Global Graduate Program – HR
Immediate Superior: Senior Talent Acquisition Manager Job Grade: 10
Location: Cape Town/Johannesburg
Function: People
Sub Function: People & Organisational Development
Type of Contract: Fixed Term
Reference Number: 119201
Closing Date: 23/09/2024
Reference Number: 119898
Closing Date: DD/MM/YYYY
Are you ready to embark on an adventurous journey and explore the world of HEINEKEN? We are excited to announce the launch of our Global Graduate Program – designed to fast track your career and develop you into a future leader at one of the world’s most renowned brands.
About the Program:
Our Global Graduate Program is a three-year path which consists of three rotations, each lasting six months, and will take place within your chosen area: Supply Chain, Digital & Technology, Commerce, Finance, Procurement, or People. After the rotations, you’ll have the opportunity to spend the next 18-months working in a role within your home operating company Johannesburg or Stellenbosch, South Africa.
- Rotation 1: Set off in the HEINEKEN operating company of application in Johannesburg or Stellenbosch, South Africa. Here, you’ll gain a solid foundation in your specific function and an understanding of our operations, strategy, and culture.
- Rotation 2: Continue in Johannesburg or Stellenbosch, South Africa with a cross-functional assignment, widening your perspective and understanding of different business areas and how they interconnect.
- Rotation 3: Broaden your horizons with an international assignment, enhancing your global mindset and cultural adaptability.
- Landing Role: Now you’ve got all the tools, it’s time for you to apply what you’ve learnt in a management position within your home operating company in Johannesburg or Stellenbosch, South Africa. Every day will bring a chance to continue with your growth and development.
A Handful of (Program) Highlights:
- A Great Graduate Community: Join a vibrant network of graduates from around the world, sharing experiences and learning together.
- Support and Mentorship: Learn from former graduates and senior leaders who will guide and support you on your path.
- Extensive Learning Journey: Engage in a thorough learning and development program designed to help you become your best self.
- A Vast Range of Assignments: Experience a variety of assignments that will challenge and inspire you, giving you a broader understanding of our business.
Who We’re Searching For:
- Ambitious Individuals: Passionate about building a meaningful career in one of our key functions.
- Open and Adventurous: Ready to embrace new challenges and explore diverse experiences.
- Leadership Potential: Prepared to take initiative, lead projects, and drive change.
What You Will Learn:
- The HEINEKEN Way: Gain an exclusive insight into our strategic direction and contribute to its execution.
- Project Leadership: Take the lead on projects that drive our business forward.
- Stakeholder & Change Management: Develop the skills needed to manage stakeholders and lead effective and meaningful change.
Criteria & Conditions
- Education: A Bachelor’s degree and a post-graduate qualification in a relevant discipline
- Work Experience: No specific previous work experience is required! But we are looking specifically for new graduates. That’s a maximum of 1-year post-graduation.
- Languages: English language is essential, in addition to your local language requirements.
- Work Rights: The right to work in the country of your program is essential.
- Travel Flexibility: Global exploration can’t happen from home! We require all Explorers to be fully globally mobile.
Your Future at HEINEKEN
So your three year program is over. What now? Upon successfully completing the program, you will have the opportunity to transition into a senior management role in either your home country or one of our global Operating Companies. Your learning journey doesn’t end here — we offer programs to ensure you continue developing and growing as a leader. Join us and become a leader of tomorrow.
The journey of a lifetime starts with just one step. Are you ready to Explore the world of HEINEKEN? Apply now.
How to Apply & the Selection Process
- Application Submission:
- Upload your CV and cover letter through our application portal.
- Online Assessments:
- Take the online assessments. They will be based on situational behaviour scenarios, so no need to prepare anything in advance. A cognitive test is also part of the online assessment.
- Interviews:
- Upon completing the online assessments, we will be in touch to let you know if your application has been successful. You will then be invited for two interviews.
- Assessment Center:
- Then it’s time for the in-person assessment centre, where you will participate in various activities and evaluations.
Joining HEINEKEN
Upon successfully completing all stages, you will receive an offer to join HEINEKEN’s Global Graduate Program. Cheers, and best of luck!
“Embracing and celebrating diversity is core to HEINEKEN’s purpose of “brewing the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world. We believe that people as diverse as our brews – including and not limited to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, nationality, social background, disability and thinking style – enrich our lives and strengthen our business. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates as we champion a culture of belonging that provides fair and equal opportunities for all.”
AMEE Analytics Hub Lead
Immediate Superior: Director of Global Analytics
Location: Johannesburg
Function: Digital & Technology
Sub Function: Digital & Technology – Functional Management
Type of Contract: Permanent
Reference Number: 119532
Closing Date: 17/09/2024
The Africa Middle East (AME) Analytics Hub lead will transform and accelerate the realisation of value from data across the AME region by leading the Regional Analytics Hub that serves all our Operating Companies (OpCos). Working closely with functional leaders, global and regional stakeholders, the Hub Lead ensures delivery of impactful analytics products and use cases while deploying solid data and technology foundations to develop the Data & Analytics capability across the region. You will also champion the regional Data & Analytics strategy of Higher – Faster – Stronger.
The role will report to the Director of Global Analytics in Digital and Technology (D&T) and you will lead a team of 20 people, across four chapters: Data Science, Data Engineer, Business Intelligence and Analytics Product Management.
