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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

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Job description

• Assist in designing and implementing scalable and robust processes for ingesting and transforming large data sets.
• Assist in the design and implementation of data pipelines from a variety of data sources and support the maintenance thereof.
• Ingest large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Enable the business to solve the problem of working with large volumes of data in diverse formats, and in doing so, enable innovative solutions.
• Build bulk and delta data patterns for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data.
• Supports the organisations cloud strategy and alignment to data architecture and data governance.
• Engineer data in the appropriate formats for downstream consumption for analytics or Enterprise applications.
• Assist in the development of APIs to expose the data to Enterprise Applications and 3rd party vendors.
• Assist in identifying, designing and implementing robust process improvement activities to drive efficiency and automation for greater scalability.  This includes looking at new solutions and new ways of working and being on the forefront of emerging technologies.
• Work with various stakeholders across the organisation to understand data requirements and apply technical knowledge of data management to solve key business problems.
• Provide support in the operational environment with all relevant support teams for data services.
• Create and maintain functional requirements and system specifications in support of data architecture and detailed design specifications for current and future designs.
• Support test and deployment of new services and features.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics, Statistics or Engineering with 4 - 5 years relevant data engineering experience.
• A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and effective software design.
• Significant experience working with structured and unstructured data at scale and different data stores such as key-value, document, columnar, etc. as well as traditional RDBMS and data warehouses.
• Good programming, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills using programming languages such as python, scala, java and C .
• Practical experience with Apache Spark and AWS services such as Redshift, Glue, Lambda, EMR, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.
• Experience wrangling terabytes of big, complicated, imperfect data.
• Experience with designing and implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions including use of APIs available.
• Experience with DevOPS architecture, implementation and operation would be advantageous.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git, SVN.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; must work well in an agile, collaborative team environment.Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies. Best practices in software engineering, data management, data storage, data computing and distributed systems to solve business problems with data.
• Some experience in applying SAFe/Scrum/Kanban methodologies would be advantageous.
• Knowledge and understanding of business process management lifecycle which covers the design, modelling, execution, monitoring, and optimization as well as business process re-engineering.
• Good problem-solving skills: The ability to exercise judgment in solving technical, operational, and organizational challenges, to identify issues proactively, to present solutions and options leading to resolution

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Job description

• Ensure planograms continually match the store catalogue, the store meterage and the business blueprint layouts
• Creating planograms for new stores (or amending existing stores when new initiatives are introduced)
• Create and maintain model layouts per display groups / departments
• Capturing  and tracking of all relevant info for new lines and seasonal launch products      
• Ensure planograms are adapted to take account of changes in store sales trends
• Build productive relationships with key stakeholders to ensure optimal process flow
• Participate in departmental meetings, range reviews & category assessments.
• Ensure that there are on time launches and planogram downloads for FRESH windows.
• Understand the Category strategy and key financial performance indicators in order to ensure the right products has the right space and is in the right place.
• Evaluate Space for product range and catalogue.
• Increase TPLM based on space proportions for products.
• Participate, support and influence department reviews by ensuring that the KPI’s analysis is ready for the reviews
• Drive profitability together with the matrix team
• Support Stores with category display queries and incidents.
• Conduct Audits & utilise reports to ensure a successful download.
• Utilise reporting tools in order to make informed decisions.

Minimum requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• 2-3 years of retail experience
• Good merchant & merchandising skills
• Store experience within a retail FMCG environment will be an advantage  
• Understanding of space management principles and processes
• Understanding customer profiles, customer shopping behaviour & store formats and segmentation
• Understanding of basic business processes and how sales are generated
• Ability to analyse and interpret trends and impact of space planning on sales
• Ability to identify problems and to develop and implement a workable solution
• Ability to do detailed planning based on analyses - past and future events and ensure plans are followed through
• Computer literacy – Computer skills including spreadsheets, word processing and presentation packages
• Proactive, with the ability to anticipate events and plan for them
• Assertive communication skills
• Ability to be productive in a pressurised environment
• Adaptable – ability to adapt and change direction and focus quickly
• Team player – the willingness to adapt to team goals and work effectively with a group of colleagues in an interdependent way.
• Ability to interact with various individuals on different levels i.e matrix team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – ability to articulate ideas clearly
• Customer centred – Understanding “ Think Customer” first which ultimately affects the customer shopping experience. Willing to obtain, interpret and implement customer feedback
• Preference for working with detailed analytical tasks

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Job description

• Administrative Supplier Management.
• Daily communication with the supplier base and weekly reconciliation.  
• Communication with buyers/planners regarding supply, static, pricing and availability and facilitating corrective action required at supplier base.
• Provide ordering support.
• Maintain Static data.
• Provide general administrative support to the Buying & Product Development Teams.
• Ensure all Price and Pack information is transmitted accurately to all suppliers
• Prepare departmental reports, Excel worksheets and Word documents : eg: Weekly sales reports per supplier.
• Weekly supplier shorts (order fill) reports.
• Sending out weekly snapshots to teams
• Communication of Promotional Planner and managing supplier’s completion of Promotional Check Sheet timeously with correct flashes.
• Submissions to trade planning, checking off ticketing and DD accuracy.
• Loading promotions and submitting on FPP.
• Departmental operating expense capturing & management. Disbursing PO’s and tracking packaging payments, write off and rebillings.
• Applying for barcodes and loading new line static on FILA and JDA.
• Booking of meetings rooms, coffees, and supplier parking.
• Compile, update and maintain supplier files.
• Ad-hoc administrative duties
• Taking meeting minutes when necessary
• Handle ad-hoc queries and requests
• Preparation of Contracts and Trading terms
• Adhoc assistance for the Frozen and Deli Entertaining team maybe required from time to time, this will be directed by the buying team.
• Maintenance on JDA with Supplier Split adjustments, trunking rules, lead times etc.

Minimum requirements

•   At least 2 years relevant administration experience
•   Matric (Grade 12)
•   Accounting diploma an advantage
•   System experience of Supplier portal, COGNOS, CAM, JDA FF, FILA, RMS, FPI , FPP, ORACLE and COM share knowledge advantageous
•   Computer literacy skills – Proficient in Excel, Powerpoint, MS Teams and Word
•   Basic understanding of retail accounting practices
•  Basic understanding of Buying and Planning Knowledge 

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Job description

• Issue and deliver all Purchase orders timeously to the appropriate vendors and requestors.
• Adherence to all procedures and legislation with regard to the purchasing of goods and/or services
• Assist with amendments of contracts and update the system accordingly
• Monitor overdue orders and actively managing delivery from vendors to meet customer requirements
• Perform filing of all relevant documentation accurately and timeously
• Support internal customer relationships with exceptional customer service to ensure the attainment of business model objective
• Support effective vendor relationships through clear and consistent communication

Key Competencies

TECHNICAL AND FUNCTIONAL

• Customer services skills
• Attention to detail
• Computer literacy
• Basic accounting
• Planning, co-ordinating and prioritising
• Analysing and Interpretation of information

Minimum requirements

• Grade 12
• Diploma in Accounting (12 month/intermediate stage or equivalent),

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 1-3 years relevant work experience
• As a proud South African brand, Woolworths is committed to transformation. Meeting our employment equity goals will be taken into account in our recruitment decisions.