Across our range of brands, flavours and colours we manufacture high quality, high value carbonated soft drinks, energy drinks, mixers and still beverages for the South African market.
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Job Purpose
- The purpose of this role is to enable achievement of Production targets, within area of responsibility, through effectively managing production activities and ensuring adherence to an operational and financial framework of practices, processes, standards and controls.
Qualifications and Experience
- 3 – 4 year technical qualified (e.g. BScience: Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical or Chemical) / B.
- Engineering / Operations Management) (Essential)
- FMCG experience 3-4 years leading production teams (bottling preferred)
- Leadership Capability
- MS Excel; MS Word; SAP; E Mail; MS PowerPoint
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
- Actively engage at regional level in the End-to-End Sales and Operational Planning Process
- Contribute to the Material Planning process as well as the execution of the Material Plan for region
- of responsibility
- Ensure that the Daily Production / Manufacturing Schedule is aligned to ensure delivery in line with
- customer requirements
- Work in conjunction with the Regional Operations Manager to guarantee order fulfilment in line with
- customer requirements, cost, quality and time parameters
- Produce / Manufacture Product
- Monitor the Daily Production / Manufacturing Schedule to ensure timeous product delivery to
- customers
- Manage the entire end to end Production/Manufacturing process for relevant region
- Supervise the production of syrup and related products in line with established standards, policies;
- procedures and safety guidelines
- Infrastructure Maintenance
- Ensure that all Infrastructure are maintained to ensure optimal capacity usage and availability
- SHERQ framework, initiatives and communications
- Monitor the execution and maintenance of a SHERQ Framework of practices, processes, policies and
- procedures, standards and controls for application across all geographies
- Assist with monitoring SHERQ Compliance in region of responsibility
- Adherence to the Quality, Food Safety, Health, Safety and Environmental Standards
- Adherence to Standards: Ensure strict adherence to Quality, Food, Health, Safety and
- Environmental policies and standards.
- Enforcement: Enforce all food safety and health regulations, policies, and requirements at all times
- to guarantee a secure work environment.
- Personal Hygiene: Maintain exceptional personal hygiene as per the organization’s code of conduct.
- Contamination Control: Raise awareness about potential physical product contamination and
- implement control measures to prevent it.
- Health and Safety Measures: Take reasonable precautions to prevent health and safety hazards.
- Follow the prescribed incident reporting procedure in case of accidents.
- Knowledge and Compliance: Stay updated with relevant business information, policies, processes,
- and procedures. Enforce compliance with legislative and statutory requirements, as well as GMP’s
- (Good Manufacturing Practices).
- Training: Attend and enforce the implementation of learnings from training sessions related to
- Quality, Food Safety, and Health and Safety.
- Housekeeping: Maintain high levels of cleanliness and orderliness within the work environment.
- General Business, Financial and People Management
- Actively participate in operational planning and budgeting processes
- Drive continuous improvement through streamlining and optimising relevant operational practices,
- processes and systems
- Ensure adherence to operational and financial frameworks of practices, processes, standards and
- controls
- Ensure Adherence to all applicable Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Standards
- Manage cost drivers and take the necessary action to mitigate financial risk and address variances
- and discrepancies
- Ensure that the right people capacity is in place and manage employee performance through effective
- and goal directed people leadership
Key Qualities
Communication
- Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks Problem Solving
- Proactive identification of functional problems related to a specific process or policy, determine causeand impact, and choose the best alternative to solve the problem based on guidelines provided and an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning the problem.
Relationships Maintained
- Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation
Behavioural Competencies
Conflict Management
- Ability to openly addresses conflicts as they arise to ensure maintenance of strong relationships
- Considers relevant information when resolving conflict.
- Demonstrates an understanding of all parties view-points.
- Takes a calm and objective approach when resolving conflict.
- Proposes suggestions which promote resolution to conflicts.
- Planning and Organising
- Manages time effectively, ensuring effective completion of tasks under stressful deadlines.
- Able to prioritise activities and resources, ensuring that results are achieved effectively.
- Able to evaluate progress and make appropriate adjustments to initial plans, ensuring a successfuloutcome.
Leadership
- Able to communicate and gain team commitment to a vision of what is to be achieved.
- Delegates fully and creates opportunities which help others to develop their potential.
- Identifies inequalities of opportunity within the workplace and takes steps to address them.
- Inspires and empowers others to overcome difficulties and achieve goals.
- Nurtures strong team identity and pride.
