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Job Description    

• Co-ordinate and participate in monthly stock take for Lordsview Depot.  Ensure that accurate inventory counts are captured on the financial system
• Ensure intercompany loan accounts balance monthly
• Prepare and capture the month-end journals and ensure that month-end closure deadline is met
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations
• Monthly reporting on expenses and inefficiencies in the value chain
• Annual budget preparation
• Co-ordinate and participate in annual asset verification
• Ensure adherence to Import stock requirement and document retention
• Review and control customer POD’s for validity, customer claims & customer payments
• Review and authorise creditors for payment
• Review and authorise wages hours and overtime calculations
• Review and authorise salary overtime calculations
• Ensure accurate accounting of manufactured products
• Evaluates proposed capital projects and complete capex request
• Provide support to the Site Accountant & Site Manager on ad hoc requests and feasibility studies
• Track the financial savings of Continuous Improvement Projects
• Prepare and assist with internal audits and external audits

Qualification Requirements    

• BCom Accounting or Equivalent
• SAIPA/CIMA would be an advantage

Experience Requirements    

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in FMCG/Manufacturing industry

Skills and Competencies    

• ERP system eg Microsoft Great plains or equivalent Desirable
• Excel (pivot tables and formulas) Essential
• People management skills Essential
• Analytical thinking skills Essential
• Time management skills Essential
• Project management skills Essential
• Communication skills Essential

Deadline:26th November,2025

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Job Purpose

• You will be expected to provide advanced data analytics and insights to support the Bakery Sales division. The role focuses on integrating diverse bakery sales data sets, refining pricing and promotional strategies, guiding decision-making, and enabling the sales team to optimise performance and improve marginal contribution across all bakery categories.

Role and Responsibilities

• Collate, clean and integrate data from multiple internal and external sources (syndicated data, competition, desk research, etc.) to support continuous refinement of the bread pricing strategy.
• Analyse all internal and external bakery sales reports to identify market trends, opportunities and insights across all channels.
• Compare competitive options and assess the impact on volume, revenue, profit and market share to support pricing strategy recommendations.
• Track bakery SKU performance against pricing and promotional compliance requirements and compare Premier’s performance to competitors.
• Maintain SKU P&L models for various markets and run simulations as required to support strategic decision making.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and databases for SKU marginal contribution by region and team, in collaboration with the IT BI team.
• Analyse consumer promotion effectiveness by product and customer; interpret pricing and promotion performance against strategic intent.
• Conduct ROI analyses of trade spend and provide insights on elasticity and profitability at granular levels.
• Lead process and system design for new bakery data projects, including research, benchmarking and implementation of data best practices.
• Provide required data inputs for project scoping and business cases.
• Conduct field research (DILO’s) to gain practical insights.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in bakery sales information management processes.
• Participate in Bakery Sales Management Invocoms and contribute to corrective and preventative action initiatives.

Qualification Requirements    

• A degree in Data Science / Analytics
• Experience with BI tools, reporting and data modelling   

Experience Requirements    

• 3–5 years’ experience in a sales-related administration or analytics role
• Experience within an FMCG environment 

Skills and Competencies    
Expected job related knowledge/Skills

• Advanced data analysis ability (quantitative & qualitative) and strong understanding of data analytical tools.
• Proficiency in statistical techniques, data visualisation principles and analytical methodologies.
• Ability to interpret financial and accounting principles for SKU performance evaluation.
• Strong MS Office capability, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience using BI tools (Power BI) to build dashboards and reports.
• Competency in root cause analysis and problem-solving.
• Understanding of SQL/programming principles and agile project management (advantageous).
• Ability to translate insights into actionable business and strategic recommendations.
• Business acumen with understanding of market dynamics, revenue drivers, promotions, pricing and profitability impacts.

Attributes:

• Analytical mindset with strong critical-thinking and problem-solving ability.
• Proactive, detail-oriented and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with sales, IT and management teams.
• Adaptable, resilient and able to work productively under pressure.
• Positive attitude, willing to learn and committed to continuous improvement.

Deadline:23rd November,2025

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Purpose of the job:

• To lead a high-performance production/packing team to deliver our products that meets desired quality and cost specifications. (The Premier way). 

What will you do:

• To ensure Mixing and Packing process delivers consistent high-quality products in line with required specifications by:
• Adapting process as required to optimise production efficiencies and product quality
• Control process variations to ensure product quality
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure continuous operations in the value chain.
• Optimize production gain (throughput)
• Ensure cost effective raw material management by:
• Understanding formulas challenges of the raw materials in the delivery pipeline
• Optimizing the throughput in line with the product quality required
• Monitoring stock levels in line with plans and demand.
• Ensure high performance culture in the production team by:
• building and motivating capability though competency-based selection
• training and development, coaching, mentoring, performance management
• effective communications
• leading and participating in Invocoms and meetings as needed
• ensuring good discipline and accountability
• establishing good working relationships with union representatives
• ensuring a conducive and safe working environment according to the Premier way.
• To ensure full statutory and regulatory compliance to all health and safety and food safety requirements in line with Premier standards and SOP’s by ensuring training of relevant personnel, audits and corrective action of all findings in collaboration with the risk function.
• Promote employee safety culture
• Ensure best cost production through planning, organising and managing the function in line with agreed expense budget and resource plans.
• To ensure continuous improvement of the production process and function through:
• Ensuring a culture of learning and continuous improvement in the Invocom
• Perform route cause analysis when needed and ensure corrective action with relevant stakeholders
• Driving continuous improvement of production processes based on the feedback from quality and the production team and doing internal and external benchmarking from time to time.
• To ensure optimal plant asset management through implementation timeous corrective and preventative maintenance in accordance with company SOPs and maintenance system.

Job Knowledge:

• Food safety requirements (FSSC 22000) Intermediate Essential
• Supervisory and Management principles and practices Intermediate Essential
• Financial acumen to support planning, budgeting, and cost controls Intermediate Essential Performance management principles Intermediate Essential
• Disciplinary and grievance management process requirements Intermediate Essential
• Continuous improvement processes Basic Desirable
• Health, Safety, Environment and Risk Management principles pertaining to industry Intermediate Essential
• Packing relevant experience

Qualification Requirements    

• LSS Greenbelt (Essential) Lean Champion (Desirable)
• Manufacturing Academy Certificate or Leadership/Management Certificate equivalent (Essential)
• Advanced OSHACT certificate (Essential)

Experience Requirements    

• Food safety requirements (FSSC 22000) Intermediate Essential
• Supervisory and Management principles and practices Intermediate Essential
• Financial acumen to support planning, budgeting, and cost controls Intermediate Essential Performance management principles Intermediate Essential
• Disciplinary and grievance management process requirements Intermediate Essential
• Continuous improvement processes Basic Desirable
• Health, Safety, Environment and Risk Management principles pertaining to industry Intermediate Essential
• Packing relevant experience

Skills and Competencies    

• MS Office (With Excel) Intermediate Essential Calculations (efficiencies) Intermediate Essential Performance management skills Intermediate Essential
• Analytical thinking and problem solving Intermediate Essential
• Internal FS Auditing Intermediate Essential
• Budgeting, costing and cost control Basic Essential

Deadline:28th November,2025