The key purpose of this role is to ensure that the company operates in a lawful and ethical manner through adherence to the Road Transport Act, the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, the Governance Codes (Combined Code) of practice pertaining to Safety and Fleet Management (including AB InBev Safety Policy and Standards), and Corporate Governance, while ensuring the protection of stakeholder interests through the mitigation of loss and safety risk, both pure and speculative, across the broad spectrum of AB InBev operations.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Overall responsible for the implementation of the Zone/BU safety and Fleet strategy
• Responsible for the regional fleet/safety performance tracking and course-correcting
• To ensure compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and municipal/state bi-laws
• Maintain healthy relationships with local authorities across the region of established interaction routines
• Accountable to providing sustainable fleet/safety support to the region, warehouses, tier 2 truck fleet services, tier 1 fleet support and the commercial operations
• Overall accountable for providing strong safety leadership and guidance to the regional business units
• To drive the DPO Safety/Fleet pillar roll out and develop standards aligned to not only the DPO requirements but to the local legislations
• To develop and maintain regional safety standards to minimize losses, ensure compliance to legal provisions (e.g. OHS Act, Environmental Act, COID Act) and limit legal liability exposures
• Insure accurate reporting on CR360 of all SIF, fatalities and SIO’s
• To monitor/advise on the Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental program performance
• Fleet availability accuracy for the region, with action plans to insure fleet availability (All equipment)
• To manage internal self-audits and ensure all audit findings are closed
• Identify SHE is training needs, arrange and co-ordinate legal training for employees and contractors
• To ensure Fleet master data accuracy on SAP COF, Licensing and load testing execution need to be planned to avoid unavailability of equipment 
• To ensure compliance with the National Road Traffic Act
• Monitor and manage all fleet and safety telemetry data
• Manage expenditure against the budget (VLC) with monthly latest estimate (LE) align to period phasing

Profile:

• Relevant 3-year tertiary qualification
• 5 7 years fleet functional work experience
• Applicable Occupational Health and Safety Act, Nigerian Road Traffic Act and governance knowledge
• Business and financial acumen
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, Word and knowledge of SAP
• Strong analytical ability demonstrated
• Good performance track record