OPS SUPPORT SPECIALIST: FOODSERVICES
Listing reference: woolw_000587
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 6 April 2023
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 support and operationalize a successful and sustainable Foodservice strategy. Drive and execute initiatives to optimize selling opportunities for sustainable profit growth.
Job description
- Support and manage conflicting deadlines for multiple competing project priorities in a timely manner, influencing, directing & instructing on site adjustments & trade offs as required.
- Integrate across Foodservices, RED project managers, site construction & installation personnel as well as stores to determine actions to resolve conflict and/or risk as well as root cause to ensure future conflicts can be proactively anticipated & resolved.
- Support and represent Foodservices at site, small works & progress meetings with RED project managers, construction managers & store and regional teams (pre & post launch).
- Support store & regional teams onsite both pre & post launch (including follow up of snags completion).
- JV partner – support our JV partners in supporting the WW Brand from an operational and experience
- Deliver “ready to merchandise” sites to the Store & Foods teams
- Communicate & conduct cyclical equipment rationalisation cycles with RED equipment & warehouse teams identifying obsolete equipment pieces for disposal & removal from the catalogue.
Minimum requirements
- Food Industry interest, knowledge & understanding
- Five (5) years relevant retail or store management experience in FMCG
- Team player
- Practical & determined
- Willingness & availability to travel
- Operational thinking with strong problem-solving skills & the ability to understand cause of problem & develop workable solutions.
- Relationship Building within teams, the ability to build & maintain constructive relationships by active involvement & integration across all WW BU’s & levels of work.
- Conflict & Risk Mitigation, the ability to effectively support conflicting deadlines for multiple competing project priorities in a timely manner, influencing, directing & instructing adjustments & trade offs as required
- Brand Management, the ability to grow and uphold the values of the Woolworths Brand by delivering on our promises with quality, reliability, and consistency.
- Industry Understanding, the ability to interpret industry processes, influences, and complexities.
- Communication & influencing skills, the ability to integrate with and influence key stakeholders at all levels.