DISPLAY PLANNER: LONG LIFE
Listing reference: woolw_000414
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 11 October 2022
Position summary
Industry: FMCG & Supply Management
Job category: Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: No
Introduction
To ensure the most effective and visually appealing use of foods merchandising space by preparing, manipulating and/or maintaining a set of store specific commodity group planograms, in adherence to display rules and chain store image
Ensuring that the Category Strategy is implemented and reflected on planograms in the most effective and visually appealing use of foods space by preparing, and/or maintaining store planograms, in adherence to display principles and maintaining chain store image.
Job description
- Ensure planograms continually match the store catalogue, the store meterage and the business blueprint layouts
- Creating planograms for new stores (or amending existing stores when new initiatives are introduced)
- Create and maintain model layouts per display groups / departments
- Capturing and tracking of all relevant info for new lines and seasonal launch products
- Ensure planograms are adapted to take account of changes in store sales trends
- Build productive relationships with key stakeholders to ensure optimal process flow
- Participate in departmental meetings, range reviews & category assessments.
- Ensure that there are on time launches and planogram downloads for Long life windows.
Minimum requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Intacitx & JDA systems training is advantageous
- 2-3 years of retail experience
- Good merchant & merchandising skills
- Store experience within a retail FMCG environment will be an advantage
- Understanding of space management principles and processes
- Understanding customer profiles, customer shopping behaviour & store formats and segmentation
- Understanding of basic business processes and how sales are generated
- Ability to analyse and interpret trends and impact of space planning on sales
- Ability to identify problems and to develop and implement a workable solution
- Ability to do detailed planning based on analyses - past and future events and ensure plans are followed through
- Computer literacy – Computer skills including spreadsheets, word processing and presentation packages
- Proactive, with the ability to anticipate events and plan for them
- Assertive communication skills
- Ability to be productive in a pressurised environment
- Adaptable – ability to adapt and change direction and focus quickly
- Team player – the willingness to adapt to team goals and work effectively with a group of colleagues in an interdependent way
- Ability to interact with various individuals on different levels i.e matrix team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills – ability to articulate ideas clearly
- Customer centred – Understanding “ Think Customer” first which ultimately affects the customer shopping experience. Willing to obtain, interpret and implement customer feedback
- Preference for working with detailed analytical tasks
