Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team excels at solving challenges—responsible for sourcing, producing, and distributing our iconic brands to customers worldwide. More than half of Diageo’s 30,000+ employees are part of this function. It’s a complex and highly coordinated operation, built on strong partnerships across logistics, production, and technical expertise.
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 the Role
Provide strategic direction and leadership to the packaging department, aiming to elevate operations to best-in-class standards. This includes:
- Ensuring the safety of personnel and operational processes
- Upholding environmental standards
- Guaranteeing full compliance with:
- Legal and regulatory requirements
- Diageo/EABL/SBL policies, standards, and code of business conduct
- Quality management systems such as ISO and FSSC to consistently deliver superior quality
The role also focuses on ensuring efficient, cost-effective packaging of bright beer in alignment with the production plan, maintaining the highest quality standards within budget. A key responsibility is driving continuous improvement across operations to minimize losses, cut costs, and boost efficiency and quality.
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.
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