Hot Vacancies at The South African Breweries (SAB)

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 the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands 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 competition.

Minimum requirements:

• 3-year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
• Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills

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Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe, healthy, risk-free working environment at all times by abiding to all rules and regulations of the safety policies
• Perform maintenance and operation on various machines while ensuring that the machine is safe before maintenance tasks are carried out
• Maintain and repair plant & associated devices at minimum cost while maintaining highest quality standards
• Optimize and improve plant, process equipment & systems in case of Electricians/ Instruments need to ensure that all tasks performed meets the requirements of South African Bureau of Standards Act 1945
• Ensure that maintenance tasks are completed to the standard work instructions set out by AB InBev
• Standby duty required as per roster set out with minimum disruptions

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum N3 Technical qualification or higher
• Trade test qualification in Mechanical / Electrical/ Instrumentation
• Experience in Packaging would be advantageous
• Summative assessment in current role would be advantageous
• 2 year’s post trade test experience would be advantageous
• Basic computer skills in Microsoft Excel and Word
• Basic operations of electronic communication devices

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Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall day-to-day tavern media campaign planning for clients/brands.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with respective brand or client teams.
• Act as the primary client-facing support for tavern media campaigns, ensuring a thorough understanding of client needs.
• Ensure campaign objectives align with tavern media platform capabilities.
• Advise on budget allocation and platform selection/reach to meet campaign objectives.
• Facilitate collaboration with partner agencies, including draftLine, Barrows, and Gresham, to ensure seamless campaign execution.
• Support internal cross functional operations, attend the relevant status meetings and support Trade Marketing & Monetization teams where required.
• Agree on KPIs with stakeholders and track/monitor performance against these metrics.
• Oversee regular campaign check-ins and reporting cadences to ensure alignment with objectives.
• Coordination with 3rd party stakeholders to manage & review post-campaign reports, including insights and recommendations for future campaigns.
• Ensure timely delivery of all reports to clients/brands.
• Assist 3rd party stakeholders in sourcing creative materials when necessary.
• Ensure timely delivery of creative assets to avoid campaign delays.
• The Tavern Media Planner should also serve as a knowledge resource for the internal media network, helping clients and internal teams navigate processes and optimize outcomes.

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in marketing, advertising, communications or a related field
• Experience in media planning or project management 
• Understanding of digital media platforms and trends 
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the machines are maintained to optimal efficiency
• Ensure breakdowns are repaired sustainably and effectively
• Enforce and maintain a safe work area
• Manage continuous improvement projects
• Solve situational problems
• Provide a technical support service
• Conduct regular audits with improvement actions
• Manage personal development and performance and lead by example
• Develop and monitor team goals and provide individual coaching where required
• Delegate work activities and empower team members to complete them to the highest standards
• Assess candidates
• Problem solving largest downtime events and re-occurring breakdowns with a focus on loop closure
• Manages a team of artisans for effective equipment reliability
• Manages team activities on a maintenance day

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 Planner or Engineer for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
• Take part, as functional expert, in problem solving PDCA, ITF et

​Housekeeping & 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:

• Minimum National Diploma or N6 Mechanical/ Electrical/ Control & Automation qualification
• Millwright, Mechanical / Fitter Trade
• At least 4 years of FMCG experience within a maintenance environment, preferably with some Supervisory / Management experience
• Detailed mechanical knowledge of plant with in-depth understanding of electrical and instrumentation aspects
• PC literacy (Microsoft office package/SAP)
• VPO Maintenance and Management Pillar understanding will be advantageous
• Demonstrated knowledge of VPO Safety Pillar, policies and procedures
• Well organized with the ability to plan succinctly
• Insight into technical and people processes
• Ability to identify and action innovative solutions
• Results driven and able to consistently raise the bar to elevate operational standards
• Disciplined and energetic work ethic
• Effectively self manages by monitoring performance against goals, taking accountability for outputs, and being proactive in resolving problems
• Defect elimination entrenchment in Packaging

