Almasi Beverages Chief Commercial Officer Job in Nairobi Kenya

Vacancy: Chief Commercial Officer

Almasi Beverages Ltd is a company which was born out of a merger of three Coca-Cola bottling companies of Rift Valley Bottlers, Kisii Bottlers and Mount Kenya Bottlers. 

Almasi’s purpose is to increase shareholder value by manufacturing, packaging, distributing and selling Coca-Cola products.
 

We have an innovative Change strategy which focuses on strong distribution & manufacturing, selling and building a strong and capable workforce. 

Our new business architecture is that of a centralized Commercial function, devolved manufacturing and distribution for revenue generation and a strong centralized support function of HR, Finance, IT, Procurement, Risk; for the purpose of creating sharper focus, efficiency and effectiveness to enable us achieve a double digit growth in 2014 and beyond. 

We shall deliver all these through close collaboration with Coca-Cola, our shareholders and other key stakeholders both externally and internally, including our people. 

We believe to achieve this we shall need capable people to deliver on the following roles:

Chief Commercial Officer
 

The Role: Based in Nairobi and reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the role will support the organization’s growth strategy by developing and driving an integrated commercialization vision aimed at increasing our market share as a growth strategy.

The role will be accountable for the strengthening of our volume and revenue growth as a key pillar to our ambitious profitability intent. 

The role is charged with key stakeholder relationship building and partnerships as well as providing strategic leadership to a diverse, multicultural and virtual team.

The Person: We are seeking an accomplished change leader who is committed-to-business transformation, tenacious, resilient and results driven who can influence and deliver in a multi-location environment. 

He/She will have over ten years commercial leadership experience in dynamic FMCG with proven track record of successfully driving productivity across sales force and building highly profitable route to market models. 

He/She must be ready to travel to the three bottler locations (Nyeri, Rift Valley & Kisii). 

He/She will be a bachelor degree holder with a Sales & Marketing bias.

Experience in the beverage industry will be an added advantage.

How to Apply

Email your CV to careerjobs@almasibeverages.co.ke no later than Thursday 11th December 2014.