Administration Assistant – Growth Office

Closing Date
2022/05/08
Reference Number
CCB220428-1
Job Title
Administration Assistant – Growth Office
Job Category
Strategic and Performance
Company
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (Group Office)
Job Type
Permanent
Location – Country
South Africa, Other
Location – Province
Not Applicable
Location – Town / City
South Africa
Job Description
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) presents an exciting opportunity for an experienced Administration Assistant – Growth Office to join the CCBA Growth Office team. The successful applicant will be reporting into the Chief Growth Officer.

This role will provide administrative support to the Growth Office team. Supporting and managing the travel, meetings and related arrangements for a team of cross-functional leaders and specialists working on the delivery of Growth within the CCBA. This entails the execution of logistical arrangements in support of, customer & market visits, special events/ promotions, projects and related admin support required to support the Growth team with execution of their strategic mandate.

This opportunity further calls for an individual who is comfortable to grow from an entry level and after sustained performance and value-add, would like to later see a future career path for development within one of the Growth unit functional areas of expertise.

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa is the largest African Coca-Cola bottler, accounting for 40 percent of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. CCBA is a NARTD market leader in Africa. CCBA has an extensive footprint in Africa, employing over 16 000 employees. CCBA vision is to Refresh Africa every day and make the continent a better place for all, growing successfully as business and creating a better shared future for our people, customers, consumers, communities, planet and shareholders.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Manage office expenditure

Process travel claims

Administer & Reconcile credit card reconciliations for the Chief Growth Officer and/or the function’s specialist teams

Create SAP purchase orders and purchase requisitions in alignment with the relevant Procurement processes

Plan, organise and coordinate meetings as and when required

Support in the organisation of team travels and complex travel itineraries

Complete travel authorisations

Process all Forex claims for travel

Produce ad hoc documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations for meetings and as required

Support in capturing and compilation of meeting minutes where required

Manage and maintain electronic and manual filing systems, ensuring the appropriate platforms for data/info storage

Support in management of visits, including but not limited to market visits, internal and external stakeholder engagements and possibly even being present at events/ visits to ensure smooth execution

Manage customer and supplier requests and contracts

Facilitate preparation of customer contract

Update contract information

The identification of opportunities to add further value in support of the Growth team and the growth agend
Skills, Experience & Education

Competencies:
Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging.

Learns quickly when facing new problems; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Knows what he/she wants from a career and actively works on it; and will seize opportunities to learn further within the function or elsewhere within the businessIs dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Attentive and active listening; has the patience to hear people out; and acts as a representative of the Growth function in dealing with internal stakeholders.

Able to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles; can get messages across that have the desired effect.

Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.

Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into the appropriate process steps; develops schedules and task assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks in providing support to the team.

Is effective in putting together presentable data, information or a storyline as guided by the functional specialists and takes initiative in ensuring the delivery on professional reports and presentations.

Is personally committed to and actively works to continuously improving themselves; understands that different situations and levels may call for different skills and approaches; works to deploy strengths; works on compensating for weakness and limits.

Qualifications:
Appropriate Degree/ Diploma in Administrative Services, Secretarial Science &/or Office Management

An appropriate business/ commercial related qualification would be an added advantage

Experience:
3 years’ experience in a similar or related role

Minimum 3 years’ experience, preferably in FMCG environment
General
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional or relevant information as criteria for short-listing.

Policy

We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals.

Apply Here: https://ccba.erecruit.co/candidateapp/Jobs/View/CCB220428-1

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa

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