CATEGORY LEADERSHIP SPECIALIST (12 MONTH CONTRACT/ SECONDMENT OPPORTUNITY)
Listing reference: woolw_000395
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 26 September 2022
Position summary
Industry: FMCG & Supply Management
Job category: Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Temporary
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: No
Introduction
To co-create, manage and lead the Category Development methodology as a sustainable way of working in Foods over time. To facilitate and support matrix buying teams and their supplier counterparts in assessing their categories and developing category strategies and plans to meet Category, Trading Group and Food Strategy objectives
Job description
- Bring the Category Development Methodology to life by using the process, template and tools with selected categories to develop category strategies and plans that are data-informed and customer-led
- Facilitate and support the category team and associated supplier(s) to
Plan and manage their Category Development process, from kick-off to sign-off, measure and monitor
Mobilise and collaborate with the necessary stakeholders across category, suppliers, central teams, BU partners
Develop or refine Customer Decision Trees (CDT’s) using customer insights
Gather and analyse the defined suite of data for category insights
Ask probing questions, challenge current paradigms, inspire creativity and problem solving
Distil insights up into themes and develop the Category Strategy, incl. vision, targets and growth drivers
Define projects to deliver the strategy, mobilise for delivery, implement, measure monitor
- Facilitate and support the category teams rolling out the Tactical process (a subset of the full methodology)
- Collaborate and integrate across projects and central areas to enable varied business objectives through the process, where applicable
- Identify opportunities for improvement of the Category Development Methodology, and work with Central Buying colleagues to apply continuous improvement
- Contribute to defining the Category Leadership journey and business case
- Co-Create and Manage the Category Development rollout plan when it comes into effect
- Provide input into building Category Development into the Food business process
- Contribute to developing and populating the Category Development knowledge library
- Collaborate with Central Buying colleagues and Food Academy to define the Category Leadership Academy
Minimum requirements
- Relevant 3 year tertiary or NQF aligned qualification
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Retail or food production
- A passionate Foodie
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in managing projects
- 5 years Experience in category strategy delivery
- 5 years’ FMCG Category Management experience in industry
- 5 years’ Woolworths Food experience advantageous in either Buying or Planning
- Experience working in a client delivery and matrix team structure advantageous
- Ideal candidate has strong experience in
- Using Customer insights to define Customer Decision Trees (CDT’s)
- Assessing categories and developing Category Strategies and plans, incl.
- Distilling insights from varied sources; communicating the story the data tells
- Customer insight led category strategy development, communicating strategy
- Setting Category KPI’s and managing performance to plans and targets
- Facilitating, integrating and collaborating across a wide range of stakeholders
- Building capability within a category team
- Commercial acumen
- Good understanding of Food supply, value chain and commercial levers
- Strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and partners; ability to influence and lead
- Ability to combine and analyse data and draw insights, summarise findings and make recommendations
- Advanced MS Office, incl. Excel (with experience using graphs, pivots etc.), PowerPoint and MS Teams
- Ability to consolidate, communicate, motivate for and mobilise change
- Strong facilitation, inter-personal and communication skills
- Excellent multi-tasking ability; adaptability
- Attention to detail
