- We are looking for a Commercial Manager to provide commercial support relating to all the operational aspects of the feed business.
Product Costing:
- Maintaining a close working relationship with Mill based Management Accounting, Procurement and Technical teams to
- ensure that the standard cost of various feed products are accurately maintained on the system
- Continuously analysing and auditing of the standard costs of products to ensure that they are accurately maintained and
- that they reflect the cost of the production processes
- Monthly analysis of variance reports of actual cost vs. standard cost and highlighting of variances to mill management in
- order to initiate actions which would correct potential inefficiencies
- Quarterly review of product routings to ensure that products are allocated the correct production costs
- Overseeing the working relationship between the mill-based managements accountants and the regional sales team
- highlighting cost changes in order for them to proactively take corrective action to optimise margins
- Ownership of quarterly standard costing process
Management Reporting:
- Reporting of key performance indicators on a daily/weekly/monthly basis
- Monthly reporting of financial performance of the mill in the agreed format which will include commentary on key
- performance areas
Business Plan and Forecasting:
- Supporting the annual business plan and quarterly forecasting processes for all the mills in accordance with the national
- time scheduling and guidelines
- Expense budgeting for the service functions of the mill in line with national guidelines and economic indicators
- Overseeing the expense budgeting of the mill operation by working closely with line management ensuring that budgets
- are in line with guidelines and economic indicators
- Calculation of return on investment for proposed budgeted capital projects in order to assist management with prioritisation
- of Capex, and ensuring that capital budgets are aligned with group allocation of funds
- Reporting of the budgets and forecasts according to the formats supplied by National Office
- Interpretation of the final outcome of the budgets and forecasts ensuring that it reflects the strategic objectives of the
- business and initiating changes where necessary
Cost Control:
- Monthly analysis of costs against budget/forecast and investigating variances
- Continuously consider cost saving opportunities or areas where waste/inefficiencies could be eliminated and influence
- corrective action by line management
Capex:
- Overall responsibility for the Capex process and adherence to the relevant Limits of Authority for the Division
- Identification of Capex opportunities to unlock profit of the operations within the context of group Capex requirements and
- strategy
- Prepare and follow up on Capex motivations
- Prepare post Capex reviews
- Review Capex application and ensure ROI requirements are met
- Compliance with Capex application and procure to payment process (payments must comply with approved bill of works)
Stock Control:
- Investigate stock variances and take corrective action
- Assess the stock control procedures on a continuous basis ensuring proper internal controls
Governance:
- Ensure that Rainbow ethical standards and the requirements of the RPM are adhered to
- Report and or escalate any areas of non- compliance appropriately
Information and Data Management:
- Ensure team members accurately and regularly captures data onto the information system to enable access to reliable
- data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making
- Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making
- Ensure profitability system is utilised to perform financial management function, especially variance reporting and
- budgeting and forecasting
Contribute to Functional Strategy into Action:
- Communicate operational capacity required across both the medium term and plan required asset utilisation and Capex
- requirements for processing and service functions accordingly
- Work closely with the Management team to ensure the delivery of an integrated supply chain benefit
- Suggest improvements to annual functional Strategy into Action plan and participate in the compilation of the regional
- finance teams’ contribution to the plan
- Ensure that the agreed SIA is implemented through team targets and that these targets align cross functionally within area
- of responsibility
Provide Team Leadership:
- Leads team towards meeting strategy and targets – through regular communication and utilisation of full organisational
- talent management tool set
- Manage and deliver on succession plans to enable the development of a future generation of leaders and specialists and
- ensure optimal turnover and retention levels are maintained
- Drives Employment Equity within the team to ensure that diversity is achieved at all levels and that statutory targets and
- requirements are met
- Champions training and development of team utilising available training opportunities or contributing to the development of
- new training solutions in collaboration with regional and national training specialists
- Conduct regular performance appraisals with subordinates and ensure that the process is cascaded throughout the
- regional team
- Develops and manage high performance multidisciplinary teams in order to solve problems within the commercial arena
- Encourages skills workshops between multidisciplinary teams and across regional team to attain skills transfer
- Conducts regular meetings and ensures that records are kept and shared across the team and that action plans agreed to
- within team meetings are delivered upon
- Manage employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation
- and company policy
- Manage the activities of team, and ensure internal customer service requirements are met
- Manage leave and general time management issues in line with organisational deliverables
- Coach and support team members where necessary to achieve objectives
- Building a high energy team to deliver accurate financial reporting and a culture of corporate governance compliance
