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Key roles and responsibilities:
Asset Care

• Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the packaging hall, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice Implement the asset care plan for the packaging hall, ensuring that the engineering team have the required competencies
• Ensure that asset care goals are incorporated into engineering team and individual goals Audit compliance to the asset care programme by both the engineering team and the shift base teams
• Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team. Where training needs have been identified, through the training controller, ensure these are addressed
• Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of the packaging hall

Plant Reliability

• Responsible for the overall reliability and up time of the packaging hall
• Lead the engineering team in the provisioning of asset care and engineering support to the shift based production teams
• Verifies that the engineering team are carrying out routine and planned maintenance, and validates quality of work
• Verifies that the maintenance systems are working properly and that data integrity and information accuracy is maintained
• Reviews plant reliability to ensure that equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously
• Takes part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that the engineering team is applying the correct problem solving techniques

Plant Optimisation

• Takes part in the Regional and Central Office plant optimization trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where require d Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant and equipment modifications
• Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance and initiates opportunity evaluation
• Analyses plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to correct root causes
• Takes part in evaluating continuous improvement opportunities identified by the production teams or engineering support
• Ensures that continuous improvement is built into engineering team goals and forms part of regular goal review sessions

Team Leadership

• Lead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conduct regular engineering team goal review sessions, and conduct regular one on one and performance reviews
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the engineering team

Safety and Housekeeping

• Ensure that the engineering team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirements when carrying out their tasks
• Ensure implementation of the appropriate SAB and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping
• Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive the appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits
• Where unsafe work practice have been identified, the packaging engineer is responsible for correcting this Drive Safety and legal compliance in the Packaging Hall as a 2 (7) appointee

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree
• Government Certificate of Competence would be highly advantageous
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Production Maintenance Management with deep expertise in asset management
• Experience of managing and running a high
• speed packaging line highly advantageous
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing people

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Creation of baseline consolidated Major Equipment Outage Plan (MEO) for the BU, using process templates.
• Maintenance of consolidated or master plan for ongoing or cyclic updates to the BOP and BU Leadership.
• Coordination with brewery Technical Services Managers, Section Engineers, Maintenance Planners and regional maintenance coordinators to gather inputs for the plan.
• Effective engagement with Zone SNP, NPD, Projects, ZTEs and RPSS/MUBEX for alignments on Major Equipment Outages (MEO) plan.
• Liaise with OEM/Contractors for timely machine audits and involvement in maintenance execution.
• Critically evaluate work planned for Major Equipment Outages (MEO)s. Any work that can be done on a maintenance day is planned accordingly.
• Verify that Major Equipment Outages (MEO) related invoices are timeously processed for on time payments to avoid stop supply.
• Work with procurement in expediting on time delivery of parts to avoid delays of MEO execution.
• Identify and realize cost savings through initiatives such as spares bundling, schedule optimizations, identifying Alternative Material Manufacturers, Reverse Engineering and Zone Engineering Centre opportunities.
• Conduct planning review meetings with various stakeholders as per GOP and guided by TORs.
• Compute KPIs and publish weekly reports on KPIs as well as progress on MEOP GOP compliance and status.
• Be able to communicate changes made and justify them.
• Monitor the cost of the overhaul plan.
• Track the performance before and after Major Equipment Outages (MEO)
• Timeously update the Outage Execution score dashboard in accordance with Safety, Planned vs Actual, Performance, Cost, Plan attainment and GOP Scores.
• Develop maintenance planners on maintenance and Major Equipment Outages (MEO) planning process as well as conducting training on the process.
• Track the regional strategic spare parts, identify the opportunity to share the regional plant spare parts, reduce risk of the regional inventory.
• Support Zone spares planner on reduction of CWC.

Minimum Requirements:

• B-Tech or Bachelor's degree in industrial, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 3 to 5 years of experience in industrial engineering and maintenance within the FMCG or beverages sector.
• A highly skilled practitioner of the manufacturing process and best practices.
• Familiar with OSHA and plant legislative laws.
• Detail Orientated
• Proven experience in solving technical problems with pragmatic solutions.

