Description:
Accountable for regional Operations best practice, integrating various functional activities and ensuring adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures in order to enable regional operations. This role will work with various closely related variables, spanning across different functional areas and requires an understanding of organisational processes, procedures, standards and controls.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role is to enable achievement of regional operations AOP targets through managing and overseeing all regional activities required for proactive, effective and efficient operations management and to do so in adherence to an operational and financial framework of practices, processes, standards and controls.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
Actively engage at regional level in the End-to-End Sales and Operational Planning Process
Contribute to the Material Planning process as well as the execution of the Material Plan for region of responsibility
Ensure that the Daily Production / Manufacturing Schedule is aligned to ensure delivery in line with customer requirements
Work in conjunction with the Head of Supply Chain Planning and Regional Logistics Manager to guarantee order fulfilment in line with customer requirements, cost, quality and time parameters
Produce / Manufacture Product
Sign-Off on the Master Production / Manufacturing Schedule
Monitor the Daily Production / Manufacturing Schedule to ensure timeous product delivery to customers
Oversee the entire end to end Production/Manufacturing process for relevant region
Drive process optimisation, adherence to Standard Operating Processes
Accountable for Raw Material Management, Raw Materials and Packaging (Receiving)
Quality Assurance and Control
Monitor the execution and maintenance of an operational QA Framework of practices, processes, policies and procedures, standards and controls for application across region of responsibility
Oversee quality assurance assessments and advise on corrective actions where necessary
Drive adherence to Quality and Food Safety Standards for the business to protect the brand
Comply with the statutory requirements of Food Safety for the business
Infrastructure Maintenance
Ensure that all Infrastructure are maintained to ensure optimal capacity usage and availability
Strong engineering acumen to analyse capacity bottlenecks and ability to find options to address those.
Prevent deterioration of assets
SHERQ framework, initiatives and communications
Monitor the execution and maintenance of a SHERQ Framework of practices, processes, policies and procedures, standards and controls for application across all geographies
Knowledge of local SHERQ norms and drive compliance in region of responsibility
Monitor the implementation and impact of mitigations / corrective actions and provide advice where required
General Business, Financial and Peopl