Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of our industry.
About the role:
- Provides strategic leadership and oversees the management of Diageo’s Customs & Global Trade Compliance
- Develops a strong compliance mind-set through building strong relationships with senior internal stakeholders namely – Supply, Market and Global Functions and externally through Trade Bodies and Government Agencies
- Provides the Regional Customs and Global Trade Compliance Team with strong technical leadership in all Global Trade customs & excise matters
- Identifies, plans and delivers key projects, including risk and effective supply chain management to protect brands and generate shareholder value
Accountabilities
- Implement global trade strategies and policies in the African Region
- Provide strategic leadership to the Regional CoE Compliance Team
- Lead internal senior stakeholder engagement
- Promptly identify and manage emerging risks or opportunities arising from business/operational change such as supply chains and/or new customs and excise legislative changes
- Actively manage 3Pls to ensure optimum compliance and efficiencies
- Accountability for delivering to leading import/ export customs & excise performance metrics across Africa.
- Accountable for trade compliance (local and Global legislation requirements plus Diageo Ways of working) across Africa.
- Lead and motivate the team to deliver the CoE requirements including influencing those non direct reports.
Key interactions – Internal
- Global Trade and Customs Compliance Team and other Regional CoE Teams
- General Managers, Brand Teams and Market Finance Directors – collaborate with a wide range of business partners to deliver on commercial and operational objectives whilst managing regional trade risks
- Diageo Enterprise Operations teams – establish a close, collaborative and transparent relationship to ensure delivery of high quality, timely, end to end customs and excise activities and processes
- Governance & Change – collaborate on prioritisation and delivery of change programmes
Key interactions – External
- Governments / tax authorities – build and maintain an on-going relationship and dialogue with tax authorities and other governmental bodies
- Trade Bodies – active participation in industry forums to promote effective global trade, customs & excise policies
About you:
- Deep understanding of Customs and Excise
- Managing risk through internal controls
- Establish & manage a regional programme of risk assurance in relation to customs and excise duty compliance
- Excellent communication and influencing skills that facilitate effective networking and relationship building
- Inspire direct reports to deliver a great performance
Qualifications / experience
- Minimum 8 years’ experience managing customs clearance and trade compliance
- Minimum 2 years’ experience of shipping and inland transport management
- Excellent knowledge of customs & Excise practices and compliance preferably in Africa region
- A strong network with customs brokers/ freight forwarders in the Africa region.
- Extensive global trade experience
- Excellent knowledge of customs practices and compliance preferably in Africa region
- A strong network with customs brokers/ freight forwarders in the Africa region.
- Demonstrable ability to engage and align stakeholders behind plans and win support for implementing new compliant practises.
- BSc or MSc in a supply chain related subject
- Ability to lead and develop a high performing team and a track record in coaching and developing talent
- Significant experience of leadership within a global trade function in a multinational company
- Ability to lead complex projects
- Demonstrable Anti Bribery & Corruption awareness and managing fully compliant processes.
- Demonstrable knowledge of end to end supply chain and in-direct tax related processes.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written combined with the ability to engage effectively at all levels in the organisation
- An understanding of how leading technology can enable effective logistics operations
- Knowledge of trade compliance systems
- Numerate and ability to apply KPI’s to drive performance management at all levels.
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