Supply Commercial Manager

1 week ago

Soweto, South Africa Umphakathi Recruitment Full time

SUPPLY COMMERCIAL MANAGER

**About the Role**

You will be responsible to assist the Supply team to ensure that all areas of supply are optimised to support a fast growth trajectory. This includes translating the strategic direction of the company into long term business targets (Budget Plans) across all departments and channels, leveraging off current supply structures and future investments.

Within the context of the Budget Plans, you will work closely with the Department Heads to improve and control the weekly business forecasting, working closely with them to deliver monthly cost budget targets.

**Job Duties**

**1. ** **Opex Management**
- Ensure granular understanding of past business data points and context to realistically shape future fiscal budget, detailed at a line item, regional and channel level
- Align with key stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Finance and GM) to ensure business buy-in
- Be able to adjust and amend figures and assumptions iteratively throughout the fiscal year to adapt to changing internal and external influences
- Report on key assumptions, outputs and impacts
- Manage spend to plan to ensure adherence to financial targets with no surprises
- Approve spend for production, distribution and workshop and ensure spend is within budget
- Provide month end accruals for all Supply expenses

**2. ** **Capex Management**
- Identify investment to drive cost saving initiatives
- Prepare capex sign off
- Effectively manage these investments with ongoing ROI

**3.** **Costing**
- Manage and maintain cost to produce model
- Manage and maintain cost to serve model
- Provide ABC costing for NPD projects

**4*. **COGS Variance Management*
- Manage all production variances (work order, method etc): report weekly and implement changes speedily to reduce waste
- Inventory management: ensure inventory control and procedures are adhered to.
- Manage monthly stock take.

**5. Supply KPIs**
- Nationally optimise supply structure and sites

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- Identify projects and opportunities to improve the overall supply performance

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- Implement and drive daily control measures within supply. Ensure these targets are visible to all levels of the supply team. These would include but are not limited to:

- Distribution: Casual labour, Overtime, Route Profitability, Vehicles, Customer service levels at agreed OTIF, while ensuring processes are adhered to in order to drive distribution costs down
- Production: Casual labour, Overtime, Downtime, TTFP
- Workshop: ensure all equipment is tracked and there is a continuous ROI

**6. Supply Team alignment, buy-in and focus against key strategic focus areas enabling the acceleration of the business plan and supply objectives**
- Driving focus areas across the supply team
- Collaborate on ad hoc projects to close out supply opportunities

**Requirements**:

- Experience in Supply and Supplier / Market insights
- High level of business acumen, with a focus on commercial metrics underpinning supply numbers
- Action and detail-oriented, with a strong drive for results
- Focused and able to identify priorities and value-add workstreams
- Effectively influences the business to make the right strategic and commercial decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent functional and technical skills (strategic thinking, Excel, data understanding, PPT etc)
- Strong planning and activity / project management skills
- Deals with ambiguity with perspective and creativity
- Innovative and creative

**Education and Experience**:

- Tertiary Degree
- Minimum 8 years’ commercial and supply (manufacturing and distribution) experience
- 5+ years’ experience in trade (on and off consumption) environments
- Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting and cost management as well as generating insights and actions from disparate data sets

**Personal Characteristics**
- Decisive, accountable and responsible
- Continuously looking to learn and develop
- Innovative thinker, future focused and with a positive mindset
- Self-starter, problem solver, self-reliant, goal orientated, work across barriers
- Customer centric with strong relationship skills
- Personal skills (Excellent communication skills, commercial mind-set, attention to detail and accuracy, organizing and prioritizing)
- Strong value system: honesty, integrity set within strong principles and ethics

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Soweto, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (preferred)

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