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JOB PURPOSE

• Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you Increase machine reliability by performing the relevant preventive maintenance activities on production equipment. Minimize operational delays by effectively responding to breakdowns and other issues brought to the attention of the maintenance during operation. Being responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and improving mechanical and control systems involved in the packaging/ Processing areas.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Plant Support

• Preventive maintenance, basic repairs and minor overhauls to plant production and building equipment to ensure efficient operation of that equipment and production of a quality product. Perform all work in compliance with established safety, GMP and TPM standards.
• Respond to breakdowns and other issues brought to the attention of Maintenance (by supervision, operators or other personnel) as needed during operations, in a way that minimizes operational delays.
• Troubleshoot, fine tune or adjust equipment to insure proper operation in all electrical, mechanical and instrumentation equipment
• Routine visual inspection and/or testing of equipment and structures to identify and report any need for scheduled repairs.
• Interpret and work from schematics.
• Installation and alignment of machinery and equipment.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities (for example TPM or similar activity).
• Follow established department and plant procedures, including (but not limited to) those related to preventive maintenance systems, obtaining parts, and taking corrective action when hazardous or potential loss conditions are found.
• Keeps tools, equipment and work area safe, clean and orderly
• Other duties as requested by supervisor, work with and assist other Artisans and operations personnel as needed.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Trade Test Certificate must be either Mechanical, Electrical or Millwright tested.
• Must have 5 years FMCG exposure in maintenance fmcg /manufacturing in process and/ packing.
• Understanding of basic PLC’s : eg Basic Allen Bradley, Scada, Servo and AC drives
• Ability to perform all duties associated with position, with minimal supervision.
• Ability to perform work safely and maintain work areas in a manner that does not present a hazard to self, co-workers or products.
• Ability to recognize conditions that would have a negative impact on production or other facility operations and take appropriate follow-up action.
• Must provide tools meeting minimum requirements (as determined by supervisor) and maintain tools in a safe condition.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work from drawings and sketches, repair and operating manuals, and written and oral instructions
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to work under pressure
• Proactive in driving continuous improvement
• High attention to detail and accuracy

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• We’re looking for a Reward Manager (Africa Reward Lead) to lead and manage the end-to-end reward agenda across the African region (SA & EWA). This role is responsible for developing and executing reward strategies that attract, retain, and engage top talent while ensuring alignment with global reward principles and regional business priorities. The successful candidate will act as a trusted reward advisor to senior leaders, driving excellence, fairness, and competitiveness across all reward programs.
• You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that truly matters — for people and the planet.

Key Responsibilities
Reward Strategy & Delivery

• Develop and execute reward strategies across Africa aligned with global and regional business objectives.
• Adapt and implement global reward initiatives to meet regional business and market needs.
• Oversee the delivery of total rewards programs, including annual salary reviews, incentive programs, and pay equity analyses.
• Support organizational changes, including restructures, transformations, and mergers from a reward perspective.
• Contribute regional insights and best practices to global reward projects and initiatives.

Reward Business Partnering

• Partner with senior business leaders, Heads of Functions, Finance, HR, and other key stakeholders to provide strategic reward guidance.
• Act as a trusted advisor on reward-related matters, ensuring alignment between reward practices and business strategy.
• Provide specialist reward support to HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and People Experience teams.
• Enhance reward knowledge and capability across HR teams, leaders, and employees.

Governance, Compliance & Analytics

• Ensure reward governance, compliance, and policy adherence across all African markets.
• Conduct senior-level job evaluations and maintain reward frameworks that support organizational effectiveness.
• Lead market intelligence activities, including salary benchmarking, competitor analysis, and talent mapping.
• Monitor reward trends and external market developments to ensure competitive and sustainable reward offerings.
• Champion pay fairness, equity, diversity, and inclusion through reward design and decision-making.

Benefits & Financial Management

• Manage reward-related budgets and forecasting activities in line with financial policies and governance requirements.
• Oversee regional benefits programs and maintain relationships with external benefits providers.
• Evaluate reward tools, policies, and benefits offerings to strengthen employee value proposition and employer brand.
• Ensure effective management and administration of reward programs across the region.

Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop the reward team to create a high-performing and collaborative culture.
• Foster continuous improvement and innovation within the reward function.
• Drive a culture of excellence, accountability, and customer-focused service delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in reward management, preferably within a multinational organization.
• Strong understanding of reward strategies, compensation, and benefits practices across African markets.
• Proven experience partnering with senior leadership teams and influencing decision-making.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience with job evaluation methodologies, salary benchmarking, and reward governance.
• Professional reward or HR accreditation would be advantageous.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical capability and proficiency in data analysis tools.
• Financial management and budgeting skills.
• High attention to detail and accuracy while delivering with excellence.
• Strong planning, organization, and project management capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making ability.
• Ability to prioritize effectively and focus on what counts.
• Resilience and ability to perform under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong understanding of external market trends and business environment (Stay Three Steps Ahead).
• Leadership and people management capability.
• High levels of integrity, professionalism, and accountability.
• Passion for building high-performance teams and driving business impact.
   