Roles & responsibilities:
- Lead the Hub delivering analytics products and data infrastructure solutions in the AME region, developing the team, enhancing processes, nurturing culture and ways of working, leveraging and reusing standards, guidelines and best practices already existing at the company
- Develop the Analytics Hub strategy and recommend analytics solutions based on a deep understanding of the business context, opportunities & pain points, industry trends, best practices and emerging products to bring value to the business
- Define, own and deploy roadmaps for data and analytics services, drive adoption of services / solutions defined in the roadmap; leverage and support existing architectural standard platforms
- Ensure roadmap fits into the global integrated enterprise roadmaps, drive governance and prioritisation of use cases, and standardization of products and models
- Lead and drive alignment of data architecture and technology stacks across functions, region and Global
- Establish strong credibility with business leaders and stakeholders through exceptional delivery of analytics solutions and solving our most critical business problems
- Communicate and evangelize how data can be applied to enable the company strategy
- Develop and deliver BI and Advanced Analytics solutions for high impact business opportunities
- Engage and orchestrate data scientists and analytics professionals across the organization to leverage the power of data and analytics for growth
- Lead a team responsible for functional design and delivery of key analytics solutions and products
- Leverage analytics and data science best practices to deliver leading solutions
- Establish and maintain insights/analytics library of best practices and use cases for reuse and scale it globally/regionally
- Through extensive experience with market data, partner data, and other third-party data sources, determine how different data sets can be combined with company owned data to answer challenging business questions
- Effectively balance cost, time, value, resources, and complexity in designing and delivering analytics capabilities
- Drive process to cleanse and verify the integrity of data used for analysis – perform ad-hoc analysis and present results in a clear manner
- Work with Regional & Global counterparts and deliver on key product roadmaps and feature sets using agile methods via matrixed teams
- Manage or participate in cross-functional teams to promote technology strategies, analyse and test products, perform proofs-of-concept, and pilot new technologies and/or methods
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor or master’s degree in business, Management, Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, Information technology or a related discipline
- Strong technical background and experience in developing data strategy, architecture and technology roadmap
- Experience in working as or with data architects, data modelers, solution designers, data engineers and data service ops team
- Languages: English is essential, French and Arabic are nice to have
- 8+ years of working experience in data analytics, business intelligence, data science and related field
- 5+ years in the lead role engaging with key business stakeholders and IT teams to deliver large scale analytics solutions and projects
- Experience in managing and driving outsourced vendors to delivery and operations objectives
- Experience in managing large scale data warehouse and data lake in both on-prem and cloud with high availability and scalability
- Strong technical knowledge of data integration
- Strong knowledge of the commercial and consumer space with experience in dealing with one or more of the following different data sets: market share, point of sale, sales, supply chain, sales execution, customer survey, panel, web analytics, social media, and financial data
- Able to engage with key business leaders instilling confidence and providing expertise in analytics as well as engage with technical teams to translate needs and ensure solutions are delivered to customer expectations
- Background in FMCG or an MNC is preferred
- Proven hands-on data science experience would be great to have.
- Strong leadership skills, passionate about creating a team.
- Must have skills: Team leadership and project management. An understanding of statistics, machine learning, A/B testing and experimentation. Analytics product management experience. Cloud experience (ideally Azure).
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. Heineken Beverages (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd) is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values inclusion and diversity. You must be fully eligible to live and work in South Africa to apply.
Procurement Property Portfolio Manager
Immediate Superior: [[Graeme McLuggage]]
Location: [[Stellenbosch]]
Function: [[Supply Chain]]
Sub Function: [[Procurement]]
Type of Contract: [[Permanent]]
Reference Number: [[120732]]
Closing Date: 27/09/2024
Job Purpose:
The Property Portfolio Manager is to oversee and manage our in-house HB property portfolio, comprising both leased and owned assets. They are to own and maintain a local real estate strategy, which ensures the optimal amount of real estate that meets the needs of the entire business, continuously. They will do so by utilising their property finance and management expertise, experience with aligning real estate suppliers to the key internal stakeholders and ensuring that we deliver the best outcomes relating to finance, safety, and quality in real estate decisions. It is the property portfolio manager’s responsibility to ensure the local real estate strategy continually aligns with the global real estate strategy, maintaining regular communication with Heineken global and regional real estate teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own, maintain and plan a rolling 1–5-year real estate activities pipeline, focusing on maximizing profitability, increasing property value, and mitigating risk.
- Co-ordinating with functional finance teams to establish and monitor property budgets, track financial performance and implement cost-saving measures.
- Be the single point of contact for senior internal stakeholders regarding real estate needs, from strategy support to lease management and day-to-day property operations.
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with the internal teams to ensure the property portfolio planning is fully aligned with long term business strategy, particularly where strategy requires changes to real estate. This includes alignment of timing in delivery of real estate projects and the timing of the business changes.
- Maintain and manage relationships with our key real estate suppliers so they can help us monitor and assess the financial performance of the portfolio, including rental income, expenses, occupancy rates, property market trends and capital expenditure requirements.
- Bring in our supplier partner experts into the business strategy conversations at the right time, so that our leaders can make data driven decisions, relating to real estate.
- Conduct assessments to ensure adherence to quality standards, identify maintenance and repair needs and make recommendations for capital improvement projects for properties.
- Maintain and continue to build one single source of truth for any necessary data to manage our real estate
- Prepare and present comprehensive reports to senior stakeholders, providing insights on the performance of the property portfolio, including financial metrics, market analysis and recommendations for optimizing asset performance.
- Complete all the above in alignment with the Heineken global real estate strategy, by adhering to the governance process with regional and global real estate teams.