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Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe, healthy and risk-free working environment for ( Bottle ,Crate and Pallet Conveyors )
• Provide equipment that is safe to operate, compliant to environmental requirements and can delivery products that meet the required quality requirements.
• Support and coaching of Contractors  to achieve 100% Uptime, Zero Safety incidents, Zero Quality incidents, VIC usages like water, energy , Luebe etc. in control
• Must have a deep  understanding  VPO, The Safety , Maintenance , Quality, Management and Logistic pillars.
• Must know how the VPO pillars are interconnected  to support the journey to world class operations
• Drive the implementation of Autonomous Operations (ATO ) through hands-on execution of each of the ATO  steps .
• Equipment to be restored to an "as new" condition, in which initial deterioration is eliminated or controlled during MEOP windows .
• Provides a stable maintenance platform from which natural deterioration linked failures can be appropriately addressed with preventive ,  predictive and restoration  maintenance activities.
• Continuously check the maintenance Plan for 16 weeks ahead  in advance to identify resources , spares and required time for the outages .
• Manage the backlog within (4 to 7) weeks and improve MTTR YOY while increasing  the MTBF YOY.
• Set up Base line Budgets yearly  for ZBB / VIC / UPP maintenance costs for Short  ,Medium- and long-term plans and ensure spends are within the approve budgets .
• Optimize budgets to meet the daily , weekly , monthly and yearly budget agree spend by ensuring root causes for failures has been identified and loop closures are implemented to preventive high cost
• Continuously look for improvement in spares material by redesigning and reproducing it with an improved lifespan ensuring it meets the quality standards and at a lower price than OEM/OMM
• Actively participate with coaching contractors and line team members  in problem solving (5 Why reviews, Problem Terminator ,  Abnormality Reports and PDCA , ITF's) to provide deep technical knowledge to ensure correct root causes has been identified so that suitable preventive measures has been implemented to prevent repeat failures from reoccurrence.
• Manage machine related projects for selected machine group to improve overall performance (reliability, quality and cost) as agreed with Pack Engineer or ZTE
• Project completion on time, within budget and according to agreed GTS specifications , all gaps identified and close off including spares parts , manuals and training material is available for team.
• Collaboration with ZTE's, Vendor's and Reverse Engineering Specialist to deliver KPI’s
• Use data driven techniques to identify gaps  in machine performance develop, train and assess technical skills interventions to improve skills related performance gaps
• Improved equipment performance as a result of improved technical skills of relevant personnel
• Codification of technical knowledge through SOP's and SWI’s to be created and role out to current / new employees checking for competencies.
• Regular assessments to be carried on equipment identifying gaps and plan in place  to be closed out in a suitable time frame .
• Monthly use data driven techniques to sustain and drive systemic improvements in equipment reliability for selected machine group by developing, improving and optimizing preventive and predictive maintenance plans
• Build Data base for critical spares to be created in the system and ensure that the maintenance package (Bill of materials) is regularly updated.
• Stores walkabout to be done regularly identifying unused spares to be written off and  ensuring all critical spares is in good condition and available incase of breakdowns .
• Liaise with  different suppliers and hold them responsible for quality of spares.
• Draft up an SLA with contracting company for Labour to maintain , lubricate and clean conveyors in a safe manner following SAFE  process .
• Ensure all contractors is knowledgeable of the different VPO pillars allowing them to maintain the equipment .

Minimum Requirements:

• National Diploma or N6 Mechanical
• Millwright or Mechanical Trade Test
• Bachelors Degree (Mechanical Engineering)
• Additional business qualification advantageous
• Belt qualification
• 2-3 Years in similar FMCG industry as controller / supervisor / senior technician

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support and execute Procurement Category Strategies across Greater Africa.
• Act as regional liaison for global and regional procurement initiatives.
• Drive procurement best practices with internal stakeholders.
• Strengthen stakeholder and supplier relationships to maximize value.
• Resolve supplier issues in collaboration with relevant functions.

Category Implementation:

• Ownership of Procurement Commercial Categories in Greater Africa markets through data analytics related to the Categories and plan for execution.
• Implementation of Category Strategies; This includes mitigation of risks within the Category and creating value through identified opportunities.
• Analyse spends and user specific requirements for all sub-packages within the Procurement Commercial scope in Greater Africa markets.
• Conduct market research to assess dynamics related to the Category and use research outcomes for future planning and value generation in line with company strategy.
• Implement, in conjunction with GPO/RPO counterparts, Category Strategies for each sub-package, using them as a guiding document for value generation within the Procurement Commercial Categories.
• Manage supplier relationships and internal & external collaborations across the scope in Greater Africa markets

Support Sourcing Strategy Execution:

