Brewery Logistics Manager at AB InBev Tanzania

Brewery Logistics Manager

Brewery Logistics Manager at AB InBev Tanzania November 2024

locations: TANZANIA Arusha
Job Type: Full-time
job requisition id 30072734

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 Description
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.
This is Full-time Job, To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
End Date: November 12th, 2024.