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• Company: Zambian Breweries Plc
• Location: Zambia
• State: Lusaka
• Job type: Full-Time
• Job category: Logistics/Transportation Jobs in Zambia

ZAMBIAN BREWERIES PLC

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Zambian Breweries Plc is a stable and mature company. Our affiliation to AB Inbev gives our employees a sense of pride and that of belonging to the biggest international brewing company in the world. Zambian Breweries attaches great importance to the development of its employees. The Company offers opportunities for all to learn develop and grow, whilst offering challenging career opportunities for lateral or vertical advancement. Zambian Breweries PLC is an equal opportunities employer and we promote gender equality in the company.

We are therefore inviting applications to fill the following vacant position in the Logistics Department, Ndola;

BREWERY LOGISTICS MANAGER-NDOLA x 1

Grade: VI-B Contract: Permanent

The successful candidates will report to the Country Logistics Lead Zambia and will be mainly responsible for the following:

• Manage Brewery Logistics operations – Warehouse & Distribution according to VPO and DPO standards, routines and reporting.
• Accountable for cost management of Ndola site including VLC and FLC as well as ZBB (Inventory Counting differences; Breakages and Supply Chain Overheads of the site.
• Completes an annual risk review of internal and external processes, identifying relevant mitigation plans and implementing them.
• Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guidelines.
• Manage 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.
• Engages with Planning Team around glass availability and sales requirements to support service level.
• Maintains interactions with RD’s to identify opportunities for return of glass back to the brewery.
• 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.
• Accounts for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL frequency.
• Assumes overall accountability for Brewery Logistics spend on both VLC, FLC and SCOH.
• Ensure that the Shop Floor is aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintains a robust system of SIO generation and close out.
• Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings.
• Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern.

This job is particularly suitable for candidates who meet the following requirements:-

• Grade 12 certificate with Six credits
• Minimum Degree or diploma in a related field
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in a production plant
• Ability to communicate well
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Proven leadership capability (high team engagement)
• Proven problem-solving skills and ability to apply problem-solving tools and strategies for root cause analysis
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment.
• Presentation and communication skills (PowerPoint & Excel skills are essential)
• Good decision-making ability
• Ability to analyze data; trend analysis and numerical ability

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