Job Description

Position summary
Industry: FMCG & Supply Management
Job category: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Western Cape
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: MARKET RELATED
EE position: No
Introduction
Maximise trading opportunities by providing accurate forecasts of customer demand through management by exception, optimising inventory management through the supply chain and store catalogues within defined parameters.
Job description

• Optimise the continuous availability of product in the department to meet customer demand
• Contribute to the department plan with a specific focus on planning objectives and requirements
• Develop and manage the department plan in line with planning principles to ensure Food Range (depth & breadth of range) delivers availability, sales and profitable growth
• Communicate and ensure adherence to all key objectives and priorities from the Category Operating Plan to the department teams
• Assist department team to prioritise objectives and resources to deliver operating plan, both from a product and people perspective
• Define, set and monitor product flow models and integrate with Supply Chain and cross functional team to ensure delivery of the department plans
• Contribute to the Category Scorecards to ensure stretch budgets and targets are set for the department
• Review department performance against Department Scorecards
• Integrate with team to set and achieve operational KPI's - Sales, waste, availability, and financial accountable contribution of the Foods Department.
• Set, monitor and deliver inventory plans and achieve all inventory targets (sales, service levels, stock cover, forecast accuracy, waste cost %, availability) in line with customer availability objectives for the Category Operating Plan
• Provide input and influence the replenishment processes and key inventory levers
• Complete the analysis of historical performance to feedback to trading team with regards to opportunities and risks and that these are considered in the development of future plans
• Participate and influence in all department reviews by ensuring that the Planning KPI's analysis is ready for the reviews
• Minimise waste and write offs of product.
• Support the team from a planning perspective to actively ensure that GBJ projects are successful.
• Build key relationships with suppliers and stores to drive effective process management within the category.
• Contribute to the development of an integrated category/development plan that delivers a product range that in turn delivers profitable growth, whilst being mindful of planning principles.

• Preferably B.Com Degree/Commercial qualification
• Ideally 3 - 5 years planning/commercial experience planning
• Understanding of the respective category is advantageous
• Good computer literacy, with an above average grasp of all office applications
• Must have good knowledge of supply chain operations i.e. Suppliers , DC, Stores and understands the supply chain concepts and values
• Very good analytical and numerical ability
• Very good planning and organisational ability
• Very good business acumen, judgement and problem-solving skills
• Very good team player, demonstrates integration skills in all interactions
• Ability to deliver good results under stressful situations
• Proven ability to effectively use a statistical forecasting tool
• Proven ability to evaluate availability and waste metrics and implement integrated solutions that deliver category profitability targets
• Good understanding of supply chains/ inventory management systems and their processes (e.g. LDE forecasting), order management
• Good understanding of stores, customer and product profiles, and their relationship to range/ catalogue and space planning