Buyer: Pet and Baby Food at Woolworths

Responsibilities

• End-to-end management of the Pet and Baby categories by driving the formulation and the implementation of the category operating plans through effective leadership of the category matrix teams.
•  Establish a commercially viable product range and manage the implementation thereof.
• Drive market share and profitability of the Pet and Baby categories.
• Develop collaborative, mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers and other key stakeholders.
• Liaise with marketing, sales management and space planning to maximise sales in order to land the Pet and Baby strategies on shelf.
• Manage and report on all financial indicators and expenses.
• Develop and implement pricing & margin strategies while applying an understanding of customer price perception, impacts on KVIs and competitor pricing.
• Negotiate standard cost prices and promotional cost prices with Suppliers and integrate with Sales Management to draw up and implement a Promotional Calendar for the Pet and Baby categories. 
• Give input to Category and Supplier strategies.
• Give input to the planning and forecasting of products and ranges.
• Monitor and react to industry and international trends.
• Manage the Buyer’s Assistant.