The South African Breweries (SAB) is a subsidiary of AB InBev. Founded in 1895, SAB is South Africa’s top brewer and leading distributor of beer.
For more than 120 years SAB has been an integral thread in the social fabric of our country and continues to play a crucial role in the national economy. The company operates seven breweries and 40 depots in Sout...
Key outputs and responsibilities:
Annual Plan/Budget
- Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the Zone Supply PPM team
- Review all budget calculations for OPC’s/BOMs and own the end to end process
- Lead the ZBB budget process for the plant and ensure all guidelines, templates and timelines are adhered to
- Support on the completion of the CAPEX budget as required
- Lead the headcount and paycost planning process for the plant
- Ensure all champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget while avoiding double counting
- Prepare management review presentations for Zone, respecting guidelines, templates and timelines
- Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (COGNOS, SCFD, SAP, TM1)
- Provide correct bottom up VIC standards and actuals for MACO reporting
Monthly Process (reporting/analysis/review/LE)
- Responsible for the preparation of a full year forecast outlook (LE) for the plant
- Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
- Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
- Consolidate and report LE on a monthly basis to the Zone Supply PPM team
- Review of new PCE’s/BOMs on a monthly basis as and when required
- Review of the plant P&L and validation that the results reported are accurate and there is no material misstatement
- Review of headcount & paycost reporting on a monthly basis
- Leads the completion and presentation of the monthly plant T&M deck with the Plant Manager
- Monitors coherence between Budget, CAPEX and ZBB Performance of the Plant
- Responsible for monthly and year end closing activities in supply (esp.. validation of accruals)
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of financial results in line with approved policies & procedures
- Manage Relationship with Network of Capability Centre (NoCC) for outsourced activities
- Tracks performance targets for the Plant Operations to reach World Class Excellence Operational efficiency. (e.g. DBCM calculation, by product income tracking, packaging & malting loss etc.)
- Assess Operational efficiency Supply, identify initiatives and lead actions plan to optimize the Supply performance and to close the gaps towards 3YP, Budget, LE, Global Benchmarking.
- Executes Management Reporting for the plant to enable best-in-class operational performance management
- Review of fixed asset management
- Ensure effective tax compliance
Ad Hoc
- Define recommendations to support Senior Management decisions.
- Manage projects as required; participate in ad hoc projects
- Challenge and monitor capacity utilization and footprint strategy where applicable
- Perform detailed analyses to determine cost opportunities at a plant level and participates actively in zone benchmarking activities.
- Perform strategic studies to streamline the business.
- Ensure the application of coherent definitions and reporting requirements.
- Mediate on behalf of Supply PPM on performance (P&L) issues/ conflicts across functions.
- SPOC for the Supply function towards Plant.
- Maintain an effective financial control environment at the plant, this includes but is not limited to ensuring that the following activities take place:
- Fixed asset verification
- Inventory control effectiveness
- Stock counts
- Excise return reviews
- Decant compliance
- Facilitate SARS audits
Key Competencies:
- Working in a multi-cultural environment
- High level of service mindset
- Coordination skills
- High sense for accuracy
- Communicative, team oriented and open for change
- Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
- Basic business sense
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
- Used to working with deadlines
- Highly results focused
- Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
- Presentation skills
- Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
Minimum Requirements:
- Honors degree in Accounting
- MBA / CIMA / CA (SA) would be advantageous
- 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
- Experience Product Costing
- Knowledge of Financial Reporting
- Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practices
- Project management, problem assessment and solving skills
- Working in an ERP environment
- Working in a process-oriented organization
- Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
- Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
- Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP R/3 Module FI/CO, SAP BW
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Key roles and responsibilities:
Planning & performance
- Partner with the Insights & Commercial Strategy Director to develop the Zone 10YP refresh, 3YP refresh & 1 YP Plan for the Zone and countries
- Co-ordinate the Africa Marketing 1YP Planning Cycle; development of Brand & Channel plans for the Commercial teams
- Manages Beyond Beer Greater Africa performance tracking systems and reporting thereof.
- Support on the analysis, development, implementation and tracking of POS Growth Initiatives, challenging the business on a constant basis to improve its performance
- Leads the updates into the local country/BU leadership team, to Zone ManCom and to Global Core Beer & Beyond Co.
- Develop the content for monthly Beyond Beer & Strategic Insights meetings, while supporting the Innovation PPM with management internally and externally
- Is the Beyond Beer "Ambassador" of the Zone & GHQ and connect local team with Zone or Global people when needed
Strategic Projects & Operations
- Lead key projects for the Zone (e.g. developing a strategy for segments, developing a new SKU or a new brand, launching in a new country)
- Responsible for conducting key projects when needed (e.g. Off-trade step-up plan, Commercial Toolkit roll-out)
- Lead the operational aspects of portfolio expansion Greater Africa working with the finance, supply & logistics departments (e.g. local brewing projects, import/export projects, new SKUs development, import/export, stock, reporting) & partner with the BU SA PPM & Operations Manager for the Africa Zone.
Key Competencies:
- Evidence of strong stakeholder management and consulting skills
- Sense of urgency, open mindset, team working and strategic thinking as a must have
- Start-up mindset and proactive
- Proven leadership skills, capability to drive significant changes in current way of working
- Demonstrate ability to build relationships cross-functionally & work as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills and proficient speaker in official presentations
- Results-oriented, committed, able to find pragmatic & simple solutions with limited resources
Minimum Requirements:
- Degree level qualification or equivalent
- 3 years+ relevant experience of best practice Project Management in a FMCG environment
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Key Outputs and Responsibilities:
- Liaise with ZEC Product owner to update & maintain product development backlog
- Leads raw materials planning, forecasting, ordering, payment, budget control, supplier management and effective material quality controls
- Liaise with stakeholders to determine project timelines & conduct review meetings
- Work with MEO planning to ensure ZEC support for major overhauls & annual shuts
- Plan & optimize finished parts stock levels, improve production efficiencies & maintain ZEC product catalogue
- Facilitate and lead the planned production pre meeting with a focus on materials, equipment and resource requirements
- Identify and realize cost savings through initiatives such as procurement or production bundling & schedule optimizations
- Coordinate outbound logistics of finished goods & manage distribution partners.
- Compute KPIs and publish weekly reports on KPIs
- Track the cost & savings associated with RE initiatives to ensure financial viability of ZEC
- Facilitate systemic problem solving and drives continuous improvement to minimize nonvalue adding activities to improve waste or drive process improvements
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- A superior performance trach record
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to manage complex projects
- Strong systematic and strategic thinking
- Detail Oriented, with exceptional organizational skills
Minimum Requirements:
- Btech or Bachelor's degree in industrial, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- At least 5 years FMCG or beverages experience in industrial engineering and maintenance
- Familiar with OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) and plant legislative laws
- Is an experienced practitioner of the manufacturing way and VPO
- Prior experience in working in an engineering workshop would be an advantage
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Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Operating Equipment and Manage Associated Processes & Performance in Packaging
- Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment
- Interpret and implement production plan for shift
- Operate manual and automatic machines on line as per standards
- Monitor production processes on shift and correct any negative trends
- Ensure process quality and productivity
Perform Administration
- Complete associated tracking and monitoring: Complete operator workstation administration and take action as required.
- Complete Team room administration as required
- Contribute to self development
Problem Solving
- Manage PIMS & POMS and take corrective action on negative trends
- Use QFR's (As per triggers)
- Complete 5 WHY's (As per triggers) with relevant team members
- Contribute towards AB reports as required
Autonomous operations
- Conduct autonomous operations
Minimum Requirements:
- Internal Criteria Grade 12
- Mechanical aptitude
- Machine specific experience
- External Criteria: Technical qualification (N3 or similar)
- Post Matric or equivalent e.g N4
- National Diploma or equivalent (External) IOB Certificate/Diploma (Mechanical/Electrical)
- On the job training with a minimum of 3 months, SKAP completed
- Min, experience within 12 months, SKAP completed
- Experience within a packaging FMCG industry will be an advantage
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Key Roles & Responsibilities:
- Review Logistics processes across the Africa Zone to identify areas for optimization, standardization and stabilization using key Transformation Principles
- Map E2E as is processes, assess interdependencies, perform a gap analysis (People, Process, Tech) and design to be processes in line with:
- Sarbanes Oxley and Management Internal Controls
- Functional Excellence Programs
- Best in class external and internal benchmarks
- Standardized Global/Zone practices and processes
- Sign off from key stakeholders (Zone, In Country, Process Owners, etc.)
- Developing sustainable business cases and plans that lead to improvement in maturity
- Building relationships with key stakeholders & stakeholder management across projects (In Country, BU, Zone & Global teams)
- Partnering with key stakeholders to ensure a successful transition between as is and to be processes
- Working with Process Owners, Change Management & Tech teams to ensure holistic documentation and training for to be processes
- Leveraging lean six sigma tools and techniques to ensure that waste is eliminated, defects are minimized, and improvement opportunities are identified
- As a Transformation Specialist, this role is responsible for collaboration and embracing agile ways of work, ensuring team accountability and responsibility
- It requires ownership of the Logistics transformation agenda, pushing the boundaries for excellent delivery and focus on root cause problem solving, using diverse and collective skills to support the transformation squad
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent
- Embodies the AB InBev culture and 10 principles
- Flexible and agile
- Leadership & project management capabilities
- Strong analytical and problem solving mindset
- Works with energy and enthusiasm to solve business problems
- Must be able to work under pressure and executes with discipline and a sense of urgency
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work with all levels of the organization
- Ability to work in and understand multi-cultural environments, interacting with various Country, BU, Zone and Global teams
- Considers diverse perspectives when faced with complex problems
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
- SAP knowledge advantageous
- Knowledge of AB InBev Logistics, Supply and Planning Principles advantageous
- Travel flexibility
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Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Distributor volume targets monitored and communicated daily.
- Ensure that distributors adhere to model stocks for all brands and packs.
- Ensure ALL relevant sales KPIs are achieved in area (pricing, availability visibility etc).
- Retail customer in area is called on weekly.
- Sales teams presentable at all times and action being taken against non-compliers.
- After sales service delivered.
- Communication channels in place to establish a good relationship with customers.
- Timeous feedback to customers and management on matters of concern.
- Prompt response to customer queries.
- Presentable at all times.
- Has all necessary trade documentation at all times.
Minimum Requirements:
- Graduate in Sales, Marketing Business Administration or related Fields.
- Diploma in marketing/business field will be an added advantage.
- Disciplined and hard working.
- 1 years' experience in marketing and distributing fast moving consumer goods.
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Key outputs and responsibilities:
Maintenance Pillar SME Knowledge:
- Be an SME for the Maintenance Pillar
- Positively Impact the application of Maintenance Pillar across the Brewery
- Audit & Coach to improve VPO Health Status
- Good Facilitation
Initiate the training and development process:
- Get relevant input for training buckets, this is taking from Team room discussions, ITIF, Annual Training Plan and all other problem-solving discussion i.e. 5Why's, abnormality reports, walkabouts.
- Collaborate with People Manager and VPO Manager regarding activities onsite
- Engage with People Business Partner regarding suitable solutions where the training solution does not exist/not part of the Annual Training Calendar
- Consolidate departmental training needs by reviewing L&D inputs e.g. PDP as input to the annual LNA / budgeting process
Prepare for training:
- Coordinate the logistics of the required training and ensure relevant candidates are present and available
- Request Purchase Order requests from the NOCC L&D Services team for external training as per the signed off LNA
- Obtain approval from Zone L&D Specialist for costs not included in the LNA Implement the learning process
Effective use of SOP's:
- Implement the 8 step SOP process
- (Execution of the SOP’s are relevant and effective, use as training aid), track and check whether people are being trained against SOP, identify gaps in SOP and ensure Line Manager updates the
- SOP document
- Draw on the expertise of SMEs to run learning programmes
- Ensure all training completed is captured in Training Bucket and registers are completed
- Ensure all training registers and events are recorded via NOCC L&D Services Adapt training programme to meet the needs of the team / plant / audience i.e. run 2-day programme over a two-week period with short intervals
- Conducts a quality assurance of Visual Boards by engaging with Line Managers /HOD's
Evaluate the effectiveness of training and develop ROI report:
- Complete the Level 1 evaluations for formal classroom training, analyse the results and develop actions that will improve training effectiveness Monitor and Support CAP/SKAP
- Assist Line Managers to develop annual CAP/SKAP plan for team
- Monitor weekly / monthly adherence to plan
- Support Line Manager to schedule formative and summative assessments
- Identify SME Assessors and ensure an adequate pool of assessors in the plant
- Administration of CAP/SKAP Management system by ensuring information is accurate (Line Manager captures the assessment result, TC quality assures)
Identify Training Solutions for future Pipeline:
- Trainees: Conduct monthly check in with trainee to identify opportunities for trainee to attend training as per the planned training bucket (Line Manager responsible to report on progress, driving the trainee programme progress)
- Apprentices: Ensure Apprentice training solutions are included in the training bucket, identify opportunities for apprentice to attend training as per the planned training bucket
- Learnerships: Coordinate of the Learnership Programme (SA ONLY) (Line Manager accountable for management of Learners)
Reporting:
- Ensure the relevant KPI's are reported against weekly and monthly
- Communicate and share with relevant stakeholders onsite
Other Key Roles & Responsibilities:
- Action and implement training needs as part of Training Bucket process
- Implement training needs analysis process
- Facilitate the development of best practice
- Plant specific LNA in place
- Confirm training need
- Notify learners
- Facilitate training attendance
- SOP's are used to run plan in standardized manner
- Effective training on the use of SOP's
- Implement and monitor the delivery of learning solutions
- Record training data
- Apply recognized evaluation processes
- Aggregate and analyze training data
- Improve training programmes based on results
- Drive competence in plan to ensure delivery in KPI's / plant strategy
- Implement Diagnostic, Formative & Summative Assessments
- Drive competence of future pipeline feeders
- Training progress reported, action plans in place to address gaps Training and Development
- Assessments planned and conducted
- CAP/SKAP improved
- Learner feedback and appeals procedure to be adhered too
- Training plan implemented
- Training courses planned and implemented
- Training RoI reports
- ROI reports created and distributed to Departments and greater business Cost management
- Monthly cost reports to be communicated CAP/SKAP
- CAP/SKAP assessment plan and implemented
SKAP:
- Manage SKAP Process
- Ensures that SKAP procedures, ABI policies and other legal requirements are adhered to throughout the SKAP process
- Ensures that required SKAP assessments are carried out, involving relevant people where required
- Ensures that once SKAP assessments have taken place, candidates and other relevant records are updated, and all administration tasks in support of SKAP are completed. Communicates outcome of SKAP assessment to candidates, and general SKAP statistics to relevant people
- Ensures that where a candidate has not been declared competent, mechanisms are in place to address this
Develop Training Material:
- Interact with the shift team leader, Maintenance Controller and HOD’s to determine training needs
- Where necessary, develop training material to address specific needs of shift based and engineering teams. Where required, call in additional or specialized resources to assist in the development of training material. Ensure that training material meets the standards of ABI, and follows the training principles of AB InBev
- Where training material has been supplied suppliers ensure that it meets the needs of the teams and the standards of AB InBev
- Where training material has been received from central office, verify that it meets regional needs, adapting if necessary
Implement Training:
- Ensure that where training needs to be undertaken, it is done following ABInBev policy and procedure
- Present training material, calling in additional or specialized resources as required to assist. Check the effectiveness of training material by conducting post-training evaluations
- Where evaluations indicate the need to refine training material, this must be completed, and training material updated
Training Administration:
- Custodian of departmental training record, ensuring that these are readily accessible and adhere to all ABInBev and legal requirements. Where training has occurred, updates relevant training records and, where appropriate, the SAP systems
- Interacts with individuals to resolve problems relating to training records and provides information relating to queries
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Key roles and responsibilities:
- Ensuring that the brewery complies with all global technical governance requirements
- Control and ensure implementation of local and franchise brewing manual content
- Regulate concession and permit systems• Enforce adherence to standards governed through the PTS (Process Product Technical Specifications)
- Audit of plants against standard audit template
- Identify non compliance and opportunities
- Give specific recommendations to the brewing manager and plant manager regarding action required
- Feedback to Zone Brewing Manager and highlight areas of concern.
- Coordinate process changes
- Coordinate quality improvements
- Coordinate Global Brands brewing
- Coordinate project implementation in the Brewing department
- Identification of out of control situations or trends from quality results and process monitoring
- Work with Brewing manager to resolve the problems using VPO tools and practices
- Ensure that appropriate process monitoring and control systems are in place
- VPO driven MCRS must allow for adequate identification of brewing concerns
- Monitor all aspects of raw materials
- Ensure deep understanding of VPO standards
Key attributes and competencies:
- Proven team leadership skills
- Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational, people)
- A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality
- Highly assertive
- Outstanding interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Analytical problem solver and demonstrated ability at implementing effective problem solving
- Enquiring and curious mind set
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Good understanding of Standard Work Practices and VPO methodologies
- Exceptional knowledge of MES, eQMS, PaQT, PTS
Minimum requirements:
- BSc Degree or equivalent in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering,
- 2 years experience as Brewing Area manager in Brewhouse, Cellars and/or Filtration
- At least 2 years production experience
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Key outputs and responsibilities:
- Ability to work
- Team player
- Vigilant with a bias for action
- Attention to details
- Problem solving ability
- Manual dexterity
Minimum Requirements:
- ND: Chemical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Understand the chemical process of brewing the beer or the Packaging Process
- Provided an opportunity to fulfill their experiential training or plant operation exposure
- Monitor Process Performance
- Work in teams
- PC Literacy
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Key outputs and responsibilities:
Effective Fleet management
- Conduct pre-trip inspections prior to the start of each shift using the forklift inspection checklist.
