Value Delivery Category Lead - Cape Town at Woolworths

Job description

• Leverage Value Delivery processes, tools, insights, crossflow opportunities and buying experience to lead category and functional teams to surface Value Deliver opportunities within their categories.
• Provide expertise, support and best practise guidance to category team 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.
• Providing best practise 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 in order to challenge the status quo, optimally extract benefits, ensure benefits extracted are delivered as intended and sustained for investment in Price. 
• Coach and equip category and functional teams to onboard, motivate and successfully integrate suppliers into the Foods Value Delivery Journey. (Strategy and ways of working - contracting, people, culture, data, systems, tools and process)
• 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, building this critical strategic capability 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 ito generating sales, margin management, cost saving levers.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen and financial management skills
• Project leadership skills with 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 ability to work productively under stress
• Passionate Foodie, with a solid understanding of the Woolies’ Values 

Minimum qualifications & experience

• 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 optimal