Verbal Communication
- Able to communicate verbally in a logical manner.
- Takes the intended audience into account when communicating verbal information.
- Makes use of appropriate business language in verbal communication.
- Includes all relevant information in verbal arguments.
- Demonstrates proficiency of language in verbal communication.
- Interprets complex information to expresses own viewpoint in verbal communication.
- Concludes verbal arguments by making reference to relevant facts
Continuous Improvement
- Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved
- Seeks out sources of information, including trade associations, “best practice” companies, customers,
- peers, subordinates, etc.
- Finds ways to fast-adapt improvement ideas to work processes
- Proactively seeks out resources, alliances, etc., needed to quickly introduce improvements
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Job Purpose
To implement a market driven differentiated service that builds sustainable competitiveness within clearly identified channels, thereby delivering sustainable growth in brand equity, sales volume, market share, competitive advantage and corporate reputation.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
Customer Development
- Manage and build customer relationships with Outlet owners
- Drive weekly customer calls per outlet to build effective partnerships and resolve customer issues
- Ensure all current, correct customer master data captured onto Rapid Trade and is maintained
- Achieve customer sales volume targets
- Ensure each outlet buys directly from the Company consistently on a weekly basis
Execution Guidelines
- Ensure the delivery of product availability, merchandising, promotions, pricing and space in each and every outlet
- Monitor volumes by outlet to ensure 100% availability of key brands and packs through forward planning
- Manage stock rotation to ensure 100% availability
- Drive the effective execution of selective merchandising implementation in the consumption and purchase zones
- Negotiate and execute interior and exterior price communication; capture price priorities; ensure price point compliance and execute on the overall price and promotion campaigns throughout the year
Asset Management
- Manage the Company refrigeration assets by driving governance and compliance
- Manage all the Company assets in the outlets including permanent merchandising and signage
- Ensure the Company products are stocked in fridges as per guidelines
- Conduct asset verification surveys (Fridges, etc.)
- Assist customers with managing stock replenishment to minimise stock outs
- Manage stock rotation and quality
Critical Success Factors
Communication
- Routine communication with customers or clients
Problem Solving
- Proactive identification of functional problems related to a specific process or policy, determine cause and impact, and choose the best alternative to solve the problem based on guidelines provided and an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning the problem.
Relationships Maintained
- Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation
Behavioural Competencies
Customer Relations
- Asks questions to identify customer needs or expectations
- Follows through and meets personal commitments to others on time
- Takes responsibilities seriously and consistently meets the clients’ expectations for quality, service, and professionalism.
- Continuously monitors delivery to make sure the customer is receiving good service
- Shows a strong commitment to exceeding customer expectations
- Able to own responsibility for mistakes, apologise and make suitable changes to services
Negotiation
- Able to recognise a situation in which negations are required
- Able to listen to the oppositions argument attentively with the aim of reaching an effective outcome
- Able to tactfully present facts on a “need to know basis” so as to ensure a successful outcome.
- Able to refer to facts presented by the opposition to strengthen argument.
- Possesses the interpersonal skills necessary to negotiate an effective outcome
Planning and Organising
- Manages time effectively, ensuring effective completion of tasks under stressful deadlines.
- Able to prioritise activities and resources, ensuring that results are achieved effectively.
- Able to evaluate progress and make appropriate adjustments to initial plans, ensuring a successful outcome.
Knowledge of Business
- Follows systematic, multi-source learning regiment designed to educate oneself quickly: keeps oneself current
- Describes the important impacts that one has on the success of one’s functional area and on company results; demonstrates a knowledge of the customers business
- Uses business understanding to make sound decisions and influence the decisions of others
Continuous Improvement
- Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved
- Seeks out sources of information, including trade associations, “best practice” companies, customers, peers, subordinates, etc.
