Job Summary
Purpose of the job:
To manage the logistics function within the Business, overseeing and managing the planning, scheduling, warehousing,
distribution and transportation, as supporting raw material procurement, to successfully meet customer requirements and
maintain customer satisfaction.
- Key experience required in:
- Exposure to production planning, scheduling, and warehouse management
- Development of processes and procedures for Warehouse
- Review and optimisation of Planning/Scheduling processes and procedures
- Implementation, management of changes impacting both internal and external parties
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- Implementation, management of projects involving both internal and external parties
- Supply chain/Logistics
- Management of a team – minimum of three years
- Change management
- Project management
- Vendor and SLA management of distribution partners
- Based at our Boksburg site, but due to the Warehouse team at our Springs site, travel to Springs is also required
- Minimum qualifications: National Diploma: Supply Chain Management
- Experience: 5 - 10 years of relevant experience in a related role within the food manufacturing environment
Technical Competencies:
Skills:
HSE:
Customer Service:
- Apply the skills of customer care in a specific work environment
- Apply the basic skills of customer service
Computer Skills:
- Operating computer systems
- Use a personal computer operating system
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- SAP
Projects:
- Apply a range of project management tools and
techniques
Report Writing:
- Present information in report format
- Generate information and reports for internal and external use
- Process data using information technology
Workshops/Meetings:
- Conduct a structured meeting
- Conduct a formal meeting
- Facilitate meetings/workshops effectively to achieve organisational outcomes
- Plan, develop and deliver presentations
General:
- Apply the organisation's code of conduct in a work environment
- Apply the principles of corporate governance and ethics in a function
- Apply the principles of ethics to improve organisational culture
- Apply basic business principles
- Apply problem-solving techniques to make a decision or solve a problem
- Apply research techniques to interpret and analyse data
People Supervision:
- Apply basic human resources practices
- Apply leadership concepts in a work context
Knowledge:
HSE:
- Demonstrate an understanding of HSE in the Production environment
- Demonstrate an understanding of HSE requirements for an HSE Management System
Quality:
- The principles of HACCP
- Demonstrate an understanding of Quality Control in the Production environment
- Demonstrate an understanding of quality and food safety requirements for a Quality Management System
- Customer Service
- Demonstrate an awareness of customer service
Product:
- Demonstrate knowledge of commercial oil and fat based products
- Demonstrate knowledge of the nature of edible oils and fats and their transformation into commercial oil and fat based products
- Demonstrate knowledge of the nature and composition of food
- Demonstrate knowledge of Production documentation
Process:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Planning & Scheduling
- Demonstrate knowledge of imports and exports
- Demonstrate knowledge of warehouse management
- Demonstrate knowledge of distribution and bulk transport
- Demonstrate an understanding of production, principles, methodologies, and processes
Project Management:
- Explain fundamentals of project management
