Openings at Montego Pet Nutrition

Description

What You’ll Be Doing:

Labour Relations

• Coordinate Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures, chair hearings, and present fair outcomes.
• Ensure timely completion of Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures.
• Monitor and uphold adherence to Policies and Procedures, addressing non-compliance.
• Update and maintain Disciplinary Records.
• Prepare and submit Employee Relations Reports.
• Support, train and advise Line managers on all Human Resources policies and procedures.  

Administration

• Complete leave planning in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Monitor Sick Leave and Family Responsibility Leave compliance.
• Manage staff loan application processes.
• Facilitate the ordering, marking, issuing, and cleaning of staff uniforms.
• Administer and follow up on Injury on Duty (IOD) Claims.
• Prepare and submit HR Reports (e.g., IR, Leave).
• Assist payroll with employee time calculations.

Recruitment and termination

• Coordinate with Line Managers on recruitment needs and vacancies.
• Screen and shortlist candidates for the Interviewing panel.
• Arrange and participate in interviews and inform applicants of outcomes.
• Coordinate the completion and submission of recruitment paperwork. 
• Administer employee terminations.

Counselling

• Counsel employees on personal and work-related matters.
• Refer employees to other resources if required.

Employee Benefits

• Ensure consistent and accurate implementation of employee benefits and payroll.
• Address benefit-related queries from employees.

Requirements

What We Are Looking For:

• Diploma or B Degree in Human Resources or related field
• Valid Driver’s License
• 5 years’ experience as an HR Generalist
• Proficient in MS Office
• Advanced understanding of all relevant legislation e.g. Labour Relations Act (LRA), Basic Condition of Employment Act (BCEA), Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COID), Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS), etc.
• Understanding of HR Systems
• Understanding of basic business principles

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Description

• This role sits at the intersection of business intelligence, governance, systems integration, analytics delivery, and AI transformation. You’ll help turn information into decisions, AI into capability, and complexity into clarity.
• You’ll lead the charge in shaping how Montego uses data as a strategic asset — while ensuring our analytics ecosystem remains governed, scalable, commercially relevant, and actually useful to the humans making decisions.
• If you can speak fluent Power BI, think in data models, challenge business assumptions constructively, and use AI tools like they’re part of your daily toolkit (because they should be), keep reading.

What You’ll Be Owning

Data Strategy & Governance

You’ll define and drive Montego’s long-term Data & Analytics Strategy, ensuring it aligns with operational priorities, business growth, and our AI transformation roadmap.

You’ll:

• Establish and govern enterprise-wide Data Governance practices
• Drive data quality, stewardship, classification, lineage, and access controls
• Ensure POPIA compliance across all data activities
• Chair cross-functional Data Governance forums
• Maintain structured metadata and data dictionary practices
• Lead response management for data incidents, governance breaches, and integration failures

Business Intelligence & Analytics Delivery

You’ll oversee Montego’s BI ecosystem — ensuring reports don’t just exist… they drive action.

You’ll:

• Govern the Power BI environment, standards, access, and reporting structures
• Manage the analytics delivery pipeline from intake to published insight
• Oversee executive, operational, and analytical reporting across the business
• Leverage AI tools like Copilot and Claude to accelerate analytics capability
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate, relevant, and actively adopted
• Establish quality assurance and validation standards across reporting and analytics

Data Integration & Business Systems Intelligence

• You’ll act as the strategic bridge between business systems and the analytics layer.

That means:

• Governing how data flows between systems like Dynamics 365, HubSpot, Repsly, Sage 300, and our analytics environment
• Defining integration, extraction, and transformation requirements
• Ensuring data structures are analytically usable
• Partnering closely with the IT Business Applications function
• Maintaining oversight of data quality, consistency, and integrity across systems

AI Leadership & Adoption Enablement

• AI adoption at Montego is not a “future initiative.” It’s already happening.
• Help the business move faster — responsibly, strategically, and without unnecessary bureaucracy.

You’ll:

• Lead and champion AI adoption across the organisation
• Drive AI enablement alongside the AI Transformation Lead
• Define and execute the AI adoption roadmap
• Model AI-native behaviour personally
• Sponsor AI initiatives visibly across leadership structures
• Create governance guardrails that enable progress rather than block it

Leadership & Team Management

You’ll lead a growing capability area and help shape the culture around it.

You’ll:

• Manage and develop the Data Platform Manager and AI Transformation Lead
• Build a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement
• Establish AI literacy as a baseline team expectation
• Participate in hiring and capability development
• Live and reinforce Montego’s culture and values daily

Prioritisation & Delivery Governance

Not every request can be “urgent.” You’ll help the business understand what matters most — and why.

