Zone Inventory Specialist needed at The South African Breweries

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Zone Ownership and active management of the empties losses in the supply chain.
• Cross-functional action plans, mitigations in reducing empties’ losses.
• High level Reporting and presentations to directors and VP’s of Empties, Losses and Root-Cause Analysis.
• Strong relationship with global to ensure global best practices are adopted in the Zone.
• Tracking and reporting on empties losses and gap closure through mitigation plans put in place.
• Coach and implement best practices to mitigate excessive empties losses in inventory holding.
• Coach and implement best practice to ensure adherence to inventory count procedures and assist with coordinating monthly stock count activities.
• Manage and mitigate losses in all areas of the supply chain.
• Optimization, target-setting and tracking of losses by area.
• Identification and implementation Value-Add (VA) initiatives/opportunities.
• Returnable containers loss  budgeting, tracking and monitoring.
• Review of Daily controls impacting empties and ensuring standardized best practice is applied across the Zone.
• Maintain and ensure a high standard of data accuracy within the Inventory reporting system(s).
• Liaising with the respective planning teams to in order to deliver input into the Medium to Long-Term Inventory planning.
• Deliver input into the 1YP budgeting, tracking and measuring teams for STI performance sign off.
• Inputs into all Excellence programs undertaken by zone (DPO/VPO/LCP).
• Knowledge of MBFU and FRI processes.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors or Post-Graduate degree qualification in a relevant field: B.Sc. Degree in Engineering or Econometrics, Finance or Bachelor of Commerce in Supply Chain, Economics, Accounting Science, MBA recommended.
• 5Years experience in logistics and supply chain management and finance background.
• Experience in FMCG Industry would be advantageous.
• SYSPRO and SAP proficient.