Packaging Manager at Diageo
Job Description
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
o  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
How to Apply:
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