Central Buying Category Leadership Specialist - Cape Town, South Africa - Woolworths

Woolworths

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Advert reference:
woolw_000617

Advert status:
Online

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Position Summary

Industry:
FMCG & Supply Management

Job category:
Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain

Location:
Cape Town

Contract:
Fixed Term Contract

Remuneration:
Market Related

Introduction
To facilitate the deployment of the Category Development methodology as a sustainable way of working in Foods. To input into enhancements of the process.

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
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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
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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
o Collaborate and integrate across projects and central areas to
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enable varied business objectives through the process, where applicable

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
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, interpersonal and communication skills
Excellent multitasking ability; adaptability
Attention to detail

**Woolworths is an equal employment opportunity company that is committed to inclusion and diversity