Website AB InBev Africa
We represent AB InBev, the world’s leading brewer. On the African continent, our footprint spans 12 countries—South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, and Mauritius. For generations, we have made a variety of Africa’s most preferred beverages— from the award-winning Carling Black Label in South Africa to the vibrant 2M in Mozambique; from Kilimanjaro Lager, Tanzania’s first easy drinking beer to Hero Premium Lager in Nigeria, we are bringing people together through our wide portfolio of brands.
About the job
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?
The key purpose of this role is to support safety excellence within the Logistics Excellence Program (LogEP), which encompasses three key streams: DPO (Distribution Process Optimization), VPO (Voyager Plant Optimization), and LCP (Logistics Centralized Processes) in Finance. This position specifically focuses on the Safety Pillar within DPO and LCP, ensuring alignment between the two streams, and strives for safety excellence across sites, countries/regions, and business units, while supporting process effectiveness.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Safety reporting
- Ensure Monthly T&M updated with your respective sections
- Implement and own the dedicated carrier routines with our AbInbev teams, including SLA management into the routines
- Ensure weekly telemetry reports are communicated
- Identify key monthly focus points, from opportunities defined through reporting
- Safety Standards:
- Identify critical Safety standards, and ensure accurate SOP’s in place
- Ensure all critical SOP’s communicated and Regional/Country roll-out where executed by the respective Safety and Fleet teams
- Ensure Critical SOP’s have been communicated to all Dedicated Carriers
Training
- Safe Together: Ensure roll-out plans developed and executed
- Safe Together: Introduce PowerBI tool to all sites and zone
- Safe Together: Identify key opportunities from the PowerBI reports, and use insights for future process improvements
- Dedicated Carriers: Entrench quarterly training/coaching sessions with Dedicated Carriers
- Safety campaign development and execution through Regional Safety and Fleet teams
- Other: Coordination and tracking of all other
Digital Migration
- Spotlight: Ensure sign-off of Safety Module within Spotlight. This might include report specifications, User Acceptance Testing, Sit adoption support and effectiveness of information management
- Telemetry: Ensure successful roll-out of selected telemetry across sites
- Acadia: Implementation of Acadia to manage and control versions for all Safety standards and training material
- IAL: Implement the critical site Safety meetings, and track adherence and effectiveness of these meetings
Safety Ways of Work (WoW)
- Develop Site Safety and Fleet teams Roles and Responsibility matrix
- The above matrix must include dedicated carrier Roles and Responsibilities within our operational WoW
- Ensure involvement of Dedicated Carrier within all site routines
- Ensure solid SLA’s in place with Dedicated Carriers
Minimum Requirements:
- Relevant Bachelors degree in Safety, Supply Chain Management or Logistics
- 3 – 5 years Safety (specifically on Warehouse and Delivery) experience in FMCG
- Strong Analytical skills
- Demonstrable problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
- Must be able to work under continuous pressure for extended periods
Additional Information:
- Band VI
- Work might involve travelling within Africa countries.
SAB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/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. In accordance with South African Breweries Pty (ltd) duty to provide and maintain a workplace that is safe for of our employees and their families, our customers and visitors, and the community at large from infectious diseases that may be reduced by vaccinations, we require all new appointments to be vaccinated as a condition of employment at our company
