Country Head Logistics

The purpose of the Country Head of Logistics is to ensure alignment to overall business strategy from a logistics and planning perspective

Roles & Responsibilities

• Delivery against customer service, volume, market share
• Profitability targets in an ethical, safe, and sustainable manner
• Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders
• Ensures that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented
• Maintains 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
• Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guidelines
• Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO/VPO/LCP guidelines
• Ensures 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
• Ensures that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out of range KPI's in line with DPO/VPO/LCP methodology
• Ensures 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
• Drives a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse, inventory management & planning teams
• Ensures 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
• 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 hearing
• 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
• 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

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
• Kindly attach CV in PDF format
• 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. Interested candidates who meet the above specifications may apply no later than (29 December 2021).

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