Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) is Currently Opening Job Vacancies as Country Lead: People & Culture Supply Chain - Apply Now
Reference Number - CCB260327-1
Job Title - Country Lead: People & Culture Supply Chain
Job Category - People and Culture
Company - Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa
Job Type - Permanent
Location - Country - South Africa
Location - Province - Gauteng
Location - Town / City Midrand
Job Description
- CCBA is the 8th largest Coca-Cola authorised bottler in the world by revenue, and the largest on the continent. It accounts for over 40% of all Coca-Cola ready-to-drink beverages sold in Africa by volume. With over 14 000 employees in Africa, CCBA group services more than 800 000 customers with a host of international and local brands. CCBA group operates in 14 countries: South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi and the islands of Comoros and Mayotte.
- Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) presents an exciting opportunity for a Country Lead: People & Culture Supply Chain, to join the People & Culture team at CCBA.
Key Purpose
- The Country Lead: People & Culture: Supply Chain is accountable for enabling business success by shaping a high-performing, future-ready workforce. This role partners closely with Supply Chain leaders to translate strategy into impactful people solutions—accelerating talent, strengthening leadership capability, optimizing organizational design, and embedding a culture of performance, inclusion, and accountability. Through strong governance, cost stewardship, and transformation leadership, the role ensures people and culture are a true competitive advantage across the end-to-end supply chain.
Key Duties & Responsibilities - Key Outputs and Accountabilities include, but not limited to:
- HR Strategy Implementation: Oversee and tailor the HR strategy to meet current and future needs.
- Business Partnership, Leadership, and Governance
- Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to labor laws and educate leaders on local practices.
Accelerating Talent
- Leadership Support: Anticipate future talent needs and localize sourcing strategies.
- Data-Driven Talent Acquisition: Use analytics to address talent challenges and build a skilled pipeline.
- Internal Talent Growth: Identify and develop high-potential employees for rapid growth and succession planning.
- Talent Development: Implement strategies to align with People & Culture and business objectives.
Cost Ownership
- Reward Strategy Alignment: Maintain financial governance and ensure equitable reward practices.
- Financial Accountability: Partner with Line to streamline operations and reduce labor costs.
Organizational Design for Growth
- Team Effectiveness: Harness team strengths to develop capabilities for organizational objectives.
- Efficiency Optimization: Drive initiatives to optimize spans of control and management ratios.
- Change Management: Lead localization of change efforts and build change capability in leaders and employees.
High-Performance Culture and Transformation
- Employer Relations Support: Provide on-the-ground support to ensure a positive ER climate.
- Learning and Development Integration: Align initiatives with business strategies for continuous improvement.
- Employee Engagement: Champion health, wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion programs.
- High-Performance Mindset: Promote a culture of excellence across functions.
A career opportunity:
About You:
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Education
- Minimum: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Industrial Relations, Business Administration, or related field
- Preferred: Postgraduate qualification or certification in HR, Organisational Development or Labour Law
Experience
- Experience working across multiple employee types (including contractors, permanent employees and casual labour)
- Must have a proven track record of leading change, leveraging digital advancements, and enhancing organizational practices.
- Experience managing the full P&C function in large markets, overseeing budgets, planning resources, and guiding organizational change critical.
- Key experiences include aligning P&C with local business needs, driving cultural shifts, and advancing Diversity & Inclusion.
- Thorough understanding of the Supply Chain process including Logistics, Planning, Manufacturing.
- Understanding of people productivity (including workforce planning, shift patterns and management of variable labour models)
- 10+ years of HR leadership experience in both operational and corporate settings, this role demands expertise in developing and implementing P&C strategies and talent acquisition across functions/regions.
Skills
- Organizational Architect: designing structures for organizational flexibility and growth.
- Leadership Excellence: Demonstrates exceptional skills in motivating, guiding, and inspiring teams.
- Operational Agility: to fostering alignment and communication across diverse organizational layers.
- Talent Management Expertise: crafting adaptable talent strategies and addressing skill gaps.
- Change and Digital Leadership: steering digital transitions and organizational change.
- Culture Transformation: driving and embedding cultural shifts for enhanced collaboration.
- D&I Champion: developing and implementing diversity and inclusion strategies.
- Employment Law Expertise: Extensive knowledge of employment laws
- Business Acumen: merging P&C strategies with business objectives for operational growth.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Analytical skills for strategic decision-making based on data insights.
- Strategic Leadership: anticipating business trends to formulate aligned, forward-looking strategies.
- Data & Analytics: Demonstrate capable analytical ability, data accuracy stewardship and deductive reasoning in translating analytics into meaningful insights and tactical actions.
Important
Don't miss this opportunity to start your career at Country Lead: People & Culture Supply Chain!
Interested and qualified candidates can apply through the following application link.