Company Info
Large organization
200 + Employees
Olam Nigeria Limited
Olam Nigeria Limited, situated in Lagos, Nigeria, operates within the Farm Support Services Industry. With a workforce of 3,000 employees at this location, the company achieves an annual sales revenue of $222.01 million (USD).
1). Protocol & EA Manager
Location: Iganmu, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Product Information
Grains:
- Grains is one of the 6 prioritized platforms in Olam The Grains business consists of 4 verticals: Wheat Milling (in sub-Saharan Africa), Origination & Trading (Origination in the Black Sea and Latin America, Destination in the Middle East & North Africa, Prop trading in Wheat/Corn/Soy), Animal Feeds & Proteins (starting in Nigeria, but plan to expand to 4-5 countries in Africa, Asia & MENA by 2020) and Ocean Freight (vessel charter, Prop trading).
- Our manufacturing facilities in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Senegal helping these countries to reduce import costs of refined wheat. With an unrelenting focus on food safety, innovation and cost efficiencies, we produce a range of quality flours for bread, baguettes, pasta noodles, biscuits, semolina, and confectionery.
Job Description
- Arrange corporate travel and meetings by developing itineraries and agendas; scheduling and booking transportation; arranging lodging and meeting accommodations.
- Guide senior leadership away from etiquette or cultural mistakes and help the leaders forge important relationships without making embarrassing blunders.
- Manage, plan, coordinate and execute all aspects of protocol support for senior leadership and their distinguished guests.
- Plan, coordinate and execute high-level foreign and domestic visits/functions, ceremonies and extraordinary events hosted by the senior leadership.
- Work on other special tasks assigned.
- Ensuring comfortable hospitality services for management and staff both in Nigeria and around the globe.
- Administrate and co-ordinate staff meetings and Committee meetings as appropriate.
- Co-ordinate resource management for the Department (Organize Departmental meetings, prepare agendas, take minutes, follow up on action points)
- Processing visa application for clients and other staff members, manage databases of frequent flyer miles, tickets, and other important data, procure necessary medical insurance information for all travels while promptly compiling travel documents to ensure a hitch-free travel preparation and travel experience for both clients and staff members.
- Planning and designing tailor-made travel itinerary for expatriates while advising the organizational staff on the etiquette and courtesies of the expatriates, liaise with the Compliance Manager on expatriate quotas, visa permit, and residency card and immigration documentations to facilitate the smooth reception of the expatriates throughout the country’s embassy systems and an enjoyable travel experience.
Requirements
- A graduate Degree.
- 3 – 5 years experience
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
- Highly analytical with a strong attention to detail.
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft office applications especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Project Associate, Sustainability Operations
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full – Time
Job Description
- Help develop and deliver Training of Trainers programmes to Olam Agri field staff on key sustainability topics (e.g., regenerative agricultural practices, food security & nutrition, gender awareness, human rights, environmental protection, etc.)
- Support and enable successful sustainability project implementation through field-level activity coordination, on-site monitoring and focus group discussions with participating communities, and periodic in-person field-level project implementation, as needed.
- Develop a deep understanding of Olam Agri’s policies related to sustainability, especially the Olam Agri Supplier Code, and provide training to BUs to ensure understanding and compliance. Contribute to the development of supplemental learning material to support policy implementation.
- Through community consultation and field-level stakeholder engagement, identify locally-relevant opportunities to improve farmer incomes, enhance soil health and mitigate climate change. Ideas/opportunities could include:
- affordable income-generating activities for farmers and communities to supplement income from their primary crop, with an emphasis on opportunities for women and youth
- low-tech and high-tech solutions to improve soil health and/or scale up good agricultural practices, reduce post-harvest loss and introduce regenerative agricultural practices.
- Landscape-level alliances to protect biodiversity, watersheds and forests
- Carry out data analysis and develop data insights from various sustainability projects
- Other duties as assigned or directed to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
Requirements
- A University Degree / Bachelor’s level qualification in Agronomy, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Agriculture, or other relevant Social Sciences can apply
- 2-3 years of relevant or related work experience
- Experience in implementing projects and trainings in rural settings, preferred if experience is in relevant Olam Agri crops
- Professional proficiency in English is required. Other languages are an asset.
- Mastery of the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Good research skills (both quantitative and qualitative) and basic data analysis skills
Competencies:
- An understanding agronomy and rural economics related to Olam Agri’s key crops and geographies, and a keen interest in the smallholder farmer livelihoods
- Critical thinking skills, organisational skills, and the ability to effectively rollout projects and work autonomously
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills
- Ability to train and inspire field staff and smallholder farmers
- Teamwork and interpersonal skills, with a proactive, solution-oriented and innovative mindset
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
- Desire to learn and to seek out own learning opportunities to expand knowledge and develop skills.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Technical Head, Pasta
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full time
Function: Not Applicable
Sub-Function: Not Applicable
Product Information
Grains:
- Grains is one of the 6 prioritized platforms in Olam The Grains business consists of 4 verticals: Wheat Milling (in sub-Saharan Africa), Origination & Trading (Origination in the Black Sea and Latin America, Destination in the Middle East & North Africa, Prop trading in Wheat/Corn/Soy), Animal Feeds & Proteins (starting in Nigeria, but plan to expand to 4-5 countries in Africa, Asia & MENA by 2020) and Ocean Freight (vessel charter, Prop trading).
