Background

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?

Role Purpose

The key purpose for this role is to identify, co-operate and actively participate in strategic & systemic level value chain improvement initiatives and to provide leadership for the implementation of prioritized Strategic intents from the VPO Manufacturing Strategy for the Malting Plant.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities

• Lead sustainability of the VPO (Voyager Plant Optimization) pillars within the plant as measured by global auditing criteria (coordination of sustainability phase from self-assessments to follow up of action plans
• Ensure that Africa / Global standards have been implemented in the Plant
• Manage the VPO program via a structured VPO Steercom
• Ensure VPO Pillar Owner compliance
• Develop annual VPO plan and set short term plans to achieve these targets
• Monitor VPO progress across all pillars and provide feedback
• If Zone / Global standards have been adapted due to plant specifics these changes have been approved by Zone
• Serve as the Plant VPO subject matter expert and provide guidance to Maltings Plant Senior Management
• Primary VPO resource for the plant
• Facilitate the Plant 1year and 3-year planning process
• Manage MCRS
• Evaluate plant meetings and provide feedback to managers on meeting effectiveness and identify opportunities to improve structure and tool usage
• Actively participate and critique plant daily, weekly and monthly meetings and ensure VPO standards are fully implemented and sustained
• Assist Department Management teams in developing sustainability plans to identify and close gaps
• Lead and coach Managers on the correct use of the Management pillar tools and methodologies
• Conduct monthly Management Pillar department reviews and provide constructive feedback to departments on current status with recommendations to drive continuous improvement
• Coaches and guides all levels on the VPO Management Pillar in practice
• Ensure implementation of VPO and the adherence to VPO principles across all pillars
• Ensure that where training implementation is undertaken, it is done following ABInBev policies and procedures.
• Interact with management teams to determine training needs.
• Where necessary, develop training material to address specific needs of shift based and engineering teams.
• Lead, facilitate and coach Problem Solving (5-Why, Ab-reports, PDCA, Gapa, ITF, Belts)
• Conduct problem solving training
• Facilitate problem solving teams
• Review progress and report on effectiveness of problem solving
• Support Maltings Plant achievement of Supply KPI targets and results:
• Verify KPI results tracking for ZEP/WEP programs
• Support KPI training / education at all levels
• Ensure the accurate and timely submission of monthly VPO reporting inf
• Work with Line managers to deliver HR processes:
• Ensure the overall health of human capital and people practices in the business unit
• Establish/monitor the HR processes throughout the year and coach the line managers
• Ensure excellent execution of the HR processes within the business unit/function
• Identify & implement the organizational capabilities required to achieve function goals
• Collaborate with specialist teams to create effective and integrated HR solutions for teams & individuals
• Diagnose business performance problems and collaborate with specialist teams to create effective and integrated HR solutions for teams & individuals
• Provide feedback to specialist teams about HR solution effectiveness and work with them as appropriate to identify continuous improvement opportunities
• Monitor organization performance & provide data for the people/organization scorecard
• Meet local delivery needs(e.g. employee relations/industrial relations, statutory/regulatory requirements)pulling on specialists and others as required
• Participate in the governance of HR Operations to define and review the quality and the cost of the service provided
• Ensure data integrity of HR information at local level
• Provide input to the People Manager to agree on the organization/people agenda in the Region
• Agree on a common set of priority needs from the Specialist teams
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of the on-boarding programs
• Encourage and monitor use of tools, evaluate competency gaps
• Develop coaching skills within line managers by providing tools and observing and providing feedback
• Recruit deliberately for competencies as observed through coaching and/or ensure PDPs are aligned to ensure acquisition and/or development of critical management skills

Minimum Requirements

Min – Tertiary qualification in Psychology / Human Resources

Additional Business Qualification (Advantageous) Training:

Min – 3-6 months on the job training. Ideal – 6-9 months on the job training

Three of more year Human Resources Generalist experience

Completed Supply Traineeship (Advantageous)

