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Responsibilities

• Receiving and loading of all raw materials on arrival of trucks, including the checking of accompanying documents
• Maintain good house-keeping according to Food Safety Standards, e.g. stacking pallets
• Stacking of pallets according to site specifications (e.g. high; pallets = 10high)
• Issuing of materials to production which includes the transferring of the documentation
• Compliance with company policy
• Taking daily or shift readings of various materials quantities (eg grit and oil)
• Participate in cycle counts
• Stock rotation according to the FIFO system
• Stocktaking in the assigned areas
• Daily monitoring and recording of temperature controls
• Regular forklift and truck inspection, including filling in the daily check sheet, to maintain high safety standards
• Preparation of interplant transfers with relevant documentation
• Monthly rack inspections
• Perform AIB daily inspection
• Ensure own safety and that of peers

Qualifications

•  Minimum Grade 12
• Tertiary qualification in Inventory Management or related advantageous 
• 2 years in an FMCG or Warehouse Environment
• Literacy and numeracy skills essential
• Good communication skills
• Valid forklift driver licence via accredited service provider
• Basic knowledge of Safety Regulations
• Computer literacy - Windows, Microsoft excel would be an added advantage
• Results driven
• Ability to work under pressure
• Teamwork
• Communication Skills
• Integrity
• Able to work shifts
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good timekeeping and attendance

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Responsibilities

• Receiving, loading and off-loading of all raw materials on arrival of trucks, including the checking of accompanying documents.
• Conduct inspections of incoming trucks for foreign objects before offloading.
• Ensure constant feeding to the fryer (All raw materials).
• Ensure equipment functionality for efficient and constant supply of raw materials.
• Engage and report equipment breakdowns to FLM and Engineering artisan.
• Ensure that raw material supply to production is free of foreign material.
• Maintain GMP and good house-keeping by ensuring adherence to AIB and Food Safety Standards in corn and potato store.
• Removal of all production waste in skips, hash and emptying into allocated bins in Effluent plant.
• Manage and clean spillages that occur during offloading and when moving skips to prevent contamination of municipal drains.
• Complete potato usage sheet for all loads run by production and record corn silos quantities for usage as well as other stocks quantities recorded shiftly.
• Ensure cleaning of forklift machines is done weekly and checklist completed.
• Participate in weekly and monthly cycle counts.
• Report any faults on forklift machines as soon as they happen.
• Ensure own safety and that of peers as well as participate in Safety awareness initiatives.
• Compliance with all company policy.

Qualifications

• Minimum Grade 12
• Tertiary qualification in Inventory Management or related advantageous
• 2 yeard in an FMCG or Warehouse Environment
• Valid Forklift driver licence via accredited service provider
• Literacy and numeracy skills essential
• Good communication skills
• Basic knowledge of Safety Regulations
• Computer literacy - Windows, Microsoft, Excel would be an added advantage
• Drive for results
• Ability to work under pressure
• Teamwork
• Communication skills
• Integrity
• Able to work shifts
• Good timekeeping and attendance

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Responsibilities

• Works as a project team member and leads the change management work stream for the initiative.
• Plans, implements, and oversees changes of initiative to achieve goals while minimizing disruptions.
• Collaborates with stakeholders, assesses impacts, and develops strategies for successful implementation.
• Leverages change management methodology, tools and training to provide effective execution and support to business leaders.
• Builds change management capability through ongoing coaching and enablement of business leaders and initiative owners.

Specific deliverables for the high complexity initiatives that have a cross functional impact include:

• Case for Change: Compile a compelling change narrative that inspires people to strive together to create that future.
• Leadership Alignment: Engage and align with leaders to ensure that they understand the business value of the change, the impact on line managers and employees, and actively play the role of change leaders to drive adoption in their business areas.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Develop an engagement strategy for relevant stakeholders and impacted audiences, and execute a plan to drive awareness through to understanding and adoption.
• Change Impact assessments + mitigation: Identify the changes that are brought about by the initiative, determine the resulting impacts and address the impacts and associated risks in a structured manner.
• Change Network: Connect a network of Change Agents to drive and manage the change impacts identified.
• Training: Co-ordinate the delivery of training in order to equip users with sufficient skills and knowledge to be successful once the changes have gone live, and to ensure the sustainability of the implementation.
• Change Readiness: Define the KPIs that determine the willingness and ability of people to transition to the new state, measure, monitor and take actions to ensure readiness.
• Measuring Results: Define the desired business enablement and key performance indicators to be measured and managed after go-live.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in the field of Change Management, Communications, and / or project management
• Transformation or IT implementation experience is a bonus
• Project experience required
• Post Graduate of Science or equivalent in a Communications, Marketing, Business Management/Administration, Consulting or a related field
• Strong experience of delivering organisational change management activities across multiple business units
• Ability to manage Stakeholder Owners to ensure full leadership support
• Strong communication development and delivery skills (PPT, video, writing, live presentation)
• Consultative skills on change management efforts
• Sees the bigger picture, able to look ahead to anticipate and address issues
• Strong problem solving, facilitation and relationship skills
• Internal consulting skills underpinned by strong analytical capabilities
• Ability to navigate in the matrix, getting objectives achieved through others

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Responsibilities

• Monthly food safety and management reviews meetings
• Weekly self inspections
• Maintenance of NCR's and CPAR's
• Management of internal audits
• Coordinate all food safety and quality external audits
• Ensure information board is up to date
• Manage garden service provider
• Designated pest control representative for Pioneer Foods Groceries Wadeville (PFGW)
• Reporting, managing and closing out any pest control defects

Qualifications

• National Diploma in Biotechnology or Food Technology
• Experience in process of Food and Beverages (FMCG)
• Computer Literacy
• Food Safety, Quality, HACCP, VACCP and TACCP
• GMP and Cleaning and Sanitation
• Microbiology
• Chemistry
• Supervisory skills

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Responsibilities

This role is a fixed term contract,  responsible for coordinating and delivering the Business Analytics agenda. The scope for the role is across allocated categories within Food and Bev categories in SA & SSA. It will impact cross functionally into Sales, Marketing, NRM, DX primary and on a secondary view Finance & Strategy.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for delivering impactful market performance governance and ad-hoc issue driven analysis to support of delivering the Annual Operating Plan and development of Strategic Plan
• Support Market Insight for all categories, brands, competitors, channels and ensure translation of opportunities into action plans in allocated categories
• Capturing and communicating market performance analysis on retail and household panel data in order to support capturing incremental volume and profit for each channel in all PEP other related categories PEP is operating in or interested in investment
• Support senior management decision making process through market data, in-depth analysis of category, company performances (including share, distribution oppt. in existing business) insights
• Coordinate and manage agencies groups and relationships.
• The scope for the role is across allocated categories within Food and Bev categories in SA & SSA. It will impact x-functionally into Sales, Marketing, NRM, DX primary and on a secondary view Finance & Strategy.

Analytics:

• Lead and enable others to provide the transparency on marketplace performance and a clear understanding of the drivers, drawing out clear implications and highlighting threats and opportunities via integration and interpretation of multiple data sets (Retail Audit, Panel, and Brand Tracking Data).
• Support commercial teams by building market insight capability/access that helps shape and impact portfolio, brand strategies, plans and activities
• Ensure all market knowledge is distilled into clear, actionable summaries and implications and is communicated widely, frequently and persuasively
• Build strong partnerships with best in class Analytics Agencies, and leverage as extensions of Insights to further capacity and impact, as well as to continuously stretch the Analytic Insights agenda.

Market Insight:

• Build knowledge on innovation in Macro Snacks, Beverages and/or Foods: Tracking comparative market performances of top MS companies’ launches by incorporating multiple data sources (retail panel, household panel and media) and transfer learning to the senior management (of R&D, brand & trade marketing and commercial teams) via periodic reporting.
• Provide insight on macro indicators: Publishing commercial scorecard that sheds light on channel-based category growth trends and relative performance of PEP regarding overall macro snacks.
• Continuous retail panel reporting in core and macro categories to track company market performance and to identify share gain & growth opportunities through micro level analysis of competitive market set (price, distribution, stock, depletion).

Qualifications

• A 3-year Tertiary Qualification with a strong emphasis on commercial subjects (with review of key subject marks like statistics, economic and finance)
• 3-5 years functional experience (Analytics, Category management)
• Passionate, self-motivated, willing to learn and develop.
• Strong Analytical thinking
• Ability to combine data, judgment, and experience to make effective decisions in complex situations and when there is a lot of uncertainty or ambiguity.
• Ability to work cross functionally with other knowledge stakeholders to provide integrated insight
• Strong commercial acumen
• Ability to distil data into actionable recommendation and ensure tracking.
• Must be methodical and accurate in delivery of reporting.
• Strong time management skill is essential for effective stakeholder management.

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What we’re looking for:

• Understand the PepsiCo PLM and SW ways of working in Foods Pkg spec system (SAP) and become proficient in the specification management system and IT Applications associated.
• Take incoming Packaging Foods spec information from Pkg. Engineers and digitize the information into Spec system (SAP).
• Collaborate with Regional ING/Non-ING SW teams to handle routing of specification in spec system from intitiation to final packaging approval.
• Audit incoming spec information for any omissions of required fields, errors, or needs in linking specifications to associated Finished Good Eaches and Finished Good Case Specifications.
• Convert attachments to report to TIFF file format when files are requested to print on spec. report (mostly PDF to TIFF).
• Upload required reports from SAP to local systems as needed (ISL, PDMS).
• Work with Spec Mgmt. Team Lead OR Spec Mgmt. Foods Packaging Spec Coordinator to resolve issues that may arise with regard to risks/challenges (timing, acquiring information from Pkg. Engineers requesting specifications, or system problems) in meeting specification timelines.

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• Experience within the Packaging R&D environment (min 1-2 years) and familiar with Packaging Engineering terms and test methods. Food Technology / Food Science / Consumer Science, IPSA diploma will be preferable.
• Well versed in MS Office 365
• Effective communication skills, both verbal (Conf Calls) and written (reports, e-mail) in English
• Learning agility, self-motivation and desire for continuous self-improvement.
• Team player and works well with cross-functional, cross-regional and cross-cultural teams.

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Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

The R&D Product Development Technologist will organize and execute R&D projects related to SA  and nuts projects . These include innovation, renovation, Technical brand stewardship and quality assurance programs. Primary purpose of this role :

• Support the Snr NPD manager to drive and deliver the Dried fruit and nuts agenda for South Africa in totality.
• Support key projects as allocated by the Snr NPD mngr to deliver the inno NR targets.
• Work in cloely with key R&D functions such as FSQA, SQA, SCE, and other functional teams (Packaging) within R&D to deliver key R&D deliverables.
• Leverage strong technical background to lead on formula design, lab/factory trials, nutritional assessments, shelf-life studies, sensory evaluations and other technical assessments and validations.

• Support Packaging team on shelflife validations required for packaging changes (sustainability, EPR and other)
• The planning and execution of projects and project documentation, system ownership and overall delivery to project , system and function cadences related to key systems.

Primary:

• Support and where needed lead the dried fruit and nuts agenda for R&D.
• Deliver against the NPD agenda ensuring the delivery of the inno NR and Vol targets
• Delivery of prototypes and conceptual samples based on project needs.
• Own, lead and drive relevant R&D related factory trials both at PepsiCo facilities, 3PM and JV sites. Ensure full ownership to co-ordinate trials with core functions such as SC, Mnfr, Packaging, RTE’s, Commercialisation and other related teams.
• Own and disseminate trial protocols, costs related to trials and trial reports.
• Own, update and create (when needed) ZBR (zero base recipes), load requests on digital platforms (SONAR, DELTA)
• Own and ensure ownership of key samples for post event usage from trials for relevant business needs.
• Own the NPD stage gate process related to relevant projects, including leading the TSG process to those key projects.
• Support relevant Project consumer research samples and relevant engagement with the SCE team based on consumer research requirements.
• Engage actively with R&D teams (eg: FSQA, SQA, Packaging, Seasoning, Regulatory) related to key dried fruit and nuts projects. When required drive Material qualification.
• Support the development of the H2 – H5 innovation pipeline. Where needed scope and produce relevant protoypes.