- Our manufacturing facilities in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Senegal helping these countries to reduce import costs of refined wheat.
- With an unrelenting focus on food safety, innovation and cost efficiencies, we produce a range of quality flours for bread, baguettes, pasta noodles, biscuits, semolina, and confectionery.
Job Description
- Overseeing the technical operations, manufacturing, quality and R&D of pasta manufacturing units across Nigeria.
- Develop new technology for, pasta, cereals based products, Handling, cleaning, extracting, treating, and packaging
- Managing Turnkey projects from the raw-material handling, processing, treatments, and packaging
- Provide direct leadership for day-to-day technical activities for company’s commercial product manufacturing i.e., trouble shooting, process changes and improvements, new manufacturing technology implementation etc.
- Technological support & Collaborate with the engineering department to develop new equipment and machines.
- In-depth exposure in handling new project expansions (brown /green field)
- Leads the of a culture development and embedding of risk-based continuous improvement and operational excellence within manufacturing.
- Product Development Module to facilitate modification of existing products
- Ensure the health and safety of all subordinates within company guidelines and current legislation.
- Ensure all functional management are aware of the correct codes of practice, both statutory and advisory, that govern accepted standards of safe operation at all premises. Ensure production plant causes the minimum of dust and noise both internally and externally.
Key Deliverables:
- Research & Development
- Quality and consistency of finished products.
- Innovation Deployment & Project Management:
- Seeking continuous operational improvement.
- Effective management of raw material, intermediate and finished product stock levels.
- Site Hygiene.
- Health and Safety.
- Direct management and motivation of the production team.
- New projects and greenfield & brownfield projects
- Technical due diligence and turning around the pasta plant
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science,
- 15-20 years of Experience
- Pasta manufacturing experience preferred, with previous experience in managing large-scale operations and implementing behavior-based safety programs
- Demonstrate strategic planning experience
- Strong organizational skills, including experience managing multiple high-priorities simultaneously
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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4). Vice President – Rice Farming
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full time
Function: Operation Common
Sub-Function: Operation Common
Job Description
As a GM Manager, you’re responsible for inspiring your team, create ownership opportunities, and to deliver on the following key dimensions:
- Managing procurement operations of significant volumes in a year.
- Handling complete purchase and assisting in logistics from Nigeria region.
- Directly handling big cooperatives and suppliers. Stakeholder management which involves Government relations, Buyers etc.
- Map the Potential in the region and the market.
- Deliver on key KPIs’ – Volume, GC/MT, & PBT
- Planning and executing the buying strategies basis factory and export needs
- Pricing ideas – Adopt to market practices and ensure cost-effective buying
- Raw material quality practices – make sure the best quality materials are bought through innovations and better approaches
- Developing deep understanding of Product, grades & blends from regions
- Optimizing Supply Chain efficiencies in the business by being the sharpest buyer in the Industry and region, managing operations at the highest level of efficiency & becoming the most reliable counterparty in the Trade.
- Good communication and leadership qualities.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.
- Buying / procurement
- Suppliers’ development
- Managing Operations / Efficiency Generation
- Stakeholder management
- Team Management.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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5). Manager – Sesame
Location: Kano
Employment Type: Full time
Function: Operation Common
Sub-Function: Operation Common
Job Description
As a Branch Manager, you’re responsible for inspiring your team, create ownership opportunities, and to deliver on the following key dimensions:
- Managing procurement operations of significant volumes in a year.
- Handling complete purchase and assisting in logistics from Nigeria region.
- Directly handling big cooperatives and suppliers. Stakeholder management which involves Government relations, Buyers etc.
- Map the Potential in the region and the market.
- Deliver on key KPIs’ – Volume, GC/MT, & PBT
- Planning and executing the buying strategies basis factory and export needs
- Pricing ideas – Adopt to market practices and ensure cost-effective buying
- Raw material quality practices – make sure the best quality materials are bought through innovations and better approaches
- Developing deep understanding of Product, grades & blends from regions
- Optimizing Supply Chain efficiencies in the business by being the sharpest buyer in the Industry and region, managing operations at the highest level of efficiency & becoming the most reliable counterparty in the Trade.
- Good communication and negotiation qualities.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.
- Buying / procurement
- Suppliers’ development
- Managing Operations / Efficiency Generation
- Stakeholder management
- Team collaboration.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: