Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Planning
- Participate and influence department strategy
- Monitor and track against the plan
- Develop recommendations and subsequent action plans to enable the delivery of the departmental strategy
- Day to day interaction with team members to deliver strategy
- Build and develop effective relationships with relevant stakeholders to highlight and determine best solution to overcome challenges to continuously improve
- Contribute to delivering strategic plans with suppliers by liaising regularly on trend changes and tactical forecasting
- Ensuring procurement strategy on raw material and dry stock support forecasts
- Proactive and regular communication with key stakeholders
Operational Planning
- Understand and optimise supply chain and systems
- Understand internal and external factors which impact on demand and ensure these are reflected in forecasts
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholder to maximise trade
- Identify challenges, trends and opportunities
- Maintain Data and Systems
- Collate Information and Assumptions
- Develop and Maintain the Forecast
- Forecasting to align with prospective orders
- Reach Consensus through Alignment
- Share and Publish the Forecast
- Track and Manage Demand
Continuous improvement
- Analysis of historical and current performance
- Understand market / product trends as well as department focus that could impact demand
- Liaise with suppliers with regards to long term tactical plans
- Implementation and review against long term tactical plans
People Management
- Conduct workforce planning to ensure the team is suitably staffed to meet functional objectives taking into account various internal and external factors
- Implement, drive and manage all people development initiatives linked to the HR Strategy including performance management, succession planning, talent management etc. to ensure the team’s performance meets the required standards
- Set medium to long term goals and objectives for the relevant area of control and monitor progress against these
- Plan, organise, lead and control subordinate's activities to ensure functional objectives are met or exceeded
- Assure stable employee relations by managing conflict and creating a positive and performing working environment
Teamwork / Staff Engagement
- Living the Cavalier values in an individual and team capacity aimed at building a cohesive working environment
- Actively participate in all people development initiatives linked to the HR Strategy including but not limited to: performance management; succession planning; talent management; change, process optimisation and engagement initiatives etc. to ensure the team’s performance meets the required standards
- Build, support and maintain healthy diverse internal (peers / team members / managers) as well as external (service providers etc.) relationships and implement remedial actions when required to ensure achievement of organisational goals
- Provide relevant and specialised technical support, where required, to peers and colleagues to ensure the achievement of objectives
Desired Experience & Qualification
- B Bus. Sc / B Com or equivalent tertiary qualification in Supply Chain
- Minimum years of Experience required 5 + years
- Supply Chain FMCG / Food / Agri
- Sales and Operations Planning
- Financial or economic background
- Supply Chain
- Leadership skills
- Lateral thinker
- Drive for improvement and efficiency
- Negotiation skills
- Driver’s License
