Kegna Beverages S.C. is a pioneering Ethiopian-owned beverage company committed to delivering premium-quality drinks that celebrate local heritage and innovation. Kegna Beverages has established one of East Africa’s most advanced brewing facilities, spanning over 110 hectares.
The company officially launched its flagship product, Kegna Beer, a premium lager brewed with both local and internationally certified ingredients. With a 5% ABV, Kegna Beer is available in Ethiopian taste preferences.
With vision of becoming one of the leading beverage companies in Ethiopia and beyond by 2040.The company also plans to expand its portfolio to include malt drinks, energy drinks, soft drinks, juices, and mineral water.

Location: Addis Ababa
Position Type: Full Time
Organization: Kegna Beverages S.C

Role Description

The people management director is responsible to provide overall strategic HR leadership; develops sound HR policies and procedures that are congruent with organizational strategic objectives, vision, and mission; ensures the HR strategy of the Company is implemented across both plants; provides strategic leadership to attract, motivate, retain and develop qualified people in the right positions needed so as to ensure that Kegna successfully achieves its objectives.

Supervises

Manager, Talent Acquisition, Manager, Learning & Development, Manager, Compensation and Benefit, HR Business Partners, HR Officer, Executive Drivers, Receptionist and Office Maintenance Coordinator

Key Responsibilities:

• Plans, organizes, leads, coordinates and supervises the HR admin and HR development functions of the company.
• Designs companywide HR strategy, policy and procedures and implements when approved by the management of the company.
• Formulates HR plans that enable the company to attract, develop,
• compensate and reward employees for high organizational performance.
• Conducts recruitment functions for key positions
• Designs HR development strategy for the company
• Conducts studies to design competitive payment and benefit packages for the company
• Identifies the current and future HR needs of the company and designs appropriate recruitment, selection and development strategies to have the right employees.
• Supervises and oversees the company wide process of recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, placement, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.
• Ensures that employees get quality training including orientation programs.
• Implements feasible capacity building program (training, awareness creation, experience sharing, etc.) & institutional development (kaizen, TQM, Performance management, etc.) in collaboration with the managing director and other departments.
• Leads and supervises the change management and reform strategies of the Brewery.
• Supervises the recruitment, promotion, transfer, and separation employees, whether or not as per the organizational and human resource policy and procedure of the company.
• Assists and advises departments and business units’ managers during the process of training needs assessment.
• Supervise and oversees the administration of proper appraisal of employees’ performance throughout the Brewery.
• Ensures that fringe benefits and employee services are fairly and consistently administered in the Brewery.
• Ensures that employee grievances are fairly and properly addressed.
• Conducts employee satisfaction surveys periodically as may be appropriate.
• Ensures the proper arrangement of human resource archives.
• Ensures the acquisition of insurance policies for fixed assets such as trucks, buildings, warehouses, as well as employees.
• Follows up the proper implementation of agreements with the labor union and ensure benefits are provided to employees.
• Performs other similar tasks as assigned by the CEO/COO.

Desired Attributes:

• Strategic thinking
• Knowledge of the local and international procurement practices
• Negotiation skills
• Customer handling skills
• Planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Emotional maturity
• Computer literate in especially business applications

What We Offer:

• Competitive remuneration and benefits package
• Opportunities for career advancement and skill development
• A professional and supportive workplace culture

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Academic requirement: MA/BA in Human Resource Management or related fields of study
• 10/12yrs experience out of which 4/5 years should be in managerial position(s) in Beverage Industries.