Team Lead

The Company:

Almarai is the world’s largest vertically integrated dairy and the region’s largest food and beverage manufacturing and distribution company. Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Almarai Company is ranked as the #1 FMCG Brand in the MENA region and is a market leader in all its categories across the GCC. Almarai currently employs over 46,000 employees servicing some 110,000 retail outlets and has reported net income of SAR 2.04 Billion on sales of SAR 19.57 Billion in 2023. For more details, please visit our website – www.almarai.com.

An aggressive expansion program together with acquisitions in new vertical markets have created an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic multinational team dedicated to furthering growth plans for the group.

About the Role:

To manage a self-directing, multi-functional team to intake milk and process efficiently specified dairy products to meet internal customer requirements within management performance parameters (efficiencies, loss-in-process, zero non-conformance) by targeting the right Product Specifications, Quality, and Safety Standards.

Activities:

1. Coordinate all necessary "On the Job Training" to staff to ensure all activities are conducted in a safe & efficient manner.
2. Manage all processing activities in compliance with the Almarai Quality System. Adherence of ISO9001 and HACCP requirements.
3. Maximise service to internal customers, right product, right time at the right specification.
4. Optimise product (yield & wastage) and plant/machine utilisation to maximise the contribution to profitability of the operation.
5. To ensure localisation targets are met within department and to focus efforts into local staff retention. To develop a training plan for local staff at all levels.
6. Create and review the Standard Operating Procedures to improve the performance of finished product. Train the staff on SOP’s to ensure that the standards are in-place. Upkeep of Q-Pulse (Electronic Documentation System).
7. Prepare reports of production output to monitor and maintain the KPI’s to ensure they are within the budget.
8. Coordinate with the Projects team on new projects involving processing and production.

Requirement:

Potential candidates must be Saudi and meet the requirements mentioned below:

• Degree qualification in Dairy / Food Technology.
• Working knowledge and understanding of implementation of International Quality Standards like ISO 9000 and HACCPd
• A certificate in Supervisory Management is desirable.
• 3 years’ experience in FMCG setup.
• Experienced in the processing of Milk.
• Experienced with Automated Process Control.

Almarai offers a competitive package, generous leave, medical coverage, discretionary bonus, training, and development etc.

This is a great opportunity to join a successful and expanding global business, offering an excellent remuneration and benefits package.