- Ensure that the forklift is operated and maintained in optimal condition
- Ensure that fuel and fluids are at accepted operating levels.
Adherence to the health, safety and environmental standards
- Department of Labour stacking exemptions complied with Site housekeeping standards maintained and adhered to
- Appropriate personal protective equipment used as designated by site safety standards.
- Maintains a robust system of SIO and SHO generation and close out.
Effective stock quality management
- Warehouse stock age standards maintained by ensuring stock rotation principles applied
- Ensures quality control through checking packaging on warehouse floor and prior to loading
- Effective inventory management.
- Maintain clear and effective communication with Inventory Manager, Controller and Supervisor
- Accurate checking, loading and unloading of vehicles
- Load Summary used to load correct quantities of split and full pallets
- Shipment status updated in SAP and all other SAP related transactions
- Power BI KPI reporting
- Accurate recording of returns on handheld device prior to unloading
- Participation in handover process before and after every shift
- Accurate daily stock count performed using handheld device
- Generate variance report in SAP and resolve discrepancies
Efficient loading and unloading of vehicles
- Maintain clear and effective communication with Logistics Coordinator / team members
- All documentation accurately and comprehensively completed
- Ensure production continuity (where applicable)
- Load empties and raw materials onto production lines whilst ensuring optimal productivity
- Remove and stack finished product from line to bin whilst ensuring optimal line productivity
- Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedure
- Drives a problem-solving culture using DPO Problem solving tools (e.g. 5 Why, Abnormality Reports, OWD's)
- Involvement and participation in DPO; CSA and all other audits in line with ABInBev
- Updating of Operator Work Stations and all other related visual management tools
Profile:
- 3 year Post matric qualification Degree/ national Diploma in Logistics or any other related field
- 1 or 2 years Experience in the warehousing or logistics environment will be an added advantage
- Forklift license will be an added advantage
- Preferably Good understanding of DPO and its principles
- Ability to run and manage a shift.
- Good understanding of daily warehouse routines in line with the DPO requirements.
- Ability to work under pressure and over weekends when required.
- Tracks KPI's on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO Terms of Reference
- Conduct daily/monthly stock counts in line with Inventory management procedures and processes
- Drives a problem-solving culture using DPO Problem solving tools (e.g. 5 Why, Abnormality Reports, OWD's)
- Encourages a culture of continuous improvement by ensuring that routines and process are aligned to best in class standards through effective benchmarking
- Ensure compliance to the freshness & rotation policy as per DPO standards
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Key roles and responsibilities:
- Brief, activity plan, production, execution, evaluation of major flagship events & brand experiences.
- Execute events strategy, national events plan and develop/manage regional calendars.
- Manage relationships with multiple agency and internal stakeholders pertaining event negotiation, planning and execution.
- Manage regional experiential events budget and negotiate sponsorship deals pertaining regional event properties at local level
- Support and ensure brands/regions in best-in-class execution on other.
- Ensure consistent execution of regional assets across Africa.
- Execute event & brand experience activation toolkits (by type, by size) and lead the communication and training of same.
- Owns ticketing & Hospitality fulfilment.
- Manage event & experiential agency / partner / supplier model and grid; manage relationships and develop specialized BTL agencies
- Budget Management
- Establish ROI criteria and measure for all events/experiences (Brand teams accountable to manage/monitor/adhere).
- Build capabilities across Africa (connections, brand, markets, agencies) and transfer best practices and learnings across countries.
- Trends & opportunities, competitive monitoring.
- Subject matter specialists (SME) in:-Experiential execution - Festivals, Stadia -Ticketing & Hospitality.
Key attributes and Competencies:
- Verbal ability and communication skills
- Persuasiveness and selling ability
- Sound interpersonal skills, creativity and ability to mix with other people
- Experience in handling On Premise Key Accounts
- Experience in handling very demanding customers
- Experience in a high profile / LSM consumer base
- Broad knowledge of a Premium Co. market
- Execution experience in a Premium Co. market
- Strong Internal Stakeholder relationships
- Draught handling / execution experience
- Key Internal Project management ie Spiritual Homes, Draught Training Experience etc
Minimum requirements:
- Sales and Marketing related degree
- 2 years experience in Formal On Premise Market
- Valid unendorsed Code 8 drivers license
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