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Immediate Superior: Load Planner
Location: Tygervalley
Function: Supply Chain
Sub Function: Logistics
Type of Contract: Fixed-Term
Reference Number: 96120
Closing Date: 21/11/2023

Purpose of the Position: Responsible for the execution of the daily secondary operations load plan whilst ensuring continuous communication between all the relevant internal and external stakeholders.

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:
1. Strategic & Financial Results
- Drive productivity and cost effectiveness with daily operations in load planning
- Ensure operational execution of daily load plan in line with productivity performance requirements.

2. Operational Results
- Manages daily load planning and expediting activities for assigned Depots including reporting and data management (master data).
- Track load plan execution with designated vehicle tracking system.
- Update and distribute daily load plan exception reports and distribute to relevant Depot and Planning teams.
- Compile month end reports based on planning specific metrics and monthly efficiencies by Depot
- Provide monthly feedback on performance against operational and customer service objectives.
- Back up load planner
- Execute all deliveries within operational performance requirements, as per the daily load plan.
- Identify and manage delays and missed deliveries with Owner Drivers
- Manage all delayed and missed deliveries with relevant Depot Teams and communicate decisions to skip customers/change delivery sequence.
- Limit delays and optimise customer TAT through regular engagement between customer receiving departments,
- Expeditors and Depot Customer Service Teams
- Daily load plan exception reports updated and distributed to relevant Depot and Planning teams. Customer & Relationship Results
- Build effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders
- Professional communication, behaviour and actions to achieve credibility, trust and respect with internal and external stakeholders.
- Conduct all mandatory stakeholder engagement and pro-actively initiate additional communication when required.
- Frequent communication throughout each delivery day to manage execution of the daily load plan with Owner
- Drivers and Depots
- Review of previous day's load plan execution with Depots
- Monthly feedback on overall load plan performance and SLA adherence to Depots/Regions Innovation & Improvement Results
- Continuously review systems and process to improve efficiency and cost savings
- Develop new and improved ways that reduce effort, cost and time or improve understanding, alignment and execution
- Participate in any process improvement projects that may be allocated from time to time.

3. Leadership Results
- Take responsibility for own development and contribute to team effectiveness
- Displaying the Heineken Beverages values
- Conduct regular one on ones with Load Planners, 360 values score feedback, IDP and annual performance management reviews conducted.
- Support a high-performance culture and a climate of employee engagement and growth
- Take responsibility for personal improvement and skills development
- Initiate informal coaching sessions with Load Planner around all Heineken Beverages behavioural and planning functional
- A Diploma, preferably in Logistics, Industrial Engineering or Management.
- Minimum of 2-3 years experience.
- Routing and Scheduling system, vehicle tracking and telematics experience advantageous.
- Working Knowledge of SAP R3, SAP BW and Qlikview reporting suite experience advantageous.

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. Heineken Beverages (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd) is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values inclusion and diversity. You must be fully eligible to live and work in South Africa to apply.