Hot Jobs at The South African Breweries (SAB)

• The Key Purpose of this role is to maintain, repair and optimize plant and associated devices to plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Operational support

• Deliver sustainable performance through VPO tools, example, Operator Work Station and Artisan Work Station
• Provide specialist support to the shift based teams during operations, this will include standby and day shift support
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving in giving support to the operators
• Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the team on machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimisation trials

Planned maintenance

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Where scheduled work can not be completed, feedback to the maintenance planner for direction, this may involve rescheduling the work or prioritizing outstanding work
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Partake in maintenance post mortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

Routine maintenance

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem solving techniques. If required, additional resources may be called in to assist
• Where problems have been uncovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out condition monitoring activities where these have been allocated to the Technician in accordance with the CM schedule

Running repairs

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action. Where required, specialist assistance may be called in, this may include internal resources such as Instrument Technicians, or external resources such as Contractors or Suppliers
• Where repairs indicate that major work is required, such as re-wiring a motor, this must be transferred to the engineering workshop for attention
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out, this includes all SAP inputs where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window

Problem solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Maintenance Controller or Engineer for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request. Take part, as functional expert, in FFA's on request

Housekeeping and safety

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate SAB policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

Minimum Requirements:

• N6 Mechanical Engineering or higher qualification
• Mechanical or Millwright (Trade test)
• Knowledge or experience of working in a production environment particularly in FMCG
• Experience in a Utilities Environment(MHI Plant)
• CAT A or CAT B
• Extensive Ammonia refrigeration experience

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• The key purpose for this job is to manage the team’s entire P&L for reporting and decision-making, organize key projects and processes, and problem-solve to support the team for future growth. Building competitive differentiated solutions that improve profitability, revenue or save costs in our Sales capabilities (price elasticity, promotion optimization, portfolio optimization, resource allocation etc.) and to build the capability of local teams for sustaining and understanding tools, processes and outputs related to P&L performance.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

Finance:​

• Continuous tracking of the P&L​
• Monthly performance reporting​
• Cost center management to ensure expenses are properly documented and budget is met​
• Analysis to support the team in managing costs and identifying opportunities​
• Ad hoc projects including return on investment analysis for new expansion opportunities​

PMO​:

• Strong organization and tracking of projects across the continent​
• Build and optimize replicable processes to sustain future growth​
• Ad hoc projects and analysis ​
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop solutions to problems​
• Opportunity to learn about and optimize Supply & Logistics for export​

RTM​:

• Support onboarding and continued relationships with customers and vendors​
• Analysis of future growth opportunities and assistance to leadership in decision-making

Revenue Management:

• Responsible for country price policies and strategy and to drive the total price setting process from strategy to implementation​
• Develop & maintain competitor analytics to understand competitor price strategy and anticipated pricing behavior in the market to help identify opportunities & risks to our pricing strategy e.g. supply footprint & constraints, publicly stated strategy and historic trends​
• Track and analyze pricing execution to ensure that the pricing strategy is being implemented by the sales organization​
• Develop sophisticated revenue/profit management tools to assist with day-to-day analytics​
• Help team develop short term and long-term strategies to grow revenue, volume and profits sustainably​
• Owns the repository for all pricing tables and reference documents​
• Validate the financial impact of the revenue/volume growth plans included in the budget​
• Identify and highlight emerging trends, threats and opportunities with recommended actions to address where appropriate​
• Drive adoption of analytics products/ solutions in business and translate analytics insights into business actions​

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Business acumen, excellent negotiation skills, good presentation skills
• Team player with outstanding interpersonal skills
• Result oriented 
• General management skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally and managing multiple stakeholders
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Sensitive to cultural and gender nuances in the workplace
• High energy level and ability to work long hours and under pressure
• Challenger of the status quo
• Driven to implement change & transformation
• Ability to work in a well-organized, independent, and reliable manner
• Working hours can be long and irregular and may include evening work
• May spend time traveling from one location to another

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor/master's degree or equivalent in business management, engineering, statistics, or economics​
• 3 - 5 years management experience
• Management experience at senior levels
• Valid driving license 
• Extensive FMCG experience, AB InBev Product & Industry knowledge advantageous
• Experience of working in 1 or more of pricing, trade promotions, mix management
• Exposure of leading analytics projects in the revenue management domain​
• MS office skills
• Negotiation certification is advantageous
• Six Sigma certification advantageous
• Agile / SCRUM certification advantageous
• Knowledge of ML concepts like clustering, regression, classification, optimization 

