Brewery Logistics Manager

Job Goals

• Implement and uphold ABInBev’s safety standards.
• Optimize customer service levels and meet benchmarked productivity standards.
• Implement standard operating processes in line with DPO and VPO standards.
• Manage VLC, ZBB and SCOH costs in line with annual flexed targets.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensuring that the site(s) operates in a lawful and ethical manner, abides to the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, Road Transport Act, Governance Codes (Combined Code) of practice pertaining to Safety and Fleet Management.
• Ensuring that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented.
• Maintaining a robust system of SIO generation and close out.
• Conducting quarterly safety reviews with the Logistics and Supply Directors to identify risk trends and mitigation plans.
• Completing an annual risk review of internal and external processes, identifying relevant mitigation plans and implementing them.
• Ensuring company fleet is in good operating condition.
• Ensuring that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guidelines.
• Adhering to Zone blocking mechanisms to ensure that blocked stock is at no time a risk to our stakeholders.
• Managing 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.
• Ensuring that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO/VPO guidelines (OWD’s, SCL, MCL, mandatory meetings).
• Conducting the Daily Logistics Meeting as per the specified TOR’s listed in the DPO/VPO framework.
• Ensuring that processes are standardized via SOP’s and work standards are monitored and improved by using Operational Work Diagnoses (OWD’s).
• Tracking KPI’s on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO/VPO requirements.
• Ensuring that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out-of-range KPI’s in line with DPO/VPO methodology.
• Maintaining a healthy relationship with T1 &T2 carriers to ensure brewery throughput is maintained.
• Maintaining interactions with RD’s to identify opportunities for return of glass back to the brewery.
• Engaging with Planning Team around glass availability and sales requirements to support service level.
• Ensuring there is strict adherence to Inventory Policy within the warehouse.
• Managing Service Level Agreements (SLA) on a weekly basis with Fleet, Quality and Sales/CIC.
• Escalating relevant MBFU policy transgressions and taking appropriate actions to mitigate packaging downtime.
• Managing 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.
• Driving a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse and inventory management teams.
• Ensuring that accountability is aligned to package owners.
• Assuming overall accountability for Brewery Logistics spend on both VLC, ZBB and SCOH.
• Accounting for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL frequency.
• Driving a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse, fleet & safety, and inventory management teams.
• Ensuring that accountability is aligned to package owners.
• Assuming overall accountability for Brewery Logistics spend on both VLC, ZBB and SCOH.
• Accounting for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL frequency.
• Ensuring that the Shop Floor are aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensuring that Monthly One on Ones are conducted in line with the target review process.
• Maintaining a healthy industrial relations climate with key stakeholders through documented SLA Meetings.
• Ensuring communication channels are open to relevant stakeholders via Monthly All Employee meetings.
• Following up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern.
• Recruiting of talent and building of pipeline.
• Performing 180 reviews and addressing poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings.

Candidate Profile

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.Professional certification in Logistics, Supply Chain, or Safety Management (e.g., APICS, CILT, NEBOSH) is preferred.Minimum of 7-10 years of progressive experience in logistics, fleet management, or supply chain roles within the beverage, FMCG, or manufacturing industry.Proven experience managing fleet & safety operations adhering to OHS and transport regulations.Demonstrated track record in implementing quality management systems and driving compliance to quality guidelines.Experience in cost management, budget adherence, and financial accountability in a logistics environment.
• Hard Skills: Logistics software proficiency, inventory management systems knowledge, KPI tracking tools expertise, analytical and problem-solving skills, familiarity with legislative requirements relevant to fleet, safety, and warehouse management (OHS Act, Road Transport Act, Governance Codes), competency in using data to drive decision-making and improve operational performance.
• Soft Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to lead cross-functional teams, strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills, proven ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives and foster a positive industrial relations climate.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field. Professional certification in Logistics, Supply Chain, or Safety Management (e.g., APICS, CILT, NEBOSH) is preferred.

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