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment
• Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
• Ensure compliance the VPO Standards for the environment and safety pillars
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards Manage Human Resources
• Develop employees based on identified needs through OPR sessions
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage technical pipeline for key roles in safety and environment team
• Leads the management and implementation of the Safety and Environment VPO Pillar in the plant
• Ensure requirements of all 23 Blocks of the Safety Pillar are implemented
• Performs Safety and environment monitoring and audits
• Performs regular VPO Safety and environment Pillars' audits and reviews using the Pillar Questionnaires
• Performs legal Compliance Audit
• Monitors and analyses leading and lagging Safety and environment KPI’s and implements interventions to improve 
• Ensures all Safety and environment Incidents and Observations are captured and reported in Credit360 
• Manage the problem-solving process to ensure all Safety and environment accidents/incidents are captured and reported in Credit360 and escalated as per VPO requirements 
• Ensures all efficient and effective problem solving and implementation of loop closure for all Safety and environment/accidents reported in Cr360 as per VPO requirements 
• Ensures optimum use of Safety App or equivalent system to raise Safety and environment Incidents and Observations 
• Performs Loss and waste analysis on Safety and environment Incident and Observations 
• Develops an action plan to close SIO's based on priority 
• Performs safety and environment monitoring using the Supervisor or Managers Check Lists Leads the safety and environment strategies as per VPO-Safety and environment Pillars 
• Implement Behavioral Safety Program at all levels 
• Implement focused safety and environment interventions for critical/priority blocks 
• Apply relevant Safety and environment Standards & SOPs 
• Develops and coordinate Safety and environment Investment Programme 
• Implement Safety and Environment VPO and associated GOP's 
• Manage progress according to glide paths set and agreed 
• Implement E&S Dashboards and sustain derived improvement Manage small Safety and Environment site Capex Projects 
• Manage Safety and environment requirements during Projects execution 
• Project completion on time and in budget 
• Ensure safety and environment compliance of all new equipment during commissioning
• Manage financial performance 
• Manage ZBB and CAPEX budgeting process for Safety and Environment 
• Control departmental costs 
• Review financial results 
• Manage and maximize By-product revenue Manage Safety and environment Pillar knowledge and awareness 
• Leads organizes and participates in World Safety and environment Day/Week and other planed safety and environment awareness activities 
• Shares relevant safety and environment alerts with operational teams 
• Mandatory training provided to all employees to ensure as per VPO Safety and environment Pillar VPO 
• Train all TL’s and UM’s on department-specific safety & environment requirements 
• Ensure effective induction, training and awareness for new employee, service providers and Contractors 
• Identify environment and safety legal training needs, arrange and co-ordinate training program Business Continuity & Risk Management 
• Develop and standardize system emergency and disaster recovery (BCP) plans for plant 
• Develops and implements approaches to mitigate obsolescence 
• Ensure sharing of best practices for Safety and environment management 
• Ensures implementation of Ammonia Process, Steam Process, Dust Process and Electrical Process Safety Management programs
• Manage Safety, Upholding (UPP) and Cost CAPEX portfolios 
• Ensure a 3 year plan exists for, - Maintenance and replacement of Plant Equipment across Sites - Maintenance and replacement of C&A infrastructure due to obsolescence 
• Indicate primary challenges presented by this job and the kinds of decision that the position is expected to make 
• Ensure conformance to specifications and standards 
• Lead the establishment of a SAFETY FIRST culture through implementation of behavioral safety program 
• Ensure delivery of results through implementation of VPO standards and relevant safety and environment SOPs 
• Manage departmental Budget / Finances 
• Lead safety in site projects execution defining minimum requirements at all stages and monitoring compliance during planning and execution thereof 
• Lead the establishment of a capacitance engineering capability 
• Manage the Safety and Environment function including Operations and Maintenance of Effluent tank and screen 
• Lead the elimination of all identified safety and environment risks through sharing safety alerts and driving closure of identified gaps from problem solving and incident and accident investigations. 
• Create a Safety and environment awareness through planned and unplanned campaigns such as World environment/Safety day activities 
• Lead the risk management program, comprising of occupational health and safety and risk management 
• Ensure plant's legal compliance and adherence to legal standards/regulations 
• People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making 
• Lead the Safety and environment team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction 
• Lead the development of Safety and environment team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members 
• Conduct regular Safety and environment team goal review sessions 
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross-skilling occurs within the Safety and environment team

