NOCC ZBB PPM Lead - HQ Sandton at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Agile Ways of Working  

• As a Product Owner (PO), this role is responsible for streamlining the execution of operational priorities, while maintaining integrity of the operations, the product backlog and the delivery of value to the customer.  It  requires good communication of the needs of the business and ability to prioritize the needs of the teams.

• The PO protects the team from disruptions and outside influence and enables the team to deliver incremental value to the business through active prioritization, balancing owning the team backlog, ensuring continuous improvement, and clearly communicating future plans to the team

Annual Plan / Budget includes, but are not limited to:

• Lead the budgeting process for ZBB across the NoCC, ensuring that all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements are met.
• Providing accurate ZBB requirements by package
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all Champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget
• Prepare management review presentations, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (SAP, Anaplan)
• Completion of bottom-up budget process

Champions

• Drive the Champions process for all ZBB Packages
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are measured, reviewed and updated monthly
• Align Champions and R&O outlook

Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review/LE)

• Highlight risks and opportunities during the month and course-correct where possible
• Report month end actuals in line with Control guidelines
• Governance reporting (incl. FBI’s issued reports, vehicle tracking etc.)
• Review and cascade monthly standard decks

Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)

• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective root causes and create gap-closing action plans

Ad-hoc

• Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
• Support Finance, Commercial and Marketing team across the Zone when required

Key Attributes & Competencies:

• High level of service mindset
• Coordination skills, Presentation skills and a high sense of accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Basic business sense
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Used to working with deadlines

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3 year university degree in i. e. in accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• Minimum of 4 years experience in FMCG environment with a minimum of 2 years management experience
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, Powerpoint, etc), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP, Syspro
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver