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The Key Purpose of this role is to ensure alignment to overall business strategy from a logistics and planning perspective. To deliver against customer service, volume, market share and profitability targets in an ethical, safe, and sustainable manner.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Safety & Quality

• Ensure a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented.
• Maintain a robust system of SIO generation and close out.
• Weekly safety reviews are conducted with the teams and monthly safety reviews with the Logistics Director to identify risk trends and mitigation plans
• Ensure that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guidelines;

DPO/VPO/LCP

• Ensure that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO/VPO/LCP guidelines
• Ensure that processes are standardized via SOP’s and work standards are monitored and improved
• Track KPI’s on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO/VPO/LCP requirements;
• Ensure that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out of range KPI’s in line with DPO/VPO/LCP methodology.

KPI’s, Routines & Reports

• Ensure that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO, VPO, LCP & internal guidelines
• Ensure that processes are standardized via SOP’s and work standards are monitored and improved
• Track KPI’s on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis in line with requirements
• Ensure that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out of range KPI’s in line with LCP, DPO 7 VPO methodology.
• Publish reports on time as per LCP, DPO & VPO guidelines and internal processes.

People Management

• Ensure that the Logistics and Planning Teams 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.
• Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern.
• Recruitment of talent and building of pipeline
• Capability building of the logistics team
• Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings.

Cost Management

• Drive a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse, inventory management & planning teams.
• Ensure that accountability is aligned to package owners
• Assumes overall accountability for Country Logistics spend on both VLC, FLC and SCOH
• Develop annually together with Zone team the bottom up budgets for all packages (VLC, people, retpack, capex etc.)
• Develop annually the 1YP together with Zone
• Annual Champions initiatives and tracking of the same

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Customer focused mind set and approach
• Demonstrate problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Ability to work under pressure and multitask
• Good verbal and communication skills; must communicate across all levels in the organization with personal gravitas and credibility
• Good self-management principles
• Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
• Strive for continuous improvement
• Strong analytic and numerical skills

Minimum Requirements:

• Logistics/Supply Chain degree or another 3-year degree in related field
• Minimum 5 years manufacturing, distribution, and planning management experience within FMCG company
• Deep knowledge of supply chain processes both from operational and planning perspective
• Proven experience with ability to influence and interface with senior stakeholders across various functions
• Proven leadership experience with an ability to convert market opportunities into cost saving initiatives

Additional Information:

• BAND: V

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.

• Ensure a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented.
• Maintain a robust system of SIO generation and close out.
• Weekly safety reviews are conducted with the teams and monthly safety reviews with the Logistics Director to identify risk trends and mitigation plans
• Ensure that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guidelines;
• Ensure that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO/VPO/LCP guidelines
• Ensure that processes are standardized via SOP’s and work standards are monitored and improved
• Track KPI’s on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO/VPO/LCP requirements;
• Ensure that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out of range KPI’s in line with DPO/VPO/LCP methodology.
• Ensure that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO, VPO, LCP & internal guidelines
• Ensure that processes are standardized via SOP’s and work standards are monitored and improved
• Track KPI’s on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis in line with requirements
• Ensure that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out of range KPI’s in line with LCP, DPO 7 VPO methodology.
• Publish reports on time as per LCP, DPO & VPO guidelines and internal processes.
• Ensure that the Logistics and Planning Teams 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.
• Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern.
• Recruitment of talent and building of pipeline
• Capability building of the logistics team
• Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings.
• Drive a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse, inventory management & planning teams.
• Ensure that accountability is aligned to package owners
• Assumes overall accountability for Country Logistics spend on both VLC, FLC and SCOH
• Develop annually together with Zone team the bottom up budgets for all packages (VLC, people, retpack, capex etc.)
• Develop annually the 1YP together with Zone
• Annual Champions initiatives and tracking of the same

• Customer focused mind set and approach
• Demonstrate problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Ability to work under pressure and multitask
• Good verbal and communication skills; must communicate across all levels in the organization with personal gravitas and credibility
• Good self-management principles
• Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
• Strive for continuous improvement
• Strong analytic and numerical skills

• Logistics/Supply Chain degree or another 3-year degree in related field
• Minimum 5 years manufacturing, distribution, and planning management experience within FMCG company
• Deep knowledge of supply chain processes both from operational and planning perspective
• Proven experience with ability to influence and interface with senior stakeholders across various functions
• Proven leadership experience with an ability to convert market opportunities into cost saving initiatives