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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:

• We are looking for a Demand Planning Lead (SSA) to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located in Cape Town, Western Cape and will report to the Senior Director: SPL Groceries and Essential Foods. The key objective of the DP Lead is to envision a short, medium, and long-term roadmap to enable people, process, and system strategy for the Pioneer Demand Planning function. The DP Lead must deliver FA targets while providing strategic direction to the function. Immediate key deliverables include setting up the DP organization with sector expertise and co-creating a Demand Planning Automation strategy. The DP Lead will be responsible for all RSA businesses and, in the medium to long term, for delivering centre lining of current processes and harmonizing them with standard AMESA DP processes. This role is tasked with optimizing demand planning accuracy (targeting >60%) within the constraints of available forecasting models and tools. Maintaining service levels to all customers at >95% is a primary objective.

The scope of this position includes the following business units (BUs):

• Groceries
• Essential Foods
• Bakeries
• Simba

The successful candidate will also be responsible for supporting customers with the following:

• Lead DP strategic roadmap for individual category
• Set up governance against S&OP and Demand Review Processes
• Lead change management across the organization for new DP initiatives
• Develop demand forecast processes, tools and monitoring result.
• Implement best is class practices as prescribed by Sector or PEP Global.
• Gather, challenge and finalize demand to get realistic demand in order to optimize business opportunity
• Do weekly rolling forecast on M0,M1,M2 and M3
• Establish a close and well aligned relationship with Sales teams
• Fully align and integrate with the work of the Supply Planning Lead and team.
• Drive and measure forecast accuracy with finding cause and do correction plan
• Drive S&OP meeting agenda
• Ensure stock available for sales at the right product in all DC in order to protect OOS and avoid aging inventory, by leasing with all cross functional team (sales/Customer service/Supply Chain team) with right forecast and plan
• Raise key issue or communicate key message in Sales meeting in order to ensure all functional work as one team

Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain / Industrial Engineering or related fields
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Strong cross functional linkages require alignment with Sales teams
• Process oriented and having eye for detail
• Capacity to manage a large team of indirect reports
• Must be able to work across functional boundaries and within lots of uncertainty
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities in convincing & influencing stakeholders and top leaders of the organisation
• Create & socialize agenda and push within organization
• Lead by example when it comes to accept new processes and challenges
• Stakeholder management especially in conflicting situation
• Decision Making – act independently
• Innovating and supportive of change / new processes
• Driving for results and efficiencies
• Creating an Inclusive Culture with team
• Building & Inspiring others even outside his/ her team
• Collaborating & Influencing colleagues and teams

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Responsibilities
What we're looking for:

We're looking for a Business Systems Analyst to join our team. The successful incumbent will: 

• Analyze and optimize business processes.
• Analyst required to ensure our operations are timely, efficient and cost-effective through management of all stock transfer or customer delivery activities.
• Analyze trends to ensure that we are optimizing our customer service delivery and
• Manage the process to effectively deal with non-profitable routes and add explore white spaces with the opportunity for additional customers.
• Engage the BU stake holders into regular reviews and conversations to increase our distribution footprint and route spatial design.
• Design and monitor KPI dashboards across multiple BU’s.
• Mapping the business processes and align with the PGT requirements.

Accountabilities:

• Analyze existing processes and identify areas for optimization of people, process, and technology. Evaluate the end-to-end processes and related sub processes.
• Facilitate business process mapping sessions, analyze processes, risk, and recommend controls or actions to mitigate the risk.
• During the process analysis document policies and procedures pertaining to the process.
• When evaluating a business process evaluate operational history, reporting needs and advise on standard reporting KPI’s supporting the process.
• Making recommendations to management for opportunities or improvements, evaluating the history and future forecasted savings or business plans in motivation.
• Review and maintain policies and procedures for the business processes.
• facilitate individual monthly workshops with the BU’s to analyze the route to market with specific attention to the execution of the spatial plan and unprofitable routes.
• Overlay of the spatial plan and identification white spaces that can be explored.
• Analyze the unprofitable routes facilitate the discussions with the BU’s to optimize the opportunities.
• Implement business projects and functionality deployment.
• Implement standards and process improvements across BU’s.
• Analyze the risk and propose business rules or controls that govern the process.
• Maintain detailed documentation of processes and procedures.
• Perform regular system reviews and ensure the best practice are followed.
• Implementation of new business units.
• Responsible for compiling training literature and where necessary conducting the training.
• Liaison between business and SAP partners. (Service no longer provided by BCX or Group IT)
• Analyze system requirements and perform user acceptance testing and confirm that the quality standards are met.
• Integration testing between different system platforms
• Program quality testing (UAT- testing)
• Direct store delivery (DSD) process and system support – unique to bakeries.
• Provide training and support to users.
• Perform user acceptance testing for any DSD related system changes.
• Regularly review the performance of the mobility process and device usage.
• Assist BU’s with difficult account clearing issues, investigate driver differences and recommend corrective system actions and oversee the system updates.
• Participate and evaluate in any activities regarding the integration between DSD and Rapid trade or other integrated platforms.
• Governance Risk and compliance (GRC)
• Perform yearly User Risk Analysis and mitigation.
• Resolve segregation of duty issues.
• Provision user access requests for SAP, BI and EWM.
• Request purchasing authorization amendments.
• Ensure the governance and authorizations is in support of the control environment.
• Reporting and data needs.
• Investigate and deliver reporting needs expressed by management.
• Design and implement supporting dashboards for KPI’s
• Gather information for hoc requests for data or reports.
• Compile reporting templates for business.
• Help achieve business objectives by monitoring the objectives and KPI’s.
• Analyze customer service targets, supporting the improvement agenda.
• Control Self-Assessment monitoring (GCS).
• Follow up overdue controls.
• Compile monthly KPI reports.
• Review the effective monitoring and tracking of the order to cash cycle across BU’s.
• Review the weekly highlighted variances and add commentary for the order to cash process KPI’s and ensure it is followed up by the BU’s.
• Complete and send out the DRM service-related information with commentary and follow up the variances with the BU’s.
• Review the weekly actions dashboards for follow up on progress on the agreed actions.
• Review the monthly master data KPI reports and include the relevant data into the monthly report for the MBR meeting.