• Ensure readiness across both Zone and country for strategy execution.
• Resolve and escalate supplier performance issues where necessary.
• Support Collaborative Optimization activities where applicable.
• Handle second level escalations with suppliers/internal stakeholders to resolve performance issues.
• Collaborate with supplier and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of Category Manager sourcing outputs / agreements through implementation of agreements and strategies.
• Ensure suppliers are correctly enabled through the PSS.
• Ensure contractual terms & conditions are effectively “operationalized” within business.
• Support collection and analysis of Zone ZBB, WAPT, eAuction analytics and driving Champions initiatives across all sub-packages within scope.
• Accountable for monthly reporting as per the KPIs within the Commercial Indirects Procurement scope.
• Drive collaboration between RPO, PSS, GPO, FP&A, and other parties involved in daily Category activities.
• Track sourcing events and projects to ensure delivery of targets and support business operations.
• Enhance and develop ways of working with Country, RPO, and GPO counterparts

Continuous Improvement

• Execute in-country big bet initiatives in line with the Champions methodology.
• Execute in-country value engineering projects across the Procurement Commercial Categories.
• Define and executive innovation and sustainability strategies within sub-packages in scope.
• Drive supplier development initiatives with supporting functions within the company.

Risk management:

• Optimize the Category to drive value for the business by being responsive to business and customer needs – e.g., budget spend control, best practice implementation, benchmarking and use of KPIs to drive monthly business performance visibility.
• Identify and manage risks in the business within scope.
• Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and that risks are communicated appropriately within business through appropriate channels (i.e., R&O and T&M monthly routines).

Finance

• Drive and deliver effective support to generate efficiencies in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Track and report on initiatives monthly.
• Monitor and report on monthly spend and Latest Estimate (LE) forecast for the Category.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field. A postgraduate qualification (e.g., MBA, CIPS) is advantageous.
• Minimum 2 years’ management experience.
• Sound knowledge of Procurement systems such as Ariba.
• Knowledge of SAP/Syspro is an advantage prospective candidate.
• Pan African / Regional or Global Category management experience.
• Basic knowledge of finance and accounting allowing the ability to run/read analysis P&L and balance sheet.

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Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Developing project scopes and objectives.
• Document process flows and standard operation procedures for project scopes.
• Ensuring resource availability and allocation and delivering every project per charter.
• Stakeholder Management & ensuring technical feasibility.
• Report and escalate to management as needed.
• Manage the relationship with all stakeholders.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Establish and maintain relationships with functional specialists and process owners.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required, finance degree preferred, Advance degree or professional certification preferred.

Experience

• 4+ years finance and business related process experience preferred.

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• People Package annual budgeting which includes the communication of guidelines, synergy targets to the country People Leads and ZBB Managers
• Final approved budget for ZBB on the People Package to meet the Overheads target and drive synergy
• People Package monthly tracking and monitoring, to review variances against the budget, risks and opportunities
• Analysis to support the People country leads and Director in managing costs and identifying opportunities to ensure the budget is delivered
• People Package monthly forecasting to align with the ZBB timelines and input for the country and BU EBITDA forecasting
• Forecasting for the P&L and ZBB to ensure that the budget is met and opportunities and risks are communicated timeously
• Consolidation and tracking of People KPIs for the People Director to report on in the monthly functional and BU leadership meeting
• Adhoc projects and analysis
• Provide analysis and key recommendations based on the project objective and expected outcomes
• Insights and analysis of performance for forecasting
• Expected insights on performance to assist leadership team with decision making
• Find solutions to problems
• Work across cross functional teams to develop solutions to problems
• Drive policy compliance
• Adherence to the local and global ZBB policies

Minimum Requirements:

• A tertiary qualification
• In depth knowledge of the business
• Lead and develop processes
• Analytical and great problem-solving skills
• Effective communicator and collaborator
• Manage stakeholder engagement
• Pro-active and able to work independently

