Logistics PPM BU Southeast at The South African Breweries (SAB)

End Date: February 13, 2026 

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Annual Plan

• Define and lead the process for BU South East Logistics organization
• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs to Logistics organization
• Monitor annual plan calendar implementation on a weekly basis together with PPM/BBP/NoCC and other functions on a need basis
• Define departmental targets to deliver on 3YP, Zone or Global targets
• Partner with Zone Procurement organization and GPO on estimating properly all price escalations as well as on identifying and quantifying Procurement Initiatives
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all initiatives are properly embedded in the budget, while avoiding double counting Prepare management review presentations for BU South East, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines\
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Cognos, SCFD, ZBB, TM1, SYSPRO) Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Provide correct bottom-up VLC standards and actuals for MACO reporting

Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review)

• Responsible for actuals reporting in line with Control guidelines
• Assist the Price and Performance PPM with CTRM inputs (Commodity tracking & risk management) for transactional FX and commodity exposures within VLC. Accurately report on price & Performance on a monthly basis Coordinate the actuals reporting process together with Zone Logistics PPM team, BBP and NoCC
• Do control checks, review and adjust actuals if needed in alignment with control
• Provide early view on actuals of the month
• Provide actuals review and analysis during monthly deep dive meetings\
• Deep dive in all new variance drivers, find root cause and work with the operations on identifying adequate gap closing action plans
• Prepare month results T&M with BU South East Logistics Director
• Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the BU South East Logistics department, for financial and operational KPIs
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
• Consolidate and report LE to the Zone Logistics PPM team
• Prepare monthly Deep Dive and T&M decks, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure the monthly LE is embedded in the regional LE submissions and balances back to BU submission
• Work closely with BBP to understand any plugs in the LE and ensure these are highlighted to relative teams and plans are put in place to address

Champions

• Define and drive the champions process for all BU South East Logistics Packages focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and  timelines
• Drive the process during preparation meetings and zone meeting
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are reviewed and updated monthly
• Ensure proper team resources allocation
• Align Champions and R&O outlook ZBB
• Coordinate the actuals ZBB reporting process together with Zone Logistics PPM team and BU South East ZBB team Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans Ad-hoc
• Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
• Conduct financial evaluation of Business Projects (Business Case, annual Budget & 3YP). Follow up of related reporting and perform post appraisal assessments
• Develop Management Reporting needs for BU South East Logistics to enable best-in-class operational performance management including definition of key information requirements
• Support Logistics Director, PPM Logistics Africa Zone with operational reviews

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year university degree in i.e., accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• MBA / CIMA / CA (SA)would be advantageous
• 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
• Experience Product Costing
• Working in an ERP environment
• Working in a process-oriented organization
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP, SYSPRO