High End Operations & PMO Manager

Dreaming big is in our DNA. Its who we are as a company. Its our culture. Its our heritage. And more than ever, its our future. A future where were always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet lifes moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together when we combine your strengths with ours is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to embrace our Global Premium Dream by disrupting our business operations and adopting a different mindset to achieve exponential growth rather than incremental progress. We have been collaborating closely with Global to align on a new approach that we firmly believe will set us on the right path for this growth journey in the premium market.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Contribute to coordinating the full Premium initiative for BUSA across departments (PMO role), including KPI/budget reporting and interactions with Zone/Global
• Leading the development of new Premium strategies (e.g. developing a strategy for the Premium Segment, developing a new SKU or a new brand, pricing strategies)
• Strategic cycle (i.e. development of 3 Year Plan and 1 Year plan) across BU
• Develop the Premium Beer 3 Year and 1 Year Plan according to the stage model approach
• Coordinate the development of the Premium Brand Plans and Channel plans for the BU with the Premium Marketing and Trade Marketing teams
• Develop and manage performance tracking systems and detect potential risks in the plan.
• Guarantee the correct translation of plan into actions by coordinating the different departments involved in the plan.
• Job will cover all areas: marketing, trade marketing, tech sales, sales, supply, logistics, legal and finance
• Regular update into the local BU leadership team, to Zone Mancom and to Global Premium.
• Developing reporting routines for the monthly meeting with the CEO
• Is the "Ambassador" of the BU, Zone & GHQ and connect local team with Zone or Global people when needed
• Support on the analysis, development, implementation and tracking of Growth Initiatives, challenging the business on a constant basis to improve its performance.
• Conduct monthly Channel, Brand and MACO Review, challenging the business in identifying initiatives and own these initiatives to harvest the identified opportunities.
• Responsible for conducting key projects when needed.
• Responsible for Managing the relationships between key external parties and conducting monthly reporting as per the agreement with these external parties.
• Tracking and Monitoring Premium Co Team STIs.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Management in a FMCG environment
• Evidence of outstanding coaching and consulting skills
• IT / information management knowledge and experience
• Budget management
• Ideally international experience within Africa
• Sense of urgency, open mindset, team working and strategic thinking as a must have
• Start up mindset
• Strong understanding of the Premium market and Premium brands

Minimum requirements:

• Degree level qualification or equivalent, MBA preferred
• 3years + relevant experience of best practice Sales, Marketing, Trade Marketing, Project

Additional Information:

• Band VI

SAB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short listing