Group Asset Protection Manager

**AVI LIMITED** is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our brands span a range of categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel. We have a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, which allows us to take advantage of our scale. Our single-minded purpose is our brands' growth and development.

**Line Manager**: Dual reporting line to the Chief Financial Officer and Group Legal Executive
**Number of Direct Reports**: 1
**Job Specification**:
**Key Performance Areas**:

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Risk identification and assessment**
- Continuously identify criminal modus operandi both internal in AVI and external that can have a detrimental effect on all assets and staff in AVI and its business units. Particular focus on the following risks:

- Armed robberies
- Theft
- Fraud
- Misuse of company assets
- Assault
- Vehicle hijacking
- Behaviour contrary to AVI’s ethics policy
- Assess the identified risks in terms of the potential impact on AVI and/or any of its business units
- Effectively communicate the identified and assessed risks to AVI and affected business units
- Continuously and proactively, make recommendations and drive improvements
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Counter measures**
- Continuously and proactively, identify cost effective counter measures both physical, electronic and digital to minimize identified risks
- Assist business units in implementing the agreed counter measures
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Monitor and review compliance**
- Monitor and review compliance of implemented counter measures
- Communicate noncompliance to agreed counter measures to the relevant business unit and/or AVI where necessary
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Additional critical performance areas**
- Conduct investigations, interrogations, and interviews
- Co-ordinate with law enforcement authorities in enforcing crime prevention measures
- Be trained and able to handle potentially violent situations
- Generate comprehensive reports of incidents on a regular basis and communicate the reports to AVI and business units
- Compile and employ loss prevention and safety programs, including but not limited to, fraud mitigation
- Develop effective partnerships within and outside the business and communicate effectively and efficiently with external agencies, including police and private security agencies
- Drive continual improvement and enhancements to security standards
- Ensure effective anonymous ethics reporting line is in place, all reports received are investigated thoroughly, and results are communicated to business unit and/or AVI
**Minimum Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- At least 10 years’ experience working as an Asset Protection Manager within a complex business structure including manufacturing, retail, and logistics
- Portfolio of evidence in leading and managing an asset protection team especially team members that are not direct reports

**Qualifications**:

- Appropriate tertiary qualification in risk and security management
**Additional Requirements**:

- In-depth knowledge of the latest security systems, practices, legislation and technologies
- Commercially astute and stays current on key business and security matters
- Excellent understanding and working knowledge of MS Office suite
**Competencies**:

- Articulating Information
- Taking Initiative
- Documenting Facts
- Building Relationships
- Keeping Commitments
- Influencing Others
- Thinking Analytically
- Thinking Conceptually