Raw Materials & Scheduling Manager at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The key purpose of this role is to ensure optimum plant production scheduling and utilization of raw materials and people, to produce quality products at minimum costs which meet customer and legislative requirements.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Provides logistical leadership to all logistics, planning, exports and raw materials issues
• Leads raw materials planning, forecasting, ordering, payment, budget control, supplier management and effective quality controls
• Ensures alignment and synchronization of the regional production plan to inform the Brewing, Packaging and Warehouse operational plans
• Consolidates and standardizes supplier and internal customer service levels and reviews SLA’s regularly
• Operational management of all logistical day to day regional activities from raw materials intake through Brewing, Packaging and Warehousing
• Optimizes stock management and performance
• Manages human resources and ensures team synergies
• Develops and documents the standards and operational procedures for all logistical requirements • Designs, costs and deploys all regional projects and technological advancements
• Facilitates systemic problem solving and drives continuous improvement to minimize non value adding activities to improve waste or drive process improvements
• Adherence to the health, safety and environmental standards
• Department of Labor stacking exemptions complied with
• Railway Safety Regulator requirements complied with
• Site housekeeping standards maintained to ensure adherence to site safety standards as head of Logistics Safety, Health and Environmental Committee
• Ensure compliance to all relevant legislation 3rd party contract management
• Contractors managed against the Service Level agreement
• Ensure contractors alignment to business strategy
• Create an engaging environment to foster business partnerships and good relations
• Continuously engage contractors to extract maximum productivity responsibly
• Minimize use of temporary service providers and manage within relevant legislation
• Ensure contractors comply with SAFE requirements Supplier Management
• Manage On time In full component of supplier customer service
• Develops and manage budgets and forecasts
• Controls expenditure against budgets and forecasts
• Minimize overtime and temporary employee usage
• Authorizes expenditure and ensure adherence to the Procurement to Payment policy
• Continuously look for financial optimization opportunities internal and external
• Weekly monitoring of general ledger accounts to ensure adherence to budget and forecasts
• Monthly financial performance analyzed and necessary plans put in place to correct if required Equipment management
• Engage suppliers to maintain optimal equipment uptime
• Ensure adherence to legislation
• Conduct regular inspections to ensure compliance to legislation and internal measures
• Monitor and understand key performance indicators and implement corrective action plans where required
• Enhance people capability
• Ensure the Company’s DPC is communicated and understood by all employees
• Employees are managed in accordance with the Company’s Performance Management philosophy and principles
• Input into Training needs analysis to ensure sustainability and continuation
• Provide on the job coaching and mentoring to ensure continuous improvement
• Manage Employees in a manner that maintains a healthy industrial relations climate
• Employee’s punctuality and attendance managed to meet operational requirements
• Time and attendance, overtime and shifts via SAP administration effectively managed
• Ensure that all Employees are conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures
• Support social systems
• Create an environment that allows for cross functional learning and integration
• Regular team meetings conducted to understand performance, ensure achievement of short and long term objectives (MCRS)
• Support Administrators that work across functions.

KPIs

• Volume throughout : 9.0 million hl optimised and grown through flexibility
• LEF/GLY/FE gap
• 6 Packline raw material management. Run strategy compliance
• Brewing & Packaging reliability
• People calendar adherence
• Label glue usage
• Income statement, fixed costs, stock write offs, CAPIN projects managed vs Budget KPI’s
• IFC & internal audit score cards
• GRIR/ZMIR6
• Transfer loss, can & nrb losses
• People calendar adherence
• Contractor compliance
• Hygiene/PRP ​
• Downtime (Quality & Service)
• LTI's ​ • Complexity ​
• 3 x Brew houses
• 2 x racking lines
• 3 x filter lines
• Combi FV / SV Dedicated BBT's
• Tank Beer

Profile:

• 3 year tertiary qualification, preferably in Supply Chain and Logistics
• 8 years’ experience within an FMCG/Supply Chain environment at a managerial level
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office & SAP
• 2-3 years previous experience in a Brewing / Packaging environment
• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Good problem solving ability, attention to detail, logical and analytical
• Knowledge of all relevant legislation
• High energy levels with a bias for action
• Proactive, initiative and good self-starting ability
• Business and financial acumen and strong project management & problem solving capability
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to lead a team
• Strong systems aptitude and affinity with technology