- Finds ways to fast-adapt improvement ideas to work processes
- Proactively seeks out resources, alliances, etc., needed to quickly introduce improvements
Qualifications and Experience
Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4
- Up to 2 years experience (Operational Execution) Experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
- Basic knowledge of PC, or potential to acquire it
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Job Purpose
The primary purpose of this role is to assist the Internal Audit Manager/Head of Internal Audit in the management of the Internal Audit Department. This will include (but is not limited to) the planning, preparing and conducting of all Internal Audit engagements to verify the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls and the monitoring of compliance to an operational framework of policies, procedures and controls and to ensure all Internal Audit engagments (not limited to planned engagements) are completed within the required time and meeting of deadlines. This role will include the management of junior Internal Auditor/s or Internal Audit Trainees to ensure that he/she/they grow/develop and perform up to the required standards and in line with the IIA’s standards. Travelling to different sites will be required from time to time
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7 (Essential) (BCom Honors Degree would be advantageous)
- At least 5 years relevant experience (Operational Execution)
- Internal auditing as a subject in qualification
- Knowledge of IFRS
- Knowledge of IPPF (Internal Audit Standards)
- Exposure and experience in a manufacturing and stock management environment (experience in an FMCG environment would be advantageous)
- Member of IIA
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
- Provide support to the Internal Audit Manager/Head of Internal Audit:
- Completion of risk assessments
- Updating and management of the Company Risk Register
- Drafting of scope letters
- Generating of and obtaining all relevant reports and information required for proper planning of audit engagements
- Analysing of relevant reports/information to ensure audits to be conducted will be thorough, risk based and value adding to the organisation
- Drafting of internal audit programmes that will be efficient, adequate and logical
- Selecting samples and testing thereof
- Management of the Junior Internal Auditor/Internal Audit Trainee to ensure all engagements are executed and completed timely and up to the required standard.
- Drafting of factual reports containing sufficient details that are value adding and addressing the root causes of findings
- Discussion with Management, feedback reports and findings
- Tracking of audit engagements as well as follow up and monitoring of progress by management in addressing control weaknesses identified
- Assist in preparing the Internal Audit Committee Pack
- Assist in any report writing that may be required (not limited to internal audit reports)
- Where needed, assist with ad-hoc investigations/engagements and stock takes
- Administrative duties that may be required
Key Qualities
Communication
- Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks.
- Assertiveness but always remaining professional in accordance with IIA Standards.
Problem Solving
- Problems are resolved by reference to established procedures. All problems outside of established procedures are referred upwards timely.
- Logical and out of the box thinker.
- Relationships Maintained
- Maintains a professional work relationship with all stakeholders that upholds the Internal Audit Departments’ image as a trusted, value adding business partner whilst remaining independent and objective.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Possess high level of emotional intelligence.
Time and Project Management
- Ability to manage own workload/projects effectively and efficiently to ensure that deadlines are met.
- Agile.
- Must be able to work efficiently and effectively in a fast paced/high pressure environment.
- Resilient and adaptable to change.
Behavioural Competencies
Collaboration
- Helps others with their work and willingness to assist.
- Meets commitments to team members or others in the organisation.
- Actively contributes to team discussions and the accomplishment of team work plans.
- Shares expertise and resources to help others address their needs.
- Seeks to include all those who can contribute to the most successful outcome and those who have a stake in the results.
- Actively keeps all stakeholders informed.
- Attempts to reinvigorate team processes when progress is lagging: stays engaged even when not in full agreement with the team’s direction.
Accountability
- Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals: takes necessary actions to keep progress against objectives on track.
- Prepares a roadmap for success.
- Ensures that all who need to know, are clear about the plan
- Takes full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, including mistakes.
- Always acts in the company’s best interest, regardless of whether it is difficult or unpopular.
- Ensures others are on track for achieving their goals.
- Assist in continueously building and improving the Internal Audit Department and promoting the Department as a value-add, trusted business partner.
- Takes accountability for own personal continueous development and growth.
Decision Making
- Organises information to make it easier to analyse or see trends.
- Anticipates consequences and formulates alternatives.
- Establishes clear decision criteria for making informed choices.
- Seeks relevant information to better understand situations and problems.
- Conducts appropriate analysis; neither makes snap decisions or over-analyses.
- Sees relationships between various facts, figures or other information.
- Legal and Ethical Conduct
- Keeps current with all the laws, company policies and IIA standards that govern one’s work activities, or seeks counsel before acting
- Conforms with all laws and company policies that govern one’s work activities
- Keeps abreast of changes in standards applicable to one’s profession
- Acts in accordance with conventional ethical and professional standards
- Takes action to enforce legal, policy, ethical and professional requirements; exposes violations
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Job Purpose
- The primary purpose of this role is to create and maintain a robust Safety, Health, Environment, and Risk (SHER) framework for The Beverage Company.
- The role involves leading company-wide SHER and operational risk initiatives, ensuring that employees, visitors, and contractors are aware of and aligned with SHER policies and procedures, and monitoring overall SHER compliance.
