Zone Inventory Specialist - HQ Bryanston at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key roles and responsibilities

• Zone Ownership and active management of inventories (raw materials, finished goods and returnable assets)
• Cross-functional action plans, mitigations in the SCOH & Impairment Package
• High level Reporting and presentations to directors and VP’s of Inventory losses and Supply Chain over heads including Root-Cause Analysis
• Strong relationship with other functions within Africa zone and global teams to ensure  best practices are adopted by all  BU’s and countries
• Supply chain overheads budget formulation with monthly tracking and monitoring, providing guidance to countries aligned with global expectation
• Returnable asset (Impairment) budgeting and target formulation with monthly tracking and monitoring
• Monthly LE Accuracy tracking and management.
• Slow and Obsolete stock management, 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)
• Zone owner of Daily controls ensuring standardized best practice is applied across the Africa & 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 alignment with process changes; liaising with inventory loss prevention team to ensure adherence in the Zone
• Manage, monitor and coach across all excellence programs in the BU
• Owner of Inventory Blocks, toolkits and GOPS in LCP, DPO & VPO
• Zone owner for process implementation and monitoring of returnable assets (bottles & crates, Kegs, pallets and layer boards) with monthly feedback to Zone on performance
• Zone owner for Mass Balance inputs on returnable assets

Minimum requirements:

• 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, Economics, Accounting Science, MBA recommended.
• 5 Years experience in Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Finance background.