Company:
The Heineken Company
Industry: Manufacturing / Production / FMCG
Deadline: Oct 30, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Experience: 1 – 2 years
Location: Western Cape
Province: Cape Town
Field: Logistics
Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:
Strategic & Financial Results
- Drive productivity and cost effectiveness with daily operations in load planning
- Ensure operational execution of daily delivery plans in line with productivity performance requirements.
Operational Results
- Manages daily delivery planning and delivery execution activities for assigned Depots including reporting and data management (master data).
- Track delivery plan execution with designated vehicle tracking system (DRM).
- Update and distribute daily delivery plan exception reports and distribute to relevant Depots 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.
- Provide back up to the Transport Planners.
- Execute all deliveries within operational performance requirements, as per the daily load plan.
- Manage all delayed and missed deliveries with relevant Depot Teams and communicate.
- Optimise customer TAT through regular engagement between customer receiving departments.
- Daily load plan exception reports updated and distributed to relevant Depot and Planning
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
- 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.
Leadership Results
- Take responsibility for own development and contribute to team effectiveness
- Displaying Heineken beverages values
- Conduct regular one on ones with Transport 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
Competencies
The successful candidate must have the following qualification, skills and experience:
- A 3-year Diploma and or bachelor’s degree, preferably in Logistics.
- Minimum of 1 to 2 years route planning experience.
- Routing and Scheduling system, vehicle tracking and telematics experience advantageous.
- Working Knowledge of SAP R3, Roadshow, TMS systems experience

