Regional Cooler Coordinator - East London, South Africa - HR Genie

Description

REGIONAL COOLER COORDINATOR

Job Purpose

The Regional Cooler Administrator is responsible for the administration of new placements, movements, breakdown repairs and in field evaluation of The Beverage Companys Coolers. The role coordinates the implementation of the Cold Strategy, ensuring a market driven differentiated service offering that builds sustainable competitiveness within clearly identified channels. The role is therefor key to driving sustainable growth, brand equity, sales volume, market share, competitive advantage and corporate reputation.

Key Accountabilities and Outputs

Cooler Administration

• Coordinates end-to-end cooler and asset management within the region
• Engage and take part in the regions cooler and asset validation process, as a live process, to ensure that The Beverage Companys coolers are continuously validated in terms of location and status
• Ensure that live cooler management systems are constantly utilised within the region (i.e. Rapid Trade and Cooler Partner Management Systems) ensuring accuracy with cooler repairs, movement between stores and new cooler placements
  • New Coolers: Work closely with asset management and suppliers to ensure planned coolers are placed in relevant areas, aligned to sales representative, store and geo-location
  • Cooler Repair: Ensure the Logging of cooler repairs on both the cooler management system with live reporting and event logging, as well as manually where required. The process is to be administered from opening to close
  • Movement: Ensure the coordination and logging of cooler movements, ensuring accurate recording of final location in store (automated or manual system), always ensuring relevant geo-locations are logged correctly
  • General Trade Verification: Evaluate and verify all coolers, locations, content, merchandising principles and evaluation of merchandising brief, within the cooler, location and in store to provide automated reporting within the market.
  • Manage key deliverables and communicate daily with the Regional Sales Manager to ensure efficient and effective cooler management
  • Ensure accurate master data management of live cooler management systems (automated and manual)
  • Utilise the cooler management systems to manage and report on coolers and ensure that all relevant internal parties are kept updated with regards to cooler administration progress (including successes, areas where attention is needed, as well as opportunities to explore)
• Actively provide input into the operational planning and budgeting processes
• Drive continuous improvement through streamlining and optimising relevant operational practices, processes and systems
• Ensure adherence to operational and financial frameworks of practices, processes, standards and controls
• Control cost and take the necessary action to mitigate any financial risks or non-compliance

Qualifications and Experience

• Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4 (Essential)
• Up to 4 years experience (Operational Execution) Proven administrative ability
• Understanding of commercial requirements
• Good with numbers and analytics
• Robust IT Skills

Key Qualities

Communication

• Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks

Problem Solving

• Proactive identification of functional problems related to a specific process or policy, determine cause and impact, and choose the best alternative to solve the problem based on guidelines provided and an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning the problem.

Relationships Maintained

• Others in own work area