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The key purpose is to be responsible for implementing and upholding AB InBev’s safety standards. Manage the brewery and regional distribution, fleet & safety, inventory, and warehousing functions to optimize customer service levels and meet benchmarked productivity standards. Implement standard operating processes in line with DPO and VPO standards. Manage VLC, ZBB, and SCOH costs in line with annual flexed targets.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Fleet & Safety:

Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.
Ensures that the site(s) operates in a lawful and ethical manner, abides to the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, Road Transport Act, Governance Codes (Combined Code) of practice pertaining to Safety and Fleet Management.
Ensures that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented.
Maintains a robust system of SIO generation and close out.
Quarterly safety reviews are conducted with the Logistics and Supply Directors to identify risk trends and mitigation plans.
Completes an annual risk review of internal and external processes, identifying relevant mitigation plans and implementing them.
Ensures company fleet is in good operating condition.

Quality

Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guidelines.
Adheres to Zone blocking mechanisms to ensure that blocked stock is at no time a risk to our stakeholders.
Manages DOC & stock age for finished goods inventories in order to proactively identify opportunities or alleviate write off risks with functional peers in Planning, Sales and Supply.

DPO/VPO

Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO/VPO guidelines (OWD’s, SCL, MCL, mandatory meetings).
Conducts the Daily Logistics Meeting as per the specified TOR’s listed in the DPO/VPO framework.
Ensures that processes are standardized via SOP’s and work standards are monitored and improved by using Operational Work Diagnoses (OWD’s).
Track KPI’s on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO/VPO requirements; Ensures that appropriate problem- 3 solving tools are applied for out-of-range KPI’s in line with DPO/VPO methodology.

Service Level

Maintains a healthy relationship with T1 &T2 carriers to ensure brewery throughput is maintained.
Maintains interactions with RD’s to identify opportunities for return of glass back to the brewery.
Engages with Planning Team around glass availability and sales requirements to support service level.
Ensures there is strict adherence to Inventory Policy within the warehouse.
Manages Service Level Agreements (SLA) on a weekly basis with Fleet, Quality and Sales/CIC.
Escalates relevant MBFU policy transgressions and takes appropriate actions to mitigate packaging downtime.
Manages weekly SLA with Sales with clearly documented information on sizing, sales forecast and potential SCOH; performance measures to be shared weekly includes refusals performance, sales curve index, OODD, drop size and OOS constraints Cost Management.
Drives a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse and inventory management teams.
Ensures that accountability is aligned to package owners.
Assumes overall accountability for Brewery Logistics spend on both VLC, ZBB and SCOH.
Accounts for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL frequency.

Cost Management

Drives a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse, fleet & safety, and inventory management teams.
Ensures that accountability is aligned to package owners.
Assumes overall accountability for Brewery Logistics spend on both VLC, ZBB and SCOH.
Accounts for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL frequency.

People Management

Ensure that the Shop Floor are aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement.
Ensures that Monthly One on Ones are conducted in line with the target review process.
Maintains a healthy industrial relations climate with key stakeholders through documented SLA Meetings.
Communication channels are open to relevant stakeholders via Monthly All Employee meetings.
Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern.
Recruitment of talent and building of pipeline.
Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings.

Minimum requirements:

Logistics degree or another 3-year degree in related field
Familiar with local market environments
Knowledge of relevant legislative requirements
Knowledge of customer service principles
Good interpersonal skills
Superior planning abilities
Ability to work under pressure
Good verbal and communication skills
Good self-management principles
Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
Excellent coaching capability
Strive for continuous improvement
Demonstrate leadership skills
Good decision-making ability
Strong analytic and numerical skills

Additional information:

Band: VI

ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.