Active Jobs at Woolworths

Introduction

• To manage, monitor, plan and organise the App testing of applications according to a test strategy, master test plan and quality standards.

Job description

• Provide input into business area initiatives and operating plans.
• Review and/or develops the testing requirements traceability matrix
• Analyze and keep track of new and modified requirements
• Forecast / estimate the testing work for new requirements
• Ensure the analytical solutions delivered are running, conforms to specifications and design guidelines
• Tracks weekly test activities and deliverables for SPRINT input
• Arrange the hardware and software requirements for the test setup
• Check / Review of test requirements and test cases
• Implement the various test plans
• Ensure content and structure of all testing documents / artifacts is maintained
• Immediate notification/escalation of problems or issues to the Test Manager / Project Manager
• Assist in formulating automation for WW App
• Ensure efficient reporting
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
• Document, implement, monitor and enforce all processes and procedures for testing
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• Prepare and communicate the Master Test Plan
• Act as a single point of contact for testing activities
• To work closely with the Test Manager to manage resources, test plans and schedules, and to ensure that all testing processes and procedures are executed to QA standards
• Ensure teams produce high quality performance
• Assign tasks to testing team members
• Provide technical and functional support to the testing team
• Motivate team members

Minimum requirements

• At least two years' experience in mobile & web application testing and development.
• Working knowledge of mobile operating systems such as iOS and Android.
• Experience in developing automated test scripts.
• ISTQB Certified Foundation Level
• Experience in Online & Digital (Web, Mobile & App) space
• Experience in Micro Focus ALM Products – (not a must)
• Understanding of Micro Services
• Understanding of Automation, Mobile Automation, SoapUI, Selenium

Test Analysis Experience

• Experience in Retail will be an added advantage
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical skill
• Understanding of modern development methodologies, Agile, DevOps, Scrum
• Experience in Defect Management Life Cycle
• Jira Knowledge essential

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA

• Testing mobile devices as well as Web Application to ensure their configuration, operation, and capabilities work efficiently.
• Working with product owners, and development teams to test and optimise mobile products.
• Developing automated test scripts and frameworks for improved mobile app performance.
• Working with a variety of databases and coding programs, such as Objective-C, Java, HTML, as well as XML and JSON feeds.
• Updating operating systems, specifically iOS and Android.
• Producing clear and concise test reports and releasing notes to co-workers when needed.
• Providing feedback to development teams on technical, troubleshooting, or operational issues.
• Assisting with the configuration of test environments.
• Suggesting new processes and policies to improve mobile development techniques.

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Introduction

• Proactive commercial data analysis, synthesis into insights & advisory to optimise profitable Category growth. Specifically, analyse and model the commercial impact and profitability of proposed pricing and value delivery projects in order to advise and equip the category teams to define and execute against the Foods pricing strategy. As an integral member of both the Central Trade Optimisation and Category matrix teams, you will be a custodian for data inputs to the Foods Pricing Strategy and the single point of contact for pricing, customer and market data and insights to and from the Category teams. To ensure all decisions make commercial sense, you will have a solid understanding of our products and our business. Work across all areas of the Foods business to ensure that all aspects of the pricing strategy are understood, documented and modelled correctly.

Job description

• Advise and equip buying teams to leverage pricing, market and customer analytics to shift customer perception on Price and grow their categories.
• Integrate Price and market share analytics into the Foods Category Assessment Process
• Integrate Price and market share analytics into the Foods Value Delivery Process.
• Track Price execution and report against defined commercial case/s for category or food-wide Pricing shifts.
• Work closely with the Value Delivery, Category Assessment and Buying teams to build and track commercial cases, in support of Price, Category Assessment and Value Delivery initiatives. 
• Build capabilities of buying and matrix teams to leverage pricing and promotions tools and methodologies.
• Competitor tracking, analysis and reporting (NPD, Market share, Customer insights, Promo and Pricing strategy).
• Advance the development of analytical methods, commercial reporting and advisory capabilities within our Foods Business, building this critical strategic capability to position us for sustainable future growth.
• Develop and sustain mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, or Mathematics, or equivalent educational qualification 
• Minimum 5 years Data analysis experience
• Minimum 5 years Retail and/or FMCG experience
• High degree of commercial awareness and is able to make the links between product quality, pricing, profit and customer value.
• Highly numerate and structured with a strong analytical mind.
• Ability to shape creative, tactical and practical solutions to complex problems.
• Able to analyse complex data, select and shape a story leveraging key data insights to create a Commercially sound case for change, in order to make recommendations that support the Foods Price strategy, minimise risk, drive profitable growth and financial KPI’s.
• Able to work to demanding timescales whilst maintaining high standards.
• Advanced Excel skills with demonstrated experience in financial modelling.
• Able to liaise at all levels to proactively resolve issues and contribute positively to working together to achieve desired outcomes.
• The ability to understand retail market share data and translate this with trends into creative business strategies that are customer centric.
• Experience working within a client delivery and matrix team structure advantageous. 
• Qliksense experience beneficial
• Pricing and Commercial specialist experience beneficial
• Advanced MS suite proficiency – Microsoft ppt. and Excel

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Introduction

• To provide the business with a payment processing service including all the required accounting policies, procedures and processes to ensure the effective recording of all payments for all local trade suppliers for goods and services.