You’ll:

• Operate a structured intake and prioritisation process
• Maintain transparent delivery pipelines and stakeholder communication
• Participate in digital steering and prioritisation forums
• Manage delivery risk and escalate blockers proactively
• Ensure commitments are either met or responsibly renegotiated

Requirements

What You’ll Need

Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Informatics, or equivalent (NQF 7)
• 8–10 years’ relevant experience in Data, BI, Analytics, or Governance environments
• 3–5 years in a senior leadership role with direct people management responsibility

Strong experience in:

• Enterprise Data Governance
• Business Intelligence Delivery
• Data Integration & Analytics Design
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Cross-functional leadership
• Demonstrated practical use of AI tools
• Valid Code B Driver’s Licence

Bonus Points For

• Honours, MBA, or equivalent postgraduate qualification
• Microsoft Power BI Certifications
• DAMA CDMP or equivalent Data Governance certification
• POPIA / Data Privacy certifications or coursework
• Azure Data Services certifications
• Experience in FMCG, manufacturing, agribusiness, or complex operational environments

The Kind of Human We’re Looking For

• You’re commercially minded, analytically sharp, and calm under pressure.

You can:

• Think strategically without losing operational grip
• Influence across technical and non-technical teams
• Balance governance with agility
• Use AI as a practical accelerator
• Translate complexity into action
• Hold people accountable while still building trust

Technical Knowledge We’d Love You To Bring

• DAMA DMBOK principles
• POPIA and Data Privacy legislation
• Power BI, Power Platform, Copilot ecosystem
• Enterprise data architecture and modelling
• ETL / ELT concepts and analytics data layers
• AI governance and data access risk considerations
• ERP / CRM / operational data environments

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Description

• Montego Pet Nutrition is looking for an AI Transformation Manager to help drive our organisation from scattered experimentation and “have-you-tried-ChatGPT?” conversations to structured, governed, measurable AI adoption that actually improves how work gets done.
• If you naturally use AI tools in your daily workflow, enjoy solving business problems creatively, and get energised by helping people adopt new ways of working, this role may have your name on it.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

Developing Montego’s AI Strategy

You’ll help define where AI fits into the business — and more importantly, where it actually adds value.

You’ll:

• Develop and evolve Montego’s AI Adoption & Transformation Strategy
• Identify practical AI use cases across Finance, HR, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and IT
• Translate operational frustrations into AI-enabled workflows and measurable productivity gains
• Stay current on AI platform developments and assess their relevance to our environment
• Produce quarterly adoption, value, and ROI reporting

Leading AI Tool Deployment & Governance

We believe AI should move quickly and responsibly.

You’ll:

• Manage Montego’s approved AI ecosystem (currently Claude Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot)
• Develop and maintain AI usage policies and governance standards
• Define approved, permitted, and prohibited AI tools
• Partner with IT to ensure secure, auditable, POPIA-aligned deployments
• Manage licensing, usage tracking, spend optimisation, and access governance
• Identify and address “Shadow AI” usage before it becomes a security incident disguised as productivity

Driving AI Capability Building & Training

AI adoption only works when people understand how to use it well.

You’ll:

• Design and deliver practical, hands-on AI training programmes
• Build and lead a Champions Cohort of AI power users across departments
• Develop role-specific AI playbooks and workflow examples
• Train staff on prompting, hallucination awareness, data safety, and responsible usage
• Create onboarding AI awareness modules for all new employees

Establishing Governance, Risk & Ethical AI Practices

You’ll help ensure Montego’s AI journey remains responsible, compliant, and sustainable.

You’ll:

• Develop the company’s AI Governance & Ethics Framework
• Conduct periodic AI risk and compliance assessments
• Partner with IT, HR, Legal, and Compliance teams
• Build role-based AI guidance tailored to different functions and risk levels
• Maintain audit trails, access controls, and governance documentation

Measuring ROI & Optimising Adoption

We care about outcomes, not just activity.

You’ll:

• Track meaningful adoption and productivity metrics
• Build dashboards showing usage, spend, and impact trends
• Quantify workflow improvements and operational efficiencies
• Develop business cases using real productivity evidence
• Share practical success stories that help the business see AI value in action

Leading Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement

This role is as much about people as it is about technology.

You’ll:

• Own AI rollout communication and adoption strategies
• Facilitate launch events, workshops, Lunch-and-Learns, and executive briefings
• Support cautious or resistant users with empathy and practical guidance
• Build excitement without overselling capabilities
• Represent the AI function on Montego’s Digital & Data Council

Requirements

What You’ll Need

Must Haves:

• Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Change Management, or related field (NQF 7)
• 3–5 years’ experience in:
• AI enablement
• digital transformation
• technology adoption
• organisational change management
• Experience deploying AI tools across non-technical user groups
• Experience designing practical training programmes
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication capability
• Experience developing governance frameworks, policies, and usage standards
• Strong data literacy and comfort working with usage metrics and KPI reporting

Bonus Points For

• Master’s Degree in AI Strategy, Technology Management, or Data Science
• Experience within FMCG, manufacturing, agribusiness, or operational environments