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year appropriate tertiary qualification
• Tertiary qualification in Safety and environment Management and Auditing 
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods environment 
• Experience in both safety and environment management 
• 3-5 years' experience in either Safety/environment Facilitator or Controller role

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Key roles and responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance to 5's Standard within and around Warehouse Operation and show results evolution
• Cascade all Global policies and ensure compliance to them
• Implement and design the management cycle e.g. Business Descriptions, SLA's, Process Maps, KPI Indicators and ensure compliance with all warehouse staff and show results evolution
• Develop and continuously validate SOP's through management routines by using tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA, SCL OWD)
• Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
• Develop and maintain MCRS/MCL routines and track adherence with the use of problem solving tools e.g. 5 WHY, Abnormality Reports, SIC, OPLs, RACI's, OWD's, PDCA's, etc. to develop action plans to show improvement on PI's and KPI's
• Cascade KPI's and PI's to individual warehouse employee level, standardize the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual targets
• Ensure adherence to best practice generation process and execute approved projects and show result evolution
• Make use of GOP's linked to warehouse KPI's and insure 75% score is achieved
• Utilize GAPA and PDCA for chronic abnormality's and execute actions derived from analysis

Inventory

• Ensure daily compliance of inventory counts
• Ensure compliance to inventory policy and use management tools to close gaps
• Ensure compliance to Quality Policy and use management tools to close gaps
• Manage the process on how to destroy and write off obsolete product in compliance with legal/environmental requirements
• Identify the root cause of inventory count variances and put action plans in place through problem solving tools to improve the Inventory accuracy KPI
• Reduce Supply Chain Overheads through the utilization of problem solving tools and management of stock age KPI’s
• Track and trend all operating variances within in the warehouse and utilize management tools to improve results
• Track and trend all operating variances within the warehouse and utilize management tools to improve results

Layout Implementation

• Ensure adherence to the layout in line of certain warehouse activities
• e.g. Empties zone; Refusal zone; Order Picking zone; Repack zone; Finished Goods zone
• Track and manage warehouse management tools to ensure ABC compliance
• Trough MCL routine track compliance to all safety related processes within the warehouse
• Track and trend ABC compliance to realize warehouse efficiencies, Time and Motion studies and show Results evolution

Improve Quality Standards

• Manage, track and trend 1. warehouse cleanliness, 2. pest control schedule adherence, 3. cross contamination from non food grade chemicals, 4. daily temperature control andb5. product exposure
• Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
• Implement and adhere to a Location Based Inventory System to identify stored product
• Execute Action Plan to address the Stock Age Index KPI • Track and trend %HL near to be blocked as a PI
• Ensure adherence to blocking standards on non conforming inventory
• Track, trend and manage sorting processes to reduce MBFU% and to improve sorting productivity by utilizing management tools
• Track and trend broken cases by operator, picker and sorter to develop action plan to improve total breakage costs
• Create a quality induction programme and ensure 100% compliance on training to warehouse staff
• Track, trend and manage the distribution returns policy to ensure alignment with the quality policy
• Track, trend, and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity Picking Standards
• Ensure adherence to the standardized picking process and ensure compliance through management routines that ensure a safe and productive process
• Ensure Picking area has a productive ergonomic layout that allows zero-man machine interactions
• Create and monitor picking KPI's/Pi's Cas/Per man Hour, Replenishment adherence

Sorting Standards

• Sorting Guideline adherence & targets met- Sorting resources planned, trained & quality bottle sorting performed.
• Random bottle sorting inspection performed daily, gaps • Identified & action plans implemented
• Ensure sorting area has a productive ergonomic layout that allows zero-man machine interactions
• Create and monitor sorting KPI's/Pi's CA's/Per man Hour, show positive brewery MBFU evolution

