Vacancies at SC Johnson

Vacancies at SC Johnson, a fifth-generation family company built on a spirit of adventure and winning the right way. We have been leading with purpose for over 130 years, building top brands such as Raid®, Glade®, Kiwi®, OFF!®, Windex®, Ziploc® and more, in virtually every country.

Vacancies at SC Johnson

Technical SHE Specialist
Senior Associate, Sales Key Accounts (Key Account Manager)
Senior Associate, Field HR
Senior Analyst, Operations Cost Accounting

Technical SHE Specialist

Vacancies at SC Johnson

The Technical Specialist SHE, leads shift-level deployment of SC Johnson’s Safety, Health & Environmental and management practices to ensure compliance with local legal requirements and SCJ global standards. The role holder will be responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of all employees and visitors on-site during their shift. This role involves implementing and enforcing safety protocols, conducting safety inspections, and overseeing emergency response procedures.

Responsibilities:

Leads environmental compliance assurance processes to enable compliance with applicable laws, permit authorizations and company standards.
Supports compliance with applicable regulatory and company process – management standards to reduce risks associated with the storage and use of high-hazard chemicals.
Executes internal audit processes, including annual program evaluations, frequent workplace inspections to proactively identify conditions and practices that can cause hazards or potential Environmental non-conformances.
Partners with assigned stakeholders to drive timely, effective closure of identified safety and environment – related corrective and preventive actions.
Champions the investigation of environmental incidents and ensures that corrective and preventive actions that address root causes are effectively deployed across the site.
Reports and verifies the accuracy of data in the company’s SHE database (e.g., Entropy) and analyzes the data to identify trends.
Coordinates implementation of the Waste and injury/illness Reduction Program(s) at the site. Works with other employees to mitigate safety, health and environmental risks/impacts.
Partners with operations, human resources, and medical teams to effectively manage return-to-work programs for work-related injuries and illnesses.
Participate in and regularly review the Risk assessment for the production related activities.
Manage the behavior observation safety (BOS) system implementation at the shift-level.
Manage the corrective action & preventive action closure on the gaps initiated from audits and GEMBAs.
Assist in the development and delivery of training and awareness communication.
Monitor and enforce safety regulations, policies, and procedures on the manufacturing floor.
Conduct regular safety inspections and audits to identify potential hazards and risks.
Manage and maintain safety equipment and emergency response supplies.
Coordinate with plant management and other departments to ensure compliance with safety standards.
Lead and participate in safety committees and meetings to address safety concerns and initiatives.
Serve as the point of contact for safety-related concerns and inquiries.

Experience you will bring:

Bachelor’s degree from an academic university in Occupational Safety, Fire Protection, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
Thorough knowledge of the OSHA regulations and other relevant safety and environmental standards.
Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) knowledge in a chemical related workplace
Occupational hygiene knowledge.
Knowledge of Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) or similar risk assessment tools.
3+ years of progressively increasing Safety, Health and Environmental leadership responsibility in a manufacturing set-up.

Behaviours you will need:

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work independently and proactively identify safety risks.
Highly organized and detail-oriented.

Job Requirements:

Shift work/including weekends.
Work in an office environment will be approximately 20% of time
Work in a manufacturing environment will be approximately 80% of time

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Senior Associate, Sales Key Accounts (Key Account Manager)

Vacancies at SC Johnson

The role is part of SC Johnson’s sales team, and you would be responsible for preparing plans. You will have chance to negotiate contracts and evaluate key account strategies including account profit as well as marketing goals, of the retail sector of our business.

Responsibilities:

National execution of Key Accounts sales promotions, discounts, price adjustments due to offers and recommend retail selling prices within the broad parameter set out.

Maintain a master business plan for all key accounts with respect to sales objectives, pricing structures, promotional programmesand profitability targets.

Compile and submit customer correspondence, monthly key account report, contact reports monthly expenses, promotional results and listing schedules to the National key Account Manager.

Profitability: Achievement of agreed profit targets by account, by maintaining discounts at the agreed levels.

Responsibility: Complete responsibility of All retail key accountsstores(NAIVAS, QUICKMART, MAJID AL FUTTAIM, CHANDARANA andDEFCO) encompassing sales, marketing activities & promotions implementation & distribution activities.

Achieve the N.S.V. target for Key Accounts and a D.S.O. as per target.

Continuously pursue and strive to develop new opportunities as they relate to the development of the Key accounts both in terms of better shelf space presence, reducing of out of stocks situation with a view to improving overall turnover & profitability.

Management of merchandising team.

Ensure that the Key accounts customers achieve their quarterly JBP targets.

Experience you’ll bring:

Bachelor’s degree
3 years field sales experience in FMCG sector
Valid driving license
Computer literacy

Behaviors you’ll need:

Clear understanding of Modern Trade in the local market.
Demonstrate ability to manage up and across organization.
Multi-function and multi-tasking abilities

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Senior Associate, Field HR

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This position is responsible for providing assistance to Human resources function with the daily administration and development of services, policies and procedures, while helping to maintain a positive, safe, employee-centred workplace atmosphere.

