SENIOR PLANNING ANALYST: FOODS
Listing reference: woolw_000520
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 9 February 2023
Position summary
Industry: FMCG & Supply Management
Job category: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: No
Introduction
To provide meaningful reporting evaluation, analysis, interpretation and recommended solutions to the Planning Team and Value Chain Stakeholders that is aligned with the achievement of the planning strategic goals and scorecards. Work alongside functional experts across the Value Chain in an integrated and collaborative way to identify opportunities for improvement of the Planning KPI’s through root causal and corrective analysis.
Job description
- Ensure Planning needs are catered for by creating dynamic reports and data visualizations that provide insights to the Planning user community
- Identify the core drivers/levers and segments that influence the movement of key Planning metrics/KPIs
- Engage with central planning and category planning functional experts as well as key value chain stakeholders to focus on continuous improvement of the Foods Group Planning KPI’s
- Timeous and accurate production of Foods planning reports which includes analysis, trends, and interpretation
- Provide analysis and insights to support strategic projects and lead through data
- Maintain current relationships with IT support areas including Foods BI and central IT
- The ability to lead and manage reporting projects with a focus on being the translator between business and data
- Train and support the Planning community in the use of reports, tools, and the interpretation of analysis results
- Service ad-hoc requests for information within the required timeframe and specifications
Minimum requirements
Technical Competence:
- Relevant qualification, i.e B. Com or equivalent with mathematics, statistics as majors
- Minimum of 5 years’ proven experience in the field of Analytics preferably in a retail environment
- Reporting, data mining and data analysis experience
- Ability to combine and analyse data from various sources and produce visual and/or exception-based output that portrays answers to business questions
- Ability to draw insights from data analytics, summarize findings and make recommendations for improvement
- The ability to turn data and/or insights into effective Foods planning solutions
- Ability to work with large volumes of data
- Data Visualization tools experience preferable (ie. Tableau/Qlikview)
- Advanced Excel (with experience using graphs, pivots etc.)
- Working knowledge of AWS & Redshift
Behavioural:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong focus on quality
- Sound business acumen
- Strategic thinking ability, with an analytical approach to problem solving
- Excellent organisational skills with ability to juggle many tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items and able to stay focused under pressure
- Planning and organising ability
- A strong customer service focus
- Personal effectiveness
- Passion for the brand and customers
- Leading transformation
- Connecting people
- Delivering high performance
- Having an innovative merchant mind-set
- Making insightful business decisions
- Driving quality