Familiarity with:

• Microsoft Copilot ecosystem
• Claude Enterprise administration
• Anthropic Console
• Power Platform
• AI-assisted development tools
• Instructional design or adult learning experience
• Experience managing enterprise software vendors
• Practical understanding of POPIA and data governance requirements

The Kind of Person Who’ll Thrive Here

You’re:

• Naturally curious and highly adaptable
• Comfortable experimenting while still managing risk responsibly
• Practical rather than overly theoretical
• Credible with executives and approachable with operational staff
• Calm around resistance and ambiguity
• Organised enough to drive execution, not just ideas

Skills We’re Looking For

• Practical AI fluency
• Change management capability
• Communication and facilitation excellence
• Strategic thinking with executional follow-through
• Governance and policy development
• Cross-functional stakeholder management
• Training and capability development
• Strong business and operational awareness

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Description

• At Montego Pet Nutrition, we don't just manufacture premium pet food—we deliver it to pets across the globe. From bustling ports to international distribution channels, our products travel far and wide, and we need a logistics leader who can ensure every shipment leaves our warehouse accurately packed, perfectly documented, and ready for the journey ahead.
• We're looking for a Warehouse & Logistics Manager (Exports) who thrives on precision, planning, compliance, and operational excellence. If you can spot a batch discrepancy from a mile away, know your way around container loading plans, and believe that warehouse discipline is an art form, this could be your next adventure.

What You'll Be Doing

As our export warehouse champion, you'll oversee the complete export fulfilment lifecycle—from stock receipt and storage through to container loading and international dispatch.

You'll be responsible for:

Export Fulfilment & International Logistics

• Planning and managing export picking, packing, and container loading schedules.
• Ensuring the correct products, quantities, batches, and configurations are loaded every time.
• Managing export-specific labelling requirements for multiple international markets.
• Coordinating container bookings, VGM requirements, seal controls, and dispatch readiness.
• Ensuring all export orders leave on time, in full, and fully compliant.
• Investigating and resolving shipment variances, loading discrepancies, and stock issues.
• Maintaining real-time ERP accuracy for all export stock movements and dispatch activities.

Warehouse Operations & Stock Control

• Managing export inventory according to FIFO and FEFO principles.
• Maintaining warehouse organisation, stock rotation, and ageing controls.
• Overseeing bonded, quarantine, and market-specific stock where required.
• Conducting regular inspections to ensure product quality, packaging integrity, and label compliance.
• Driving food safety, hygiene, housekeeping, and audit readiness standards.
• Minimising damages, stock losses, and handling errors through strong operational controls.

Inventory Accuracy & Planning Support

• Leading cycle counts and monthly stock takes.
• Investigating and resolving stock variances through root cause analysis.
• Maintaining complete batch traceability and inventory integrity in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Supporting Demand Planning with accurate inventory data and stock availability insights.
• Proactively identifying shortages, shelf-life risks, and allocation concerns before they become problems.

Export Compliance & Documentation

• Ensuring compliance with international regulatory, veterinary, phytosanitary, and customer requirements.
• Supporting the preparation and verification of export documentation.
• Maintaining complete records for containers, seals, batch allocations, and shipment confirmations.
• Supporting customer, regulatory, and food safety audits.
• Staying informed on changing export regulations and international market requirements.

Leadership & Team Development

• Leading and developing a high-performing export warehouse team.
• Managing attendance, leave, overtime, performance, and disciplinary processes.
• Coaching employees on export procedures, food safety standards, and warehouse best practices.
• Driving ERP transaction discipline and operational accountability.
• Building a culture focused on safety, accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

What You'll Bring

Must Haves

• Grade 12 (NQF Level 4)
• Valid Driver’s Licence
• 3–5 years' experience in a Warehouse Management role
• Proven experience managing warehouse teams
• Demonstrated experience in export warehousing and international logistics fulfilment
• Experience working with ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365

Brownie Points For

• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Warehouse Management, or related field (NQF Level 7)
• Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing, or pet food industries

Knowledge & Technical Expertise

You'll be comfortable with:

• Export warehousing, storage, picking, packing, labelling, and container loading processes
• Ocean freight, road freight, air freight, and courier logistics
• Export documentation, including Bills of Lading, Certificates of Origin, Health and Phytosanitary Certificates
• Food Safety standards such as FSSC 22000 and HACCP
• Stock control methodologies including FIFO, FEFO, batch traceability, and cycle counting
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Office applications

The Kind of Person Who Will Succeed Here

• Obsessed with accuracy and detail
• Calm under pressure and able to prioritise effectively
• Naturally organised and highly accountable
• A proactive problem solver who acts before issues become crises
• A leader who develops people and builds strong teams
• Comfortable balancing operational execution with strategic thinking
• Passionate about process discipline and continuous improvement