Planner: Protein at Woolworths

Introduction

• Maximise trading opportunities by providing accurate forecasts of customer demand through management by exception, optimising inventory management through the supply chain and store catalogues within defined parameters.

Job description

•       Optimise the continuous availability of product in the department to meet customer demand
•       Contribute to the department plan with a specific focus on planning objectives and requirements
•       Develop and manage the department plan in line with planning principles to ensure Food Range (depth & breadth of range) delivers availability, sales and profitable growth
•       Communicate and ensure adherence to all key objectives and priorities from the Category Operating Plan to the department teams
•       Assist department team to prioritise objectives and resources to deliver operating plan, both from a product and people perspective
•       Define, set and monitor product flow models and integrate with Supply Chain and cross functional team to ensure delivery of the department plans
•       Contribute to the Category Scorecards to ensure stretch budgets and targets are set for the department
•       Review department performance against Department Scorecards
•       Integrate with team to set and achieve operational KPI’s – Sales, waste, availability, and financial accountable contribution of the Foods Department.
•       Set, monitor and deliver inventory plans and achieve all inventory targets (Sales, Service levels, Stock cover, forecast accuracy, Waste, Availability) in line with customer availability objectives for the Category Operating Plan
•       Provide input and influence the replenishment processes and key inventory levers
•       Complete the analysis of historical performance to feedback to trading team with regards to opportunities and risks and that these are considered in the development of future plans
•       Participate and influence in all department reviews by ensuring that the Planning KPI’s analysis is ready for the reviews
•       Minimise waste and write offs of product
•       Support the team from a planning perspective to actively ensure that GBJ projects are successful.

Minimum requirements

•       Preferably B.Com Degree/Commercial qualification
•       Ideally 3 – 5 years planning/commercial experience planning
•       Understanding of the respective category is advantageous
•       Good computer literacy, with an above average grasp of all office applications
•       Must have good knowledge of supply chain operations i.e. Suppliers , DC, Stores and understands the supply chain concepts and values
•       Very good analytical and numerical ability
•       Very good planning and organisational ability
•       Very good business acumen, judgement and problem-solving skills
•       Very good team player, demonstrates integration skills in all interactions
•       Ability to deliver good results under stressful situations
•       Proven ability to effectively use a statistical forecasting tool
•       Proven ability to evaluate availability and waste metrics and implement integrated solutions that deliver category profitability targets
•       Good understanding of supply chains/ inventory management systems and their processes (e.g. RDF forecasting), order management
•       Good understanding of stores, customer and product profiles, and their relationship to range/ catalogue and space planning