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Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• To manage tax value and tax risk of companies within the Southeast BU through the delivery of specialist technical tax advice and decision support.
• To act as a business partner identifying tax issues or opportunities that have strategic financial impact or that impact the Group’s license to trade, providing commentary and recommendations to optimize the tax position of the local businesses.
• To identify opportunities to shape tax policy and new legislation in a manner that is mutually beneficial for the AB InBev Group and the revenue authorities.
• To assist with the budgeting for taxes and monitoring performance against budget. Ensuring the accurate and timeous reporting of corporate income tax as part of the monthly financial reporting process.
• To ensure the timeous completion and filing of tax returns.
• To deliver tax strategy and tax audit strategy, aligned to Group policies, ensuring compliance with local statutory requirements and focus on efficiency improvements.
• To own the relationships with local tax auditors and tax authorities.
• To manage tax staff allocated to the Southeast BU, including in-country tax managers.
• Tax broadly includes corporate income tax (which includes transfer pricing), excise tax, value added tax, customs duty and related indirect taxes

Minimum requirements:

• Post graduate qualification in tax
• Preferably a minimum of 7 years taxation experience, most of which should have been post qualification.
• Experience in working for or with a multinational group or within a Big 4 Accounting Firm
• Good knowledge and experience of African taxes.
• Experience of tax audits across all taxes.
• Knowledge of and exposure to transfer pricing matters.
• Knowledge of tax accounting, deferred tax etc.
• High level of involvement in tax risk management and tax controls.
• The ability work remotely from a team spread throughout the BU South East Africa
• Excellent inter-personal skills and the ability to develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Team-player
• Experience of interaction with Senior Executives.
• Project management.
• Use of Excel, Power-point, Word and other standard packages to a high standard.
• Ability to travel into Africa.

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Centralized PTP Support:

• Source quotations for logistics as and when required by DC management. Management of DC consumables ordering and tracking
• PTP follow up and snow ticket logging where issues occur
• GRIR Management -GRN all Logistics PO's for the DC
• Close out and attend to all Logistics supplier PTP queries
• Assist with vendor creation for Logistics

Temp Labour Management:

• Administer all temp requisition forms for the DC
• Capture time and attendance verification for temp usage
• Analyse temp labour usage by function and send out reporting weekly

Owner Driver Administration:

• Cpods ad hoc debit and credit creation
• Owner Driver governance documentation administration
• Administrative assistance with new driver takes on process at the DC

KPI Tracking and Trending:

• Daily population of KPI performance reporting to be sent to the DC logistics team
• Weekly population and trending of KPI's performance to be sent to the DC logistics team

DPO:

• Assist with weekly DC pillar ramp up plans
• Update DC's consolidated action log and send to DC manager daily
• Rate my delivery survey management (Daily analysis including follow up calls to customers)
• Assist with ad hoc requests from DC management team

Ad-hoc:

• Raising of Logistics FBI's and managing the O&G process
• Ad-hoc logistics administrative support as required by DC logistics team.

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year tertiary degree/diploma, preferably in Supply Chain and or Logistics
• 1-2 years administrative experience would be advantageous

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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 the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands 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 competition.

Minimum requirements:

• 3-year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
• Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills

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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.
• 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:

• Min. of B.Sc./ B.Tech / HND in a related field
• 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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Key roles and responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end Logistics / SAP process across the Africa ERP landscape – including existing and new ERPs;
• Gather, design and deliver business and process requirements in collaboration with the Zone / In-country Business Function as part of the ERP programme delivery team.
• SAP Functional expertise and skills in at least one of the following Areas: Warehouse to Distribute, Plan to Manufacture or Maintain to Settle.
• Accountable for the successful implementation of the end-to-end function by considering the needs of the business in line with the Steering Committee success factors
• Manage and prioritize tasks according to business priority / value, identify and mitigate risks in liaison with project leadership, zone business leadership and global business leadership
• Work with Change Management to identify change impacts and work in collaboration with Change Team to identify and embed the necessary change interventions to enable business adoption of process and system changes across  the Africa Zone
• Manages and delivers the business requirements backlog for the function
• First point of contact for clarifications/escalations which will require deep and complex problem-solving skills including understanding cross functional integration impacts
• Ensure the program deliverables are complete, high-quality, and accurate, meeting SAP standards, industry best practices, and business requirements
• Support in creating relevant training materials
• Basic understanding of Minimum Internal Control Standards would be beneficial

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar role with industry expertise in Consumer Goods (preferably Beverages or Alco-beverages)
• SAP functional experience and or Logistics functional knowledge.
• Excellent communication and people skills across all levels of the business
• Balanced blend of business and functional experience (process, solution and master data)
• Ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple and logical manner
• Critical thinker coupled with the ability to solve complex problems
• Experience with Agile, Hybrid and DevOps delivery methods would be advantageous

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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 the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands 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 competition.

