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It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s 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?\nThe key purpose of this role is to plan, deliver and embed Supply technology projects (MES, SCADA, OT infrastructure, data and reporting) across breweries in the Africa Zone - owning scope, budget and timeline through rollout, driving adoption and value realisation post-implementation, and providing ongoing zone-level support for both newly delivered and previously deployed platforms.\nKey Roles and Responsibilities:\nProject Management and Implementation\nPlan, manage and deliver Supply technology projects (MES, SCADA, OT infrastructure, data and reporting) across breweries in the Africa Zone, from scoping through to handover.\nDevelop project scopes, delivery plans and timelines, tracking milestones, dependencies and critical path across multiple concurrent site rollouts.\nPrepare and motivate CAPEX and OPEX submissions, including business cases and value cases, and manage delivery against approved budgets and forecasts.\nManage System Integrators and vendors through the project lifecycle, ensuring standards adherence, scope control, quality of delivery and commercial compliance.\nExecute deployment of Supply technology standards and platforms (OneTech, OneMES, Omnia, TrakSys, SODA, FLOW and the data backbone) at site and regional level in line with Zone roadmaps.\nSupport the Manufacturing Systems teams with software deployment, licensing administration and version control as part of project rollout.\nApply Manufacturing Systems change control practices and standards adherence throughout project delivery.\nSupport OT and Manufacturing IT governance requirements within projects, including cybersecurity posture, network segmentation and remediation actions.\nIdentify and manage project risks and issues, escalating to Zone Tech Supply leadership with proposed remediation.\nProject Adoption and Value Realisation\nPlan and organise structured user training at site level for affected personnel, including training schedules, materials and competency verification.\nCoach and upskill site teams to build sustainable local capability and reduce dependency on Zone and vendor support.\nConduct post-implementation reviews and hypercare, identifying adoption gaps and driving corrective action plans with site leadership.\nDefine and track adoption metrics for deployed platforms (usage, data completeness, transaction compliance, KPI coverage) at each site post go-live.\nOwn the post-project value realisation cycle: baseline, measure and report benefits against the approved value case.\nReport adoption and benefit performance to Zone Tech Supply and Supply leadership, with clear recommendations where value is not being realised.\nDrive standardisation of ways-of-working across sites so that benefits are repeatable and scalable across the Zone.\nBusiness Support\nProvide zone support for brewery manufacturing systems (MES, SCADA, historians, reporting layers, data acquisition) to ensure\nmaximum equipment and system availability, both for newly delivered projects and previously rolled-out platforms.\nAct as escalation point for site teams on Manufacturing Systems issues, coordinating resolution with contractors, vendors and global \nproduct teams.\nDeliver and maintain reporting, dashboard and application development solutions to brewery and Zone requirements, e.g. FLOW, \nSSRS and Grafana.\nSupport data and analytics capability for Supply (performance, efficiency, quality and cost reporting), e.g. SQL, DB Maintenance, \nAPIs, OPC UA.\nKey Attributes and Competencies:\nProject management capability: scoping, scheduling, budget and risk control.\nCAPEX / OPEX planning, business case and value case construction.\nSound Control and Automation knowledge (PLC, SCADA, plant data flows e.g. FLOW).\nWorking knowledge of the manufacturing / brewing process.\nMicrosoft Server, networking and database knowledge.\nManufacturing Systems (MES) and production execution systems knowledge.\nStrong understanding of standardisation and its importance in delivering scalable, repeatable and sustainable solutions across sites. \nExcellent problem-solving ability; analytical, lateral and conceptual thinker.\nProactive with high energy levels and a strong sense of ownership.\nClear, structured communication with contractors and regional teams.\nStrong training, facilitation and coaching skills.\nData-driven approach to adoption tracking and benefits measurement.\nCalm and methodical under pressure during operational incidents.\nMinimum Requirements:\nTertiary qualification, degree or diploma in Information Systems, Engineering or a related technical field. \n3 - 5 years’ experience in a Systems environment and/or with Control and Automation systems.\nDemonstrated experience planning and delivering technical projects, including budget and timeline ownership.\nDemonstrated hands-on experience with MES, SCADA, OT infrastructure or industrial data platforms.\nExperience working in a production or manufacturing environment; brewery experience advantageous.\nExperience delivering user training and driving system adoption across multiple sites advantageous.\nFamiliarity with enterprise resource planning systems (e.g. SAP) advantageous.\nFormal project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2) advantageous.\nAdditional Information:\n Band: VI\nAB InBev/SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev/SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. 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