Country Logistics Lead
Summary
To ensure alignment to overall business strategy from a logistics and planning perspective. To deliver against customer service, volume, market share and profitability targets in an ethical, safe, and sustainable manner
Responsibilities
Safety & Quality
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Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.
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Ensures that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented.
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Maintains a robust system of SIO generation and close out.
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Weekly safety reviews are conducted with the teams and monthly safety reviews with the Logistics Director to identify risk trends and mitigation plans
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Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guideline
KPI’s, Routines & Reports
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Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO, VPO, LCP & internal guidelines
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Ensures that processes are standardized via SOP's and work standards are monitored and improved
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Track KPI's on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis in line with requirements
Cost Management
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Drives a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse, inventory management & planning teams.
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Ensures that accountability is aligned to package owners
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Assumes overall accountability for Country Logistics spend on both VLC, FLC and SCOH
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Develop annually together with Zone team the bottom up budgets for all packages (VLC, people, retpack, capex etc.)
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Develop annually the 1YP together with Zone
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Annual Champions initiatives and tracking of the same
People Management
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Ensure that the Logistics and Planning Teams are aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement.
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Ensures that Monthly One on Ones are conducted in line with the target review process.
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Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern.
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Recruitment of talent and building of pipeline
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Capability building of the logistics team
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Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings
Education and Qualifications
- Logistics/Supply Chain degree or another 3-year degree in related field
- Minimum 5 years manufacturing, distribution, and planning management experience within FMCG company
Requirements
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Deep knowledge of supply chain processes both from operational and planning perspective
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Proven experience with ability to influence and interface with senior stakeholders across various functions
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Proven leadership experience with an ability to convert market opportunities into cost saving initiatives
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Customer focused mind set and approach
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Demonstrate problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
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Ability to work under pressure and multitask
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Good verbal and communication skills; must communicate across all levels in the organization with personal gravitas and credibility
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Good self-management principles
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Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively.
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Strive for continuous improvement
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Strong analytic and numerical skill
Reporting To
- Logistics Director
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FMCG, Retail & Wholesale: 5 Years
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Logistics: 5 Years
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