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• The Key Purpose of this role is to safely operate and maintain defined Packaging equipment and related processes in order to achieve optimal effectiveness.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Operating equipment and manage associated processes & performance in packaging
• Interpret and implement production plan for shift
• Operate manual and automatic machines on line as per standards
• Ensure process quality and productivity
• Perform administration work such as tracking and monitoring of processes and take action when required
• Manage PIMS & POMS and take corrective action on negative trends
• Use of OFR’s (As per triggers)
• Contribute towards AB reports as required
• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall (financial, operational, people)
• A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality
• Demonstrated understanding of relevant legislation, specifically health and safety and labor legislation

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Grade 12
• Post matric or equivalent (e.g. N4) , National Diploma or Equivalent
• Added advantage IOB Certificate
• Training: Min 9 months on the job training and having completed SKAP within 12 months
• Experience within a Packaging FMCG industry

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• The Key Purpose of this role is to operate and maintain the packaging process to achieve minimal variability in product quality and maximum throughput whilst minimizing waste.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Operating sub processes of the packaging plant according to the standard operating procedures, supporting the plant control system and verifying that process control is being maintained
• Assure quality of raw materials by monitoring conformance to company and regional standards and any deviations corrected
• Preparing plant for start-up by ensuring brand and process changes correctly identified, all inputs are available including utilities, documentation and verified and calibrated equipment is available, and plant is visually inspected for availability to produce and set up in accordance with SOP’s
• Starting and operating the packaging process by complying with OH+S requirements whilst taking corrective action when deviations occur to prevent non-standard product.
• Ensuring that non-standard operations are documented and that the Concession/Permit procedures are fully adhered
• Shutting down the plant in accordance with WI and any deviations recorded
• Carrying out CIP cleaning, sampling and measuring CIP outputs, external cleaning of plant and work area, and visual cleanliness inspections
• Controlling inputs usage i.e., stock levels maintained as per region requirements, regular quality checks on stock, usage ratios checked, and all inputs stored in correct demarcated areas
• Ensuring plant availability via ensuring that scheduled maintenance plans happen, identifying ad hoc maintenance tasks and referring to others to correct, giving on-going assistance to team members to identify root causes of breakdowns, observing required ‘lock-out’ procedures and other OH+S Act requirements
• Constantly reviewing process performance against target and recording short stops. Where process performance does not meet target, or trends indicate the existence of problems, corrective action must be initiated
• Recording waste on the appropriate documentation or information systems and reviewing waste trends to identify problems or opportunities timeously
• Responding rapidly to upstream or downstream triggers that could result in out-of-control process situations
• Appropriate problem-solving approaches, as detailed in the problem-solving work practice must be followed
• Performing housekeeping tasks, applying 5s principles and following safe work practices. Unsafe work practices must be identified and corrected
• Assisting fellow team members in the execution of their tasks
• Carrying out in-depth cleaning, lubrication and inspection of plant equipment according to the Standard Operating Procedures and/or maintenance schedules
• Performing autonomous tasks, in accordance with the maintenance schedule, and where required requesting the assistance of an artisan
• Identify maintenance problems, and report these through to the team leader for resolution
• Assisting Packaging Artisans in executing running repairs on shift
• Completing all documentation including job cards, COSWIN notifications and other shift documentation
• Carrying out the required quality checks/analyses as per standard operating procedures and recording the results on the appropriate information system

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric (Technical or with Mathematics and Science)
• N3 as a minimum
• Mechanical or electrical aptitude
• One year experience in an FMCG environment
• English proficiency
• Basic PC literacy (Microsoft Office)

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• The Key Purpose of this role is for the fixed assets analyst to assist the fixed assets team to process transactions to create, maintain and dispose of fixed assets in SAP, engaging with various stakeholders in the business to ensure the asset register is up to date and accurate.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Process transactions in SAP in order to create, maintain, and dispose of fixed assets. Set up project structures for budgeting. Project and Work Breakdown Structure maintenance; processing allocations between projects as well as project closures at year end
• Perform reconciliations as per business requirements
• Ensure all assets are capitalized from assets under construction in a timely manner
• Preparation of asset journals. Management of unposted assets
• Prepare reports as per business requirements. Manage metrics. Support for Team Lead in process related questions when required
• Ensure all daily, weekly and monthly KPI's and SLA's are met
• Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues. Perform Root Cause analysis for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction
• Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalities to improve the process
• Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit. 
• Maintain the fixed assets register in accordance with group accounting policy
• Share information as it relates to business requirements. Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities. Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead. Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
• Ability to build productive working relationships internally and externally
• Strong interpersonal/ business skills and time management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to generate team cooperation
• Analytical approach / good problem-solving skills
• Capable of being entrusted with “confidential” information
• Ability to be flexible with position duties and scope of work

