The South African Breweries (SAB) is a subsidiary of AB InBev. Founded in 1895, SAB is South Africa’s top brewer and leading distributor of beer.
For more than 120 years SAB has been an integral thread in the social fabric of our country and continues to play a crucial role in the national economy. The company operates seven breweries and 40 depots in Sout...
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End Date: June 12, 2026
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- The Technical Traineeship is primarily a hands-on, self-study program where the Trainee is expected to gain a full understanding of the theory, principles and operation of Packaging equipment across the Packaging Hall
- Participation in Brewery and Zone level projects in Packaging aligned to the program requirements and brewery priorities
- Apply VPO principles (Supply Excellence Principles)
- Diagnosis of systemic and situational problems and troubleshooting
- Participation in Packaging team structures including acting roles in identified leadership positions within Packaging
- Communication of learnings and solutions across various levels of the business
Minimum Requirements:
- BSC or BTech or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering
- 2 years Packaging Experience advantageous
- Legal work authorization (full citizenship) in the country
- Geographical mobility within South Africa
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End Date: June 5, 2026
Key Outputs and Responsibilities:
Inventory Counts:
- Physically perform and lead the morning inventory count process
- Identify the root cause of inventory count variances and put action plans in place through problem solving tools to improve the Inventory Accuracy KPI
- Reduce Supply Chain Overheads through the utilization of problem-solving tools
- Create and manage warehouse management tools to ensure FEFO.
- Track and trend Inventory Accuracy
- Ensure movement of materials reflects in the SAP system at all times
Layout Implementation:
Improve Quality Standards:
- Manage, track and trend warehouse cleanliness, pest control schedule adherence,cross contamination from non-food grade chemicals, daily temperature control and product exposure
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
- Implement and adhere to a Location-Based Inventory System to identify stored product
- Ensure adherence to blocking standards on non-conforming inventory
- Product quality induction programme conducted
- Track, trend and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity
Picking Standards:
- Adhere to a standardised picking process and ensure compliance through management routines to ensure a safe and productive process
- Track, trend and manage picking accuracy and productivity through management tools
Productivity & Capacity Managed:
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Warehouse Labour Productivity GOP to improve the KPI
- Allocate and assign labour activities utilizing the SKAP tool
Warehouse Management:
- Implement, track, trend and improve 5S results
- Support the design of the management cycle e.g. Business Descriptions, SLA's, Process Maps, Indicators and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees
- Develop and continuously validate SOP's through management routines and tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA)
- Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
- Develop and maintain SCL routines and track adherence thereof
- Use problem solving tools e.g. 5 WHY, Abnormality Reports, SIC, OPLs, RACI's, OWD's, PDCA's, etc. to develop action plans to show improvement on PI's and KPI's
- Cascade KPI's and PI's to individual warehouse employee level, calenderise the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual target
Safe Warehouse Practices:
Loading and Unloading activities:
- Track and measure the PI of the loading/unloading bay allocation tool with action plans to improve productivity
- Track, trend and manage related KPI's/PI's e.g. TCT, baytime utilization, Hl/man Hour
Minimum Requirements:
- 3-Year relevant diploma/degree
- 2+ years Warehouse and or logistics experience
- High level computer user (MS Office, Oasis, Handheld devices)
- SAP proficient
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End Date: June 5, 2026
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Achieve sales targets for assigned areas
- Manage and supervise Distributors of assigned sector (order, payment, re-distribution)
- Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in the customers and retail outlets
- Ensure chiller are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector
- Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets
- Closely monitor actions of the competition
Minimum Requirements:
- 3-year degree qualification
- At least 2 years' experience in sales/marketing/FMCG environment
- Valid unendorsed Cod 8 drivers' license
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End Date: June 5, 2026
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage Plant footprint to ensure the correct condition monitoring techniques are applied to prevent functional failures
- Apply RCM practices to prevent functional failures (Vibration Spectrum Analyses, Oil Analyses, Thermography, Ultrasonic Analyses)
- Monitor to detect the onset of deterioration and provide a measure of the extent and rate of deterioration
- Incorporate condition monitoring techniques into SIC systems
- Deliver JIT approach to maintain assets in Plants according to Condition Monitoring results
- Continually review and optimize predictive maintenance plans to ensure maximum output at minimum cost
- Identify trends in asset performance using RCM analysis and implement solutions to reduce breakdowns and improve machine efficiency by applying predictive maintenance solutions Analyze asset performance trends to generate and support preventative and predictive improvement plans
- Monitor reliability indicators based on the condition monitoring report, failure reports and notifications generated
- Monitor adherence to the preventative and predictive maintenance plans; adjust accordingly and take corrective action Monitor assets, condition monitoring indicators and take necessary corrective actions
- Prevention of functional failures and avoid the consequences of functional failures Evaluate effectiveness of regional problem solving through the analysis of formal problem-solving documentation
