International Breweries Plc - Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients.
Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria.
The key purpose of this role is to implement and uphold AB InBev’s safety standards, manage the brewery and regional distribution, inventory and warehousing functions, implement standard operating processes in line with DPO and VPO standards, and manage VLC, ZBB and FLC budgets in line with annual flexed targets.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Safety:
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
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.
Quality:
Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per AB InBev’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-solving tools are applied for out-of-range KPI's in line with DPO/VPO methodology.
Quality:
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, FLC 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