Minimum Requirements:

• 2-3 year degree in Finance or related field
• End to End SAP knowledge/ understanding
• Computer skills (MS Office, Financial systems), strong process knowledge and understand general finance terms
• 3-5 years prior related position experience required

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• The key purpose of the role is to coordinate, coach and control the activities of the level one maintenance teams in the production environment and to provide specialist technical advice to ensure maximum equipment availability.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage Service Delivery and Support to the brewery by effective team performance management and leadership.
• Manage Manufacturing Systems Software deployment and licensing.
• Identify and motivate technical CAPIN for Manufacturing Systems
• Manage Manufacturing Systems project implementation.
• Manage Manufacturing Systems change control practices.
• Manage adherence to the Manufacturing Systems standards.
• Manage Manufacturing System s team members.
• Provide leadership to the team in the field of Manufacturing Systems and Technology
• Leverage business benefit from existing and new Production Execution Systems and Information Systems
• Facilitate and optimise the interface between the systems team and Business Information Systems Department (BIS)
• Infrastructure fibre optic network identifying risks and remediation (e.g. capin , business cases, and first line problem
• Back-office servers first line reaction, problem solving, problem resolution acting as single point of contact for plant when interfacing with GIS (BCX) until resolution.
• Manufacturing machines e.g., SCADA software maintenance and problem solving.
• AVMAR backup checks part of workflow verification to ensure backups are done and if not to alert RSDM.
• Inter PLC network maintenance switches for inter PLC network not managed by BCX but by region.
• Recruitment, management, coaching and upskilling of SPCTs.
• Infrastructure i.e., current and future expansions for both E&I and C&A component to facilitate new projects, obsolesce of eq uip ment, risk mitigation against 5 year rolling plan.
• Technical footprint (new technology) lead for both E&I and C&A
• Project Management to ensure strategic expansion and technical footprint is adhered to.
• Management of System Integrators to ensure standards adherence and pricing structures etc. are in order.
• Ensure governance around and operations of automated safety systems on site.
• Deliver and maintain reporting and application development solutions to brewery requirements.
• Coordination of Control and Automation aspects of CAPIN projects
• Leverage IT systems within Brewery

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Analytical
• Lateral and conceptual thinker
• Proactive with high energy levels
• Strong leadership ability
• Understanding of IS methodologies and techniques
• Financial planning and control
• Quality assurance principles
• People management experience
• Experience in facilitation and joint application development techniques (especially process and data modeling

Minimum Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification, Preferably a degree in Information Systems / Engineering
• Management experience in the implementation of systems
• Project planning and management experience
• Minimum 5 years' experience in a Systems Environment and/or with Control and Automation systems
• Familiarity with enterprise resource planning systems (e.g. SAP)

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• The Key Purpose of this role is to guarantee financial excellence at the brewery, implement stringent controls, foster accountability. Ensure the reliability of cost accounting key figures and/or P/L reporting for the brewery. Additionally, prioritize operational discipline, enhance visibility and predictability for price and performance in advance of month-end closing.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Cost Leadership

• Oversight of the plant's closing cycle, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the results including transfer price, VIC/VLC, ZBB and plant asset booking. 
• Ensure first time right postings, Avoid accounting errors and postings of manual journals.
• Assume responsibility for managing plant inventory and capital expenditure (CAPEX). This involves ensuring compliance with booking procedures, onsite management, and reviewing internal process compliance. The primary goal is to ensure that asset bookings conform to PRC and IFRS standards, asset management processes align with internal control policies, and relevant processes operate as efficiently as possible.

Controls and Compliance

• Serve as the first line of defense and oversee the execution of controls as defined by Internal Control 
• Ensuring that the brewery's assigned controls accurately reflect the reality of the processes. This includes reviewing the PR-GR cycle, co-product lifecycle, and returnable package management.
• Oversee both internal and external tax reporting for the plant. Work closely with the tax team to ensure timely completion of tax filings, respond to inquiries, and meet tax inspection requirements mandated by the local authority

Forecasting & Planning

• Support brewery operations, Zone Financial Planning and PPM teams on the forecast by providing inputs for LE & 1 YP

Cost Management 

• Analyze costs, variances on yields and consumptions
• Reasonability/accuracy of accruals
• Reconciliation of utility costs (water, electricity, effluent) between internal and municipal readings & ensure accuracy of the accrual
• GRN Compliance (Open PO Management, UOM receipting accuracy)
• Review and understanding of the reallocation journals at the plant. Root cause analysis and process improvement to reduce number of journals.
• Approve journals and ensure DAG compliance
• Co-products – Ensuring that its accurately accounted for (Invoicing completeness, sundry debtor aging)
• Returnable packaging – Accurate Accounting + Controls
• MBFU recharge reconciliation (Missing, broken, foreign, unwashable glass)