Productivity & Capacity Managed

• Ensure 75% Compliance to the Warehouse Labour Productivity GOP to improve the KPI
• Design and maintain sizing simulator to address optimal Labour and equipment resourcing
• Allocate and assign Labour activities utilizing the SKAP tool
• Develop and Manage the Warehouse Capacity Utilization model to improve Warehouse efficiency
• Implement and manage waste plan and recycling operation by type of material: paper/carton, plastic by type: PET, PS, PP etc., metal aluminum, iron, etc., glass, food remains, other types, unrecyclable
• Manage TCT and there are actions plans visible to improve it and it is also measured in Loading/Unloading and Replenishment

Safe Warehouse Practices

• Ensure & maintain a safe warehouse operation driving awareness and compliance to all the relevant safety blocks

Minimum requirements

• 3-year relevant diploma/degree
• 3+ years Warehouse and or logistics experience advantageous
• Highly level computer user (MS Office, Oasis, Handheld devices)
• SAP proficient

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain strong POC relationships and address any key pain points by working with different SAB teams (e.g. Brand Teams, Trade Marketing etc.) ensuring the highest level of customer service
• Manage customer expectations and ensure that their needs are met in a timely fashion
• Develop and implement customer specific business programs and account plans
• Develop new sales opportunities for Premium Brands
• Educate and train customers on SAB’s Premium category to ensure correct in store positioning and execution of the Brands to enhance the consumer experience
• Assist the Premium Co. Team to drive market share, meet financial targets and growth objectives for SAB Premium Brands in key FOP Outlets
• Assist the Premium Co. Team to develop comprehensive Brand Plans for the Premium Category
• Provide the Premium Co. Team with key customer insights on the Super Premium Alcohol category to ensure category strategy alignment to consumer needs

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 3 Year Tertiary Qualification
• 3 - 5 Years Sales experience within FMCG
• Valid Driver’s License (Essential)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude for building relationships with
• Key Stakeholders at different levels
• Relationship Management
• Customer Service
• Strong Negotiation Skills
• Problem Solving
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong Commercial Acumen
• Extensive knowledge of SAB’s Premium Category
• Attention to detail
• Highly Professional
• Ability to innovate and be creative when it comes to events and activities
• Work well independently
• Able to work outside of normal working hours

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Key roles and responsibilities:

Annual Plan / Budget:

• Completion of the bottom-up budget process (budget models) for T1 & T2 Logistics & Warehouse for Rest of Africa.
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations.
• Ensure all Champions (savings) initiatives are properly embedded in the budget.
• Ensure the final budget is properly uploaded into SCFD (Anaplan tool).

Monthly Process (reporting/analysis/review):

• Highlight risks and opportunities during the month and course-correct where possible.
• Report month end actuals in line with Control guidelines.
• Deep dive all new variance drivers, find root-causes and work with Logistics team to implement gap-closing action plans.
• Ensure SCFD actuals are correctly reported.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly presentation decks.
• Ensure ZBB Logistics costs are correctly reported.
• Review of balance sheet stock accounts and reconciliation thereof.
• Manage and oversee centralized stock count processes, including the creation of a stock count calendar and driving adherence to routines.
• Perform variance analysis on stock, identify and address discrepancies.
• Stock count procedures and monitoring thereof.
• Weekly cost management of supply chain.
• Serve as the link between balance sheet checks and operational checks, ensuring data integrity.
• Finding risk gaps in operations.

Additional responsibilities:

• Analyze and optimize logistics workflows to ensure efficiency and reduce costs.
• Coordinate with procurement and warehousing to ensure accurate inventory reporting and minimize discrepancies.
• Monitor and manage transportation costs, including tracking performance and cost-saving opportunities.
• Evaluate and optimize supply chain and warehousing efficiencies.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year university degree in accounting, business, economics, engineering.
• High sense for accuracy.
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc), with particularly strong Excel skills.
• Knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, BI) preferable.
• Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP, Syspro.
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver.
• Used to working with deadlines.
• High level of service mindset.
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change.
• Presentation skills.
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.

