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The first Woolworths store opened its doors to the public in Cape Town in October 1931. And it was founder Max Sonnenberg who captured the public’s imagination with dynamic store policies that set Woolworths apart from its competitors.
Three years later, a second branch opened in Durban, with another two in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg a year later....
Introduction
To ensure the production of safe, innovative and excellent product at a competitive price for the Woolworths customer
Job description
- Support the development of a customer-focused Technical strategy to support the WW Foods Strategy
- Lead and support the Groceries Team with the implementation of the category management plans
- Brand integrity, product safety and risk mitigation
- Ensure delivery of technically and commercially viable range of products that meets the needs of the Woolworths' customer
- Operational excellence through the development of the technical guidelines, policies, and standards
- Communicate and manage all technical objectives and priorities to respective teams and key stakeholders
- Support the implementation of effective Food Safety & Quality protocols to ensure compliance to product specifications, Woolworths' policies, Brand Integrity Plan and guidelines, industry standards and regulations
- Manage adherence to Woolworths' Technical requirements and Good Business Journey (GBJ) across all products
- Manage and monitor technical function in order to meet Technical operating plan
- Product and process audits, including the formulation of specifications
- Quality monitoring and reporting
- Provide input into category, technical and supplier strategies, and implementation of technical aspects thereof
- Packaging development, with respect to legislation, nutritional aspects and shelf life
Minimum requirements
- B Tech. in Food Technology or BSc Food Science
- Minimum 7 years relevant experience, long-life shelf stable product experience would be advantageous.
- Ability to work across a wide array of industries and large amount of suppliers
- Experience within the Retail environment would be advantageous
- Knowledge of technical processes and principles (incl. Safety and Legislation, eg. HACCP, GMP, Supply Chain, TACCP)
- Proven track record of relevant industry experience / knowledge on ambient thermal processing would be advantageous
- Technical product knowledge (including characteristics, raw material sourcing / manufacturing processes and quality / safety parameters) within ambient shelf stable products
- Knowledge of packaging functionality and application
- Ability to apply a project management approach for the delivery of key projects
- Ability to identify problems and implement effective solutions in collaborations with supplier base
- Well-versed in relevant legislation ability to play an influencing role.
- Team player with ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people
- Assertive communication skills and confident
- Quality / high standard mindset
- Innovation / continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, pressurised environment
- Developed sensory skills
- Business acumen, judgment and problem solving ability
- Strategic development and planning skills
- Project management skills
- Networking and influencing skills
- Assertive communication and conflict handling skills
- Pro-active, innovative and entrepreneurial
- Flexible with ability and willingness to travel
- Ability to work productively in a stressful environment
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Introduction
Responsible for the execution of the Shopper Bags, Bottles and Cooler bags and Media 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 ie; 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
- 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
Oversee the administration, management and support of the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) application, along with associated technologies such as Oracle databases, middleware, and other relevant applications. The role involves ensuring that the applications and databases run smoothly, and issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Job description
Ensure effective Stakeholder Management to reduce risk
- Communicate progress, status, events, planned activities and issues to all relevant parties.
- Communicate technical decisions, discoveries, practices, processes, knowledge and information.
Deliver New Technologies in support of business strategic objectives
- Conduct the necessary research and development to deliver innovative solutions in line with both IT and Business strategies.
- Test new technologies derived from approved business cases and manage implementation where appropriate, i.e. Software.
- Understand and keep abreast of the Woolworths IT technical infrastructure by using the appropriate internal sources of information.
Maintain Technologies to enable to operational stability
- Ensure that sustainability and impact of the administration of technical solutions are understood and taken into account when technical solutions are proposed.
- Ensure correct protocols, tools and middleware solutions are correctly used.
- Perform the administration of technical solutions according to the agreed plans and processes and propose continuous enhancements to these processes where applicable.
- Ensure set standards implemented and adhered in support of a healthy and stable environment.
- Maintain and analyze internal records of problem causes and resolutions, identify recurring problems and modify the resolution actions to prevent recurrence.
Provide thought leadership to ensure best delivery of industry practice
- Ensure that team members, management and other staff members working in related areas of technical concern are informed on all relevant technical decisions, discoveries, practices, processes, knowledge and information for effective delivery.
- Provide input into ITS technical direction decisions in the area of expertise.
Deliver Solutions and Support Complex and Diverse technologies and Platforms
- Be a subject matter expert of multiple technologies and platforms.
- Investigate and remediate complex problems directly and indirectly linked to your area of responsibility.
- Build solutions according to the solution definitions and ensure that solutions are not designed and built in isolation.
Manage tasks within a team to ensure effective and quality delivery
- Keep Track of tasks and identify risks and challenges that could compromise delivery.
- Be an ambassador of the team and be capable of playing the role of liaison between customer and other IT teams.
Minimum requirements
- 3-year IT qualification
- 5-8 years overall relevant experience working in an Oracle EBS Apps Database Administration role - 3 years of current Oracle EBS Apps DBA (preferably R12.2), and five or more as Oracle core DBA.
- Relevant certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) are a plus.
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