Experience

Airtel Nigeria

• Nigeria
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Logistics

  • Sep 2015 - Present

  o Managed all inbounds (+ $200Mannually) and outbound (+$300) including transportation, Led supply chain team of 3 mangers and their reports and over 20 3PLS o Managed different tiers of the business to determine requirements, capex plan for the year and selection of strategic OEM’S to support for the year (over $200M spend) and subsequently processing and delivering the orders. o Achieved 50% reduction in clearing lead times for +500 containers annually from challenging Nigeria ports and saved over $3M in demurrages, transportation cost, terminal cost and carrier cost. o Initiated $1.2m savings through implementation of an outsourcing model for consolidating 40 different tiers of warehousing to support Airtel dynamic network deployment across the country and distribution of sims cards & devices. o Management of different 3PLS (Warehouses & Transporters) that has streamlined operations, promoted faster deliveries to locations and sites OTIF and faster project roll out. o Perfected an efficient asset management system for the company through an ERP system, that track assets from receipt, to deployment, decommissioning, retrieval, and eventual disposal /transfer to other Opcos. Over $2M in savings annually. o Initiated alternative sale of decommissioned network assets to other opcos in14 countries under



British American Tobacco West Africa.

• Lagos

• Head of Customer Services/Strategic Account Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

  • Managed demand forecast, planning and supply for West Africa • Managed delivery of products to 15 countries from 3 different countries through very complicated supply chain (Sea, Road, Air & Rail) and long lead times. • Optimize inventory across the supply chain for BAT markets and distributor markets(warehouses) to free up over 5 million pounds in working capital. • Managed NPI’s, product sourcing & changes from Nigeria & other BAT factories. • Activated contingency sourcing within 2 weeks during Ebola lockdown in West Africa which ensured supply of products to 5 markets that refused supply of products from Nigeria. • Lead on all supply related discussions at the monthly Sales and Operations meetings (SOP) for WA. • Provide leadership, motivation, training & development for the Custom service team



Tobacco Marketing Company( Subsidaryof BAT WAA)

• Dakar Senegal

• Head of Supply Chain West Africa Markets

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

  • Managed end to end supply chain for 15 West African market with supplies coming from 4 strategic factories(Nigeria, South Africa, UK & Switzerland) and supply lead times of 1- 6 months. • Initiated 1M pound carrier savings by having 2 major shipping carriers submit final mile delivery proposals for deliveries to the 14 markets from origin. • Setup and implemented a process that ensured fresh products are supplied to customers considering supply lead time of 6 months for some of the markets. • Achieved a savings of 6M pounds during regulatory pack change in Mali that went wrong, with sales dropping by 70% in a supply chain that had 6 months lead-time. No product was lost. • Managed all strategic sourcing decisions and work streams in each market that ensured value were received and savings of 2M pounds delivered. • Engaged and crafted SLAs for managing several 3PLS companies in a complicated supply chain across Anglophone & Francophone countries. • Drive efficiency, Improved service levels & cost across the supply chain in West African Markets • Oversee team development & strong succession pipeline for West African Markets • Drive SOP process within the area and in conjunction with the Area team



British American Tobacco Ltd

• Lagos

• Distribution Development Manager

  • Jul 2009 - Dec 2010

  • Reduced OOS to less than 1% Pan Nigeria by initiating an effective tracking system for OOS and rolling out a mitigation plan for supply to different locations considering the different supply lead times. • Rolled out an SLA for sole Nigerian distributor to drive distribution excellence, infrastructure, transport, and people capability, to meet BAT Nigeria expectations in all the 250 depots and outlets across Nigeria • Work with customers on various analysis such as sales promotion impact on inventory turnover versus holding stock analysis to improve management of their inventories. Initiated projects like categorization of items and reviewing of safety stock level that resulted in reduction in inventory holding cost. • Drove route to market strategy in conjunction with the sole distributor across all distribution channels.



British American Tobacco WAA

• Supply Manager

  • Jan 2008 - Jun 2009

  • Achieved savings of 6 million pounds in material holding cost and demurrages by driving an aggressive performance driven strategy with 3PL clearing agents that ensured 4wks reduction in delivery lead times.• Developed a system that provided visibility of BAT material inventory to suppliers and guaranteed payment to them. This reduced material manufacturing Leadtime, order processing lead times and processing cost with banks.• Initiated a logistic strategy that ensured faster delivery of products to markets where the 3PL partner operates in Nigeria & destination market, the entire shipping, freight forwarding, and clearing are outsourced to one party on agreed KPI’s• Embedded a business continuity plan that guaranteed supply of product for West Africa• Led the rationalization of factories in West Africa from 4 factories to sole export factory at Ibadan, Nigeria. Over 10M pounds savings were achieved in machineries, people cost, inventories and other cost.• Drove People’s agenda in logistics that ensured development & training for an effective succession plan.

• Supply Planning Manager

  • Jul 2005 - Dec 2007

  • Achieved over 2M pounds sterling in savings by consolidating and optimizing system driven monthly supply plan for BAT factories in West Africa (Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Cameroun) that managed demand and orders.• Rolled out Material Requirement planning (MRP) for West Africa Area (BAT Nigeria, Benin, Ghana & Cameroun) which encouraged bulk material ordering, cross border transfers of materials that saved over 4M pound sterling in material purchase & inventory holding cost• Initiated a review system that recommends inventory policies for Finished goods across the supply chain that ensured fresh products to consumers and 1M pounds savings in obsolescence products.• Operations lead in overall monthly company demand & supply forecasting exercise that achieved over 98% forecast accuracy consistently.• Developed a master plan for rationalization of WA factories and consolidation into sole export factory in Nigeria

• Production Planning Manager

  • Apr 2003 - Jun 2005

  • Championed faster response to product supply to the markets by Synchronizing demand planning & factory planning and focusing on the commercial priorities.• Achieved & sustained 4% increase in productivity through Implementation of very rigid Factory/Machine/Format schedule .• Successfully ramped productivity to an all-time high in the two factories through a league system that tracked daily shift/machine/factory performance and rewarded the best groups.• Developed a 5-year master factory capacity plan per format per factory that was basis for long term capex investment in machines to support market growth strategy for the business.