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Roles and Responsibilities:

Key Outputs:

• To ensure internal controls & governance compliance of all brewing raw materials and transfer losses
• To control inventory stock levels on all local and imported Brewing raw materials, M&P's, hops and cleaning chemicals for Brewing against Inventory Policy
• Order & expedite raw materials required for Production
• To provide accurate and timeous management information to facilitate pro-active decision making to line management
• Perform stock counts, balance physical stock to SAP
• Interact with Brewing daily on stock requirements in line with plan changes
• Liaise with Suppliers on expediting of raw materials.
• Work effectively in a team
• Document Control (Delivery notes & COAs) for traceability purposes
• Monitor costs and usages of Brewhouse, Ferment and filtration.
• Report and explain out of control costs
• Prepare weekly & monthly ICE packs
• Planning, scheduling and procurement of all Brewing Raw materials
• Analyse weekly Cost variance report on usages
• Update & reconcile raw materials on MES against SAP
• Update lab report for traceability
• Resolve SSC queries & clear GR/IR reports.
• Analyse and administer stock count information.
• Co-ordinate the movement of stock.
• Malt and adjunct reconciliation.

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric
• Tertiary qualification in Stock control/management or Supply Management
• 2-3 years' experience in a Stock control environment
• Strong mathematical aptitude
• Excellent knowledge of Stock Control processes
• Analytical problem-solving ability
• Sound knowledge of MS Office & SAP
• Sound knowledge of the MES
  system

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Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Achieve sales targets for assigned areas
• Manage and supervise Distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution)
• Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in the customers and retail outlets
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets
• Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector
• Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets
• Closely monitor actions of the competition

Minimum Requirements

• 3 year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
• Valid unendorsed Code 8 drivers license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations including standby and day shift support.
• Assist as a functional expert in problem solving (where requested).
• Provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on machine operation, machine fault. finding and correct responses to machine failure modes (where requested).
• Provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams.
• Assess Operators and Artisans ability to carry out tasks.
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimisation trials.
• Adhere to work practices that support shift-based teams.

Maintenace

• Take part in maintenance planning meetings, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required.
• Carry out work during the planned, routine and opportunity maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the Planner.
• Where scheduled work cannot be completed, feed back to the Maintenance Planner for direction. This may involve rescheduling the work or prioritising outstanding work.
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows.
• Complete any administration and SAP tasks in support of planned maintenance.
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities.
• Carry out Autonomous Operations as per requirements.
• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner.
• Resolve issues by using the appropriate problem-solving techniques.
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule.
• Call additional resources to assist where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance (where applicable).
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, problems had been addressed.
• Complete administration tasks relating to any running repairs carried out (this includes all SAP inputs).
• Where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window.

Problem solving

• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems (on request).
• Take part, as functional expert, in AB reports (on request).
• Call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction (where necessary).
• Analyse machine performance, conduct loss and waste analysis and develop action plans to improve performance.

Housekeeping and Safety

• Operate in a safe manner at all times and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected.
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate SAB policies and procedures.
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties.

Minimum Requirements:

• N3 Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering or Instrumentation (with intention to move towards N6).
• Grade 12
• Trade Tested Millwright (with a strong electrical bias).
• 2 Years’ experience in an FMCG Environment.
• Packaging experience (highly advantageous).