Secondary:

• Support the productivity team to deliver key cost saving projects on the dried fruit and nuts platform.
• Where needed engage with the R&D team (Snacks) to drive OHS enhanced scores
• Ability to use MS office suites, presentation prep and presentation skills to multiple level senior R&D leaders.

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

Minimum Education:  Food Science  degree / B. Tech degree (Food Technology/ Engineering)/ Chemical engineering, Applied Chemistry

• + 3-5 years’ experience in R&D environment in FMCG
• Fluent in English, read, write and speak. Ability to (speaking and writing).
• R&D experience. Experience in dried fruit and/or nuts / Snack R&D experience an
• Demonstrated knowledge on GMP, HACCP, FSSC 22000 (advantage)
• Analytical, structured way of working, strong communication skills

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Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

Customer

• Ensure business metrics are achieved through negotiation and delivery of regional elements of joint business plan
• Drive service levels with incremental improvements by working closely with the customer and supply chain teams to include collaborative forecasts
• Tailored promotional strategy delivered in line with customer expectations and Pepsico framework
• Deliver Account ‘Must Win Battles’ through Account Plans
• Execute P.I .effectively
• Execute pricing strategy in accounts and execute pack/price architecture changes in line with Finance & NRM
• Effectively trade at Store level
• Grow share, range and distribution in line with specific account targets
• Develop regional customer relationships
• Manage trade-offs within customers for the greater benefit of Pepsico
• Improve Advantage Group Survey results in account base
• Create a deep understanding of what is needed to execute account plans at regional and store level. Work closely with ASM OT and RSOM to ensure this happens.
• Promotional calendars updated weekly across customer base with focus on optimized grids when negotiating
• Accruals for cash and retro spend to be loaded timeously as well as coding of customer claims
• Ranging to be updated and checked weekly with customers to ensure top must stock lines are ranged where applicable, in conjunction with Category management
• Forecasting to be concluded with Demand Planning bi-weekly and promo updates, amended in forecast
• NPD listings to be negotiated timeously with Regional Buyers
• Managing of regional cash and retro budgets – monthly reviews of spend to be presented and budgets updated to track YTD spend vs Budget
• Negotiating and loading of regional/national deals to be completed on relevant PepsiCo system, timeously
• Pricing claims to be resolved as per audit and control timelines

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Business or Marketing
• Minimum 6 years relevant experience in FMCG
• Strong financial acumen and basic understanding of accounting to manage a PnL
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven Commercial Acumen
• Strategic ability
• Strong analytical skills
• Functional Excellence

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Responsibilities

• Diagnosed faults and repaired machinery & equipment Executed pneumatic
• Hydraulic and mechanical repairs Dismantled
• Fitted & assembled machinery and parts
• Manufactured parts on lathe & baking machines
• Performed planned maintenance on machinery & equipment
• Installed and commissioned machinery and equipment

Qualifications

• Matric/Grade 12
• Four to five years relevant experience within the manufacturing environment
• Fitter and Turner Technical Trade (N3)

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Responsibilities

What are we looking for?

• Verified inter-coy debits & account allocations; parked journals; accounted pre-paid & accruals; and allocated misc. bank items and/ or
• Checked time sheets; verified variances; submitted payroll items; maintained personnel administration incl. provident fund items and/ or
• Arranged travel, accommodation, ext. venues & catering; processed claims; prepared presentations; and typed correspondence.
• Compile monthly reports.
• Perform daily drivers’ recons.
• Follow up and process outstanding invoices.
• Taking orders and taking queries

Qualifications

What will qualify you for this role?

• Matric
• Three years relevant experience