Lactalis Sourh Africa

Job Description    

• Join Lactalis, a Top Employer in SA, at our offices in Stellenbosch, Western Cape and take on the challenge of leading delivery of the marketing strategy and budget for the Cheese portfolio.  

Required Skills    

•   3-year Marketing and/or Sales Degree or similar
•   7-10 years within an FMCG or Dairy environment would be advantageous
•   7yrs in marketing role essential, with 3 years in a leadership role
•   Strong project management and presentation skills
•   Ability to communicate at all levels (business & customer interface)
•   Interpret and understand complex financial, consumer and shopper data
•   Initiate cross functional business approach & collaboration
•   Ability to work independently
• Ability to develop, coach and get the best out of team of brand managers

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Develop the marketing strategy, including brand portfolio plan, strategic pillars, brand activities, and innovation roadmap
• Lead delivery of the annual brand plan and commercial budget (volume, turnover, profit, marketing spend)
• Oversee all brand activities, marketing mix execution and marketing spend
• Define brand positioning, cheese portfolio strategy, and marketing mix execution
• Develop and execute brand communication with the support of creative and media agencies
• Develop innovation pipeline and drive execution with marketing and trade marketing team
• Identify consumer research needs, working with global team to conduct research
• Coordinate with Trade marketing to deliver quarterly activity plans and trade execution with Sales team
• Manage team of brand managers, including development, coaching and succession planning
• Be the consumer champion in the business, working cross functionally to drive the marketing agenda

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Job Description    

• Join Lactalis at our offices in Western Cape and take on the challenge role as the Credit Controller. You will be responsible for managing the debts of a company, coordinate the debts of existing creditors, manage new requests for credit and reconcile complex month-end accounts.

Required Skills    

• Grade 12 or Equivalent.
• Further tertiary education will be advantageous.
• Minimum three years’ experience in a retail finance environment.
• Working in an FMCG environment would be advantageous.
• Computer Literate (MS Office, Word and Excel).
• Strong Excel Skills
• Knowledge of BPCS would be advantageous.
• Aptitude for figures and detailed oriented.
• Must be able to work under pressure and able to work effectively and independently.
• Must be a good team player.
• Must be bilingual and have strong communication and telephone skills.
• Shoprite experience would be advantageous

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Controlling of allocated accounts.
• Telephonic debt collections and resolving of queries with key stakeholders.
• Account reconciliation and payment processing.
• Follow-up on outstanding balances (queries).

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Job Description    

The purpose of the role is to give accurate reporting of production/management accounting information with a strong focus on costing. Analysing and reporting the daily, monthly results will be important in order to support and development of the Business Unit. This exciting career opportunity at Lactalis SA will enable you to play your part in ensuring that the company achieves its challenging objectives during the next phase of its growth in South Africa.

Required Skills    

• Grade 12 with Accounting.
• Must have 2 years financial experiences working in a FMCG environment
• Develop partnership roles with Plant Manager/ Production Managers/Controllers/ Financial Manager
• To have presentation skills (Advantageous)
• Must be a self-motivator with good planning, organising and admin skills
• Able to work independently and must have strong interpersonal skills and analytical skills
• Must be accurate and pay attention to detail
• Must be a good communicator
• Computer literate in MS Office (Excel advanced skills)

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Analysing daily, monthly and yearly results of production
• Monthly reporting and annual budgeting
• Training of Staff on inventory system and reports
• Chairing departmental stock flow meetings
• Assisting with GMP reports and material loss tracking
• Driving continuous improvement and accuracy of information
• Focus on accurate routings and costing of products within BPCS, updating BOM’s
• Support Production Managers by providing information and assisting production clerks with any capturing/system problems
• Ad-hoc financial & reporting tasks
• Ensure that effective internal control procedures are in place on all financial functions or cycles (i.e. stock, assets and other)
• Assist in supplying accurate information to optimise recipes
• Support role for forecast
• Weekly KPI Reports, understanding how department are tracking on KPI
• Improvement and actions plans to be implemented