• Lead sustainability of the VPO (Voyager Plant Optimization) pillars within the plant as measured by global auditing criteria (coordination of sustainability phase from self-assessments to follow up of action plans
• Ensure that Africa / Global standards have been implemented in the Plant
• Manage the VPO program via a structured VPO Steercom
• Ensure VPO Pillar Owner compliance
• Develop annual VPO plan and set short term plans to achieve these targets
• Monitor VPO progress across all pillars and provide feedback
• If Zone / Global standards have been adapted due to plant specifics these changes have been approved by Zone
• Serve as the Plant VPO subject matter expert and provide guidance to Maltings Plant Senior Management
• Primary VPO resource for the plant
• Facilitate the Plant 1year and 3-year planning process
• Manage MCRS
• Evaluate plant meetings and provide feedback to managers on meeting effectiveness and identify opportunities to improve structure and tool usage
• Actively participate and critique plant daily, weekly and monthly meetings and ensure VPO standards are fully implemented and sustained
• Assist Department Management teams in developing sustainability plans to identify and close gaps
• Lead and coach Managers on the correct use of the Management pillar tools and methodologies
• Conduct monthly Management Pillar department reviews and provide constructive feedback to departments on current status with recommendations to drive continuous improvement
• Coaches and guides all levels on the VPO Management Pillar in practice
• Ensure implementation of VPO and the adherence to VPO principles across all pillars
• Ensure that where training implementation is undertaken, it is done following ABInBev policies and procedures.
• Interact with management teams to determine training needs.
• Where necessary, develop training material to address specific needs of shift based and engineering teams.
• Lead, facilitate and coach Problem Solving (5-Why, Ab-reports, PDCA, Gapa, ITF, Belts)
• Conduct problem solving training
• Facilitate problem solving teams
• Review progress and report on effectiveness of problem solving
• Support Maltings Plant achievement of Supply KPI targets and results:
• Verify KPI results tracking for ZEP/WEP programs
• Support KPI training / education at all levels
• Ensure the accurate and timely submission of monthly VPO reporting inf
• Work with Line managers to deliver HR processes:
• Ensure the overall health of human capital and people practices in the business unit
• Establish/monitor the HR processes throughout the year and coach the line managers
• Ensure excellent execution of the HR processes within the business unit/function
• Identify & implement the organizational capabilities required to achieve function goals
• Collaborate with specialist teams to create effective and integrated HR solutions for teams & individuals
• Diagnose business performance problems and collaborate with specialist teams to create effective and integrated HR solutions for teams & individuals
• Provide feedback to specialist teams about HR solution effectiveness and work with them as appropriate to identify continuous improvement opportunities
• Monitor organization performance & provide data for the people/organization scorecard
• Meet local delivery needs(e.g. employee relations/industrial relations, statutory/regulatory requirements)pulling on specialists and others as required
• Participate in the governance of HR Operations to define and review the quality and the cost of the service provided
• Ensure data integrity of HR information at local level
• Provide input to the People Manager to agree on the organization/people agenda in the Region
• Agree on a common set of priority needs from the Specialist teams
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of the on-boarding programs
• Encourage and monitor use of tools, evaluate competency gaps
• Develop coaching skills within line managers by providing tools and observing and providing feedback
• Recruit deliberately for competencies as observed through coaching and/or ensure PDPs are aligned to ensure acquisition and/or development of critical management skills

• Problem Solving (5-Why, Ab-reports, PDCA, Gapa, ITF, Belts)
• Coaching
• Training Development
• HR Processes Management
• Data Integrity
• Organizational Capability Development
• Employee Relations
• Industrial Relations
• Statutory/Regulatory Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Psychology / Human Resources
• Additional Business Qualification (Advantageous)
• Three of more year Human Resources Generalist experience
• Completed Supply Traineeship (Advantageous)