Job category: Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Temporary
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: No
Introduction
As a Value Delivery Category Lead, you will apply critical customer, product, buying, supplier management, and Value Delivery process expertise while partnering with Category and functional teams to identify and sustainably deliver on the Foods Value Delivery targets. You will be a creator and custodian of the Foods Value Delivery capability, working across all areas of the Foods business to equip Category matrix teams with the knowledge and tools to find and deliver cost of goods savings in their categories and incorporating the value delivery processes into their BAU ways of working.
Responsibilities
- Leverage Value Delivery processes, tools, insights, crossflow opportunities, and buying experience to lead category and functional teams to surface Value Delivery opportunities within their categories.
- Provide expertise, support, and best practice guidance to category teams with the management of cost of goods data and open book costing methodologies.
- Create, implement, and lead Value Chain optimisation strategies and ways of working with due regard to sustainability, risk, and ethical purchasing.
- Provide best practice support and coaching to category matrix and functional teams in the execution and anchoring stages of the value delivery process.
- Coach buyers to lead the progression of opportunities through the Value Delivery process to optimally extract benefits and ensure sustained delivery for investment in Price.
- Coach and equip category and functional teams to onboard, motivate, and successfully integrate suppliers into the Foods Value Delivery Journey.
- Leverage and execute our Value Chain Partners’ expertise, experience, toolsets, and methodologies, building on these to develop our Woolworths Foods Value Delivery Capability.
- Work closely with Pricing, Category, and Functional teams to build and track commercial value cases linked to category KPIs and strategy in support of Value Delivery initiatives.
- Build capabilities of our category matrix and functional teams to leverage the Value Delivery ecosystem.
- Advance the development of Value Delivery capabilities within our Foods Business to position us for sustainable future growth.
- Develop and sustain mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships.
- Accountable for progressing and reporting on delivery against a pipeline of value opportunities proactively surfacing risks for mitigation.
- Analyse category, service, material, and supplier costs to inform value delivery opportunities.
- Manage, coach, develop, and motivate the category matrix and functional teams to ensure that Value Delivery activities are prioritised to deliver on the Foods Value Delivery targets.
Minimum Requirements
- In-depth experience in and knowledge/understanding of the Foods and Value Delivery Strategy.
- Strong engagement skills, proven negotiator, and influencer.
- Knowledge and understanding of value chain concepts, processes, systems, and best practices.
- Understanding of Foods FMCG retail business processes and procurement principles to generate sales, margin management, and cost-saving levers.
- Demonstrated commercial acumen and financial management skills.
- Project leadership skills with the ability to deliver to the required standards and timelines.
- Ability to shape creative, tactical, and practical solutions to complex problems.
- Strong integrator, collaborator with the ability to flex between leading teams, managing others, and working as a contributor within a matrix structure.
- Flexibility with the ability to work productively under stress.
- Passionate Foodie, with a solid understanding of the Woolies’ Values.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Sciences, or equivalent educational qualification.
- Minimum of 5 years Retail/Buying/Supply Chain/Value Chain Optimisation experience within a Foods FMCG business.
- Proven experience in managing a Foods/FMCG category, leveraging commercial levers to sustainably grow a category (i.e., market share, sales growth, margin, ROS, COGS, availability).
- Proven raw materials sourcing and supplier management experience to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for both Woolworths Foods and our suppliers.
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