Jobs Available at Woolworths

Introduction

• Source and buy product in support of the Pork category and our WW Food Strategies, through effective supplier and profit management to achieve all KPI’s.

Job description

• ​Develop and execute the Pork Category strategy to ensure delivery of operational excellence
• Support the co-ordination of the Pork Matrix Team to deliver the Pork Category strategy
• The Pork Matrix Team is the main Team responsible for ensuring Christmas is a success for the Meat Department every year and as the Commercial lead it us up to the Pork Buyer to pull all levers to ensure this.
• Analyze 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)
• Lead & facilitate & implement the Pork departmental and supplier strategies.
• Establish a commercially viable pork product range strategy and manage the implementation thereof.
• Manage open book costing models and promotional funding and Category Equalisation Funds.
• Develop good working relationships with all primary & secondary suppliers and all other key stakeholders.
• Lead optimizing & balancing the pork carcass through pulling all levers available to ensure efficient use of the entire lamb carcass.
• Build a powerful & exclusive pork range of products that we ensure Woolworths leads as a key destination for this category.
• Review and drive Woolworths' performance data (sales, volume growth, profit, market share, market size etc.) for the Pork Department and make comparisons against competition i.t.o range, price, promotions and product development
• Identify and prioritise the key commercial strategies and accompanying quantifiable goals and KPI's for the Pork Department in line with category operating plan
• Ensure internal and external colleagues understand and work to deliver the department category plan
• Review department performance versus Department Scorecards on a regular basis and inform key stakeholders
• Manage financial accountabilities; margins (including strategic buy-in opportunities in consultation with Planning & Assortment & Merchandising teams), incentives, settlement discounts, departmental charges, sample account, buyer losses, etc.
• Negotiate price, promotional price and new lines, considering price tiering / product positioning and financial targets
• Integrate with Trade Planning & Sales Development teams to draw up and implement Promotional Calendar.
• Plan and implement promotional strategies and ensure you manage a 100% supplier service level delivery every day.
• Establish category price position while applying an understanding of customer price perception, impacts on KVIs, and of competitor pricing
• Availability: Manage short- and long-term availability per category and per supplier
• Give input to Category and Supplier strategies and end-to-end sourcing of raw material
• Develop and implement pricing strategies
• Give input to the planning and forecasting of products and ranges
• Build and manage relationships with a diverse range of suppliers
• Liaise with marketing, sales management and space planning to maximise sales and promotions in stores
• Liaise with distribution regarding Supply Chain issues
• Monitor supplier order fill targeting 100% every day and product static
• Mentor and support the development of Buyers Assistants

Minimum requirements

• High energy individual who can drive the Pork Category with speed & urgency
• Relevant commercial degree / diploma
• Minimum of 3 years buying experience in the perishable industry
• Proven experience in managing a Foods/FMCG department
• Procurement experience within a retail, FMCG environment or meat industry experience – knowledge of store operations, customer profiles, locations & competitors
• Proven sourcing and supplier management experience
• Proven ability to provide tactical input and deliver the category operating plan
• Strong integrator and the ability to work in a matrix structure with proven leadership skills
• Strong negotiation and financial management skills
• Proven ability to deliver the following category KPIs (ie. market share, sales growth, margin, ROS, availability)
• Has an intimate understanding of who the customer is and the ability to view the world through their eyes
• Consistently makes logical deductions from given information and uses these to transform the Pork Department
• Can consistently convey information clearly and confidently when interacting with teams
• Understanding of Supply Chain processes and principles
• In depth understanding and application of Woolworths' quality standards
• Technical understanding of the Meat category is advantageous
• Understanding of factors influencing a product's cost and selling prices
• Proactive & Innovative with a continuous improvement mindset
• Strong customer and retail orientation - sound business and financial acumen
• Entrepreneurial – ability to initiate and implement innovative and viable business ideas and to accept accountability for the outcome
• Team player with understanding of diversity
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
   

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Introduction

• To provide finance business support to ensure financial integrity is maintained across the financials systems ensuring that finance objectives, in particular, system control objectives are achieved. Provide first line support in terms of end-user access control and training. Support the finance process team in performing testing and signing off of system upgrades and new system developments. Investigates solutions for change requests/incidents logged and responsible to produce and maintain required functional specification documents. Be responsible for certain operational tasks performed in the Finance business support area.

Job description

• System’s Maintenance and Support
• Supports the ongoing system maintenance. Ensures system configuration is designed, tested and implemented as per the business requirements.
• Monitors interfaces from peer systems and ensures that it is accurate and complete. Interface and error files are cleared for all Oracle Modules for all entities on a timely basis.
• Responsible for completing daily operational tasks within the Finance business
• Responsible for completing certain month-end/year end period close tasks including the resolving of month end/year end issues to ensure that month end/year end is completed on time.
• Performs Systems / Modules / Profiles and configuration implementation, set-up, monitor, maintenance, enhancement and upgrades to support new and existing functionalities.
• Maintains system responsibilities, hierarchies, profiles and workflows, performs a quarterly audit of end-user access. Ensures access is verified and complete
• Works with ITS- Systems Analyst to load Service Requests with Oracle (Oracle Metalink).
• Establish strong relationship with IT Finance , Group reporting and Central Finance
• Maintain all administration documents for system configuration, test packs and training manuals.

End-user Maintenance and Support            

• Provides second line support to the business, assists with incident resolution
• Complies with Service Level Agreements
• Loads Service Requests with Oracle Metalink.
• Provides support to, and liaise with System Analyst and System Administrator
• Liaises with Internal and External auditors regarding queries

New Business Initiatives

• Provides input into the design, development, testing, training and implementation of new business initiatives.
• Working with the finance process analyst to communicate the business requirement and ongoing interaction to ensure that any development meets the business need 

Continuous Improvement

• Continually seek process/system improvement opportunities within Finance and ensure with the finance process analyst /-Finance process owner the enhancement or project will deliver the improved business solution

Training and Development

• Provide ongoing coaching and training for existing and new employees on systems and processes.
• Continuous end-user training and mentoring on Finance applications. (new and current users)
• Identifies problems and bring them to the attention of the team, with team group discussions on issues
• Self-study on Oracle User Guides and Oracle Library
• Schedules team Computer Based Training (CBT) sessions
• Maintain in-house end user training manuals and procedure manuals

Communication with Stakeholders

• Integration with IT support teams and business users in order to effectively resolve and manage business system and process application problems

Minimum requirements

• Knowledge of Business IT systems
• Analytical skills
• Problem solving ability
• Understanding of Finance processes
• Process thinking ability
• Computer Literacy, including general Microsoft Office skills
• Oracle Financials
• Incident tracking system experience 

Minimum Qualification

• Relevant Financial qualification
• BCom / Accounting diploma

Experience Required

• 5 years of experience in a similar environment
• Basic to medium understanding of accounting principals and experience
• Information processing and database concepts
• ERP system support and maintenance
• Relevant practical experience in specialist area of support
• Experience on applications relative to specialist area
• Experience on Finance processes and systems
• End-user systems training
• Information processing and database concepts
• ERP system support and maintenance
• Relevant practical experience in specialist area of support
• Experience on applications relative to specialist area
• Experience on Finance processes and systems