- Facilitate higher level problem solving for assets by applying standard problem-solving tools informed by Loss & Waste and Condition Monitoring analyses
- Identify maintenance risks and address accordingly by applying the correct condition monitoring techniques
- Maintain the maintenance TCO and ensure appropriately prioritized plans to extend equipment life
- Optimize the asset maintenance life cycle cost through life cycle costing analysis
- Reduce life cycle costing by improving asset maintainability
- Implement condition monitoring best practice
- Where best practice is not available, identify and define good condition monitoring practices (benchmarking against similar assets where possible) and implement accordingly
- Identify and eliminate poor maintenance practices
- Ensure adherence to internal and external condition monitoring standards
- Drive efficiency by ensuring that learnings from downtime and condition monitoring findings are replicated across similar asset across the group
- Reduce mean time to repair and secondary breakdowns by ensuring adherence to good engineering and condition monitoring standards
- Train, coach, assess and sign-off MAS’s and PAs on condition monitoring best practices and standards
- Development of technical standards and work instructions
Minimum Requirements:
- Diploma (N6) in Engineering or Maintenance
- Ideally 3 years’ experience packaging production experience and/or VCAT-I would be beneficial
- Trade test certificate in Mechanical or Millwright.
- Experience in the utilities environment
- SAP PM knowledge
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Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Achieve sales targets for assigned areas
- Manage and supervise distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution)
- Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in customers and retail outlets
- Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brand in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets
- Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector
- Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets
- Closely monitor actions of the competitor
Minimum Requirements
- 3-year degree qualification
- At least 2 years' experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
- Valid unendorsed Code 8 drivers' license
- Local area knowledge is a requirement
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End Date: June 4, 2026
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Autonomous Teams requirements
- Optimise Plant & Process Performance
- Operate The Brewhouse Plant and Process
- Operate Beverage Fermentation Plant and Process
- Operate Beverage Filtration and FAB Plant and Process
- Support role to develop others in own skills as well as the learning of the skills of other specialist Brewery Operators
- A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment
- A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist)
- Initiative and energy
- Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best)
Minimum Requirements:
- National Diploma or Degree in Chemical Engineering or Biological Sciences
- General Certificate in Brewing or Diploma in Brewing would be advantageous
- 1 - 3 years’ experience in a brewing environment would be advantageous
- Previous experience in a process-controlled manufacturing environment, ideally in food FMCG products.
- Ideally, a process understanding of the Brewing process from Raw materials transfers to BBT, including utilities.
- PC literacy (Microsoft/SAP)
- Physically fit and healthy, able to pick up weights to 20kg
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Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Delivery Productivity Management:
- In trade coaching with errant offenders on MBFU, refusals and OODD
- Ensuring that delivery modes share us adhered and continually look for opportunities to pursue cheaper modes
- Master Data verified for accuracy
- Carry out in-trade Owner Driver standard verification
- Adherence to market visit plan within trade presence at a minimum of x4 days a week ensuring adherence to SOPs and OWDs done to open the gap where necessary
Quality Management:
- Ensure Quality is clear in the Route Delivery Execution Process and people know and follow it
- Ensure all employees understand the customer complaint process. Process is in place, KPI is tracked and there are action plans to improve results. Consumer complaints GOPS are being tracked and implemented
- Ensure that the driver base is trained and equipped to identify quality related issues and understands correct handling methodology to minimise issues Capacity Occupation and Refusal
- Establish SLA with 2DCP on Capacity Occupation daily optimization
- Ensure that appropriate communication channel in place and action plans have been developed to track Refusals
- Ensure return policies are in place, and they cover all items and they are adhered to and updated. Support Service Social Systems
- Establish routines to with CXC to track performance
- Create an environment that allows for cross functional learning and integration
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End Date: June 4, 2026
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Achieve sales targets for assigned areas
- Manage and supervise distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution)
- Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in customers and retail outlets
- Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brand in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets
- Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector
- Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets
- Closely monitor actions of the competitor
Minimum Requirements
- 3-year degree qualification
- At least 2 years' experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
- Valid unendorsed Code 8 drivers' license
- Local area knowledge is a requirement
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Key roles and responsibilities:
- Lead departmental DPO (Distribution Process Optimization) implementation
- Lead departmental project and negotiate contractor cost to the best economical price
- Review department machine and man resources
- Manage own and Team Development and Performance
- Lead your team and prepare a strategic plan for the financial year with insights for inclusion in the
- Depot Business Plan
- Review Master Data
- Business descriptions - Process Mapping - Service Level Management - Routing Planning and Planning SLA’s - High Volume etc.