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide volume and logistics insights for new projects in order to highlight and mitigate risks to ensure greater success in foundational stage of new projects
• Support planning processes of NPD’s / promotions by identifying and managing internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve efficient scope, timing and budget adherence
• Provide input and guidance into volume triangulation and cannibalization assumptions for new products and promotions by analyzing market availability/reach, product chaining and consumer profile insights
• Collaborate with internal Logistics stakeholders to identify supply chain requirements and constraints that facilitate or hamper new project success
• Manage and track project milestones for ALL planning and operational inputs to the NPD and assess deviation from project design
• Monitor and support active projects to evaluate deviations from initial project assumptions in order realign all stakeholders to ensure project delivers on initial volume and revenue aspirations
• Manage and identify discontinuation of products to the business through collaboration with brand, commercial and supply chain stakeholders
• Manage product life cycle and drive portfolio rationalization
• Govern Masterdata process to ensure that new products are seamlessly integrated into planning and procurement systems

Key Attributes:

• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Good communicator across all levels within and external to the organization
• Ability to influence Business Unit Presidents across Africa Zone
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to build rapport and influence across all levels in the organization
• Excellent self management practices with a pro-active, energetic and committed approach
• Excellent presentation and report drafting skills
• Ability to manage multiple streams of information optimally with attention to detail
• An inclination towards the quantitative disciplines of mathematics, statistics and economics would be advantageous
• Basic business financial understanding would be advantageous

Minimum Requirements:

• Preferred Candidate should have a tertiary qualification in an analytical field
• Ideal candidate should have between 3 – 5 years experience in supply chain or commercial disciplines in an FMCG environment
• Effective problem-solving, numeracy and analytical skills at both operational and tactical levels
• Proficiency in MS Excel is required

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Achieve sales targets for assigned areas.
• Manage and supervise Distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution.
• Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector.
• Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets.
• Closely monitor actions of the competition.

Minimum requirements:

• 3-year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
• Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Achieve sales targets for assigned areas.
• Manage and supervise Distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution.
• Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector.
• Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets.
• Closely monitor actions of the competition.

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year degree qualification.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment.

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Safe and accurate checking,
• Effective stock quality management through adherence to stock rotation guidelines and counting of stock on floor
• Ensure splits made by pickers are accurate
• Ensure Returns are counted and checked back in ,
• Shipment and inventory documentations are consolidated and reflect actual movements
• Ensure accurate document control
• Ensure fiscal movement and sap movements are reflected on time
• Ensure Safe operating practices of Forklifts is adhered to at all times to avoid accidents and injuries.
• Ensure that Department of Labour stacking exemptions complied with
• Insure FEFO Compliance and ABC compliance
• Ensure cleanliness of the DC Warehouse is upheld in order to maintain our product quality
• Adherence to 5S guidelines
• Adherence to legal stacking guidelines

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year Diploma in Logistics
• SAP Literacy , Computer literate, Excel , PowerPoint and Web tools, Inventory process
• People and team management

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Key Roles and responsibilities:

GMTs should expect the following during their first 10 months:

• 3 month rotations, with each experience aligned to our three strategic pillars.
• Ideally in Marketing, Sales or Tech, and Supply / Logistics Projects within these rotations that expand knowledge and work on actual business challenges in each of these core functions.
• Cheers! Festival (Global Induction) where GMTs will hear about our company strategy firsthand from our most senior leaders, and network with peers.
• Access to global GMT alumni database.
• Potential for experiences in different locations across zone (mobility within zone required)
• Formal mentoring & access to unique zone L&D curricula
• Unique exposure opportunities with senior leaders
• Placement in a front-line position upon completion of the program (openness to ambiguous career track)

Profile:

• By Program start, completed undergrad (STEM discipline preferred); and/or
• Studying towards Post Grad (PGDip) Business Administration, Masters (or equivalent) degree will be advantageous
• No more than 3 years TOTAL of full-time formal working experience by the Program start date. (Internship, vac work, short duration contracts and co-op experiences does not apply)
• Legal work authorization (full citizenship) in the country for which application is being submitted
• Proficiency in English
• Full mobility. Go where the opportunity is. Mobility broadens potential opportunities – candidates should be open to working and living in various locations

