Ghana S&OP Manager at Anheuser-Busch InBev

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, commonly known as AB InBev, is a multinational drink and brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium. AB InBev has a global functional management office in New York City, and regional headquarters in São Paulo, London, St. Louis, Mexico City, Bremen, Johannesburg and others.

Overall Purpose of the Job:

• Ensuring alignment to overall business strategy, deliver against 1YP and 3YP, Volume and Profitability imperatives in an ethical and responsible manner with VPO & DPO practices.
• Adherence to the health, safety, and environmental standards
• Adherence to the S&OP process
• Ensure healthy DOC for RM, RGB and FGs with demand driven planning
• Ensure RMs arrive on time as per Supply plan
• Ensure compliance to all relevant legislation
• Business plans developed in line with relevant guidelines
• Business plan rolled, understood, and executed by relevant stakeholders
• Ensure internal and external review of business processes for alignment with business strategy
• Ensure inventory policy in place for FGs, Empties & RMs
• Coordinate the plant planning process – Daily meetings etc
• Ensure that product quality is maintained, and relevant stakeholders engaged

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develops and manages budgets and forecasts for resourcing
• Controls expenditure against budgets and forecasts
• Authorizes expenditure and ensure adherence to the Procurement to Payment policy
• Continuously look for financial optimization opportunities internal and external
• Weekly monitoring of general ledger accounts to ensure adherence to budget and forecasts
• Monthly financial performance analysed and necessary plans put in place to correct if required
• Manage company assets in line with policy and procedure
• Review and sign off the necessary internal governance processes
•  Support monthly stock counts in line with Inventory management procedures and processes
• Review bulk handling contracts for relevance
• Manage DOC and working capital
• Monitor returns to issues and weeks in trade
• Ensure that inventory management processes are entrenched

Requirements:

• Min – Tertiary qualification in a business administration or its equivalent
• Min – 1-6 months on the job training
• 3 years at a managerial level in any of financial administration, international trade or interstate distributors

Skills and Attributes Required:

• Have attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good verbal ability and communication skills
• Ability to manage self
• Good team player
• Could work independently.
• Good customer ethics and interpersonal skills.