Qualifications

• At least four years previous Business Analysis experience within FMCG environment.
• Excellent communication, organizational and planning skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of ERP systems and SAP & business systems (MES, HMI)
• Above normal Excel and Power BI skills is essential.
• Attention to detail.
• Experienced in working with tight deadlines and making own decisions to manage tasks.
• A good team player that is flexible and is flexible to help with any emergency and company needs
• The role requires the analysis data patterns and to identify trends to ensure we are optimizing our processes and systems.

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Responsibilities

• Routine laboratory testing of various product matrices and the interpretation.
• Recording and reporting of results to customers for the timeous releasing of product to production and to trade.
• Raising and Actioning of Non-Conformances and root cause analysis within due time.
• Contributing and adherence to the food safety and laboratory systems.
• General Up keep and Housekeeping of the laboratories.
• General maintenance and verification of laboratory equipment.

Qualifications

• Qualification in the Science field.
• Team player.
• Sound knowledge of GMP, AIB, HACCP, BRC, FOOD SAFETY, SANS 17025.
• Safety Protocols and Procedures.
• Willingness to form part of the Safety/ Food safety Team and foster Safety/ Food Safety culture in the department.
• Quality awareness.
• Sensory analysis.
• MSDSm – Material Safety Data Sheet.
• Control Records/Record keeping.
• Reading and Writing.
• Scheduled rotations between packaging, chemical and microbiological labs.
• General housekeeping.
• Attention to detail when working with ingredients/pulps/concentrates/ Packaging where deviations are present. Must be able to highlight faulty products.
• Willingness to grow and to learn other roles in the department.
• Must be able to work under pressure and communicate effectively and timeously about work related issues.
• Must be able to act as owner and take initiative workplace deviations and tasks.
• Reporting of results daily, weekly and monthly.
• Willingness to work overtime, weekends when required and the willingness to grow.
• Adhoc tasks.
• Embody the Pepsico values.

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Responsibilities

What we’re looking for

• We are looking for a Logistics Controller to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located in Isando, Gauteng and will be reporting to the Plant Lead. The role is responsible for managing the overall receiving of incoming materials teams and delivering effective management of site KPIs and recoveries of site finances.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for the following:

• Management of incoming raw materials stores (Packaging & Bulk Raw Materials) and ensuring on time receipts of stock on SAP
• Management of movement of stock from inbound stores into production slocs as well as reverse movements; all stock movements accom
• Coordinate inbound stores cycle counts, investigate variances and report on losses
• Responsible to deliver stock record accuracy of the inbound stores locations in conjunction with operational site teams
• Responsible for developing continuous improvement plans aimed at improving KPIs in the inbound warehouse space
• Develop and maintain inventory management controls and standards aimed at ensuring stock record accuracy > 95%
• Deliver Monthly stock counts for all raw materials on site in line with Corporate Governance and Operational Controls
• Deliver weekly/ Monthly scorecards for the plant and co-ordinate performance reports for the Inbound Lead
• Management of GOR process of all returned materials and allocation of any usages within the plant
• Timeous capturing of the Audit result on the Europe GCS Portal as per communicated timelines by the Internal Audit team.
• Manage and develop key roles within the Logistics/ Receiving Department
• Storemen
• Raw Material Handlers

Compliance EHS/ Quality & Food Safety:

• Ensure housekeeping and hygiene practices inside/outside facilities (AIB) to ensure a rating of >900
• Ensure 100% adherence to Health, Safety and AIB procedures and regulations.

