The first Woolworths store opened its doors to the public in Cape Town in October 1931. And it was founder Max Sonnenberg who captured the public’s imagination with dynamic store policies that set Woolworths apart from its competitors.
Three years later, a second branch opened in Durban, with another two in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg a year later. And...
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Responsible for leading the co-ordination of the end to end category strategy by inspiring the team in the co creation and execution of both short term tactical and long term strategy to ensure the delivery of sustainable profit growth and operational excellence while living the woolies values.
Job description
Interprets and translates strategy into commercially viable operating plans to ensure delivery of operational excellence
Lead the co-creation of the strategy by gathering input from the teams, market and partners
Data Intelligence with a honed ability to read, analyse, interpret & communicate data insights to inform and set strategies or tactical direction to create business opportunities
Establish and execute long term objectives across commercial, customer and supplier strategy
Integrates and aligns category assessments with the Foods strategy to create and deliver 3 year operating plans
Understands market share and supplier inputs to create leading industry operating plans and innovation
Co-ordinate category assessment program across the Matrix Team
Drive and enable profitable growth of the Category
Conducts analyses and tracking of management accounts
Accountable for the oversight and management of KPIs to ensure maximum sales, profitability and market share accretion at a product group level
Deploy tactical strategies to manage monthly performance against KPI's at product group level
Monitors financial performance of the business/ department and proactively able to identify and build risk mitigation plans to drive business performance
Lead, mentor and support the matrix team to deliver on strategic outcomes
Effective management and co-ordination team engagements
Ability to effectively communicate and make decisions taking into consideration multiple, diverse view points
Manage and co-ordinate rhythm and pace of category by inspiring a culture within the teams to create and sustain momentum
Identify potential issues and mitigate by having difficult conversations in order to ensure the delivery of business standards and values
Manages mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships and ensures stakeholders execute and deliver on strategy
Facilitates a cross functional supplier base including other stakeholders to build mutually beneficial objectives
Manages various stakeholders towards the execution and delivery of business projects and initiatives
Ensures gathering and consolidation of pertinent information from various stakeholders within reasonable timeframes
Creates, builds & maintains sustainable, mutually beneficial supplier relationships based on shared values & an aspirational product offering that is commercially viable.
Creates well defined and articulated supplier strategy with clear objectives and transformation plans
Identifies suppliers that are aligned to the business' values and can fulfill current gaps
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