Job Purpose
- The National Distribution Manager is responsible for developing and leading the Company's national distribution strategy to ensure the safe, efficient and cost-effective movement of raw materials and finished goods across the supply chain. The role is accountable for the end-to-end management of inbound, outbound, inter-distribution centre and cross-border transport operations, ensuring products are delivered on time, in full and in compliance with all legislative and customer requirements.
- The incumbent is responsible for optimising transport performance through effective carrier management, strategic distribution sourcing, Transport Management System (TMS) governance, company fleet utilisation and continuous cost improvement initiatives. Working closely with Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Distribution, Finance and Commercial teams, the National Distribution Manager ensures transport capacity, service delivery and distribution costs are effectively managed to support business growth, customer service excellence and operational efficiency.
- The role also drives continuous improvement across distribution operations by leveraging technology, data analytics and industry best practices to enhance transport visibility, strengthen governance, improve operational performance and deliver sustainable value across the national supply chain.
Key Responsibilities
National Distribution Planning & Execution
- Develop and execute the national distribution strategy to support efficient inbound, outbound, inter-distribution centre and export distribution operations.
- Manage the planning and execution of distribution movements to ensure product availability and customer service excellence.
- Optimise transport capacity, route planning and vehicle utilisation across the national network.
- Coordinate distribution requirements with Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing and Distribution teams.
- Ensure transport resources are aligned to changing operational priorities and seasonal demand.
- Monitor distribution execution and implement corrective actions to minimise service disruptions.
- Drive continuous improvements in distribution efficiency, service performance and operational productivity.
Distribution Operations & Carrier Management
- Manage the performance of contracted transport providers to ensure compliance with agreed service levels and contractual obligations.
- Develop strategic partnerships with distribution carriers that support operational reliability and cost competitiveness.
- Monitor carrier performance through agreed KPIs and implement improvement plans where required.
- Manage transport capacity to support business requirements during peak trading periods.
- Oversee approved spot distribution procurement in accordance with governance and procurement requirements.
- Manage distribution claims, transport incidents and service failures to minimise operational impact.
- Promote consistent service delivery and operational excellence across the national carrier network.
Distribution Commercial & Contract Management
- Lead distribution sourcing, tender and contract management activities in partnership with Procurement and Finance.
- Negotiate commercial agreements that optimise transport cost while maintaining required service standards.
- Review transport contracts to ensure commercial competitiveness and operational effectiveness.
- Manage transport rate structures, fuel levy mechanisms and commercial performance measures.
- Ensure service level agreements remain aligned to business requirements and customer expectations.
- Evaluate supplier performance and implement initiatives to improve commercial outcomes.
- Support strategic sourcing initiatives that strengthen long-term transport capability.
Company Fleet & Asset Utilisation
- Optimise the deployment and utilisation of company-owned fleet assets across the national distribution network.
- Maximise fleet productivity while reducing reliance on external transport providers where commercially viable.
- Monitor fleet utilisation, capacity and operational performance.
- Coordinate company fleet deployment with distribution planning requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve asset utilisation and operational efficiency.
- Support fleet replacement planning and capital investment decisions.
- Ensure company fleet operations contribute to overall transport cost optimisation.
Export & Cross-Border Distribution Management
- Manage cross-border distribution operations in accordance with applicable customs and legislative requirements.
- Ensure export documentation is complete, accurate and compliant with regulatory requirements.
- Manage relationships with customs brokers, distribution agents and cross-border transport providers.
- Monitor export service performance and implement improvements where required.
- Ensure transport providers maintain all required operating licences and permits.
- Support efficient product movement across regional export markets.
- Minimise border delays through effective planning and stakeholder coordination.
Transport Management System (TMS) Governance
- Manage the Transport Management System to support efficient distribution planning, execution and reporting.
- Ensure all transport movements are planned, allocated and monitored through the TMS.
- Maintain transport master data to support reporting accuracy and operational integrity.
- Manage relationships with TMS service providers and monitor delivery against agreed service levels.
- Support ongoing system enhancements that improve transport planning and operational visibility.
- Drive user adoption and standardisation of TMS processes across the business.
- Ensure integration between transport systems and ERP platforms supports effective business operations.
Distribution Financial & Cost Management
- Develop and manage the national distribution operating budget in line with business objectives.
- Monitor transport expenditure and investigate significant cost variances.
- Analyse distribution costs and identify opportunities for operational and commercial optimisation.
- Manage distribution invoice validation to ensure compliance with approved rates and contractual agreements.
- Deliver sustainable transport cost savings while maintaining required service levels.
- Support accurate month-end reporting, forecasting and distribution cost accruals.
- Provide meaningful transport cost analysis to support strategic decision-making.
Compliance, Risk & Governance
- Ensure transport operations comply with all applicable legislative, regulatory and company requirements.
- Maintain effective transport governance processes that minimise operational and commercial risk.
- Monitor compliance with transport safety standards, documentation and load securing requirements.
- Manage transport-related claims, investigations and corrective actions.
- Support internal and external audit requirements through effective transport governance.
- Ensure transport documentation is maintained in accordance with company policies and legal requirements.
- Promote a culture of safety, compliance and operational excellence across distribution operations.
Performance Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Develop transport performance reporting that provides meaningful operational and financial insights.
- Monitor national transport KPIs and identify opportunities to improve service and cost performance.
- Analyse transport trends and provide recommendations that improve operational effectiveness.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across distribution planning, carrier management and transport operations.
- Benchmark transport performance against industry best practice and business objectives.
- Support strategic supply chain initiatives through transport analytics and operational insights.
- Promote innovation and best practice across national distribution operations.
People Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Lead, coach and develop the Distribution team to achieve high levels of performance and engagement.
- Build collaborative relationships with Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Distribution, Finance and Commercial teams.
- Provide technical leadership on distribution, transport and logistics best practices.
- Establish clear objectives, accountabilities and performance expectations for the team.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Develop capability and succession within the Distribution function.
- Build effective partnerships with external carriers, service providers and strategic stakeholders.
Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transport Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline.
- Advanced knowledge of transport operations, distribution management and logistics principles.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and transport reporting tools.
- Working knowledge of Transport Management Systems (TMS) and ERP platforms.
Ideal Qualifications
- Postgraduate qualification in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or Business Management.
- CILTSA or equivalent professional membership.
- Project Management qualification.
- Lean Six Sigma or Continuous Improvement certification.
- Professional qualification in Transport or Logistics Management.
Minimum Experience
- Minimum 10–12 years' experience in distribution, transport or logistics management within an FMCG, manufacturing or distribution environment.
- Minimum 5 years' experience leading national distribution or transport operations.
- Experience managing contracted transport providers and carrier performance.
- Experience leading distribution sourcing, tender and contract negotiations.
- Experience managing transport budgets and distribution cost optimisation initiatives.
- Experience managing Transport Management Systems (TMS).
- Experience managing cross-border distribution and export logistics.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary transport teams.
Ideal Experience
- Beverage industry experience.
- Experience within a multi-site manufacturing and distribution environment.
- Experience managing company-owned fleet operations.
- Experience supporting Supply Chain transformation initiatives.
- Experience with SAP, Transnova or equivalent Transport Management Systems.
- Knowledge of South African road distribution legislation and regional export markets.
- Experience implementing transport optimisation and continuous improvement programmes.
Core Competencies
- Distribution Strategy
- Distribution Planning
- Carrier Management
- Contract Negotiation
- Commercial Management
- Transport Management Systems
- Fleet Utilisation
- Export Logistics
- Cross-Border Transport
- Budget Management
- Cost Optimisation
- Performance Reporting
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Supplier Management
- Data Analysis
- Continuous Improvement
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- People Leadership
Deadline:25th September,2026
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Job Purpose
- To ensure delivery of stock to Customers according to the planned delivery schedule, while ensuring superior levels of customer service, aligned to the Company’s standards and business ethics within the bounds to the law.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
Manage and control the delivery process from end-to-end
- Prepare for next day’s deliveries
- Adhere to the start-up procedure
- Ensure independent driver checks of truck stock are conducted in full and signed accordingly
- Travel to the Customer following the defined route and delivery schedule
- Carry out the delivery of stock
- Return to the depot within specified timeframe
- All documentation to be signed, consolidated and returned in full
Demonstrate Superior Customer Service Levels
- Demonstrate high levels of Customer Service during deliveries
- Live The Beverage Company’s values by being Respectful and Courteous to Customers and Consumers
- Ensure that Customer are kept informed about the what they are receiving and the progress being made in off loading
- Ensure that constant contact is possible with the Distribution Controller / Expeditor so that feedback can be given on execution, and delays if any.
Safety, Health and Environment
- Ensure a safe, healthy and risk-free working environment
- Comply with safety and health policies and procedures, and applicable legislation
- Ensure that Pre-Trip Inspections are completed prior to every trip
- All non-compliant items on Pre-Trip inspections are to be communicated to management
- Green Band driving to be practiced at all times
- Truck Lock Out Procedure to be practiced during every loading sequence
- All Traffic rules and regulations are to be complied with at all times
- All Safety, Health and Environment rules to be complied with
- Vehicles are to be clean and presentable
Adherence to Food Safety Requirements
- Commitment to The Beverage Company’s Food Safety policy and its objectives
- Ability to understand and implement all food safety requirements
- Adherence to and the enforcement of Food Safety Policies, SOPs and PRPs
- Compliance with PPE requirements including jewellery policy
- Compliance with personal hygiene requirements in accordance with the organisations code of practice
- Active engagement in all training including competency testing
- Regular practice of hand washing and sanitising
- Prevention of cross-contamination of products – no allergens allowed in the manufacturing facility
- Responsible for raising any food safety risk to the relevant personnel such as the Team Leader or Food Safety personnel
- Reporting of any illness or communicable disease before the commencement of shift
- Compliance with all legal, regulatory and customer requirements
- Enforce GMPs and conduct themselves in a manner conducive with food safety practices
- Maintain high standards of housekeeping and hygiene of equipment, facilities and work environment
- Informed and vigilant on food defense and food fraud risks
- Promote, encourage and continuously grow the organisations food safety culture
- Maintain zero compromise on product quality and safety
- Collaborate with internal food safety team to realise the organisations goals of retaining GFSI certification and continuous improvement
Accurate checking, loading and unloading of vehicles
- Independent check conducted of all loads to ensure correct quantities
- Accurate recording of returns
- Maintain clear and effective communication with Warehouse Supervisor / and other team members
- All documentation accurately and comprehensively completed
Technological Solutions to be fully Utilised
- Performance to be supported by ensuring that all technological solutions implemented are adopted and requirements adhered to
- Mobile phone based technology is supported by ensuring that minimum operating requirements are complied with
- Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures
Qualifications and Experience
- Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4, Code 14 Drivers License, PDP (Essential)
- Upto 3 years experience (Operational Execution) FMCG
Key Qualities
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
Behavioural Competencies
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
Judgment and Decision Making
- Able to gather information from a variety of sources.
- Understands cause and effect relationships within data and interprets this to make competing, holistic decisions
- Develops alternatives before making complex decisions
- Looks for the most innovative, efficient and value adding solution when making a decision
- Makes decisions in time and forecasts when decisions need to be made
- Formulates a “big picture” understanding of the near-term impact of decisions (including the time and resources required to implement decision)
- Evaluates the longer term business impact of decisions
- Takes initiative when making decisions
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. and finds ways to fast-adapt improvement ideas to work processes
- Proactively seeks out resources, alliances, etc., needed to quickly introduce improvements
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
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.
Deadline:25th September,2026
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Job Purpose:
- Maintain the plant technology to a high level of efficiency, to deliver the required amount of product to the stipulated quality standards at the right time. Conduct preventative and reactive maintenance in the plant as required.
Key Performance Drivers
- Operational Effectiveness - Ensure that manufacturing machines are optimised for quality output. Daily walkthrough
- Preventative Maintenance - Ensure that the machines properly maintained
- Ad hoc maintenance - Ensure that breakdowns are attended to quickly and efficiently. Breakdowns to be recorded and trends analysed. Standby after hours for production.
- Health, Safety, Quality and Environment - Adhere to company policies and procedures; adhere to standards; compliance to quality and FSSC 22000 requirements; adhere to all food safety standards and report on all issues regarding the food safety management system to the food safety system.
- Food safety and quality culture - To uphold accurate food safety and quality standards by following established procedures, ensuring proper hygiene and promptly address potential risks; Promoting a strong food safety and quality culture by maintaining a keen eye for detail; Promptly report issues identified that could result in an unsafe or out of specification product.
Core / Technical Business Knowledge
- Instrumentation, electronic and electrical skills
- Fault finding/ problem solving skills
- PET injection and stretch blow moulding processing
- Filling and packaging knowledge
- Electrical drawing / Pneumatic drawing/ hydraulic drawing
- Maintenance planning
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Maintenance records
- Decision making
Qualification
- Grade 12 (Maths and Science)
- N6 Qualified Artisan - Electrical
Experience
- 6 years' experience in bottling industry
- 5 years' experience in instrumentation
- 5 years' experience in PLC, SCADA and HMI
- 4 years' experience in switchgear and VSD
- 2 years' experience in pneumatics and hydraulics
Deadline:30th September,2026
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