PLANNER: PROTEIN
Listing reference: woolw_000581
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 7 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
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, 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.
Minimum requirements
· 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. RDF forecasting), order management
· Good understanding of stores, customer and product profiles, and their relationship to range/ catalogue and space planning