Responsibilities:

Be the first point of contact and expert on SCJ HR policies and processes: providing advice, guidance and support to employees and line managers across the organization on a variety of HR issues, ensuring adherence to company policy and employment legislation.
Provide a generalist HR service, including administration and employee services, employee relations, recruitment, on-boarding, development.
Talent Management: Full life cycle talent management of employees as well as effective collaboration with Talent Acquisition and line managers in sourcing for the right talent in the right role. This role will be instrumental in meeting all the Healthier World recruitment targets.
Employee Relations support: Provide coaching and advice on employee relation matters ensuring local legal compliance, employee advocacy and business partnership.
Performance Management & Development: Assist with building capability and a high-performance culture by pro-actively implementing global and regional initiatives as well as delivering our performance management process.
HR Operations: support the HR Delivery team to ensure effective HR operations throughout the employee life cycle i.e. monthly payroll inputs on MyHR.
Leading and delivering HR projects as assigned by Manager, Field HR i.e., change management initiatives, site engagement initiatives, as well as supporting the business on key projects.
Drive CSR activities as per plan.
Deliver the local onboarding process to ensure an impactful onboarding experience for our employees.
Develop and update functional onboarding checklists in accordance to Supply chain competencies.
Coordination of production training plan activities and tracking of completion.

Experience you’ll bring:

2 years of experience in HR, Shared Service Organizations, Contact Center / Customer Service experience preferred
Knowledge of HR functions, processes, and operations, including talent, data administration, or compensation / benefits administration preferred
Knowledge of Kenya Labour Laws
With experience in using Service Center technologies (e.g. ticket management, knowledge management, telephony / chat, email, document management, etc.) such as Service Now and Workday, as well as MS Office.
Fluent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Behaviors you’ll need:

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, self-directed team-based environment subject to changing priorities and short deadlines
Build trust and respect of local employees to ensure you can act as a confidential advisor and support local employee issues and strong customer service skills including ability to diffuse challenging situations
Demonstrated organizational and planning skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritize workload and provide timely follow-up and resolution

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Senior Analyst, Operations Cost Accounting

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The role is part of SC Johnson’s global Manufacturing Finance organization and closely collaborates with the Associate Manager, Operations Cost Accounting based in Nairobi, Kenya. The candidate is responsible for P&L budgeting, forecasting of plant expenses and related absorption and capacity analysis. Perform thorough diagnostics and monitoring to assist Nairobi site in determining where to apply resources, as well as identifying opportunities to eliminate all forms of waste. The role will have strong interfaces with the regional AMET Manufacturing leadership team based across multiple locations in the EMEA Region, the regional Costing team based in Italy, as well as the European headquarter based in Switzerland.

At the same time, the position will ensure continuity in financial reporting in strong collaboration with SC Johnson’s Shared Services Center based in the South Africa.

Responsibilities:

Deliver Budgets and manage plant financial performance: Analyse monthly financial performance of the manufacturing site, with particular focus on volumes produced, conversion cost incurred and cost savings delivered. Prepare monthly business commentaries. Provide timely, relevant, and actionable reporting of key performance measures.
Provide accurate P&L forecast projections (including absorption, functional expenses, material variances, and efficiency variances) linked to the S&OP process. Highlight risks & opportunities with regards to future plant performance.
Lead the preparation of formalized Capital Investment proposals in the context of capacity expansion of the plant. Identify and quantify drivers of costs and benefits and perform Return-on-Investment (ROI) Analysis. Obtain sign-off by senior global leaders of the company. Ensure project execution is in line with approved investment proposals. Develop & improve capital project spending tracking systems.
Perform variance analysis and quantify the impact of improved equipment productivity (OEE). Influence the team to take decisions which will result in strong plant financial performance. Highlight and quantify financial opportunities (e.g. related to sub-optimal allocation of resources / sources of waste), prepare recommendations for improvement and drive to have these recommendations implemented.
Point of contact for external and internal auditors. Support the delivery against statutory reporting requirements. Be a champion for Internal Controls – Ensure best-in-class Internal Controls are in operation at the site. Drive to continuously improve the Internal Control environment, with a particular focus on compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley control requirements. Implement process improvements based on recommendations made by Global Internal Audit.

Experience you’ll bring:

Minimum of 3-5 years post-qualification experience.
Prior business support experience is essential.
Prior experience in a mass-market production focussed manufacturing facility is a plus, though not essentially required.
Excellent accountancy understanding, ideally incl. previous exposure to US GAAP.
Fluency in English
Excellent knowledge of MS Excel + Powerpoint required; MS Access, SAP R/3, SAP BPC are an additional benefit.

Behaviors you’ll need:

Excellent analytical and communication skills.
Ability to think strategically and drive the right actions for the longer-term benefit of the business.
Sense of urgency: Ability to deliver against deadlines in the context of multiple priorities.
Self-motivated “can do” attitude, showing a high degree of initiative.