Commercial Manager
FMCG, Food Manufacturing
Minimum Requirements
- BCOM + Qualified CA (SA) or CIMA (non-negotiable)
- working in a cross functional manufacturing business
- Minimum 5 years’ experience, including commercial costing, operational financial support and reporting
- SAP & Syspro experience critical along with exposure to a FMCG and/or manufacturing environment
- Power BI & other MS Power tools
- Consolidation and Analysis of in year budgets and 5-year Business Capex plans.
- Operationalising group strategic initiatives and driving implementation.
- Providing Commercial input in Strategy formulation and Continuous improvement initiatives.
- Co-ordination and consolidation of Capex Plans across the 5-year, Annual Plans and quarterly forecasting processes and associated cash flow forecasts.
- Supporting the Supply Chain teams in monitoring and tracking capex implementation.
- Provide analysis and insight into monthly and quarterly movements.
- Drive system and process improvements to streamline process and visibility, including automation opportunities.
- Compiling presentations for quarterly Capital Committee meetings
- Verify /compile monthly capex commercial KPI’s
- Monthly CI savings reporting
- CI savings process governance
- CI savings process and dashboard optimisation
- Cost loss tree alignment and improvement
- Monthly variance reporting/optimisation
- Monthly material usage dashboard development and optimisation
- Facilitate and drive improvement
- Engineering working capital reporting & improvement
- Maintenance Zero based budget baseline
- Linking into KPI dashboards on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
- Various Ad Hoc reports across Stock, Returns, Pallets and other key supply chain metrics
- Identify opportunities for improvement and linkage into Business unit continuous improvement pipeline.
- Streamlining and automating reporting where applicable, working closely with BI teams
- Providing visibility and analysis across Working Capital initiatives, in conjunction with CSE supply chain teams
- Providing support into BU Commercial teams in driving key initiatives across capital planning and continuous improvement workstreams
- Lead and develop staff across supply chain analysts.
- Monitor staff performance and provide regular feedback.
- Manage staff activities, ensuring service levels are met and protocols are adhered to.
- Coach and support staff where necessary to achieve objectives.
- Champion staff training and development through the utilisation of available training opportunities or contributing to the development of new training solutions in collaboration with national training specialists.
- Conduct regular performance appraisals with subordinates.
- Develop and manage high performance multidisciplinary teams in order to solve problems within the commercial arena.
- Strategic Contribution and Execution
- Budgeting and Forecasting - Capex
- CI Savings Process Governance & Reporting
- Material Usage Variance
- Engineering Working Capital Reporting
- Supply Chain Monthly Reporting
- Ad Hoc BU Support
- Staff Management
Responsibilities
- Consolidation and Analysis of in year budgets and 5-year Business Capex plans.
- Operationalising group strategic initiatives and driving implementation.
- Providing Commercial input in Strategy formulation and Continuous improvement initiatives.
- Co-ordination and consolidation of Capex Plans across the 5-year, Annual Plans and quarterly forecasting processes and associated cash flow forecasts.
- Supporting the Supply Chain teams in monitoring and tracking capex implementation.
- Provide analysis and insight into monthly and quarterly movements.
- Drive system and process improvements to streamline process and visibility, including automation opportunities.
- Compiling presentations for quarterly Capital Committee meetings
- Verify /compile monthly capex commercial KPI’s
- Monthly CI savings reporting
- CI savings process governance
- CI savings process and dashboard optimisation
- Cost loss tree alignment and improvement
- Monthly variance reporting/optimisation
- Monthly material usage dashboard development and optimisation
- Facilitate and drive improvement
- Engineering working capital reporting & improvement
- Maintenance Zero based budget baseline
- Linking into KPI dashboards on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
- Various Ad Hoc reports across Stock, Returns, Pallets and other key supply chain metrics
- Identify opportunities for improvement and linkage into Business unit continuous improvement pipeline.
- Streamlining and automating reporting where applicable, working closely with BI teams
- Providing visibility and analysis across Working Capital initiatives, in conjunction with CSE supply chain teams
- Providing support into BU Commercial teams in driving key initiatives across capital planning and continuous improvement workstreams
- Lead and develop staff across supply chain analysts.
- Monitor staff performance and provide regular feedback.
- Manage staff activities, ensuring service levels are met and protocols are adhered to.
- Coach and support staff where necessary to achieve objectives.
- Champion staff training and development through the utilisation of available training opportunities or contributing to the development of new training solutions in collaboration with national training specialists.
- Conduct regular performance appraisals with subordinates.
- Develop and manage high performance multidisciplinary teams in order to solve problems within the commercial arena.
- Strategic Contribution and Execution
- Budgeting and Forecasting - Capex
- CI Savings Process Governance & Reporting
- Material Usage Variance
- Engineering Working Capital Reporting
- Supply Chain Monthly Reporting
- Ad Hoc BU Support
- Staff Management
