BUSA Inventory Manager - Sandton at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Purpose:

BU South Africa owner of Supply Chain overheads and Impairment. (South Africa; Namibia; Lesotho & Swaziland).
Ownership includes both financial, KPI and projects leadership to control and manage the BU inventory of finished products, raw materials and empties effectively.

Key roles and responsibilities

• BU Ownership and active management of the supply chain losses, impairment and inventory
• Cross-functional action plans, mitigations in the SCOH & Impairment Package
• Strong relationship with Zone and global teams to ensure  best practices are adopted in the BU
• High level Reporting and presentations to directors and VP’s of Inventory losses and Supply Chain over heads including Root-Cause Analysis
• Supply chain overheads budgeting formulation with monthly tracking and monitoring
• Impairment budgeting target formulation with monthly tracking and monitoring
• Monthly LE Accuracy tracking and management.
• Slow and Obsolete stock management, current & LE tracking and reporting, gap closure and write off mitigation plans in place
• Coach and implement best practices to mitigate demand changes and impact on inventory holding
• Coach and implement best practice to ensure adherence to inventory count procedures and co-ordinate monthly stock count activities
• Identification and implementation of Value-Add (VA) initiatives/opportunities.
• Own the Champions plans, track and monitor execution to the plans.
• Inventory Count process planning an execution across all areas in the business
• NPD, Innovation SKU and de-listed SKU process management (phase-in/out of raw materials and finished goods)
• BU owner of Daily controls ensuring standardized best practice is applied across the Zone & across ERP systems
• Maintain and ensure a high-standard of data accuracy within the Inventory reporting system(s)
• Deliver accurate inputs for Medium to Long-Term Inventory planning (Input into S&OP & S&OE)
• Owner of CSA adherence in the BU
• Manage, monitor and coach on inventory items across all excellence programs in the BU.
• Owner of Inventory Blocks, toolkits and GOPS in LCP
• BU owner for process implementation and monitoring of returnable assets (bottles & crates, Kegs, pallets and layer boards) with monthly feedback to Zone on performance.
• BU owner for Mass Balance inputs on returnable assets.

Profile

• Bachelors or Post-Graduate degree qualification in a relevant field: B.Sc. Degree in Engineering or Econometrics, Finance or Bachelor of Commerce in Supply Chain, Logistics, Economics, Accounting Science, MBA recommended.
• 5 Years experience in logistics and supply chain management and finance background
• Strong experience in management of finished goods and/or raw materials management and/or returnable packaging
• Strong end to end Supply Chain expertise.
• Able to effectively communicate and interact with cross functional stakeholders, Internal and external customers at all levels of the Company.
• Ability to effectively communicate at various levels of leadership including MANCOM
• Strong knowledge of finance management
• Strong people management and influence.
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills
• Ability to solve complex problems individually and quickly
• Strong work ethic: Setting and achieving goals
• Consistently following through
• Team-oriented: Making the most out of collaboration
• Strong record of high performance

Reporting structure:

• Direct reports (solid line): 2
• Dotted line reports: None