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Job Purpose

• We’re looking for a Key Account Manager (KAM) to lead strategic customer relationships and drive profitable growth. You will collaborate with key customers, shape joint business plans, optimize assortment and pricing, and ensure flawless delivery of Unilever’s commercial strategy. This role requires someone who is both strategically strong and operationally excellent.

Key Responsibilities:

External Customer Management & Execution

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers.
• Lead commercial conversations and negotiations within agreed parameters.
• Develop and implement customer business plans aligned to category and channel strategies.
• Drive category growth through assortment optimization, pricing strategy, and promotional planning.
• Own the end-to-end sales process: pricing, orders, delivery, and all related administration.
• Partner with the Unilever Field Sales (UFS) team to ensure perfect execution in-store, including stock management, rotation, availability, and claims reduction.
• Deliver national category targets, KPIs, and commercial objectives.

Business Insights & Performance

• Monitor and analyse sales performance, identifying risks and opportunities.
• Use market, shopper, and category data to build insights-driven strategies.
• Provide clear, actionable recommendations to enhance customer performance.

Internal Partnering & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Category teams to deliver customer‑centric solutions.
• Align with the Customer Business Development Manager (CBDM) on turnover assumptions, budgets, and S&OP forecasting through a robust bottom‑up build.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings to find the best solutions for the business.
• Manage business tools and overheads effectively (vehicle, phone, travel, etc., where applicable).

Minimum Requirements

• A completed degree in a related field is.
• 2–3 years’ experience in Key Account Management or Category Management.
• Experience in Customer Marketing or Trade Category Management is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of customer Profit & Loss and category financials.
• Proven ability in customer strategy development and execution.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
• Data-driven with the ability to translate insights into action.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills.
• Execution-focused with strong problem‑solving ability.

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JOB PURPOSE

• The Unilever Finance Internship provides you with a structured, supervised experiential learning experience that will build your capability to be Future Fit.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Completed BCom Degree or Honours – Financial/Accounting (Accounts 1 & 2 subjects as minimum)
• Candidates need to upload their Matric Certificate and Academic Transcript with their CV’s
• Basic computer literacy, i.e.: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

UNILEVER BEHAVIOURS

• Care deeply
• Focus on what counts
• Stay three steps ahead
• Deliver with excellence

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JOB PURPOSE

• To optimally schedule the factory in daily and weekly buckets using customer demand and finished goods stock holding in order to deliver maximum customer service at lowest cost, assist in the reconciliation of supply and total demand for the lines planned and escalate where exceptions exist to South Africa and export hub respectively, provide overflow requirements to third party planner for contingency packs, if applicable, report on and drive the reduction in output reliability losses in conjunction with the manufacturing team, ensure production plans are aligned with FG working capital target and to ensure availability of optimized system generated plans.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Schedule Production

• Use APO to schedule the factory resources (labour, machine and material) optimally to meet the demand and deliver the customer service level targets.
• Communicate and agree the production schedule with material planners to ensure that sufficient materials are available before presenting plan to the factory.
• Communicate and agree the production schedule with production team on a weekly basis.
• Identify production constraints, re-plan, if there are constraints, resolve constraints and communicate, if unresolved to stakeholders.
• Negotiate alternate plans with Supply Planner to resolve constraints. 
• Provide all contingency 3rd Party requirements for the week 0-4 period (on a rolling basis)
• Flag any risks to delivering export specific volume to the Intercompany Sourcing Manager.
• Flag any risks to delivering local and export (shared SKU) volume to supply planner and Intercompany Sourcing Manager.
• Calculate and propose demonstrated capacities (DC’s) to the Operations team on a monthly basis. Ensure sign off by SUD and implementation for use and the monthly Supply. Update APO master data appropriately.
• Review sourcing unit’s previous week’s performance against plan and agree production orders to be carried over with the Ops team taking into account customer demand and sourcing unit priorities.
• Flag any short-term risks in the 0-frozen period (Category specific) to the Supply Planner weekly before weekly ops meeting.
• Assess the possibility of servicing exceptions raised in the 0- frozen period (category specific) window from a line utilization point of view and liaise with material planners to assess impact on material availability.
• Work with the operations team to generate run schedules per line to minimize downtime and maximize output. Implement and plan according to these where not at the compromise of customer service.

Supply and Demand Reconciliation

• Align with the sourcing unit operations team on the items for inclusion in the sourcing unit calendar for the period of 0 – 104 weeks (use agreed assumptions where firm plans are not available). Agree on shift patterns and overtime assumptions to be used. Supply this to the Supply Planning team monthly.
• Flag any resultant production constraints with the sourcing unit ops team and debottleneck where possible with agreed extra shifts, over time or pre-build.
• Maintain a working knowledge of the CPT in order to support scenario planning for the site.