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Key roles and responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and manage comprehensive, multidisciplinary communications programs.
• Ensure maximization of communication opportunities across all platforms.
• Develop an annual digital communication strategy and implementation plan, including links to organization goals and execution of key tactics.
• Act as lead content strategist for broad digital communications channels, including social media channels, the organization's website, and e-newsletters.
• Oversees the production of all digital content and assets on the corporate brand team, including, photography, video, multimedia, original online copy, websites, and strategy presentations etc.
• Develop a set of metrics or measurements that will be used to measure the success of each communication project.
• Manage the development and implementation of digital communications strategies guided by the Director of Corporate brand.
• Strategize, plan, and manage day-to-day digital content production of content, copy, and visual assets across all our channels, including websites, email, and social media.
• Work on mobile marketing strategies for our digital communications programs, including but not limited to mobile push, geofence, and SMS communications.
• Create and manage content calendars for the organization’s digital channels (social media, website, and newsletters).
• Work closely with community leaders, internal stakeholders, and external content creators to come up with fresh and creative ways of telling stories, publishing content, and engaging with our online audience.
• Monitor trends and audience engagement and provide detailed analyses of our web, social media, and email marketing activities to gauge the effectiveness of the organization’s digital strategies.
• Develop detailed campaign briefs for internal and external teams to create and deploy relevant and compelling content.
• Management of the of the digital media budget, ensuring media KPIs are met.

Minimum requirements:

• Degree in Marketing, Social Media, Digital Marketing, or Multi-Media.
• At least 5 years of experience in a digital communications role.
• Brand marketing experience would be an added advantage.

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build an end-to-end change strategy, aligned to the AbInBev change management methodology, to meet the project objectives including a milestone flight plan.
• Conduct a Change Impact Assessment that articulates the detailed people impacts of the transformation and highlights risks for the project.
• Create and continuously update the stakeholder matrix and persona profiles. Identify key leadership stakeholders and create leadership roadmap to ensure buy in and change commitment.
• Create and define a detailed communication and engagement plan for the program or project.
• Identify and agree on change success measures and metrics for the program. Adoption approach is identified and agreed with key stakeholders. Conduct surveys Identify utilization and productivity reports where required for the projects.
• Create change agent networks where required. Enable change agents through knowledge transfer and training. Create routines and key milestone activities for change agent network. Measure and manage change agent effectiveness and mitigate any risks.
• Develop the change training approach. Identify all training requirements through a thorough training analysis. Ensure training content is developed in line with AbInBev methodology and standards. Where required liaise with training vendors to develop training material. Ensure evaluation of knowledge transfer as part of the readiness criteria.
• From time to time required to build training material, reports and dashboards as well as conduct change management training.
• Must be able to create communication and infographics.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent with 3+ years of experience in Change Management, HR or business
• Embodies the AB InBev culture and 10 principles
• Flexible and agile
• Leadership & project management capabilities
• Practical experience in change management or similar positions advantageous
• Ability to think conceptually and strategically, while maintaining a cost-conscious and practical approach to using time and resources
• 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 multicultural environments, interacting with various Country, BU, Zone and Global teams
• A confident communicator with good oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills to support, coach and advise the People function on change management
• Proficient in Microsoft Windows Environment
• Travel flexibility

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations including standby and day shift support.
• Assist as a functional expert in problem solving (where requested).
• Provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on machine operation, machine fault. finding and correct responses to machine failure modes (where requested).
• Provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams.
• Assess Operators and Artisans ability to carry out tasks.
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimisation trials.
• Adhere to work practices that support shift-based teams.

Maintenace

• Take part in maintenance planning meetings, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required.
• Carry out work during the planned, routine and opportunity maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the Planner.
• Where scheduled work cannot be completed, feed back to the Maintenance Planner for direction. This may involve rescheduling the work or prioritising outstanding work.
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows.
• Complete any administration and SAP tasks in support of planned maintenance.
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities.
• Carry out Autonomous Operations as per requirements.
• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner.
• Resolve issues by using the appropriate problem-solving techniques.
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule.
• Call additional resources to assist where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance (where applicable).
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, problems had been addressed.
• Complete administration tasks relating to any running repairs carried out (this includes all SAP inputs).
• Where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window.

Problem solving

• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems (on request).
• Take part, as functional expert, in AB reports (on request).
• Call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction (where necessary).
• Analyse machine performance, conduct loss and waste analysis and develop action plans to improve performance.