- Develop departmental annual budget (Fixed and Variables) and manage cost throughout the year
- Set, Cascade Team & Individual goals
- Develop Peak sizing and Planning for all critical periods.
- Manage Customer and Driver master data
- Conduct bi-annual Customer service evaluation and analyses customer feedback with actions
- Plan and manage trade visits and drive compliance
- Manage Full beer return process
- Safety monitoring and critical behaviour enforcement
- Manage 3PL contractors and drive performance improvement
- Manage supply chain transfers and ensure adherence to plan
- Review all SLA and attend SLA meeting to action noncompliance with all stakeholders
- Lead departmental weekly performance meeting addressing previous week trends and proffering sustainable plan for the new week
- Beer age issues taken up with sales in an action plan
- Prepare and analyze contractor payment
- Manage departmental Cost to achieve budget
- Business plan is developed and aligned to the Sales and Distribution strategy
- Distribution team goals are supportive of Depot business plan
- Delivery fleet size and mix calculated to ensure optimum cost and customer service effectiveness and delivery within the Distribution area
- Fleet utilization is optimized through the effective use of own vs. contracted transport and effective route planning
- Vehicle contingency plans exist for the replacement of contracted vehicles and drivers
- Delivery fleet and drivers consistently comply with the statutory requirements
- Maintain Fleet
- Interpret and implement delivery schedules
- Assure product quality
- Analyze and respond to distribution performance measures
- Translate Business Strategies
- Ensure Optimal Asset Utilization
- Manager Distribution Key Performance Areas
- Optimize marketplace competitiveness.
- Leverage information systems.
- Conduct administration.
- Manage budget process.
- Control departmental costs.
- Manage CAPIN budget process.
- Develop employees.
- Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate.
- Manage and apply personnel processes.
- Manage own performance.
- Manage performance of direct reports.
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
Minimum Requirements:
- Relevant 3-year tertiary degree/diploma, preferably in Supply Chain and or Logistics
- 5 Years’ experience in logistics and supply chain management
- Computer Literate
- MS Office
- Strong and assertive
- Compliance driven
- Creativity
- Strong work ethic: Setting and achieving goals
- Dependable: Consistently following through
- Positive attitude: Creating a good environment.
- Self-motivated: Working effectively with little direct
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The key accountabilities for this role include but are not restricted to:
Finished Goods & Raw Material Quality Management
- Ensure Compliance Finished Goods and Raw Materials Inventory Quality Fundamental standards
- Non-Compliance to Quality Standards as per BCA/LSA and MICs Requirements are addressed with the Quality Manager and Team.
Finished Goods & Raw Material Stock Age Management
- Analyse and Assess Obsolescence Risks with a 3-month view vs Sales and 13 week Pack and Brew Forecasts
- Engage Stakeholders to mitigate risk
- IP vs Physical Stock Holding Analysis to ensure Optimal Inventory Levels are maintained for OTIF and DIO/OOR KPI Performance Improvement. This includes Empties
- All Obsolescence Stock is Decanted/Discarded as per Global Policy & Procedure
Inventory Management of Finished Goods, Empties and Raw Materials
- Facilitate daily and monthly physical inventory count according to company standards and procedures
- Pre Count Reports to be Reviewed and Cleared.