Minimum requirements:

• 3-year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
• Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• The core role of the Junior Brewer should encompass strong support towards the SDCA activities within the brewing department
• The role is intended to fulfil the development activities post the traineeship which encompasses support of brewing routines, acting roles within the brewing department, completion of KPI value adding project work and to obtain experiential learning within the brewing department
• The role follows from a formal full time traineeship or parallel traineeship
• Through zone interaction, the BAM & BTE coach the Junior Brewers through their development
• During the employment as a Junior Brewer, the development will include a validation of progress and performance by a panel consisting of Brewing L&D Co-Ordinator, Zone B&Q Leadership and representative Brewing Manager/s. This should be managed through the brewery, ZBQ and L&D

The Junior Brewer must own the plan for his/her development with specific reference to:

• Acting roles with agreed learning outcomes by the employee, the direct line manager, Zone coordinators and Zone L&D specialists.
• Selection and planning (with zone and line manager approval) of a Key KPI improvement project, and/or appropriate Implementation Project.
• Fully integrates into the brewing department/ respective acting departments throughout employment as a Junior Brewer, with full exposure to leadership levels within the department.

Supporting the SDCA cycle in the Brewing Department & Shopfloor support:

• The Junior Brewer should form the first line of support to the shift teams in the problem Solving Relay, prior to the BAM review
• This element of problem solving involvement should encompass finding root causes where prior reviews could not, escalate as required, as well as provide the required support and coaching on problem solving Involvement in the loop closure of root causes is also required
• The Junior Brewer supports ATO at the Operator Level, and stays compliant to the ATO plan developed in conjunction with the Brewery Leadership team in accordance to the VPO Maintenance Pillar
• The Junior Brewer must also take on the completion of relevant OWDs in support of the BAM, and drive the continuous improvement activities reached through OWDs
• The Junior Brewer is also required to provide admin and reporting support to the BAM
• The Junior Brewer is required to support the utilisation of GOPs within the brewing department and assist in the tracking of activities driving GOP compliance and improvements
• The Junior Brewer is required to partake in sensory routines, as well as support tracebacks and traceability exercises required for problem solving and continuous improvements
• Where required and requested to do so, the Junior Brewer is also required to support financial visibility and management against BOM’s

Acting Roles:

• The Junior Brewer is required to act in positions to gain experiential training in leading teams and applying VPO tools in order to deliver on key Departmental priorities
• All acting roles need to be preceded with a signed off learning plan with the BTE and Zone, and accompanied by feedback on monthly check ins with the Plant Manager, Brewing Manager, Brewing Technical Expert and Zone L&D and ZBQ coordinators

Validation of Progress and Performance of the Junior Brewer

• Prior to admittance to the Junior Brewer Role, the 18 month traineeship pathway must have been completed with the technical checkout completed as part of this time frame
• This is a mandated requirement for entry into the role.2. During the time spent as a Junior Brewer, a second checkout is required with the Brewing Manager, Zone L&D and ZBQ Coordinators and Zone Brewing Manager (and additional resources as required by the Zone Brewing Manager)
• This checkout will take the form of a presentation to the Panel, accompanied by a question and answer session
• This second checkout must be completed on the basis of success related to acting roles and experiential learning, KPI improvement project work and VPO practice based feedback during the role as well as support shown to the SDCA activities of the brewing department. This assessment is guided through the L&D department to ensure consistency

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

• Min: BSc Degree or equivalent in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Completed Traineeship, Checked out brewer

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Key roles and responsibilities

• Develop strategic business plans
• Compile quarterly operational sales plan in relation to the 3 year business plan
• Develop an annual time and territory management plan
• Determine annual budget requirements
• Provide customers service excellence
• Provide merchandising and signage support
• Implement national, regional and ad-hoc promotional activity
• Implement customer call frequency
• Establish sound business relationships
• Develop tailored service packages
• Achieve predetermined sales volume and market share targets
• Leverage sales information services
• Monitor retail liquor pricing
• Maintain product quality
• Comply with SAB credit policy
• Conduct SEC evaluations
• Manage Human Resources
• Develop employees
• Manage IR climate
• Apply personnel function

Minimum Requirements:

• B Comm, IMM or similar sales and marketing qualification
• 3 - 5 years management experience
• Valid Drivers License