Guidance for Management, Implementation and Maintenance of SHEQ Systems:
- Provide access to resources and tools to implement Quality and Food Safety Systems
- Plan track and communicate Business System goals in line with Business Plans
- Provide support to Country Supply Chain departments to prepare for audits and to close out corrective action Plans
- Offer technical support and guidance relating to SHEQ matters in new CAPEX projects
- Ensure in-trade market surveys and SHEQ support to Customer Services
- Provide guidance and enforce implementation and maintenance of SHEQ systems (with particular reference to QA systems)
- Provide guidance and support to the operations when producing new products and/or new processes, e.g. review new product trial outcomes
- Liaise with the company and BU to improve the commercialisation processes
Provide Guidance and Support to Ensure Product Quality and Food Safety:
- Enforce laboratory efficiency and good laboratory practices and routines
- Ensure that Quality issues are investigated with proven root cause methodology used
- Monitor trends and investigate continuous deviations
- Set minimum requirements for laboratory layouts, equipment, methods and testing regimes (where the company’s standard is stricter than KO)
Track and monitor sustainability measures:
- Review plant targets for all measures against KO and HQ objectives as well as previous performance
- Monitor trends in quality data against plant and group targets
- Monitor compliance and progress against Quality Policies, e.g Quality Leading Indicators
- Monitor GAO compliance and corrective action close out status
Drive Continuous Improvement Initiatives and Ensure Alignment with CAPEX Projects:
- Provide guidance to Quality areas as part of overall SC excellence models, e.g. Manufacturing Way
- Identify improvement opportunities
- Offer technical support and guidance relating to SHEQ matters in new CAPEX projects
- Ensure all validations of production equipment are done as per KO requirements
- Assist plants to evaluate lab equipment for compliance against the company’s standards
- Liaise with the company’s IT department in terms of the digitisation process
Capability Development:
- Provide in-country capability building with emphasis on Greater Africa countries, especially newly acquired plants and/or new lines and processes
- Work with CoE’s for Quality and Food Safety to accelerate capability building across the company or establish CoE’s in East Africa where required
- Provide input into the selection of SHEQ candidates
- Where necessary, establish a COP to solve quality problems or improve processes.
- Provide a training plan for new SHEQ managers and liaise with management regarding on-boarding process
- Ensure that KO training material is incorporated into the company’s capability building initiatives
- Provide coaching and mentoring to operational SHEQ staff
- Technical training material to be developed and available for Product and Package quality improvement or for General Knowledge improvement e.g new processes
- Agrees corrective actions with functional and country leadership to address non-compliance to legal, the company’s requirements
Desired Skills:
- Minimum – BSc in Food Science or equivalent
- Advantageous – Honours in Food Science Degree or equivalent PLUS a business qualification (postgraduate diploma/ certificate an added advantage)
- Minimum 5 years work experience in a management position within the bottling industry or food industry (SHEQ experience a prerequisite)
- Advantageous – SHEQ experience at senior management level within a bottling environment
- Extensive travelling is required
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree