Technical Service Manager at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
Recommended:
To take the Strategic lead for the Engineering Domain in the Brewery and to lead related Strategic Initiatives in the Brewery, ensuring Corporate Governance for equipment and system integrity through the application of and adherence to relevant Standards and Legislation.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Engineering Management, Manage Plant Asset Care Budget / Finances
- Lead the establishment of a capacitance engineering capability
- Lead engineering projects by increasing efficient project planning and execution thereof *Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
- Manage the F&E function including Operations and Maintenance
- Manage Site Engineering, encompassing Site Maintenance, Engineering Stores and Engineering procurement
- Lead the risk management program, encompassing occupational health and safety and risk management
- Ensure legal compliance in engineering and adherence to legal standards/regulations
- People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
- 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
- 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
Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment
- Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
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Manage Human Resource
- Develop employees
- Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
- Manage and apply personnel practices
Ensure manufacturing systems and instrumentation integrity
- Maintain system integrity and change control
- Maintain and calibrate site instrumentation
Ensure engineering standards compliance
- Ensure application documented standards
- Develop and update engineering standards through ZBS Maintenance
Lead maintenance strategy lead as per VPO
- Optimize use of planned maintenance system
- Apply formal failure analysis process
- Apply relevant engineering spares strategy
- Implement VPO and Associated GOP’s
- Manage progress according to glide paths set and agreed
Manage small site projects
- Project completion on time and in budget
Manage financial performance
- Manage ZBB Maintenance and CAPEX budgeting process
- Control departmental costs
- Review financial results.
Expected Standards:
- Utilities, Packaging and Brewing IQMS
- Maintenance Cost per Hl to benchmarks
- Spares stockholding levels
- Utilities cost
- Workshop Housekeeping
- Identification of unsafe practices.
- GMP/5S audit results
- Adherence to local regulations
- Maintenance skills on site including Coswin.
- PLC and Software skills on site
- SCAP progress [Skills Competency auisition Process]
- Brewing Plant Reliability
- Utilities Plant Reliability
- Packaging Machine Efficiency
- Maintenance Indicators
- Complete in time and in cost
Requirements:
- Min B.Sc/HND – Engineer Electrical/Mechanical. (M.Sc added advantage)
- 2-3 Years as a Packaging or Brewing & Utilities Engineer
Skills and Attributes:
- A motivated individual with high levels of resilience and the ability to operate in a high-pressure environment Commercial Acumen with strong planning & financial management skills
- Highly developed analytical skills with excellent problem-solving capability
- Attention to detail and commitment to quality is non-negotiable.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
- Proven leadership and management capability.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.
- An Innovative thinker, persuasive, assertive and a good negotiator
- Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to lead, motivate and develop employees
Additional information:
- Band: VII
AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will
be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent
requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal
applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only
short-listed applicants will be contacted.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the
right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for
short-listing.
RETAIL SALES MANAGER at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
Job Purpose: Part of the frontline team that will be supporting our top Wholesalers at regional level, through joint business planning and brilliantly executing our push and pull strategies to ensure we grow profitable Volume and Market share and achieve our business objectives.
Key roles and responsibilities:
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Integrated Business Planning
- Use data and market related information to analyze the market and identify opportunities – competitor activity/footprint, route to market strategies, credit offerings, sales and marketing activities.
- Apply commercial understanding to collaboratively develop integrated plans in-line with short- and long-term business objectives
- Understand key marketing concepts (e.g., brand positioning, target segments, key occasions), ABI’s & competitors brands in order to make better commercial decisions and capture opportunities.
- Budget alignment to support push and pull activities while ensuring visibility of our brands (CAPIN, OPEX)
- Identify new opportunities and common problems in the region and synthesize them into the integrated plan
- Apply relevant legislation
Drive profitable Volume and Share growth through rigorous execution of the business plan
- Achieve business outputs and tactical outputs as per plan and strategy – Big Bets
- Apply financial and commercial acumen, with strict budget management
- Develop and execute best in class initiatives
- Strong regional and national GA accounts integration critical to drive and achieve the business objectives.
