David Bagenda Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

Leading a multi-disciplined team of internal and external experts to deepen collaboration with private sector towards a framework and outcomes that step change the foundation’s progress towards enabling 30 million young people in Africa to access dignified and fulfilling work by 2030. Provide strategic leadership to develop, socialize, orchestrate and.

Nairobi, Kenya

Leading a broad and deep wealth of talent that is driven by passion and great values to enable access to fulfilling and dignified work for 7million young people in Kenya, 5million of them being young women by 2030.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Orchestrate Strategy Review for Africa markets by leading and coordinating stakeholders to re-strategize the business model and participation choices in key battleground markets of Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa in.
• Design and manage a deliberate outcome-led engagement strategy to manage regulatory and tax burdens threatening key subsidiaries in Africa.
• Address process constraints, variations and system gaps in generating actionable consumer insights across markets achieved by defining the baseline process and technological investments that need to be utilized in.
• Lead the development and implementation of product development and market penetration strategies, focusing primarily in the financials and external stakeholders including governments.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Drive significant engagement across the organization's global governance forums to ensure the designed process is aligned to globally established principles and accounting practices.
• Developed and implemented a new operating model leveraging a mix of shared services centers in India and regional centers of excellence to drive standardization, efficiency and control. This reduced the percentage.
• Project managed execution of corrective interventions in Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria while supporting project teams implementing markets of Cameroon, South Africa and Seychelles.
• Managed the development of key global automation solutions by leading the design and testing of 4 key automation pilot programs bringing together virtual teams across geographies. The areas of automation were.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Led business strategy development defining the 5-year performance ambition for EABL to accelerate the revenue growth rate from ~6% to 14% and growth share by 1.4ppts annually across East Africa region.
• Spearheaded strategic financial planning into execution with clear Year 1 (F18) Deliverable actions tracked as part of monthly and quarterly performance reporting cycle and also designed communication plans to keep.
• Supported Group CEO and CFO in investor briefings and Board Meetings by building the performance narrative and content for presentations as well as representing the CFO in quarterly investor briefings.
• Business acquisitions and disposals - Being the finance-lead for business development projects, was mandated to sell non-core business or assets, acquire other businesses or enter into joint venture partnership.
• Championed engagement of Diageo Board to approve strategic capital expenditure required to deliver our future performance ambition resulting to approval for new plant in Kisumu and the phased expansion of existing.
• Improved Supply Finance Business Partnering by identifying competence gaps, structuring leadership and functional development approach to upskill capability.

Uganda

• Key person in the 5-year strategic planning for Uganda Breweries Ltd towards £150m Net Revenue target (20% CAGR over 4 years versus 12% previous 4 years).
• Grew operating margin from 20% to 23% in 2 years with Net Revenue growing 11% and Trading Profit 45% through reduced Cost of Goods Sold down 5% and move to Local Raw Materials (LRM) to allow for increased investment.
• Grew Trading Profit/Cash conversion ratio from 36% to 70% over the period with operating cash flow growing from £6m to £13m despite Capex investment.
• Re-prioritized spend to allow the business fully advertise 3 premium brands rather than one leading to all 3 brands having sustained double digit annual growth.
• Supported the MD in defining the optimal and relevant organization structure to reduce support structures and up-weight frontline sales and marketing competitiveness.
• In collaboration with Corporate Relations Director, successfully engaged government and parliament for reasonable excise regime both in beer and spirits.

Nairobi, Kenya Responsible For Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan And East DRC Markets

• Hubbed in Nairobi Kenya and responsible for markets of Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, East DRC and exports to international markets including US, Canada, UK, Australia, UAE, e.tc.
• Grew operating margin from 35% to 49% in 1 year with NSV growing 31% and Trading Profit by 80% through reduced Cost of Goods Sold down 3% with sourcing changes and renegotiating freight costs to allow for increased.
• Supported the GM to step change the management of the joint venture agreement with JV partners in the Great Lakes to deliver increased volume growth and strengthening of brand equity of Guinness.
• Collaborated with EABL tax team to review fiscal efficiency of cross border transactions and recommended changes towards eliminating tax risks and improving margins.
• Collaborated with the Group strategy to build market specific business strategies to; Accelerate trajectory to double NSV along with tripling profit in 5 years by establishing a robust and profitable Route-To-Market.
• Championed the move to business partner engagement through annual distributor conferences and key supplier conferences across Rwanda, Burundi, D.R.C and South Sudan.

Kampala, Uganda

• Grew Trading Profit of BATU Agri-business from $2.5m to $8.5m in a year through continued cost optimizations in the value chain and also grew Cigarette profit from $3.5m to $8m through trade margin optimization.
• Collaborated with the MD on “Year 1” strategy to return to profitability and 5-year strategy to improve crop yields for sustainable value growth.
• Transformed the risk and controls management framework with regular, candid and actionable reviews at management meetings and at Board Audit Committee level leading to markedly improved control environment as.
• Lobbied the Government for lower than inflation tax increases year on year to manage given the specific tax regime on cigarettes in Uganda.
• Moved all back-office transactions in finance into BASS AME shared services (British American Tobacco shared Services – Africa & Middle East).

London, England, United Kingdom

Other Roles in BAT:Manager, Planning and Reporting | Nov 2002 – Mar 2005 (2yr 5mos)Location: Nairobi, KenyaFinance Manager | Nov 2001 – Nov 2002 (1yr 1mo)Location: Maputo, MozambiquePlanning and Reporting Manager | Jan 1999 – Nov 2001(2yr 11mos)Location: Kampala, UgandaGraduate Trainee - Finance | Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 (2yr 1mo)Location: Kampala, Uganda

Practitioner Diploma, Executive Coaching

B.Stat, Bachelor Of Statistics & Applied Economics