Job description

• Ensuring timeous and accurate payments for all creditors based on standard payment terms.
• Responsible for ensuring effective transactional processing of payments to joint venture and EDI suppliers.
• EDI payments to local suppliers
• Ensuring standardization of payment terms for all creditors.
• Ensuring settlement discount is accurate and complete.
• Ensuring that invoice discrepancy report is reviewed daily, and all exceptions cleared timeously.
• Ensuring all debit balances, debit and credit memos are recovered timeously
• Ensuring all queries is resolved timeously.
• Provide assistance and information to resolve reconciling items on clearing accounts, including commitment accounts, and REIM clearing accounts
• Provide assistance and information to clear reconciling items on weekly unmatched receipts to GL reconciliation.
• Responsible for ensuring that accurate and complete provisions relating to local suppliers are raised.
• Responsible for ensuring that monthly/quarterly meetings are held with suppliers to identify and clear long outstanding and disputed items
• Responsible for ensuring effective overall understanding of the technical processes relating to local suppliers to facilitate resolution of breakdowns in systems integration.
• Responsible for ensuring effective transactional testing of enhancements to the local payable processes, including implementation and change management.
• Responsible for Operational Reporting in line with best practice.
• Assist in ensuring effective on-boarding of suppliers and buyer/suppler compliance to the opening / amending of supplier accounts
• Compliance with best practice internal controls and accounting practices.
• Establish SLA with key stakeholders.
• Implement the optimal organizational structures for local creditors
• Responsible for ensuring that month end deliverables are delivered timeously and accurately
• Responsible for ensuring that year end audit deliverables are achieved
• People management, IPM, development plans, leave, etc

Minimum requirements

• Sound understanding of accounting processes and practices
• Able to draft concise performance reports
• Able to influence BU management with regard to process compliance and risk management
• Strong management and leadership skill
• B.Com or Equivalent
• 4-5 years management experience
• Experience in developing accounting processes and procedures

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Introduction

• Responsible for the execution of the HPPC strategy. Co-ordinates the delivery of the category strategy to deliver sustainable profitable growth and operational excellence.

Job description

• Develop and execute category strategy to ensure delivery of operational excellence.
• Support the co-ordination of the matrix team in order to deliver the category strategy.
• Analyse and interpret market and sales data to develop tactical plans to drive the desired outcome.
• Formulate category plans with suppliers.
• Monitor and interpret industry and international trends (doing both local and international benchmarking)
• Deliver against operational excellence and KPIs for the department.
• Focuses on medium term sustainable market share growth.
• Ensures the delivery of sustainable growth for category level.
• Co-ordinates matrix team to effectively deliver KPIs.
• Facilitate team direction and pace to effectively deliver KPIs.
• Assist team in navigating through obstacles.
• Mentor and support the development of Buyers Assistants
• Share category strategy with stakeholders and get their buy in
• Conducts continuous review of supplier performance against plan and course correct based on variables/changes.
• Monitors and ensures adherence to ethical compliance.
• Manage financial indicators.
• Liaise with marketing, sales management, space planning & trade planning to effectively drive the growth of the category.
• Ability to actively review factors influencing trade i.e., market share, local & international trends, economic climate, competitor activity & changes to customer shopping habits, and translate into strategy.

Minimum requirements

• B Tertiary diploma/degree
• Minimum 3-5 years Buying/Retail experience.
• Pet and Baby experience would be advantageous.
• Commercial skills & experience within the Nonfoods Industry (Household, Pet, Media, and Personal Care)– knowledge of store operations, customer profiles, locations & competitors.
• An understanding of Manufacturing and Production planning within a private label supplier would be advantageous.
• Proven experience in managing a Foods/FMCG department.
• Proven sourcing and supplier management experience.
• Strong negotiation and financial management skills
• Proactive & Innovative with a continuous improvement mindset
• Has an intimate understanding of who the customer is and the ability to view the world through their eyes
• Strong understanding of global & seasonal trends
• Consistently makes logical deductions from given information and uses these to transform the department.
• Is able to consistently convey information clearly and confidently when interacting with teams.
• Consistently drives the creation and development of products, services, and experiences that are convenient and innovative for our customers.
• Consistently anticipates potential obstacles and identifies project risks that may impact the accomplishment of project deadlines and delivery and escalates these risks where appropriate.
• Has knowledge of appropriate retail department systems and related processes across the value chain to manage objectives and enhance their ability to solve problems?
• Manages supplier delivery against the business standards and values and maximises value and reduce risks through identification and resolution of limitations/shortcomings.