Output Reliability (OR)

• Review previous week’s factory performance against plan (Latest & Frozen Plan OR) and input into the weekly OR loss tree with sourcing unit input and consensus (owned by Ops).
• Own the planning related losses in the loss tree and put agreed actions in place to minimize losses moving forward.
• Report on losses and plans to improve in weekly Ops meetings and S&OP Supply meeting.

Innovation Projects

• Liaise with the Innovation Planner (PG) to understand trial requirements in the short to medium term and factor these requirements into the sourcing unit calendar. Be the gatekeeper on production time.
• At Charter Gate, with Material Planner input, estimate RM&PM write off as a result of the innovation and share with the Innovation Planner (PG). Continue to refresh and share as necessary.
• Plan the sourcing unit in order to deliver innovation on time (capability and launch production), ensure that material ordering to support the planned production occurs timeously and manage the bleed out of old finished goods stock to ensure write offs are minimized, whilst maintaining service levels.
• Work closely with the material planners and supply planners to ensure that all production plans are aligned to run out the old packaging materials simultaneously. 
• Calculate, estimate and report on bleed outs of FG in conjunction with the Supply Planner and material planner to minimize write offs.

Working Capital Management

• Ensure that production plans are in line with working capital targets (both in terms of week cover and rand value).
• Ensure that production plans are in line with warehouse capacity constraints.
• Assist Factory Accounts and Site Logistics in managing material usage control.
• Own working capital reduction plan at site for FG through run strategy, EBQ optimization etc. Flag any reduction opportunities with the Category Planning Manager.
• Provide and ratify input data to the Supply Planner for generation of the Inventory Planning Model and agree output prior to implementation.
• Maintains all SAP and APO Master data relevant to Factory Scheduling
• Create and maintain MRP master data (MRP 1&2). Maintain all SAP master data relevant to Factory Scheduling (including Interspec); this Master Data needs to include Semi-Finished Goods (Conus, HALBS, FERTS)
• Perform regular Master Data health checks.
• Escalate to Key User and then Business Excellence team when packs / lines are not planning optimally in APO despite diagnostic work on master data to attempt resolution.

Reporting

• Identify and assist Factory Accounts & Site Logistics in MUC management.
• Work closely with supply planning team in updating customer service reports and providing information on recovery.
• Capture OR Losses with sourcing unit stakeholders on a weekly basis (Latest & frozen Plan OR) and communicate to stakeholders.
• Provide data for CCFOT loss analysis to the Supply Planner (losses pertaining to OR).
• S&OP Supply Meeting preparation (and attendance) on demand and supply reconciliation.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years in Planning, manufacturing roles
• Relevant degree or Diploma in Supply Chain or related fields
• Fully operational in ‘Plan’ processes
• Understand ‘Make’ and ‘Source’ processes
• Computer Literacy especially MS Office and SAP, Strong excel skills

Skills

• Team and cross functional Collaboration
• Strong planning knowledge
• SAP and Kinaxis knowledge
• Resiliance
• Inventory management
• Waste management
• End to end supply chain knowledge
• Business acumen

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JOB PURPOSE

• This role exists for someone responsible for diagnosis, fault find, installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical systems and equipment at Packaging/ Processing Area. This includes ensuring machinery operates efficiently, safely, and in compliance with electrical codes and company standards because here, we don’t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Attend to and maintain plants production equipment
• Proactively ensure that preventative planned maintenance is performed in a costeffective way to ensure minimum downtime 
• Maintenance of equipment on production lines/ Processing area and high-speed manufacturing lines
• Fault finding, diagnose and repair electrical faults in production equipment.
• Support construction of new equipment in plants/iInstall and wire industrial machinery, control panels, and electrical systems.
• Handle breakdowns effectively and timeously as per MTTR targets
• Accurate completion of administrative forms and the use of digital tools
• Read and interpret technical diagrams, blueprints, and schematics.
• Program and troubleshoot PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers).
• Collaborate with mechanical and production teams to optimize equipment performance. 
• Ensure compliance with safety regulations and electrical codes.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Trade Tested: Electrician or equivalent 

EXPERIENCE & PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of N4 Completed Electrical certificate
• 3- 5 years as Artisan in an FMCG manufacturing environment 
• Basic knowledge of PLC and relay control circuit faultfinding
• Strong faultfinding on e.g. motors, conveyors, DBs etc
• Proper interpretation of electrical schematic diagrams and their altering when necessary
• Working knowledge of photo electric and proximity switches is essential
• Knowledge of Pneumatic Systems
• The ability to work independently as well as part of a team

SKILLS

• Excellent Problem Solving 
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities.
• Communications Skills
• Computer literate & Usage of APPs