- Reconcile that all GRNs have taken place (E.g.Raw Materials, New Glass and Crates and Market Place)
- STO In-transit Reports (T1 and T2) are clear of ageing Shipments
- Virtual Warehouse cleared and only reflects Current Production on both Finished Goods and Empties
- All Transfers Between Raw Materials Warehouses and Packaging/Brewing Process Areas are reconciled (Transfer Documentation vs ERP)
- Verification that 3 Point Checks were conducted on all Inbound and Outbound Shipments/Load
- Daily Reconciliation to ERP of Independent Inventory Counts conducted on all SKUs and Material Codes
- Inventory Count Differences Identified, Investigated and Reported
- Inventory Count Differences escalated to Warehouse Controller to develop Commentary, Problem Solving & Action Plans to be reported to BLM/DCLM.
- Post Count Reports and Inventory Pack is signed and reviewed with the BLM Daily
Breakages Management
- Review and ensure Accurate Reporting to enable Problem Solving
Returns PO Management
- Review and ensure Accurate Reporting to enable Problem Solving
MBFU
- Review and ensure Accurate Reporting to enable Problem Solving
Inbound Losses
- Review and ensure Accurate Reporting to enable recoveries
Diesel
- Review and ensure Accurate Transactions are processed
Bottle Loss
- Daily, Weekly and Monthly Reporting on Mass Balance by Area Results
- Daily, Weekly and Monthly Reporting on GL Loss Results
- Packaging Interface Analysis to ensure Transfers and Receipts are Accurate
- Loss Control Point Analysis/Heat Map and reporting of Losses in these areas and ensuring they reflect in the GLs
Governance and Risk
- All Documentation signed-off by relevant persons, filed & securely stored as per Inventory Control Policy – E.g. Inventory stock packs, T1 & T2 shipment packs, Gate Register, etc.
- SCOH Budget vs Actual costs are monitored and reported on to BLM/RLM. Action Plans are put in place with Warehouse Controllers to Resolve and Problem-solving approach is followed
- Security cameras in key points on site & random verification conducted
- Ensure implementation and compliance of VPO Excellence Programs
- Inventory count difference identified, investigated, resolved & reported. Un-resolved inventory count differences escalated to BLM / RLM with commentary & action plans
People
- Enhance people capability
- 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
- Effective Leave Management
- 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
- Minimize overtime and temporary employee usage
Minimum Requirements
- 3 year relevant diploma/degree
- 2-3 years’ experience in warehousing and inventory management
- Computer literate
- SAP literacy advantageous
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Have high levels of integrity and honesty
- Have attention to detail
- Good communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good verbal ability and communication skills
- Ability to manage self
- Have good analytical and problem-solving ability
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End Date: June 2, 2026
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Shift based production performance and processes
- Interpret and implement plan for shift
- Monitor processes on shift for the BTS
- Ensure process quality and productivity
- Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment
- Co-ordinate autonomous maintenance and cleaning
- Achieve BTS PTS compliance targets
Shift team Performance
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
- Perform administration
- Ensure application of administration systems & procedures
- Contribute to self and team development
Problem Solving
Minimum Requirements:
Education
- Grade 12 (With Maths &Science)
- Engineering /Water Treatment N-courses will be an added advantage
Experience
- 2 - 3 years water treatment/effluent plant operation
- Previous experience in a process-controlled manufacturing environment, ideally in food FMCG products
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Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards.
- Plan and prepare the job.
- Carry out repairs or maintenance.
- Continuously improve (optimize) plant, process equipment and systems.
- Apply 5S standards and practices in the workplace.
- Operate and control the process according to SOP’s.
- Participate in and coach autonomous operations.
- Support quality at source.
- Improve personal competence and flexibility Apply problem solving processes.
- Utilise loss & waste and short interval control to identify problems.
- Apply problem solving techniques to resolve situational problems.
- Perform preventative maintenance and calibration of measurement & control instrumentation by consulting manufacturers manuals to determine tests and calibration procedures.
- Support the development of and upgrade preventative maintenance procedures for measurement & control instrumentation.
- Identify and resolve equipment malfunctions, working with manufacturers and field representatives as necessary to procure replacement parts.
- Perform preventative maintenance and calibration of measurement & control instrumentation by consulting manufacturers manuals to determine tests and calibration procedures.
- Support the development of and upgrade preventative maintenance procedures for measurement & control instrumentation.