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Introduction

• Develop, implement and govern Enterprise Solutions Architecture in accordance with the EA strategy and roadmap.

Job description

• Contribute to the development of IT Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologies
• Provide input to the IT Enterprise Architecture roadmap based on business strategy and retail industry trends
• Contribute to, develop and maintain components of the IT Enterprise Architecture functions of Architecture Governance, IT Portfolio Planning, Business Enablement and Functional Management
• Collaborate with IT counterparts from Project Management, Technical Management and IT Leadership stakeholder groups to deliver solutions architecture for strategic projects and operating plan initiatives
• Lead and mentor project solution architects, technical specialists and business process analysts, as required by projects and operating plan initiatives
• Appraise up-front design solutions and articulate impedances to current and pre-emptive future performance
• Proactively identify business risks and mitigations based on the IT Enterprise Architecture roadmap to influence the EA strategy and roadmap planning
• Proactively identify business opportunities and benefits based on the IT Enterprise Architecture roadmap to influence the EA strategy and roadmap planning
• Proactively identify, mobilise and deliver IT opportunities for continuous improvements, as input to the IT Operating Plan
• Actively participate in, and promote a working group culture within the IT Enterprise Architecture function
• Proactively identify and provide direction that aims to make the right technology choices based on strategic fit beyond an RFP

Minimum requirements

• Relevant 3 year tertiary or NQF aligned qualification
• Relevant architecture certification
• Up to 8 years’ experience in an IT architecture capacity
• At least 3 years’ experience as in a solutions architecture capacity
• Relevant IT experience
• Relevant retail industry experience
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture domains of process, application and data
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture domains of technology and security
• Deep understanding of IT
• Retail knowledge
• Ability to integrate IT Enterprise Solutions Architecture within a complex business environment
• Create structure from complexity
• Project management capability
• Understanding of project management methodologies
• Business acumen
• Commercial acumen
• Strong facilitation and communication skills at all organisational levels (written, verbal, presentation)
• Systemic Thinking
• Strong leadership ability of direct and virtual teams
• Strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and partners

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Introduction

• Translate the category strategy and create an optimal assortment based on customer demand to deliver improved customer satisfaction and optimised profit in our store network in the Rest of Africa.

Job description

• Manage the day-to-day Assortment Process to ensure the category strategy is reflected in the assortments per role of store.
• Be a key contributor to the end-to-end range review process.
• Integrate with Buyer and Planner to understand the impact of the ILC.
• Provide input into the clustering recommendations for the category (ies) and make recommendations to the relevant stakeholders.
• Understand the key strategic drivers for the category and turn them into effective and profitable assortment tactics.
• Optimise the input parameters that drive Assortment Optimisation (AO) as required which includes the types and accuracy standards of data required to allow AO to run effectively.
• Advise category team members on the best way to achieve the best results from the AO system.
• Conduct Impact Assessments
• Tap into the skillset of the Centre of Excellence team (COE) to stay abreast of leading assortment thinking and techniques.
• Attend all relevant training and meetings to ensure that new ways of assortment planning are incorporated into your ways of working.

Minimum requirements

• Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant Retail / FMCG experience
• Relevant tertiary degree or qualification
• Understanding of the operation of the RAO business will be beneficial
• Great understanding of the merchandising industry and good customer knowledge
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Strong commercial acumen and credibility
• Strong assortment planning skills with high ability to integrate
• Project management and process thinking skills
• Ability to influence others, build and sustain relationships across functional teams
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills
• Strong Retail / Commercial experience, preferable in Foods
• Previous retail management experience in the fields of assortment, range and merchandising with a large global retailer (Supermarket retail experience preferred)
• Good buying, planning or assortment planning experience (at least 3 years) within foods retailing
• Understanding and analysis of current & future techniques and trends
• Trend Analysis, the ability to analysis and review of past / historical information
• Some knowledge and understanding of consumer shopping habits; competitor activity and market players in the retail sector; consumer demographics
• The ability to analyse, interpret and optimize KPI's relevant to assortment plans  
• Range & Catalogue Management, the understanding of range construction, analysis and optimizing performance
• Understand themselves and the impact they have on the people they interact with and the organisation culture and adjust their behaviour accordingly.
• Plays a leading role in driving sustainable transformational initiatives at a BU level and/or Group level, and
• Is recognised by the leadership, peers and reports as competent and can hold their own with colleagues in their field.
• Builds strong networks and strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders and
• Engages and connects people to enable delivery of BU strategy and operating plan.
• Are consistent in their decision making and owns the consequences thereof due to strong business understanding and commercial knowledge.
• Demonstrates attention to detail and reacts to commercial issues within their BU.