excel and PowerPoint

Qualifications

• First Degree in Finance, Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Operations Research, Organisational Behaviour, Mathematics or Accounting.
• A Master’s Degree in any of the above or related fields and/or an MBA would be a plus.
• Project management qualifications would be a plus

 Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of Cognate Experience.