POC and Internal Relationship Management
- Build strong POC relationships and address any issues (pain points) by involving different ABI teams (e.g., Logistics and Finance) ensuring highest level of customer service
- Internal customer relationship management, developing social systems to ensure alignment and achievement of the business objectives
Engage and develop the organization
- Implement the ABInBev People Cycle with quality and adherence to calendar
- Lead capability building amongst teams and individuals, while developing best in class initiatives
- Maintain a safe healthy and positive working environment
- Lead and direct all engagement activities to ensure high levels of morale and inclusivity
Key attributes and competencies:
- Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
- 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
- Strives for continuous improvement
- Strong leadership skills
- Sound judgement and decision making ability
- Excellent numerical , analytical and planning ability
Profile:
Education
- Relevant Sales/Marketing Degree – Post Graduate business qualification preferable.
- Minimum 2 years experience at a Management level within Sales.
- Experienced in the In Home channel and trade schemes (IRS, SIU)
- Knowledge of all relevant legislative requirements
- Familiar with local market environments
- In depth understanding of sales and marketing principles
Additional information:
- Band: VII
AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing
Materials Planner at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
Key Purpose Statement
This role connects every dot of the manufacturing supply chain from demand through to supply, logistics and finance. The purpose is to generate feasible monthly supply & inventory plans that meet desired customer service Levels while avoiding unnecessary distribution and obsolescence costs.
MRP Run and Validation
- Run MRP in the Planning System for both TBL and TDL
- Check material availability and forward stock projection vs agreed upon stock parameters for both TDL and TBL
- Review supplier production plan and critical material availability
- Check restrictions and adjust
- Identify slow moving inventory and alert team
- Check long term material availability with supplier
Material management
- Expediting of urgent orders
- Ensure correct PO process is followed
- Follow up that all inventory is GRN in time (within 48 hours) and that GIT is always clean
- Attend stock counts of raw material stores as when its needed
- Cross check weekly closing stock reported and flag variances immediately to Planning Manager
- Carefully track and report on shelf life of materials weekly to reduce obsolescence
- Manage inventory levels against Inventory Policy and report weekly on any variances and risks
Supplier management
- Fully understand commercial terms of each supplier
- Issue PO’s for each raw material and packaging materials at brewery and distillery level
- Follow up with supplier monthly on any account related problems and facilitate speedy reconciliation of accounts.
- Manage call offs from suppliers
Cost management
- Manage materials within cash flow budgets
- Identify and implement cost avoidance and cost reduction initiatives
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Master data management
- Regularly reviewing all master data with various functions in the organization as well as suppliers to ensure data quality and accuracy
- Drive regular routines to keep master data up to date in the planning tool. This includes but are not to inventory on hand and order lead times, BOM, production schedule, minimum order quantity etc.
- Define critical materials
KPI’s, Routines & Reports
- Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory LCP & internal guidelines
- 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 LCP requirements
- Ensures that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out of range KPI’s in line with LCP methodology.
- Publish reports on time as per LCP guidelines and internal processes.
Competency Requirements
- Logistics degree or another 3-year degree in related field such as Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management or commerce
- Experience of planning tools, techniques and accountabilities ranging from tactical planning, distribution and supplier management
- Proven experience with ability to influence and interface with senior stakeholders, specifically manufacturing as well as external suppliers
- Demonstrate problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good verbal and communication skills
- Discipline and rigor around processes with attention to detail
- Good self-management principles
- Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
- Strive for continuous improvement
- Strong analytic and numerical skills, with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to multitask, attention to detail and logical thinker.
Additional Information:
- Band: VIII
AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will
be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent
requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal
applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only
short-listed applicants will be contacted.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the
right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for
short-listing.