Housekeeping and Safety

• Operate in a safe manner at all times and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected.
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate SAB policies and procedures.
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties.

Minimum Requirements:

• N3 Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering or Instrumentation (with intention to move towards N6).
• Grade 12
• Trade Tested Millwright (with a strong electrical bias).
• 2 Years’ experience in an FMCG Environment.
• Packaging experience (highly advantageous).

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Key outputs and responsibilities:
Operational Support:

• Provide specialist support for coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams
• This will include standby, day shift and when requested after a time frame that standby will need expert advice or support
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving for the plant and support to zone
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimization trials
• Provide additional support to process artisan on machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Upskill process artisans with latest SWI for machine setups or machine restorations

Planned Maintenace:

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Ensure backlog meets minimum hours and schedules are reviewed as per required frequency
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

Routine Maintenance:

• Partake in ATO cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques
• If carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these required, additional resources may be called in to assist
• Where problems have been uncovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out condition monitoring activities where these have been allocated to the Technician in accordance with the ZCM schedule

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Segmentation of SKUs according to ABC-XYZ methodology, data preparation, and cleaning historical data
• Running statistical forecast for the region in order to create a baseline weekly demand plan
• Prepare, facilitate and gather insights through weekly collaboration meetings with depot and district managers and embed these onto the iPlanner demand plan
• Collaborate with central demand planners in order to ensure alignment with long term forecast, upcoming NPDs and national promotions
• Review of demand planning KPIs, identify gaps and influence changes in order to improve forecast accuracy in line with set targets
• Capture demand for NPDs, events and promotions into the regional demand plan
• Support run out plans for discontinued SKUs through monitoring sales performance
• Track and Monitor performance of sales against published forecast in order to reduce obsolescence in the region
• Work with Central demand planner in preparing for monthly regional demand review with regional leadership
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to support regional stakeholders. ( e.g. T1 and T2 specialists, sales and finance/ppm)
• Review IDP plan & actuals

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3 year tertiary qualification
• Strong analytical ability to convert data into valuable business insights
• Good communication skills
• Familiarity with Supply chain principles, working with numbers, and picking up patterns in large amount of data. (Attention to detail highly important)
• Advanced ability to use SAP, MS Excel, and databases
• Excellent presentation, report drafting, and problem solving skills
• Ability to solve complex issues from framing of the problem to making recommendations

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Key roles and responsibilities

Plant and Process:

• Optimize Plant & Process Performance where appropriate
• Operate the Brew house Plant and Process
• Operate Beverage Fermentation Plant and Process
• Operate Beverage Filtration Plant and Process
• Operate the Packaging (kegging and bottling) Plant and Process
• Performing housekeeping tasks, applying 5s principles and following safe work practices.
• Unsafe work practices must be identified and corrected.
• Support the creation (drafting and documenting) of standard work procedures (including quick fix routines and problems
• Quality control and analysis:
• Carry out the required quality checks and analyses and recording the results on the appropriate information system.
• Where quality problems have arisen, apply the appropriate problem-solving techniques (e.g., Quick fix routines) to resolve.
• Escalate any identified or unresolved problems to BAM

Communication:

• Actively participate in meetings and goal reviews.
• Utilize the gap list to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities.
• Fully understanding the team goals and participating in team goal review sessions.
• Making use of relevant communication media (out-of-control shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
• Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality
• Complete autonomous maintenance tasks problem-solving activities

Problem solving:

• Respond rapidly to upstream or downstream triggers that could result in out-of-control process situations.
• Apply problem solving techniques (e.g. 5Y, quick fix routines etc.) to identify and correct problems.

Work In Teams:

• Develop others in own skills as well as the learning of the skills of other specialist Brewery Technicians.
• Be a logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment.
• A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist).
• Demonstrate Initiative and energy.
• Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best).
• Be available to work flexible hours (outside of normal office hours and sometimes over the weekends) to meet production.

Minimum Requirements:

• Grade 12
• Basic PC Literacy (Microsoft/ SAP)
• Problem solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work shifts