Seniority Level: Executive
– Area Manager
Overall Line Performance
The Area Manager is fully accountable for all aspects of line performance, including safety, quality, environmental compliance, financial performance, production planning, efficiency, losses, and waste.
Leads daily, weekly and monthly line performance reviews, including KPI trees, resource allocation, and prioritization.
Establishes clear escalation triggers (KPI thresholds, breakdown frequency, quality incidents) and ensures rapid escalation to Reliability and Continuous Improvement teams.
Owns the line Dream, associated KPIs, long-term strategy, and execution roadmap.
Operational Excellence & VPO:
Ensures deployment, sustainability, and effectiveness of all relevant VPO pillars and blocks within the area.
Responsible for MCRS execution, ensuring that Front-Line Managers follow management checklists and routine agendas.
Owns the production strategy, changeover strategy and execution, corrective and preventive maintenance approach, start‑up/shutdown processes, and production modulation.
Ensures robust problem solving through high‑quality 5 Whys, anomaly reports, PDCA cycles, and VPO tools. Drives continuous improvement and GOP execution.
Ensures efficient design and use of VPO infrastructure: Team Room, communication boards, visual management systems, and operator workstations.
Responsible for deploying and sustaining the Autonomous Teams structure across all crews and shifts.
Guarantees the existence, quality, and continuous update of SOPs and other operational standards.
Maintenance, Reliability & Coordination
Oversees maintenance backlog management and validates maintenance priorities with Maintenance and Reliability team.
Reviews execution quality of maintenance work orders and ensures feedback loops for improvement.
Owns capability development for core team members, including skills gap analysis and training plans.
Coordinates production windows and preventive maintenance schedules with Logistics and Technical Planners.
Leadership, Engagement & Transformation
Ultimately responsible for team engagement within the area, promoting high‑value activities and eliminating low‑value tasks.
Ensures proper integration of new equipment, technologies, processes, and products in compliance with Management of Change (MoC) requirements.
Ensures that Plant Technical Experts (PTEs) and technicians actively support continuous improvement using VPO tools.
Acts as a transformational leader, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and performance.
As a company, we dream big to create a future with more cheers. We are always looking to serve up new ways to meet life’s moments, move our industry forward and make a meaningful impact in the world. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest ingredients.
Our diverse portfolio of well over 500 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser®, Corona® and Stella Artois®; multi-country brands Beck’s®, Hoegaarden®, Leffe® and Michelob ULTRA®; and local champions such as Aguila®, Antarctica®, Bud Light®, Brahma®, Cass®, Castle®, Castle Lite®, Cristal®, Harbin®, Jupiler®, Modelo Especial®, Quilmes®, Victoria®, Sedrin®, and Skol®.
Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil.
Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 167,000 colleagues based in nearly 50 countries worldwide.
