International Breweries Plc - Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients.
Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Corporate Affairs Lead
Job ID: 30105753 Location: Sagamu, Ogun Job Type: Full Time
Summary
The Key Purpose of this role is to lead will support the Corporate Affairs & Regulatory Director to initiate and implement International Breweries Plc’s stakeholder, regulatory affairs and sustainability management strategy focusing on policymakers at States and Local Government level, communities, key trade associations and other diverse stakeholders promote the company’s reputation and business goals.
The holder of the role shall ensure a holistic approach to managing IBPLC’s regulatory-related and reputation topics, including community and other stakeholder matters, in collaboration with teams across the sites, this will include Gateway; Ilesa, Onitsha, Port Harcourt and other associated states to sustain the license to operate and enhance business performance and growth.
Key Roles and Responsibilities Stakeholders’ Management:
Develop a map of business stakeholders and maintain a relationship with relevant stakeholders in the Brewery state and other business footprints in surrounding states.
Develop and continuously maintain strong relationships with policy makers, communities, external stakeholder groups to enhance mutually- benefitting sustainable relationships.
Community Relations and Communications:
Works with Community stakeholders to support communities’ growth through IBPLC’s social investments and sustainability interventions; manages and mitigates issues and generally fostering a positive community relations environment for the business.
In collaboration with the Communication & Sustainability team, develops appropriate reputation implementation programmes to enhance the attainment of overall business objectives.
Lead and Manage Industry/Trade Associations’ collaborations:
Represent the company in various policy advocacy committees and meetings with industry and trade associations that IBPLC is a member within the States to advance company’s interest.
Coordinate internal teams and resources where necessary within and outside the Plants/depots etc to make inputs on topical industry-related issues to promote company’s position and interest for the purposes of achieving its immediate, short- and long-term goals.
Contribute to driving company visibility and reputation management:
Works with other Legal and Corporate Affairs Team across the business and supports the Corporate Affairs Managers across sites in building strong relationships with stakeholders while publicising the corporate social investments of the business to derive goodwill for the business.
Initiate programmes and projects that give visibility to IBPLC as an industry leader and a responsible company amongst its stakeholders for purposes of enhancing the company’s reputation.
Trend Monitoring & Analysis:
Monitor and analyse the external environment to anticipate trends in government and its policy actions that could impact the company and its business.
Prepare briefing notes and memos where necessary to provides perspectives required to guide business decisions.
Cost Management:
Advise the business of opportunities in public policies that it can leverage on to effectively manage its cost for the attainment of annual business targets and to defend bottom-line.
Support the Public Affairs & Tax Managers o ensure business tax exposures are sustainable.
Business development and Growth:
Support all Functions to enhance market access by removing roadblocks, facilitate products permits, licenses and certifications through strategic engagement with regulators.
Issue Management and resolution:
Support other functions and the business in general to resolve regulatory related-issues to prevent disruption, avoid crisis and enhance seamless operations of the business year- on- year.
Minimum Qualifications/Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication, Public Affairs or related fields.
At least five plus years’ experience in corporate affairs, public relations role across its different dimensions.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Demonstrated experience in working effectively with state, local and community groups, preferably as a representative of a large public institution, a manufacturing firm or multinational corporation.
Be a member of the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and other related professional bodies.
Additional Information:
Band: VI.