Manages the maltings team and processes to deliver production, quality, cost, safety, sustainability and workforce-performance targets, while supplying high-quality malt to African breweries and serving local and international markets.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver on KPIs through VPO implementation
- Drive plant sustainability and continuous improvement
- Improve KPIs year after year toward world-class results
- Produce targeted quantities of malt for African breweries
- Manage quality and costs
- Supply malt to African breweries at competitive cost, in the right quantity and with superior quality
- Sell malt in local and international markets for small breweries and according to AB InBev commitments
- Manage costs and losses across the business by driving improvement plans and problem-solving
- Manage losses in malt handling and pre-cleaning
- Deliver, execute and manage VPO performance for the site
- Drive plant performance through means and results
- Develop people and manage the workforce by applying DPC principles, including integrity, health and well-being, skills and career development
- Manage relationships with external stakeholders
- Improve relationships with stakeholders, including farmers, procurement, the agriculture team, brewers, service providers, customers, logistics, planning and RPSS
Requirements
- MSc in Business Management, or BSc in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- Specialization in brewing, packaging or malting
- Specialization in quality management systems, laboratory management and skills management
- 5-10 years of relevant experience, of which 3-5 years at management level
- Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions (financial, operational, people) in a brewery or malting plant
- Good track record of driving performance results
- VPO experience
- Leadership and people-management skills
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship-management skills
- VPO implementation and performance-management skills
- Maltings, brewing or packaging specialization
- Quality management systems knowledge
- Laboratory management skills
- Ability to manage production quality, costs, losses and efficiency
- Commercial decision-making skills in a brewery or malting plant
- Plant sustainability and continuous-improvement skills
- Ability to deliver KPI and performance results