- Identify and resolve equipment malfunctions, working with manufacturers and field representatives as necessary to procure replacement parts.
- Maintain working knowledge of new technology instrumentation, software, etc., through reading and/or attending conferences, workshops or other training.
- Provide engineering/projects support and recommendations for new and existing equipment with regard to installation, upgrades and enhancement.
- Maintain standard instrumentation test equipment and analyze results to evaluate performance and determine need for adjustment.
- Record instrumentation calibration and specification data on calibration sheets and maintenance schedules.
Minimum Requirements:
- Grade 12
- N4 Engineering Studies
- Instrumentation Trade Test
- Min 2-3 months on-the-job training
- Instrumentation maintenance experience
- Prior experience in an FMCG environment
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End Date: June 5, 2026
Key Outputs and Responsibilities:
Inventory Counts:
- Physically perform and lead the morning inventory count process
- Identify the root cause of inventory count variances and put action plans in place through problem solving tools to improve the Inventory Accuracy KPI
- Reduce Supply Chain Overheads through the utilization of problem-solving tools
- Create and manage warehouse management tools to ensure FEFO.
- Track and trend Inventory Accuracy
- Ensure movement of materials reflects in the SAP system at all times
Layout Implementation:
Improve Quality Standards:
- Manage, track and trend warehouse cleanliness, pest control schedule adherence,cross contamination from non-food grade chemicals, daily temperature control and product exposure
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
- Implement and adhere to a Location-Based Inventory System to identify stored product
- Ensure adherence to blocking standards on non-conforming inventory
- Product quality induction programme conducted
- Track, trend and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity
Picking Standards:
- Adhere to a standardised picking process and ensure compliance through management routines to ensure a safe and productive process
- Track, trend and manage picking accuracy and productivity through management tools
Productivity & Capacity Managed:
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Warehouse Labour Productivity GOP to improve the KPI
- Allocate and assign labour activities utilizing the SKAP tool
Warehouse Management:
- Implement, track, trend and improve 5S results
- Support the design of the management cycle e.g. Business Descriptions, SLA's, Process Maps, Indicators and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees
- Develop and continuously validate SOP's through management routines and tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA)
- Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
- Develop and maintain SCL routines and track adherence thereof
- Use problem solving tools e.g. 5 WHY, Abnormality Reports, SIC, OPLs, RACI's, OWD's, PDCA's, etc. to develop action plans to show improvement on PI's and KPI's
- Cascade KPI's and PI's to individual warehouse employee level, calenderise the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual target
Safe Warehouse Practices:
Loading and Unloading activities:
- Track and measure the PI of the loading/unloading bay allocation tool with action plans to improve productivity
- Track, trend and manage related KPI's/PI's e.g. TCT, baytime utilization, Hl/man Hour
Minimum Requirements:
- 3-Year relevant diploma/degree
- 2+ years Warehouse and or logistics experience
- High level computer user (MS Office, Oasis, Handheld devices)
- SAP proficient
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Key outputs and responsibilities
- Manage market share data and the associated data warehouse and analytics
- Market share analysis, tracking and reporting to key stakeholders
- Apply relevant forecasting methodologies to set volume budgets
- Tracking of performance on key initiatives to drive revenue and volume growth
- Monitor sales performance: sales volume, distribution, trade/consumer campaigns and NPDs to identify and highlight gaps versus expectations /targets
- Provide deeper insights to sales teams for setting sales targets and action plans
- Analysis of the business weekly to understand demand vs. sales to ensure that supply chain have adequate information to plan the business in the short to medium term
- Feeding this analysis into S&OP to ensure that demand planning and sales are aligned on overall volumes
- Build sales targets at BDR by month levels to support the scorecard from the backend
- Set quarterly objectives, and then build quarterly sales incentives targets to support these
- Provide channel support – reporting, insights, target setting and dealing tracking
- End to end management of short-term incentive process (Target setting and cascading, tracking and appraisals)
Minimum requirement
- 3-year Business Degree
- 5 years+ relevant commercial experience, including experience of best practice Sales, Marketing and Customer marketing in a FMCG environment
- Strong bias for action and learning through in-market pilots and tests
- Commercial skill and financial acumen (Financial planning in terms of budgeting and budget management)
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