Warehouse Supervisor at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
Responsible to implement and uphold AB Inbev safety standards. Supervise the warehouse inventory and operations through overseeing the safe receipt, storage, retrieval and timely dispatch of goods so that customer service levels can be optimized and whilst achieving benchmarked productivity standards.
Adherence to health, safety and environmental standards
- To ensure that company and legal stacking regulations are adhered to
- Adherence to and maintenance of site housekeeping standards
- Wearing the correct PPE always as designated by site and area
- Full implementation and adherence to VPO and DPO protocols
Warehouse Supervision
- Ensure compliance to 5s standards within and around the warehouse operations and show evolution
- Cascade all global policies and ensure compliance to them
- Continuously validate SOP’s through management routines by using tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA, SCL, OWD etc.)
- Update and use of team rooms for routine meetings and problem solving
- Maintain SCL routines and track adherence thereof
- Ensure and maintain a safe warehouse operation driving awareness and compliance to all the relevant safety blocks. Track compliance to all safety related processes in the warehouse function
- Use problem solving tools such as 5Why, Abnormality Reports, SIC, OPL’s, RACI’s, OWD’s, PDCA’s etc. to develop action plans to show improvement in PI’s and KPI” s
- Cascade KPI’s and PI’s to individual warehouse employees, standardize the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual results
- Ensure adherence to best practice generation process and execute approved projects and show results evolution
- Ensure adherence to warehouse layout such as empties zone, refusal zone, order picking zone, FG zone etc.
- Ensure and track ABC compliance to realize warehouse efficiencies
Loading & unloading activities
- Load summary is used to load correct quantities of split and full pallets
- To ensure loading/unloading of products is done as per processes, all products are counted, both at load location and unload locations, and delivery documents are duly signed and issued
Stock quality management
- Ensure adherence to warehouse stock age standards by means of applying stock rotation principles 3
- Ensures quality control through checking packaging on warehouse floor prior to loading
- Ensure FEFO for all sales orders and LIFO for all inter depot transfers
- Ensure no blocked stocks are loaded for customer deliveries and that daily updates are shared on blocked stocks
- Full implementation and adherence to VPO and DPO protocols
Inventory management
- Participate in handover processes before and after every shift
- Accurate daily stock counts, duly signed off before and after each shift
- Supervise containers handed over to production and ensure its of good quality to avoid DCBL
- Receive full beer from production and ensure agreement between all parties on quantity received
- Control warehouse breakages and inventory losses and show continuous improvement in tracking of these losses
- Credit empties returns into warehouse in time per the SOP
- Maintain clear and effective communication with Inventory Analyst/Clerk and or Stocks and Settlement Officer
Implement and maintain picking & sorting standards
- Ensure adherence to standard picking process through use of management routines
- Ensure picking & sorting area has a productive ergonomic layout that allows zero-man machine interactions
- Create and monitor picking & sorting KPI’s/PI’s per man hour and track replenishment adherence, inclusive of MBFU with positive trend
- Monitor and track adherence to sorting guidelines and sorting targets.
- Train all resources and ensure quality sorting inspections are taking place regularly. Open gaps and implement actions to close them.
Cost control
- To observe standard provided for fuel usage per hour, reduce idling time, no excessive breaking etc.
- To ensure breakages and missing bottles are eliminated to zero by following safe driving principles
Reports
- To ensure pre-trip inspection forms are filled out accurately daily
- Accurate fuel records are kept, and fuel reports submitted on time as per process
- On time submission of any DPO related reports and requirements, such as reporting of SIO’s.
- Accurate stock count sheets are submitted on time and duly signed
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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 4 the target review process;
- 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
Competency Requirements
- Form VI
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in warehouse operations
- Numeracy and literacy skills
- Fluent in English and Swahili
- Verbal and written communication skills 2
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to change effectively
- Computer literate
Additional information:
- Band: VIII
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.