People:

• Implement good communication structure and communicate to staff on regular basis.
• Responsible to deliver agreed targets (KPI’s) relating to warehouse performance.
• Managing staff performance and take corrective action.
• Identify training needs for warehouse staff.
• Ensure sound management policies and practices are in place and adhered to.
• Managing outsourced company personnel and labour optimisation.
• Plan and set shifts for Warehouse employees.
• Responsible to ensure the maintenance of Equipment and Machinery in accordance with agreed budgets, service

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role

• 4-6 years relevant experience including people management
• Tertiary qualification in Financial management
• Cost Accounting a prerequisite
• Experience managing Creditors
• Ability to budget and forecast
• Directing and managing the day-to-day activities of various people to compile weekly and monthly results timeously
• Computer literate – MS Office and Advanced Excel
• Minimum 5 years in a Manufacturing environment
• SAP and P2P knowledge an advantage
• Attention to detail /Problem solving skills/ Strong Drive for result
• Sound Manufacturing experience and financial reporting of finances
• Leadership skills to run a department of employees and maintain positive morale along with business results, all with very little oversight.

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Responsibilities
What are we looking for?

• Achievement of revenue and volume target as per Annual Operating Plan
• Achievement of 100% customer call rate
• Achieve 90% strike rate
• Maintain 0.5% stales threshold rate
• Obtain new business as per Annual Operating Plan
• Manage cash and stock
• Pull, analyse reports to drive continuous improvement on route
• Support company cost control through efficient driving of vehicle
• Comply with all functional and non-functional company policies and procedures, e.g. Sales, Health and Safety, etc.
• Housekeeping and maintenance of company assets, e.g Hand-Held Computers, Vehicle, Uniform, Mobile phone, etc

Qualifications
What will qualify you for this role?

• 3 year Business/Commercial Tertiary qualification
• 3 years working experience in FMCG environment, with 1 year in a selling role/selling experience
• Minimum 1 year experience operating a vehicle
• Valid Code 10 driver's license
• Valid Public Drivers Permit
• Certified Defensive Driver Certification

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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:

• Coach, train & develop Salesman and Sales Assistants using company training & development programmes
• Performance manage subordinates in accordance with company standard & policies & in conjunction with HR Manager & RSM recruit as necessary to maintain a full staff compliment.
• Achieve top line volume plan.
• Control all operating costs & ensure all salesmen return cartons.
• Motivate & lead the area team to achieve the highest standard of excellence.
• Monitor Sales & KPI activities & ensure all route sales targets are achieved.
• Coach, train & develop Salesman and Sales Assistants using company training & development programmes
• Performance manage subordinates in accordance with company standard & policies & in conjunction with HR Manager & RSM recruit as necessary to maintain a full staff compliment.
• Co-ordinate Area account plans to ensure areas delivery towards the regional plan in the organised trade.
• Review & present volume, expenditure & profitability actual/forecast Vs plan to RSM and NFSM.
• Liaise with external merchandising services to achieve the most effective merchandising practices.
• Identify business opportunities & implement agreed plans to overcome shortfalls to ensure continuous business growth.

Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role

• Tertiary qualification in the business-related field
• Financial acumen
• Computer literacy
• Code 8 Licence
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in an FMCG sales environment
• Strong people management skills (minimum 3 years)
• Ability to work in a pressurised environment
• Strong administration skills

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Responsibilities

• Running diagnostic tests on vehicles.
• Analyzing diagnostic test results.
• Replacing vehicle engines, steering mechanisms, transmissions and braking systems.
• Checking vehicle lighting systems.
• Test driving vehicles to gauge performance.
• Performing preventative maintenance on service trucks.
• Maintaining detailed records of serviced vehicles.
• Adhering to an inspection procedure checklist.
• Maintaining a parts inventory.
• Ensuring the cleanliness of the shop.
• Conduct field visits in the case of an emergency or sudden breakdown

Qualifications

• Diesel Mechanic Trade Test Certificate
• Valid driver's license.
• Advanced knowledge of diesel engine components.
• Good diagnostic skills.
• Physically fit
• Proficiency with maintenance and repair tools.
• Attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good organization skills.
• Qualified Diesel Mechanic
• Code 10 Drivers license
• Must be willing to do standby and be available for callouts

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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:

• We’re looking for a Financial Manager: Britos Bakery who will joing our team. The successful incumbent will supervise the accounting function of the unit. Responsible for the maintenance of accounting and financial practises / policies. Liaises with uni in preparation of budgets and financial reports. Other functions include, internal audits, training, master data maintenance, financial process control, and authorisation control.

Accountabilities: 

• Reporting and analysis including periodic reporting, periodic forecast analysis and deck preparation.
• Supporting strategic plan and AOP development, including deck analysis and deck preparation.
• Manage working capital and plan, co-ordinate and compile monthly reports.
• Assisting a broad range of senior leaders in actuals vs plan/forecast and analysis.
• Develop unit financial procedures and train employees on financial systems, policies and procedures.
• Manage internal financial authorizations, systems and audits.
• Manage own team.
• Provide ad-hoc projects and analysis as requested.
• Support the Bakery Team to manage budgets in an effective and efficient manner.
• Driving and ensuring compliance with PepsiCo Global standards and policies.

Qualifications
Qualifications:

• University degree, with Professional accounting qualification recommended

Previous Experience:

• Experienced accounting background
• Knowledge of food industry/baking/beverage business or comparable FMCG/retail businesses
• Experience of PepsiCo Reporting, Planning and Control processes
• Advance Computer literacy - MS Office (Word;Excel;Powerpoint) & SAP