Packaging Manager at Diageo/Serengeti Breweries

Packaging Manager at Diageo/Serengeti Breweries

Packaging Manager

Diageo/Serengeti Breweries

Job Description :

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

SBL was incorporated in 1988 as Associated Breweries Limited and changed its name to Serengeti Breweries Limited in 2002 and commenced commercial operations in 1996 with one brewery in Dar es Salaam. The company was acquired by EABL in October 2010 and has three breweries located in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Moshi.

SBL flagship brand is Serengeti Premium Lager. Other brand portfolios include Guinness and Plisner. Headquartered in Dar es Salaam, SBL is also the distributor of several global Diageo international renowned spirit brands such as Johnnie Walker®, Smirnoff Vodka®, Bailey’s Irish Cream ®, Richot®, Bond 7 Whiskey® and Gilbeys Gin®.

About the Function:
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

Scope of the role

To plan, organize and direct packaging activities including maintenance so as to deliver target packaged volumes to match sales forecast. To ensure efficient and cost effective production of all SBL brands to meet both local and export demand and achieve the company’s strategic objective of remaining the market leader in premium beverage production in Africa. To manage inter departmental alignment.

Purpose of Role

Provide strategic leadership to the packaging department to achieve best in class status in all the areas of operations. This includes

• Safety of the people and the operations; Environment; Full compliance to:
• Legal/governmental regulations and requirements
• Diageo/EABL/SBL procures, standards and code of business conduct
• Quality systems requirements such as ISO, FSCC etc. to drive and maintain excellent quality performance

To ensure efficient and cost-effective production, to deliver bright beer in line with production plan, adhering to highest quality standards and within budget.

Continuously improving the performance of the operations to reduce losses and costs and improve quality and efficiencies.

The packaging manager is responsible for the full process on the bottling line and people management.

Top Accountabilities

• Fully accountable for managing the packaging department team.
• On time and safe production (packaging) of all required products in the production plan, up to the required quality standards.
• Ensuring full compliance of the packaging department operations to all applicable legal/governmental requirements/regulations as well as Diageo/EABL/SBL standards, procedures and code of business conduct.
• Ensuring continuous improvement of the packaging department operations in terms of service level, operational efficiencies, cost efficiencies and safety. Actively identifying with the team areas of improvement and implementation of these improvement plans.
• MMS deployment through embedding BP in WoW and Process confirmation to achieve Excellence in World Class as ITF Lead
• Ensuring full control of all the costs and losses in the packaging department operations – while managing minimization of both.
• Ensuring comprehensive inventory control and hand over from brewing to packaging department and from packaging department to warehousing – which is fully updated in the SAP system.
• Planning of team schedules, overtime, leave and absenteeism.
• Growing the performance of the team by:
• Evaluating team members’ performance according to the SBL performance review cycle
• Coaching and developing the team
• Identifying training needs and providing training to the team members
• Ensuring compliance to all required quality systems standards, such as ISO, HACCP, FSCC etc.
• Management of reliability and efficiency op packaging process by ensuring proper, timely and efficient autonomous maintenance (small maintenance by packaging staff) as well as breakdown resolutions.

Qualifications and experience required

Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering
• Master brewer/IBD certification add advantage

Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in brewing/packaging industry and awareness of production/quality/maintenance technologies and best practices in the FMCG industry
• Experience with quality systems, food safety systems and occupational health and safety management in the food & beverage industries
• Excellent data management and analysis skills is a must.

Rewards & Benefits Statement

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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