- The role includes taking ownership of corrective actions and risk mitigations, as well as identifying and spearheading projects to enhance Safety, Health, Environment, and Operational Risk control.
- The role is crucial in establishing a culture of safety, health, environmental responsibility, and risk management within The Beverage Company. It involves strategic planning, communication, compliance monitoring, and driving improvements to ensure the well-being of employees and the company's overall sustainability.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7 (Essential)
- SAMTRAC/NEBOSH Certified
- ISO 14001/45001 Lead Auditor
- Up to 8 years’ experience (Consulting/Advisory) Health and Safety; Environmental; Risk Assessments; FMCG; Legal Compliance
- MS Excel; MS Word; SAP; E Mail; MS PowerPoint
Skills
- SHER and Operational framework, initiatives and communications
- Monitor Risk and Compliance
- Operational Controls and Compliance
- Communication
- Analytical Thinking
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
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Job Purpose
- This role is accountable for executing on regional sales activities. The Sales Manager will be accountable for driving sales growth and achieving sales targets, timely sales order creation and effective sales order management within relevant area/region of responsibility. Leading and growing a team.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
Qualifications and Experience
- Relevant Degree or National Diploma / NQF 6 (Essential)
- Up to 6 years experience (Supervisory) Sales and Trade Execution
- Developing and leading teams
- Negotiation and trading ability
- Formal and Informal trade experience
- Retail and wholesale experience
- Collaborate internally and externally to achieve favourable OTIF outcomes
- Robust IT Skills
Key Qualities
Communication
- Problem Solving
- Relationships Maintained
Behavioural Competencies
- Accountability
- Collaboration
- Continuous Improvement
- Decision Making
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Job Purpose
- To ensure the supervision of the quality control lab and staff, raising non-conformance reports, and enforcing food safety compliance on shop floor, food defence, housekeeping and food fraud. The role also enforces good hygiene practices and effective chemical management.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
Supervision
- Supervision of the QC lab and staff
- Supervision and Verification of online product and packaging tests ensuring conformance to internal specifications, customer and regulatory requirements
Equipment Calibrations
- Monitors to ensure that equipment are internally verified
- Monitors to ensure equipment are externally calibrated before expiry and conducts verification of the calibration’s reports
NCR’s
- Recording of Internal NCR’s
- Investigation of root cause for consumer complaints
Food Safety/Health & Safety
- Internal Auditing – conducts routine GMP audits
- Enforces Food Safety compliance on shop floor, food defense, housekeeping, food fraud
- Enforces Health and Safety compliance (assessments, toolbox talks)
PRP’s
- Enforces Good Hygiene Practices
- Enforces Plant Sanitation Practices and good housekeeping
- Enforces Good Manufacturing Practices ensuring conformance with manufacturing requirements
- Traceability and Recall – executing mock recalls
- Water Quality Management
- Enforces Retention Sampling, Managing the retention sample bay
- Enforces Change Management Control
- Handling of Trade Returns – sampling, root cause investigations, updating tracker and completing root cause investigation report
Raw Materials QC
- Ensures raw materials received are sampled, analysed and recorded
- Raises Supplier NCR’s, follows up for corrective action and close out
- Validation of COA’s
- Allergen Management Officer
- Verification of Preform and Sugar weights
Chemical Management
- Supervises the issuing of chemicals
- Ensures that chemicals are approved and certified for relevant use
Documentation
- Updating of specifications charts
- Updating final product specifications
- Updating packaging specifications
- General
- Over sees trials for new packaging and completes trial reports
- Weight Verification checks for sugar and preforms
- Ensures the proper Disposal of stock from isolation bay and of retention samples
- Quality Lab Inventory Control, purchasing of consumables
- Staff leave, time and attendance, time sheets
- Monthly One on one staff reviews
- Toolbox talks
- Assist with Quality Assessments
Qualifications and Experience
- Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4 (Essential)
- Upto 4 years experience (Operational Execution) Supervisory; FMCG
- MS Excel; MS Word; E Mail
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Job Purpose
- Based in a defined geography the primary purpose is to directly develop spaza’s, mini-supermarkets and tuckshops on behalf of BevCo – must have intimate knowledge of the geography the informal retail dynamics and outlets matched to BevCo’s strategic growth objectives for the area.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
Customer Management Objectives
- To be actively engage and open relationships with outlets on behalf of BevCo (against set call rate and conversion targets) = actively ‘seed’ BevCo’s portfolio into a defined area and large channel of informal retailers
- To build and retain an active base of informal retail clients and to constantly service that base weekly/monthly
- To facilitate informal retailers to direct BevCo purchases from the local wholesalers, bulk breakers, and/or distributor
- To ensure company assets (refrigeration; signage) are managed per BevCo governance requirements Sales and Trade Marketing Objectives
- To actively support the sales and distribution targets into informal retail (pull) from local wholesalers, bulk breakers, distributors for the area
- To assist in execution of the marketing plan for the area as required (incl activations, promotions, fridges, POSM)
- To ensure BevCo merchandising and pricing compliance standards are sustained (in conjunction with GT rep as relevant)
Qualifications and Experience
- Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4
- Up to 2 years’ experience (Operational Execution) FMCG, experience in sales
- Basic knowledge of PC,
Key Qualities
Critical Success Factors
Communication
- Routine communication with customers or clients
Problem Solving
- Proactive identification of problems that are concrete and procedural, troubleshoot and apply solutions in line with guidelines provided or escalate more complex problems to superiors, providing information required to solve problems.
Relationships Maintained
- Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation
Behavioural Competencies
- Negotiation
- Planning and Organising
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Job Purpose:
- To oversee the validation and processing of returned goods, maintain accurate records, coordinate with various departments, and contribute to continuous process improvement within the DC.
Key Accountabilities
Proof of Delivery (POD) - Truck Return to Debrief
- Validate and reconcile successful deliveries in SAP, ensuring accuracy in load reconciliation and closure.
- Physically inspect and verify Clean POD (Received in Full) against invoices and customer claims.
- Verify claims between the log and Return Area physically.
- Conduct Load Recon (by reason)/Closure in SAP, ensuring accurate documentation of claims and returns.
Processing Returned Stock
- Receipt returned stock into We Think system promptly and accurately.
- Conduct physical inspection of returned items, differentiating between saleable and unsaleable goods.
- Move saleable returns to designated bins efficiently.
- Check case and pallet returns to validate stock to be booked back into Finished Goods, Damages or Quarantine
Truck Return Validation
- Offload stock to returns cage, conducting thorough verification against documentation.
- Physically check all stock returns for quality and completeness.
- Complete Returns Log (Register) accurately, detailing all validated returns.
Upliftment
- Process Uplift Requests received via email promptly and accurately, coordinating with relevant departments.
- Verify uplifted items upon truck arrival at the DC.
- Physically inspect returned items, ensuring compliance with uplift requests. Move sellable returns to designated bins in We Think system.
Administration
- Scanning, filing and archiving of relevant documents.
- Providing general administrative support where required.
- Adherence to the Quality, Food Safety, Health, Safety and Environmental Standards
- Adherence to Standards: Ensure strict adherence to Quality, Food, Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
- Enforcement: Enforce all food safety and health regulations, policies, and requirements at all times to guarantee a secure work environment.
- Personal Hygiene: Maintain exceptional personal hygiene as per the organization’s code of conduct.
- Contamination Control: Raise awareness about potential physical product contamination and implement control measures to prevent it.
- Health and Safety Measures: Take reasonable precautions to prevent health and safety hazards.
- Follow the prescribed incident reporting procedure in case of accidents.
- Knowledge and Compliance: Stay updated with relevant business information, policies, processes, and procedures. Enforce compliance with legislative and statutory requirements, as well as GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices).
- Training: Attend and enforce the implementation of learnings from training sessions related to Quality, Food Safety, and Health and Safety.
- Housekeeping: Maintain high levels of cleanliness and orderliness within the work environment.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4 (Essential)
- Up to 3 years of experience in Operational Execution in FMCG industry
Key Qualities:
Communication:
- Communicate verbally in a clear and logical manner.
- Tailor communication to the intended audience.
- Use appropriate business language and include all relevant information in verbal communication.
Problem Solving:
- Proactively identify and solve concrete and procedural problems.
- Apply known solutions in line with guidelines or escalate more difficult problems to superiors.
Continuous Improvement:
- Seek out sources of information and adapt improvement ideas to work processes.
- Proactively find resources needed to introduce improvements quickly.
Collaboration:
- Assist others with their work and actively contribute to team discussions and work plans.
- Share expertise and resources to help others address their needs.
Accountability:
- Accomplish assigned tasks and goals, taking necessary actions to keep progress on track.
- Prepare a roadmap for success and ensure others are clear about the plan.
- Take full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, always acting in the company’s best interest.
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