Inventory Management 

• Ensure Inventory management compliance of FG’s, RM and Spare Parts 
• Stock count controls (Quarterly stock count review, reconciliation and ensure that differences are posted) Monthly Review & Quarterly attendance
• Stock movements analysis and investigate anomalies

Capex Management

• Ensuring capitalization is captured correctly 
• Validation of Capitalization to the plant 
• Physical verification of assets 
• Impairments (identify, and request bookings)
• ZBB and UPP policy compliance

Tax Compliance

• Invoicing Management and the full scope of internal and external tax reporting for the plant
• Excise validation – calculated and shared by the BSC. SARS/RA POC at the plant
• Excise rebate liaison with RA and ensuring the decanting certificate is issued
• Collaborate closely with the Business Control Center (BCC) tax team to complete tax filings, respond to inquiries, and meet tax inspection requirements from the local authority
• Maintain a network among HQ tax, BCC tax, tax compliance, planning, and all other tax-related routines

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Support the Financial Planning and PPM teams on the forecast by providing inputs for LE & 1 year plan

Key Attributes & Competencies:

• Strong leadership skills
• Good communicator and the ability to work with financial and non-financial collaborators
• Good analytical skills
• Ability to synthesize complex issues into actionable activities
• Capacity to anticipate future trends and developments

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor or Master in Business, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or CA
• 2 to 3 + years, in industry context
• Knowledge of SAP/Syspro, Business Warehouse, Anaplan is a plus
• Previous controlling experience ( preferably site manufacturing )
• Working knowledge of Accounting

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• The Key Purpose of this role is to be responsible for ensuring that the information provided by third party suppliers (FI vendors) is accurate and complete, and that related payments are accurate and recognized within the correct accounting period as well as in line with organizational policies. This role is responsible for engaging with third party suppliers to source billing documents within the correct business cycle. This role summarizes and prepares accounting information to record expenses and accruals relating to third party payments, coordinates approvals and changes requested by the business on billing files and resolves disputes with the business and suppliers.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage payment of strategic suppliers through the FI payments process.
• Journal processing for FI payments and other balance sheet related transactions. 
• Preparation of monthly and annual General Accounting activities.
• Preparation of journals, ensuring that journals are accurately and timeously uploaded and processed in SAP.
• Preparation of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Administer and timeously clear all open items in SAP to ensure a healthy ageing status.
• Adherence to General Ledger closure deadlines in accordance to management requirements.
• Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly targets and all relevant SLA’s and KPI's.
• Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role.
• Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues. Perform Root Cause analysis for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction. Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalities to improve the process.
• Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit.
• Share information as it relates to business requirements.
• Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds.
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.
• Perform end – to – end accounting activities relating to travel & entertainment expense claims.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Strong process knowledge;
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively;
• Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally;
• Strong interpersonal / business skills and time management skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing;
• Excellent stakeholder management;
• Ability to generate team cooperation;
• Analytical approach / good problem-solving skills;
• Capable of being entrusted with confidential information;
• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year university degree in accounting or related field;
• Minimum of 2 years experience in FMCG environment, prior related position experience required;
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, financial systems etc.);
• End to end SAP experience;

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• The Key Purpose of this role is to maintain equipment in an as new condition, assuring reliable performance to standard through inspections, corrective actions to restore equipment back to inherent condition, problem solving to address root cause of failures and loop closure and provide input into the ZBB maintenance budget. Coaches operators in the correct way to operate equipment and perform autonomous operations.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT:

• ​ Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations
• Assist as functional expert in problem solving
• This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams

​PLANNED MAINTENANCE:

• ​Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner ​
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities ​

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE:

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate PS techniques​

RUNNING REPAIRS:​

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs ​
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action ​
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out as per SAP requirements

PROBLEM SOLVING:

• ​Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve ​
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction ​
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part in FFA's on request ​

IMPROVEMENT:

• ​ Improve SWI's, SOP's and maintenance tasks on an ongoing basis to ensure that the loop is closed out to prevent issues arising​

HOUSEKEEPING AND SAFETY:

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected ​
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate AB InBev policies and procedures ​
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties​

Minimum Requirements:

• National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical)
• ​Brewing maintenance workshop experience in a brewing plant​
• Brewing / Bottling hall and production experience.​
• Machine specific experience