Category Manager Logistics ( East Africa)

Job Description :About us East African Breweries PLC (EABL) is East Africa’s leading branded alcohol beverage business with an outstanding collection of brands that range from beer, spirits and adult non-alcoholic drinks (ANADs), reaffirming our standing as a total adult beverage (TAB) company.EABL has extensive operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania with breweries, distilleries, support industries and a distribution network across the region. It also runs a growing export operations business within and outside of the wider Eastern Africa region. The group’s diversity is an important factor in delivering the highest quality brands to East African consumers and long-term value to East African investors.EABL operates within a multi-cultural, multinational, multi-currency environment, dealing with various regulatory, tax and compliance requirementsEABL is a Public Listed Company (Plc) listed on the Securities/Stock Exchange in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.About the roleLead procurement for EABL in one or more categories of spend, through effective business partnering and collaboration across Procurement CoEs.  This includes (but is not limited to):Applying strategic procurement excellence, by leading execution of and defining Market-specific category strategies built on EABL’s best methods, standards and tools to deliver procurement value for EABL.In collaboration with Global Category Managers, coordinating end-to-end execution of category strategies across Markets and above-market where possible, ensuring that Market category professionals are aligned and working in line with strategy.Serving as Market subject-matter expert for specific spend categories, ensuring collection and leverage of supply market expertise and close engagement with stakeholders for value-adding procurement.The Market Category Manager is accountable for mobilising cross-Market procurement professionals in one or more spend categories into the global communities coordinated by relevant GCMs, ensuring their regular contact, strategic alignment, capability development and shared best practices.  The MCM is an escalation point for community members across the Market.Key accountabilities GeneralLeadership.  Build, manage and grow the business impact of category professionals focused on common spend categories across the Market.  Inspire and develop the team through P4G and iDevelop and coach individuals as they develop and grow.  Collaborate closely with and drive cross-Market collaboration with global category managers and global communities.End to end category excellence.  Take Market-wide ownership for maximising procurement value for EABL from one or more spend categories, including application of best in class market knowledge, stakeholder engagement, global community support in Market, tools & techniques.Category strategyBusiness partnering.  Develop and grow relationships with stakeholders, partners and suppliers for deeper insights...